1 . Gently holding a baby hummingbird, Catia Lattou says, “Hello, cute little guy. Are you hungry?” It’s the newest patient at her apartment in Mexico City, where she has nursed hundreds of the tiny birds back to health over the past ten years. Under Catia’s gentle touch, the bird relaxes little by little, allowing her to examine it. This is often how Catia’s days have gone since she turned her apartment into a home for sick, injured or baby hummingbirds.
Catia began caring for hummingbirds a year after surviving colon cancer in 2011. It started with one hummingbird that had an eye injured by another bird. A friend encouraged her to try to help it. She named it Warrior after the brand (品牌) of the glasses case she kept it in. The bird became her inseparable companion, resting on her computer screen while she worked. “It wrote me a new life,” she said of the nine months the bird stayed with her. It helped pull Catia out of the sadness and loneliness she had experienced after her husband’s death followed by her cancer.
Later, friends began bringing her more hummingbirds, and the need for her services has jumped since last year. She began studying how to better care for the tiny birds that are native to the Americans. Someone put a video about her work on the social platform TikTok, which has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.
Catia says she never turns away a bird. She cares for the birds from 5 a. m. into the night. Most of the hummingbirds stay in Catia’s bedroom until they are strong enough to fly and feed themselves before they are finally freed.
The city is filled with menace to hummingbirds. There are other birds that attack them and destroy (毁掉) their home as well as modern building projects that replace flower gardens. But Catia remains positive and is certain that other bird lovers will plant more flowers to feed the birds. “Nothing is ensured,” she said. “But we do everything possible.”
1. What can be learned about Warrior?| A．It survived for only nine months. | B．It made Catia’s cancer disappear. |
| C．It became well-known for its name. | D．It helped Catia through tough times. |
| A．Warning. | B．Noise. | C．Pollution. | D． Danger. |
| A．By growing more flowers. | B．By introducing more birds. |
| C．By freeing the injured ones. | D．By putting up more buildings. |
| A．Selfless and honest. | B．Kind and hard-working. |
| C．Sociable and humorous. | D．Knowledgeable and frank. |
2 . Many people volunteer to help look after others. For example, some high school and college students in the USA often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or old people’s homes. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.
Other volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They draw pictures, clean up or repair their houses, do their shopping or mow (修整) their lawns (草坪). For boys who don’t have fathers, there is a group called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
Each city has several clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts (工艺). Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that people who help to bring happiness to others are the happiest in the world.
1. How do volunteers usually help people who are sick or old?| A．They mow their lawns, do their shopping and clean up their house. |
| B．They cook, or wash their clothes. |
| C．They tell them stories and sing and dance for them. |
| D．They clean, and repair their cars. |
| A．It’s the name of a club. | B．It’s a home for children who have no brothers. |
| C．It’s the name of a movie. | D．It’s a group for boys who don’t have fathers. |
| A．Because they have a lot of free time. |
| B．Because they can still remember what they felt when they were younger. |
| C．Because they are interested in volunteer work. |
| D．Because they like younger boys and girls. |
| A．they have to be unhappy to make other people happy |
| B．people who make themselves happy are the happiest in the world |
| C．people who are young and healthy are the happiest in the world |
| D．people who help to bring happiness to others are the happiest in the world |
Dear Deborah,
Thanks to you, we are able to have a comfortable “home” for our children to live and learn in this year. Last Monday, Michael and his sister, Janet, celebrated Michael’s 9th birthday with a cake and cards in the nice place. There was a look of joy on their lovely faces.
Thank you for your kind gift of $1,000 to Children’s Residential Services. For the homeless children like Michael and Janet in our center, your kindness makes a difference to them.
With your help, we’ll buy new computers for our children in a day or two. The children can’t wait to use the computers to do their homework and talk with their friends!
We would love you to visit our “home”, so you can meet our children. We love to show you around our “home”, and the children enjoy meeting visitors. One or two might even show you what they can do with their new computers.
Janet Teebs, our development director (负责人), is always available to set up a visit for you, or to answer any questions you may have. Please call her at 520-446-0912, or e-mail her at janetteebs@CRS.com.
Again, thank you for all you did for our children. You are a part of their lives too.
Yours sincerely,
Malcolm Wexter
1. What kind of the passage is it? Who wrote this letter to Deborah?2. When was Michael’s ninth birthday? What did he get? (and)
3. What did Deborah give to Children’s Residential Services? What will they do with Deborah’s help?
4. What can children do with computers? What would they love Deborah to do? What’s Janet Teebs’ telephone number?
4 . 参加志愿者服务活动可以帮助我们学习新技能，增强沟通技能和社会责任感，对我们的成长具有重大意义。你所在的学校校刊向同学们征稿，请你以“I Want to Volunteer at/in”为题写一篇英文短文，介绍你的志愿者活动的地点(例如：敬老院、图书馆、城市公园等)及相应计划。
内容提示：Which volunteer job do you want to do?
How can your interests and hobbies help you do the job?
Why do you want to do the volunteer job?
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I Want to Volunteer at/in
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5 . You may hear “volunteers” many times. You may also see them on the road, in a community centre, or at the hospital. Then what is a volunteer? Volunteers are people who do a job without being paid. They are the people who are looking for the satisfaction (满足感) of helping others.
Volunteers do many different kinds of jobs. Some volunteers read books on to tapes (磁带) so that people with eye problems can hear. Some volunteers send meals to the old or sick people. Some volunteers help visitors when they don’t know the way or when they have some other problems.
Volunteers help when a natural disaster (自然灾害) hits a community. Volunteers help put out bush fires (林区大火). They may help people leave the areas quickly when there is an earthquake, a tsunami (海啸) or a flood. They may also help people rebuild their homes after the disasters. A community may not recover without the help of volunteers.
Some communities need volunteers more than others. If the communities don’t have much money they will need a lot of help from volunteers. For example, communities with lots of old people may need more help from volunteers than communities with more young people. Volunteers can help the old do the cleaning, do the shopping or just talk with them. Without volunteers some communities even couldn’t work.
Volunteers have done a lot to the society. And they help improve the life of people. So would you like to be a volunteer in the future?
1. According to the passage, who is volunteering?A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．She can record her voice when reading books. |
| B．She can invite a doctor to treat the man. |
| C．She can buy a pair of glasses for the man. |
| D．She can learn how to help the man see well. |
a. bush fires b. an earthquake c. a tsunami d. a drought e. a flood f. a storm
| A．abcd | B．abce | C．abcf | D．abde |
| A．A community which is full of old people. |
| B．A community which lacks playgrounds. |
| C．A community which can work itself. |
| D．A community which is not clean. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
6 . A man called police in Shanghai and asked them to bring toilet paper for him. It has caused an online argument over the role of police and public.
The police officer wrote on his microblog on Monday that he had to help a caller who had diarrhea (腹泻) but did not carry toilet paper with him. Most netizens (网民) said that it was wrong for the caller to call up police for this reason.
The police said about half of their daily calls are looking for some information and help. All the calls are first connected to a call center and later sent to police stations that are the nearest to the persons who made the calls. Officers can’t refuse when they receive the orders and should set off to the place immediately.
“The police have their own work,” a man named Wang Wei said. “They are not your home assistants to turn to when you run out of your baby’s toilet paper.”
A woman named Li Lan agreed with Wang’s idea. “If all police officers are sent to help those who need toilet paper, who will do something important for people and keep public order?” she asked.
But some of the netizens don’t mind police helping with little matters. A man named Sun Feng said when people are in annoying situations, they will always consider asking the police to help first. “Although it might be annoying to make such a call, we really don’t know whom to turn to.”
Gu Jun, a professor at Shanghai University, said people should call the police only for special reasons. Too many unimportant calls aren’t good for neither citizens nor the police.
1. Which is the right order for the police to work on after they receive calls?①set off to the place immediately ②connected to a call center ③sent to the nearest station
| A．①②③ | B．②①③ | C．②③① | D．③①② |
| A．Gu Jun. | B．Sun Feng. | C．Li Lan. | D．Wang Wei. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．We Could Ask the Police to Pass Toilet Paper |
| B．We Can’t Ask the Police to Pass Toilet Paper |
| C．Why Can’t the Police Help to Pass Toilet Paper? |
| D．Can the Police Help to Pass Toilet Paper? |
7 . I was the only kid in college with a reason to go to the mail box, because my mother never believed in email, in Facebook, in texting or cell phones. I was literally waiting by the mailbox to get a letter with a warmest comfort from her.
So when I moved to New York and got depressed, I did the only thing I could think of. I wrote those same kinds of letters like my mother for strangers, and tucked them all over the city: in cafes, in libraries, and even in the subway. I blogged about those letters and promised if asked for a hand-written letter, I would write one.
Overnight, my inbox became this harbor of heartbreak—a single mother in Sacramento, a girl being bullied in Kansas, a 22-year-old immigrant, all asking me to write them and give them a reason to wait by the mailbox. And this is how I initiated the act The World Needs More Love Letters.
Today I run a global organization fueled by those trips to the mailbox. It is a miracle. But the thing about these letters is that most of them have been written by people brought up in a paperless world where some best conversations happen on a screen. We have learned to diary our pain onto Facebook, and we speak swiftly in twitter.
Therefore, I’ve been carrying this mail crate (大木箱) with me these days, which is a magical icebreaker. So I get to tell total strangers about a woman whose husband was traumatized (受精神创伤) from war, and how she left love letters throughout the house saying, “Come back to me.”And a man, who had decided to take his life, slept safely with a stack of letters just beneath his pillow, handwritten by strangers who were there for him.
These stories convince me that letter-writing will never need to be about efficiency, because it is an art now, all of it: the signing, the scripting, the mailing.
1. Why did the author share her experience in college?| A．To show her care for her family. |
| B．To convey her love for writing letters. |
| C．To express her feelings attached to letters. |
| D．To prove her consistency in writing letters. |
| A．She advocated the paperless lifestyle. |
| B．She intended to provide professional aid. |
| C．She tried to improve her communication skills. |
| D．She aimed to give emotional support with letters. |
| A．It cures people of mental diseases. | B．It serves as a conversation starter. |
| C．It has magic power to melt ice. | D．It empowers people to be brave. |
| A．Family Letters Are Priceless |
| B．Love for Writing Never Declines |
| C．World Needs More Love Letters |
| D．Hand-written Letters Improve Efficiency |
Front Range Dog Rescue
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| Meet Cherry Female Hi, my name is Cherry. I’m a very pretty ten-month-old GermanShepherd dog.
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Hi, I’m Anja. I’m a beautiful six-year-old German Shepherd Dog. I was sent here when my owner needed a change in lifestyle. My former owner said I was good with other dogs, but she would not trust me with a cat.
I’m a really clever girl. I know some basic commands (指令). I may be a bit timid when I first meet people, but I do warm up quickly. My former owner said I might need a loving person who wouldn’t leave me alone for long periods of time.
Hi, I’m Oscar. I’m a good-looking two-year-old German Shepherd Dog. I was found searching for food on the street and was then sent here. My past life was a hard one, but I’m still a friendly boy who loves spending time with people, cats and other dogs. Would you like to give me a forever home?
Hi, my name is William. I’m a three-year-old German Shepherd Dog. My former owner lost her job after COVID-19 broke out. She could no longer afford to take care of me, and she sent me here. She said I loved attention. I also love car rides and giving kisses. I am good with kids, cats and other dogs. I’m now waiting for my new family to come along!
1. According to the article, Front Range Dog Rescue mainly works to ________.| A．sell new-born puppies | B．take good care of homeless dogs |
| C．research German Shepherd Dogs | D．match homeless pets with new owners |
| A．her former owner was strict with her |
| B．she was born in her former owner’s home |
| C．she and her former owner used to watch TV together |
| D．her former owner bought her birthday gifts every year |
| A．noisy | B．sad | C．shy | D．unfriendly |
| A．Both Chery and Anja | B．Both Oscar and William |
| C．Both Cherry and Oscar | D．Both Anja and William |
| A．she moved to another city |
| B．she needed a change in lifestyle |
| C．she found the dog was not happy staying with her |
| D．she didn’t have enough money to take care of the dog |
| A．Cherry | B．Anja | C．Oscar | D．William |
The HSMC | |
| Purpose | To offer a volunteer |
| Requirements | ►Be Work 5 hours per ►Remember to ►Be ►Provide an email address. |
10 . Chris is not a traditional explorer—he usually works in an office for a large organization. Yet his job can sometimes be just as exciting and dangerous as being an explorer.
Chris works for MSF, an organization also known as Doctors Without Borders (国界). MSF sends trained doctors all over the world to help people after a war or a disaster. Chris is a doctor from France who has traveled to many places to organize programs that help people.
At the moment, there are over 27, 000 trained medical staff taking part in MSF projects and tasks. The organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, All kinds of doctors can volunteer for MSF. They need to be prepared to go almost anywhere in the world and, of course, they should expect difficult conditions. Doctors with experience in tropical (热带的) diseases are especially useful because most of MSF’S work is in Africa. When MSF accepts a doctor for a task, he has to go for at least six months. When doctors have completed a few tasks, they might be sent on an emergency task following a disaster, such as an earthquake.
But why would a doctor leave a comfortable life and a good salary to join MSF? According to Chris, the experience you gain is a great help in your career. Besides, just like the explorers of the past, you need to keep an open mind and learn to mix well with the people you meet. Most importantly, at the end of each task, you have made a real difference to people’s lives.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。1. Does Chris work for a large organization?
2. When does MSF send trained doctors all over the world to help people?
3. How many medical staff are taking part in MSF projects and tasks?
4. What kind of doctors are greatly needed in Africa?
5. What does Chris think of his work?
