1 . It was about 2:00 a.m. I was driving my taxi on the way to pick up a passenger. When I arrived to collect, I found the building was dark. I walked to the door and knocked, “Just a minute,” answered a weak and elderly voice.
After a long silence, the door opened and a small woman in her eighties stood before me. She took my arm and walked slowly to the car. She kept thanking me for my kindness. “Could you drive through the city center?” asked the old woman. “It’s not the shortest way,” I answered at once.
“Oh, I’m familiar (熟悉的) with the city. And I’m in no hurry. I’m on my way to a hospice (临终医院). I don’t have any family left. It would be the last time for me to travel around the city.”
Hearing this, I quietly shut off the meter (计价器). For the next three hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as a lift operator (升降机操作员) and the neighborhood where she had lived in and told me many stories about the buildings, the streets and the people there. Then, she just sat, saying nothing. At dawn(黎明), she suddenly said, “I’m tired. Let’s go now.”
“How much shall I pay you?” she asked, “Nothing.” I replied. Almost without thinking, I gave her a hug. “Thank you, young man,” said her, excited. Then she held onto me with moved tears (眼泪).
Our hug ended with her words disappearing in the warm morning wind.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题.1. What job did the writer do?
2. Why did the small woman choose to ride through the city?
3. How long did the traveling last that night?
4. How did the small woman feel after the writer gave her a hug?
5. What might the woman say in the wind at last?
2 . For most kids, the best thing about having a birthday is the party. Unluckily, many children are very poor. They don’t have enough money to have birthday parties. But poor children in the USA are lucky, thanks to Chenault and her Birthday Party Project (项目) (BPP).
Chenault came up with the idea in 2009 when she saw a photo of a poor boy. This made her think more about poor children. Their parents don’t have enough money to have birthday parties for them. Chenault wanted to do something for the poor children.
Over the past three years, Chenault and her team have tried their best. They have over 1,350 parties for 12, 000 kids. And things are going on well now. This year, BPP has planned over 180 parties across the country, from San Francisco to Minneapolis to New York.
Chenault says her goal (目标) is to make every child know that they are important. She is happy to have birthday parties for them. Seeing the big smiles of the kids, we can say that she is doing well!
1. Where are the poor children lucky to have birthday parties?2. When did Chenault come up with the idea?
3. Who did Chenault and her Birthday Party Project want to do something for?
4. How many parties have Chenault and her team planned this year?
5. What is Chenault’s goal?
My name is Feng Guixiang. I want to tell you about the China Children and Teenager’s Fund (CCTF) and how it helped me.
One of the CCTF’s special activities is the Spring Bud Project. In 1989, 4.8 million children in the country, aged from seven to fourteen（A） couldn’t go to school. Eighty-three percent（B）_______ them were girls. Because of this, the CCTF launched (创办), the project has helped millions of girls return to school. It has also built a lot of schools.
The very first Spring Bud class was here in Guangxi in 1989. The Spring Bud Project paid for me to attend that class. It also rented a room（C）close to the school for me.
Before the project started, I stayed at home and helped my mother （D）_______ the housework. （E）上学改变了我的生活. I learnt to read and write and do many other things.
Now I work as a teacher at a Spring Bud school here in Guangxi. I（F）wish to help other girls the way the Spring Bud Project helped me.
1. 将文中画线部分（A）改写为：were2. 在文中（B）和（D）的空白处填入适当的单词：
3. 写出文中画线部分（C）和（F）的同义词或近义词：
4. 将文中画线部分（E）译成英语：
5. 从文中找出改变本文主人公命运的活动名称：
Zhou Jiaqi is a 20-year-old food deliveryman (快递员). These days, people are talking about how great he is.
At about 8:00 one morning, Zhou sees a man sitting on a ten-meter high bridge when he is riding across the bridge. Under the bridge is a big river. Zhou soon knows the man is in danger. He rides away to call the police for help. Then he gets back to the man soon. Quietly and quickly, he hugs the man tight (紧紧地).
The man has a difficult life, so he loses hope for life. “My life isn’t good like others, but I’ll never lose any hope.” Zhou says to the man. “Be strong! Think about your family!” When the police arrive, he helps them take the man to the hospital.
Zhou is from Chongqing and works as a deliveryman for only one year. He has a problem with his arm, but he still works hard to live a happy life.
“I’ll use my hands to help myself.” he says.
Many people know Zhou from the Internet and they think he is smart. “We need to be good to deliverymen. They help us a lot,” one person writes. Another says, “Zhou warms me so much and makes the world a better place.”
1. Where does Zhou see the man who is in danger?2. How does Zhou save the man?
3. 将文中划线句子“He has a problem with his arm, but he still works hard to live a happy life.”翻译成汉语。
4. What do people think of Zhou?
5. What can you learn from Zhou’s story?
Have you heard of any volunteer activities like planting trees, cleaning up the community and looking after the old people? But do you know what is volunteer travel? It is a new and popular volunteer activity among young people.
The main purpose of volunteer travel is to take part in service activities to help others. During the trip, volunteer travelers often provide services like teaching, cooking, animal caring.and cultural activities. The volunteers may get free or cheaper accommodation (住处), and meals because of their help.
It seems that these long journeys could only be made possible in recent years by modern transport. However, volunteer travel started in the 1960s, when Alee Dickson and his wife Mora from the UK founded Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), an international volunteer organization.
Traditionally, the volunteer activities take place in a foreign country. But so far, more volunteer trips have taken place in the volunteers’ own countries. Volunteer projects in the countryside are now attracting more visitors living in the cities.
By doing voluntary work while traveling, travelers may make a real and positive influence on the world. The services volunteers provide can reduce the costs for the communities they serve. Another advantage of volunteer travel is that it helps people living in cities experience the life in the countryside. For those who are tired of city life but can’t move to the countryside, volunteer travel can be a way. In this way, travelers have a chance to relax themselves from their busy lives.
1. What is volunteer travel?2. Why do people have volunteer travel?
3. Where do the volunteer activities take place traditionally?
4. How do the travelers make influence on the world?
5. Do travelers enjoy themselves from their busy lives?
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently replied to a letter from volunteers in a community in Shanghai. They help with garbage sorting.
In his reply, Xi said he was happy to know that after recent years of publicity (推广), the volunteers’ community has made new progress in garbage sorting. He also hopes volunteers could encourage more people to develop the habit of sorting garbage.
Since 2019, more than 22, 000 garbage stations have been upgraded in Shanghai, according to the Shanghai Observer website. A huge change has taken place in the city in recent years: people once refused to sort garbage, but now they are actively joining in the activity. Garbage sorting has become a “new fashion”.
To promote the fashion, the community also makes use of technology in garbage sorting. There are special recycling machines besides the garbage cans. People scan the code on the machine, put in paper or clothes, and then get money from it.
“Sorting trash is a way to make the community a better place. It can benefit the residents. For example, house prices may go up,” said Cui Fenglin, 36, a representative of the Shanghai volunteers. He said many people changed their minds after this kind of “persuasion (劝说)” from volunteers.
Sixteen-year-old volunteer Yu Yue has made posters and written articles about garbage sorting. “My classmates and I even made an animation (动画) to help people understand how sorting trash can influence the environment.” Yu said.
In the future, the community will hold more events and work with local schools to promote a greener lifestyle, said Cui. By 2022, about 297 cities in China had fully implemented (实行) trash sorting, reported CCTV News. The whole country is going to implement trash sorting by the end of 2025, according to a national-level working conference held on May 23.
| Garbage | ||
| President Xi’s | ★be happy to know about their new progress in garbage sorting; ★hope more people could be | |
| The successful work of the community and its volunteers | Achievements | ★They have upgraded ★People in Shanghai |
| Actions | ★making use of technology; ★persuading residents by stating that garbage sorting may make the house prices ★ | |
| Future | ★To hold more events; ★To work with local schools; ★To implement garbage sorting | |
7 . Jimmy Cooper and the other boys on the local teenage football team won a fight against bullying (欺凌).
Danny Edwards, a member of the football team, has had a speech disorder (语言障碍) since he was born. When he grew up, kids made fun of him because of the way he talked and the way he dressed.
Jimmy was upset when he found out Danny was being bullied. So he decided to wear the same suit and hat to school, too. “I did it to stand up for Danny and show him that bullying is not right. I wanted him to feel happy and safe and know that anywhere he goes he’ll be treated well by his friends,” Jimmy said. “I knew Danny would like it. I told my mum that I didn’t care what people thought about me in school because I was doing it for Danny.”
When Jimmy told the other boys on the team what he was planning, they wanted to be part of it, too. So they planned a “Danny Edwards Appreciation Day (感恩日)”. They decided that on a special day, instead of wearing football jerseys (球衣), they would dress like Danny. Some other kids in school decided to show their support, too. On the planned day, they all dressed in suits and ties and met in the school library where they cheered and shouted “Danny! Danny! Danny!”.
“I was ... really ... really happy, and it made ... my ... day,” said Danny. “It’s really meaningful for us to team up for kids like Danny.” Jimmy said.
1. Did Jimmy Cooper have a fight with the other boys on the local teenage football team?2. Why did the kids at school make fun of Danny Edwards when he grew up?
3. How did Jimmy feel when he found out Danny was being bullied?
He felt
4. What does the underlined word “it” refer to (指的是)?
It refers to
5. Who took part in “Danny Edwards Appreciation Day”?
Jimmy Cooper,
6. What do you think of Jimmy Cooper? Why?
I think he is
On June 23, 2000, a ship called MV Treasure sank (沉没) near Cape Town, South Africa. More than a thousand tons of oil (原油) went into the ocean. It polluted the natural home of nearly all African penguins. About 20,000 African penguins, half of the world’s penguins were covered with oil and as a result they couldn’t swim or walk properly. It was very possible that they would die. A huge rescue (营救) began, and it lasted for twelve weeks. Up to 1,000 people a day came to help save these birds. The rescue was successful because 45,000 people offered to give their time and energy, for free, to the rescue.
The rescue was a success, but it wasn’t easy. First, people had to catch the penguins and took them to a special rescue centre. When the penguins got there, they stayed in a quiet place for several days so that they could get used to their new “home”. During this time and the next three months, people had to feed the penguins. It wasn’t easy to find enough fish to feed 20,000 penguins, and feeding penguins wasn’t easy either: the penguins have very sharp beaks (喙) and many people got wounds (伤口) on their arms from penguin bites.
After that, they had to take the oil off the penguins’ feathers. People tried to wash each penguin and then made it dry. They did it again and again until there was no more oil on the penguin. It took two people at least an hour just to clean one penguin. Then they put the penguins in pools to swim every day until their feathers got well completely.
“The Great Penguin Rescue” is the world’s biggest rescue of live animals. It’s a moving story because so many people took part in the rescue and showed that they really cared about saving wild animals.
1. What is the population of the world’s penguins?2. How long did it take two people to clean one penguin?
3. What do you think of the rescue? Why do you think so?
4. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. (将划线句子翻译成汉语）
5. Please give a proper title to the passage. (请给短文拟一个适当的标题)
Ye Haitao, a 44-year-old man with paralysis (瘫痪) has helped over 300 children with school lessons for free over the last 21 years.
When Ye was young, he dreamed to be a teacher. He thought educating people was the greatest thing in the world. At the age of 16, he went to university. He studied hard to improve himself for his dream. However, illness got in the way of Ye’s study and life. In the second year of his university, he was so sick that he had to give up his study. Day by day, he couldn’t walk, stand or even sit. He could only lie down in bed all day.
One day some villagers came to Ye’s home for help because the left-children (留守儿童) had problems. Some villagers went to big cities to search for a job, leaving behind their children and parents. But the children and grandparents couldn’t communicate with each other well because of the generation gap (代沟). What’s more, most of the grandparents could hardly read or write. The children really needed help with their homework at home.
Ye started helping these children in the summer of 2002. The students come to his home after school and during summer and winter vacations. They don’t need to pay anything for the tutoring (辅导). Sitting at the desk around Ye’s bed, they always listen to Ye carefully.
Many of Ye’s students have entered high school and even become college students. Seeing the children improve with his help, Ye is quite happy. He knows he is doing a meaningful thing. “It is the smile of these children that keeps me doing this. I get a strong feeling of satisfaction when I see their smiling faces,” Ye says.
1. Did Ye Haitao go to university?2. When did Ye Haitao start helping these children?
3. What problems did the left-children have?
4. Do you think Ye Haitao has achieved his dream? Why or why not?
10 . Zhao Zhansheng, 43, is a member of a rescue team (救援队) of Henan Province. In the face of the serious floods (水灾) in July 2023 in Zhuozhou City, North China’s Hebei Province, he and his teammates arrived there to help those in need. In a video posted on the Internet, Zhao skillfully prepared huimian noodles, which are popular in his hometown, right on the streets. He invited all local people and rescuers passing by to have a meal.
“Please let the kids who haven’t had breakfast this morning eat first. Don’t worry. We have plenty of food. Anyone who comes to my stand (摊位) can have a bowl of hot noodles today,” Zhao told the crowd.
The video touched hundreds of millions after being posted. Just in two days after posted, it has been watched nearly 10 million times, receiving over 770,000 likes. Rescuers from different provinces, including Shandong and Sichuan, were seen in the video, standing in lines to receive the meal. People thought highly of Zhao’s heartwarming work. One said, “A pot of noodles may cost around a hundred yuan but his kindness comes with no price.”
“Although the locals’ losses were great, many of them joined me in preparing the meals. I’m thankful for their support as well,” Zhao said. “My other team members are busy saving people from the floods and they worked even harder than me. My role is to provide support,” Zhao answered to the praise.
“If we run out of what we’ve brought, we can buy them locally. I will stay in Zhuozhou until the flood waters move back from a high level, offering help wherever it is needed,” Zhao added.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。1. Where did Zhao Zhansheng and his teammates go to help in July 2023?
2. Who did Zhao Zhansheng invite to have a meal at his stand?
3. What did people online think of Zhao Zhansheng’s work?
4. What were Zhao’s other team members busy doing?
5. How long did Zhao stay in Zhuozhou?
