1 . Everyone can do something to make our society better. Being a volunteer is a good way. If you don’t know what volunteer work you can do, here are four activities.

Volunteer for the elderly

You can go to the old people’s homes to offer them your care. It is a good act to look after old people.     1     You will see that they will add value to your lives more than you will add to theirs.

Volunteer in a nursing home

    2     You can look after them and make friends with them. In fact, having sick people around you will make you look at situations in a different way and embrace the beauty and joy of life and good health.

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If you are fluent in English, you can provide your services for those who would like to learn. They can be children, village students, adults, or anyone who wants to learn a new language. As for the places, it can be in an English club or the community service center.

Volunteer to help animals

If you are an animal lover, you’d better not buy dogs or cats from pet shops. You can adopt (收养) street dogs or cats. If you don’t want to keep a pet, you can pay a visit to an animal shelter to look after the lovely animals.     4    

    5     Choose one of the above activities and you will find that everyone can do much and make a great difference.

A．Volunteer to teach English

B．We should listen to them and care for them.

C．Volunteer to be in an after-school study program

D．Donating (捐赠) some money is also a good choice.

E．Home for patients is a good place to start your volunteer activities.

F．Old people are much more experienced than your friends and classmates.

G．There is no act better than lending a hand in helping build a better society.

3 . 2024 is the 21st year of a free library in a mountain village in Shaoyang, Hunan Province. 77-year-old Yang Guangxun started the “Ziqiang Library”.

Yang was born in this village and became a book lover when he was very young. He owned over 300 books at home. When he retired in 2002, he and his wife sometimes went back to the village for they didn’t need to work any longer. Learning village children often had trouble finding enough books to work, Yang decided to give away all his books to start the library in August 2003. He hoped everyone in the village will make their lives rich and colorful through reading.

Over the past 21 years, Yang has given away plenty of money to buy more books for the library. With 6 reading rooms, it now stores over 54,000 books and has 30,000 visitors every year. Since Yang and his wife don’t always live in the village, they invite relatives and friends to work as volunteers and take care of the library. There are 16 volunteers working in the library all year round as the library is open every day, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Thanks to the library, many villagers fall in love with reading, and many students get great grades or get into universities. They all think reading is the best thing in the world.

1. What does the underlined word “retire” mean in Chinese?

A．退休

B．招聘

C．升职

D．患病

2. Why did Yang give away all his books?

A．To teach villagers learn to read.	B．To raise a lot of money for the library.
C．To help village children read books.	D．To make his life rich and meaningful.

3. Which of the following can best describe Yang?

A．Confident.

B．Kind.

C．Smart.

D．Outgoing.

4. What can we infer (推断) from the last two paragraphs?

A．Ziqiang Library can not develop any longer soon.	B．Villagers can read in the library just on weekdays.
C．Yang and his wife work in the library all the year.	D．Ziqiang Library has changed the life of the village.

5. What does the text mainly tell us?

A．Volunteers work in a library.	B．An old man set up a free library.
C．Many people fall in love in reading.	D．A couple spent lots of money on books.

4 . 根据短文内容，从短文后所给的选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

What makes a good volunteer? Do you know what qualities a good volunteer needs?     1    

Teamwork

Teamwork makes the dream work.     2     The best volunteers are comfortable working in ever-changing teams. They can work with different people, and take on both the leader and the follower role at different time.

Patience

Patience is an important quality of a good volunteer. Most charities or organizations need to deal with a hundred things at once, so not everything moves as quickly as expected.     3    

Patience is also important for volunteers who will connect with children, older adults or community members with special needs.

Positive attitude (积极的态度)

    4     Because they are required to learn new skills and face new challenges. They may also be volunteering with members of the community who have been through adversity (苦难). So it’s important to stay positive and remain focused on the task at hand.     5    

A．Volunteers will bring a fun spirit.

B．Volunteers will save you a lot of time.

C．Working well with others is a key quality.

D．So it’s important to find patient volunteers.

E．Volunteers are often pushed out of their comfort zone.

F．There are three main qualities that make you a good volunteer.

G．A positive volunteer will have a wonderful influence on the community.

7 . Volunteering Is Great

提示：志愿服务既是一种行动，也是一种爱的传递。为社会尽一份责，为他人发一份光，做最温暖的力量。请以“Volunteering Is Great”为题，写一篇英语短文，叙述你作为志愿者的一次经历，或者谈谈志愿服务给自己以及给他人带来的好处。

要求：
1. 根据所给题目，写一篇短文，词数不少于80个;
2. 语言流畅、书写规范、卷面整洁；
3. 文中不得使用真实姓名、校名，否则以零分计；
4. 请将短文写在答题卡上， 写在本试题卷上无效。
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8 . 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。将所选答案填到相应位置上。

Joe was driving home on a road one evening.     1     It was winter and it was very cold, just like his feelings.

An old lady with a car was standing on the side of the road.     2     Joe stopped in front of her and got out of the car. The old lady looked very worried. Even when he put a smile on his face, the lady still looked worried.

Joe knew how she felt. He said, “I’m here to help you, madam. Could you please wait in my car? By the way, my name is Joe.”

The lady thought for a while and then went into his car.     3     Joe went under her car to repair it. It took him a long time to repair the car. He got dirty and his hand were hurt. Then the lady told him her name was Anna.     4     Joe never thought about getting money.     5     He told her that if she really wants to pay him back, next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person help.

A．There was something wrong with her car.

B．He lost his job two hours ago.

C．The woman wanted to buy something.

D．She needed help, but no one stopped to help her.

E．He felt unhappy when he found a dog lying on the road.

F．She asked Joe how much she should pay for his help.

G．He just wanted to help someone in need.

9 . March is the month to learn from Lei Feng in China. Lei is probably the most famous Chinese soldier. He helped many people during his 22 years of life. He died more than 60 years ago. But the “Lei Feng spirit” still inspires (激励) Chinese people to do volunteer work.

The Youth Team of Shougang Winter Olympics Service is one of the volunteer groups that worked at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The 192 young volunteers worked for more than two months and offered more than 15, 000 hours of service.

It is not an easy job to work as a volunteer. Liu Junyu, 28, from the team (设计) the routes (路线)   to help people get in and out more easily and safely. Other volunteers helped clear 50,000 square meters of ice and snow each day. This made sure that the games worked well.

Also, a volunteer needs to learn a lot. Volunteers needed to know all about the games. They also kept in mind the history and stories behind them. “People say volunteering is about giving, but I got a lot from helping others, that is valuable experience.” Said a volunteer.

根据短文内容, 判断正误(正确“T”, 错误“F”)，并将所选答案涂到答题卡的相应位置。
1. Lei Feng is dead for more than 60 years.
2. Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics had only one volunteer group.
3. Paragraph 3 tells us that working as a volunteer is not easy.
4. Volunteers didn’t need to know histories about games.
5. This passage mainly tells us something about volunteer work.

10 . 从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并将所选答案涂到答题卡相应位置。

There are many kind people helping to take care of others in every country. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend a long ________ of time as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or the old people’s homes. They ________ books to the old people, play games with them or just listen to their problems. Other young volunteers go and help ________ people. They paint, ________ or repair (修葺) their houses or do the shopping for them. These volunteers are really good ________. For boys who no longer have fathers, there’s an organization called Big Brothers. ________ students and other men take these boys to baseball games or take them to go on fishing trips. They help these boys to get to know things that boys usually learn ________ their fathers.

There are a number of ________ in some cities. People can go to play games or learn crafts in these clubs. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs have many high school and college students as volunteers ________ they are young enough to remember the problems of younger children.

Volunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those help to bring happiness to ________. So they always do volunteer work happily.

1.

A．trip

B．term

C．period

D．matter

2.

A．read

B．send

C．lend

D．make

3.

A．rich

B．sick

C．kind

D．famous

4.

A．make

B．offer

C．build

D．clean

5.

A．guests

B．teachers

C．helpers

D．learners

6.

A．College

B．Volunteer

C．Engineer

D．Chemistry

7.

A．with

B．from

C．for

D．about

8.

A．groups

B．projects

C．programs

D．clubs

9.

A．when

B．if

C．because

D．though

10.

A．another

B．others

C．other

D．the other