1 . Games for Peace

The Peace Corps is a United States volunteer organization. The mission of the Peace Corps is to promote world peace and friendship by providing trained volunteers to countries who need them. Here is advice of two of those volunteers on joining the Peace Corps and some more information about the activity.

Schwille: It usually takes nine to twelve months to be placed, and it’ll take longer if you’re married. If you’re willing to go anywhere, there are more opportunities. Remember the place you’re going is not the place you think it is.

Schneider: The biggest piece of advice I could share is that each experience is so unique and every experience is incredibly valuable. There is no one way to measure the “success” or “impact” a volunteer has in their community.

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Length of service is 27 months, which includes an average of three months of in-country training and 24 months of Volunteer service.

The application process averages 9-12 months. The minimum age for Peace Corps service is 18; there is no upper age limit. Volunteers must be U.S. citizens. Competitive applicants will have a demonstrated commitment to community service, leadership experience, and a willingness to learn a new language.

1. What’s the purpose of the Peace Corps?

A．To train volunteers.	B．To advance peace and friendship.
C．To provide opportunities.	D．To share experiences.

2. Who is qualified to be a volunteer of the organization?

A．A British postgraduate who wants to give back to society.

B．A Canadian lawyer with adequate volunteering experience.

C．An American gardener who is proficient in French.

D．An American high school student with busy school schedule.

3. Where can the text be found?

A．In a magazine.

B．In a biography.

C．On the website.

D．In a novel.

2 . When a group of college kids channeled their pandemic troubles into action, they never imagined the project would fuel a nationwide movement to tackle hunger and food waste.

But that’s exactly what Farmlink has done since 2020, bringing together hundreds of young volunteers to rescue nearly 77 million pounds of harvests headed for the trash and delivered them to those in need. The organization’s efforts help farmers, the environment, and people struggling to feed thef.

Launched during the height of the pandemic in spring, 2020, Farmlink was initially supposed to help struggling families and food banks. “In the United States, 40 million Americans are food insecure,” said Aidan Reilly, who co-founded Farmlink. “Meanwhile, we’re throwing out over 100 billion pounds of food every year.” Learning that local farms were forced to destroy excess produce that they couldn’t sell, especially with restaurants and schools closed, Aidan and a group of friends worked together to contact farms coast to coast.

In California, they found a farmer who had 13,000 eggs that could be donated, and Reilly offered to do the pickup and delivery himself. That was the first of many more deliveries. With “we’ll come to you” as their catchphrase, the group rented trucks and attempted to do all the food pickup and deliveries themselves.

The students ultimately got a welcome help from Uber Freight, and with the help of professional drivers, they moved more than one million pounds of produce from farms to food banks within just two months, transforming their passion project into a massive logistics (物流) operation in the process. Word spread, and more and more young people at home during the pandemic reached out to help.

Farmlink has worked with more than 100 farms and 300 communities in the US, rescuing and moving enough food to distribute more than 64 million meals.

1. What is Farmlink?

A．A project.

B．A volunteer.

C．A food bank.

D．A college.

2. What’s the original purpose of the Farmlink?

A．To deal with food waste.	B．To protect the environment.
C．To help with food shortages.	D．To fight against the pandemic.

3. What does the underlined word “excess” mean in Paragraph 3?

A．Fresh.

B．Necessary.

C．Expensive.

D．Extra.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Transforming Passion into Action

B．Turning Food Waste into Meals

C．Distributing Meals with Joint Efforts

D．Rescuing the World from Hunger

3 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Claudia’s mom first saw the advertisement in a newspaper. The advertisement told of an AmeriCorps-sponsored workshop to train 100 teenagers in leadership skills and community service. Claudia sent in her application and was one of the teenagers chosen to go to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, in the summer when she was 16.

During the leadership training, Claudia worked with a team of 10 kids. Together they surveyed, planned, and set up a meeting for minority business owners to find out how crime and safety affected them. After surveying more than 150 people, Claudia and her friends provided information to businesses about alarm systems and other safety measures.

At the end of her AmeriCorps training, Claudia was one of only two teens chosen to attend a Sumner of Safety National Forum. She received more training there and returned home with enthusiasm.

That’s when her mom told her about a problem at the day-care center where she worked. All day long, kids from a nearby housing project would press their noses against the windows of the center, knocking and begging to use the playground. But the playground was always locked, and only children whose parents paid for day care were allowed to use it.

“That’s when it hit me,” Claudia remembers. “I had really developed my leadership skills and a desire to serve by helping those small businesses. So I went to a teacher at Framingham High School and made a proposal for an after-school program for those children living in the low-income housing project.” Claudia received lots of support from about 20 other teens in a service club at the high school.

The project wasn’t easy. First, Claudia struggled to find a place to house the program. The Framingham Housing Authority finally agreed to donate a facility next door to the day-care center. Claudia immediately organized her friends to collect donations of crayons, paper, scissors, and supplies from teachers and day-care centers. Then she made a flyer (传单) and distributed it around the housing project.

注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右；
2. 应使用 5 个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:

Only a few kids showed up on the first day.

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Paragraph 2:

When Claudia graduated from high school, another girl from the service club took over the program, and it’s still running.

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4 . 假如你是学生会主席, 杭州亚运会正在招募志愿者, 请你以Volunteer Recruitment Program为题写一则宣传公告, 并号召中外学生积极报名参加。内容要点包括:
1. 志愿者服务时间（2022 年 9月至 10月）及地点（杭州, 宁波, 温州等);
2. 招募条件;
3. 报名时间和方式。
注意:
1. 词数 80 左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
参孝词汇: 杭州亚运会 Asian Games Hangzhou 2022
官网: http://www.hangzhou2022.cn

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5 . Every year, natural disasters affect about 250 million people and global warming is making droughts and floods more common.     1     But we can reduce the number of people who die in them.

In Bangladesh，a lot of people have to live on flat and near the sea, but the cyclones (旋风) there bring terrible floods. In 1970, Cyclone Bhola killed at least 300,000 people.     2     In 1991, the even stronger cyclone Gorky hit the country. This time, people could use special school buildings as emergency shelters. Unfortunately, many women and children didn’t go to them and around 140,000 people drowned.

After this, villages set up groups of emergency volunteers and teachers had to talk to children every week about the things which they should do if there was a cyclone warning.

    3     It came in 2007. Twelve hours before cyclone Sidr reached land, a Bangladeshi scientist in the USA calculated (计算) the exact areas of danger on a computer. The emergency volunteers in the villages spread the warning fast.

    4     “You must come to the school now,” they shouted. “You won’t be safe if you stay here.” All the buildings in the village were destroyed in the cyclone except for the school shelter.

Not everyone in Bangladesh was so lucky.     5     But this was a much smaller number than in the big cyclones of the twentieth century. With modern technology, planning and education, we don’t have to lose huge numbers of lives in natural disasters.

A．Sadly, we can’t stop the disasters.

B．Four thousand people died in cyclone Sidr.

C．Heavy rains, too, contribute to the total cyclone damage.

D．They didn’t have to wait many years for the next big cyclone.

E．It was one of the worst natural disasters of the twentieth century.

F．Ten-year-old Rupa and her friends ran to all their neighbours’ homes.

G．A tropical cyclone can be up to six miles high, and hundreds of miles wide.