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volunteers sign up for the Peace Corps (和平部队) or other organizations and travel to faraway parts of the
world. But you already have things to do at home. So maybe you should start with a small project.
Meng Chen is a student in Beijing. He goes to the Forbidden City almost every day. The 20-year-old
volunteers there. He tells visitors about the clocks in the clock gallery (钟表馆).
Meng is one of around 300 volunteer tour guides in the Forbidden City. One-third of them are university
students. They hang around the palace like other visitors, but with red "volunteer" cards on their clothes.
Meng said he loves spending time in the buildings where 25 emperors (皇帝) spent their whole lives.
"Every brick has a story to tell," he said.
But volunteer work is more than fun. Meng has to study for the job. It took him about three months to
remember every detail (细节) of the 176 clocks in the clock gallery.
And it can be frustrating. (让人泄气的) Often, tourists turn down volunteering guides. "Too many people are
in a rush to finish sightseeing. They don"t have time to listen to us," said Shi Hui. He is a university student who
volunteers there.On his first day, Shi walked around for three hours until he found a man in his 50s who was
happy to listen to him.
"It"s always fun to have listeners who are interested in your talk," Shi said.
B. Almost every day.
C. Twice a week.
D. Almost every weekend.
B. He repairs broken clocks.
C. He works at a tour guide.
D. He collects visitors" tickets.
B. is tired of volunteering
C. is shy and seriou
D. will become a tour guide after graduation
B. people refuse to listen to them
C. they have too much work to do
D. they have to travel far to the Forbidden City
B. how to become a volunteer
C. things to pay attention to as a volunteer
D. experiences of some volunteer
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试题【阅读短文，选择正确答案。 To start as a volunteer (志愿者), you could look for an organizatio】；主要考察你对社会现象类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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or two parents and one or two children each.
Children in the US will leave their parents" home when they grow up. They usually live far from their
parents because they want to find good jobs. They often write to their parents or telephone them. And they
often go to visit their parents on holiday.
Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs. Americans think it important for young people to
decide on their lives by themselves.
Children are asked to do some work around their house. And in many families, children are paid for doing
some housework so that they learn how to make money for their own use.
B.smaller than
C.as big as
D.as small as
B.be free
C.find good jobs
D.go to university
B.on weekends
C.on holiday
D.very often
B.get pay for doing house work
C.1ive with their parents when they grow up
D.Both A and B
B.Parents don"t ask their children to do the housework.
C.Parents think it important for children to make their own decision.
D.Children in America have chances to learn to make money at home.
an American city.But it is different from living on farms, however.
In many parts of the world, farmers and their families live in villages or towns. In the United States,
however, each family lives on its own fields, and often can"t see any neighbor. Instead of traveling from a
village to the fields every morning. American farmers stay on their land all the week. They travel to the nearest
town on Saturdays for shopping or on Sundays for church. The children ride on horses to large schools which
serve all of the farm families living in the area. In some areas, there are some small schools serving a few
families, and the children walk to school.
Of course, life keeps changing for everyone, including farmers. Today, there are cars, good roads, radios
and television sets. And of course there are modern machines for faming. All of this have changed farm life.
For many years, however, farming in America was often a lonely way of living.Farmers had to deal with
their own problems,instead of getting help from others. They learned to try new ways and to believe their
ideas instead of following old ways.
B. different from
C. similar
D. just like
B. towns
C. fields
D. church
morning.
B. every day
C. from Monday to Friday
D. on Saturday and Sunday
B. better
C. bad
D. worse
B. Because they had to deal with their own problems.
C. Because farm life changed a lot.
D. Because the children had to ride on horses to large schools.
as food problem. And today, China"s population is still growing very fast. So in order to control the population,
China has formulated the policy of family planning, that is,late marriage, late childbirth and fewer but healthier
children. Men of 22 years old and women of 20 years old can get married (结婚). If a man of 25 or over 25
gets married with a woman of 23 or over 23, their marriage is a late marriage. Children by a woman at the age
of 23 or late is a late childbirth. The country encourages people to have only one child. Family planning is a
useful policy to control China"s population. And it is still needed in China in following years.
B. China"s family planning
C. China"s late marriage
D. China"s childbirth
B. China has too many people
C. China wants to control its population
D. A, B and C
B. A man of 25 with a woman of 22.
C. A man of 23 with a woman of 23.
D. A man of 23 with a woman of 20.
B. 提醒
C. 鼓励
D. 逼迫
B. still needed
C. not good
D. useless
He says, "Rich people have expensive cars, big people have large cars, and old people drive old cars." But I don"t
agree with him.
My neighbor, Mrs. Hill, is 82 years old. She drives only on Tuesday, and then she drives only to the bank. She
never drives more than 30 kilometers an hour. Do you think Mrs. Hill has a very old and small car? No! Her car
is new. It"s very large, and it can go 200 kilometers an hour!
My friend Mike is an artist. He paints beautiful pictures with lots of colors. But his car is black. Mrs. Bates
has a very, very old car. It often has some trouble. Does she drive that kind of car because she is poor? No, she
has four restaurants and two million dollars in the bank. My uncle Joe has a very small car. Every Sunday, he
drives to the country with his wife, his three children, his mother and his dog.
Now, you have read about my friends and their cars. Do you agree with my grandfather? Maybe you have a
car. Does it say something about you?
B. different people have cars of the same kind
C. poor people have large cars
D. artists have black cars
B. Mrs. Bates
C. Mike
D. Joe
B. he has a large family
C. he has no children
D. he has few members in his family
B. colorless pictures
C. colorful pictures
D. pictures with only a few colors
B. cars are often the same as their drivers in many ways
C. artists shouldn"t drive black cars
D. a car doesn"t say anything about its owner
have a relationship that 1 for both of you, and that you both get what you 2 from the relationship. For
your teacher, he or she wants to make 3 you are careful, being respectful and polite, and 4 your best
to learn. For you, you 5 a teacher who respects you, answers your questions, and tries to 6 you learn.
You can get along with your teacher and learn without being friends with him or her, although it"s 7 if
that happens.
In every school, kids say some teachers are too 8 or serious, but don"t judge a teacher 9 you are in
his or her class and can see for yourself. Most of time, your teacher is on your 10 . And a teacher who"s
strict may be someone who 11 to do his or her job well-teaching you the 12 you should learn. It"s also
13 to remember that making mistakes is a 14 of learning. By pointing out your mistakes and helping you
15 them, a teacher is teaching you.