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Weekend Miracles
Weekend Miracles give children aged 9 and older in the Children’s Center the opportunity to visit a host family who partners the child to find the child a permanent family. The host family arranges activities that the child will enjoy and introduces the child to their circle of friends—in order to develop a lasting connection with someone.
Organization: Kidsave International
Location: the United States
Duration: 2 days to 6 weeks
Web Designer Needed
We need the skills of a Web designer to help us redesign our website. The project will be fun and fulfilling, and give much needed visibility (能见性) to our grass-roots projects that are serving children and mothers in every corner of the world.
Organization: Children’s Fund
Location: the United States
Duration: 3 weeks to 2 months
Living Miracles
Doctors and dentists are needed as volunteers at Shechen Medical Clinic in Nepal for two months or longer. In Tibet, we need doctors for only 1-2 months. Dentists can come for one month or longer. Please understand that modern conveniences are not available here.
Organization: Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship
Location: Nepal
Duration: 21 days to 6 years
Teaching English to Children in India
The Salus Foundation, Inc. needs help from volunteers, teachers, college students or recent college graduates trained in ESL, or who are willing to be trained in ESL to teach English to the students at the Sulaxim School.
Organization: The Salus Foundation, Inc.
Location: India
Duration: 6 weeks to 9 months
Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Cameroon
In Defense of Animals in Africa needs help from highly motivated, mature volunteers who care about the conservation of great apes and are willing to live in an isolated, challenging, French-speaking environment for six months to benefit our future generation.
Organization: In Defense of Animals in Africa
Location: Cameroon
Duration: 6 months

  1. 1.

    We can infer from the passage that           .

    1. A.
      serving children in every corner of the world is the Web designer’s duty
    2. B.
      volunteers going to Cameroon should be able to speak French
    3. C.
      more dentists are needed than doctors in Nepal
    4. D.
      the time you work in one of these places can be changed
  2. 2.

    Which of the following fields is NOT mentioned in the passage?

    1. A.
      Health
    2. B.
      Education
    3. C.
      Politics
    4. D.
      Wildlife conservation
  3. 3.

    Which of the following is suitable for John, an American college student, who wants to learn about the lives of children in other countries?

    1. A.
      Weekend Miracles
    2. B.
      Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Cameroon
    3. C.
      Web Designer Needed
    4. D.
      Teaching English to Children in India
  4. 4.

    The purpose of Weekend Miracles is mainly to help children           .

    1. A.
      enlarge their circle of friends
    2. B.
      learn more about the outside world
    3. C.
      find a family who is willing to raise them
    4. D.
      get chances to communicate with other children
BCDC
文章介绍了几种活动。
1.推理题。根据Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Cameroon部分的mature volunteers who care about the conservation of great apes and are willing to live in an isolated, challenging, French-speaking environment可知这些志愿者应该能将法语。
2.细节题。根据Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Cameroon部分可知是关于Wildlife conservation;Teaching English to Children in India部分可知是关于教育的问题。Living Miracles部分是关于健康的问题。ABD都提到了,C符合要求。
3.推理题。根据Teaching English to Children in India部分的The Salus Foundation, Inc. needs help from volunteers, teachers, college students or recent college graduates trained in ESL,可知D正确。
4.细节题。根据第一段Weekend Miracles give children aged 9 and older in the Children’s Center the opportunity to visit a host family who partners the child to find the child a permanent family.可知C正确。
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As a young man, Al was a skilled artist.He had a wife and two fine sons.One night, his oldest son developed a serious stomachache.Thinking it was only some1intestinal (肠内的)disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously.But the boy2suddenly that night.
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8 the alcoholism progressed, Al began to lose everything he9— his home, his land, his art objects, everything.10Al died alone in a San Francisco motel room.
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  1. 1.
    1. A.
      certain
    2. B.
      common
    3. C.
      rare
    4. D.
      basic
  2. 2.
    1. A.
      dead
    2. B.
      passed away
    3. C.
      starved
    4. D.
      worsened
  3. 3.
    1. A.
      cured
    2. B.
      prevented
    3. C.
      forbidden
    4. D.
      saved
  4. 4.
    1. A.
      disease
    2. B.
      debt
    3. C.
      guilt
    4. D.
      duty
  5. 5.
    1. A.
      left
    2. B.
      scolded
    3. C.
      quarreled
    4. D.
      forgave
  6. 6.
    1. A.
      disasters
    2. B.
      adventures
    3. C.
      conflicts
    4. D.
      situations
  7. 7.
    1. A.
      got
    2. B.
      drank
    3. C.
      turned
    4. D.
      sank
  8. 8.
    1. A.
      As
    2. B.
      Though
    3. C.
      Because
    4. D.
      If
  9. 9.
    1. A.
      needed
    2. B.
      shared
    3. C.
      benefited
    4. D.
      owned
  10. 10.
    1. A.
      Eventually
    2. B.
      Gradually
    3. C.
      Therefore
    4. D.
      Meanwhile
  11. 11.
    1. A.
      trouble
    2. B.
      hardship
    3. C.
      failure
    4. D.
      waste
  12. 12.
    1. A.
      teen
    2. B.
      adult
    3. C.
      old
    4. D.
      adolescent
  13. 13.
    1. A.
      win
    2. B.
      fall
    3. C.
      space
    4. D.
      flow
  14. 14.
    1. A.
      mother
    2. B.
      brother
    3. C.
      father
    4. D.
      child
  15. 15.
    1. A.
      up
    2. B.
      with
    3. C.
      on
    4. D.
      through
  16. 16.
    1. A.
      worried
    2. B.
      puzzled
    3. C.
      interested
    4. D.
      attracted
  17. 17.
    1. A.
      especially
    2. B.
      basically
    3. C.
      hardly
    4. D.
      specially
  18. 18.
    1. A.
      argued
    2. B.
      searched
    3. C.
      analyzed
    4. D.
      thought
  19. 19.
    1. A.
      thoughts
    2. B.
      ideas
    3. C.
      minds
    4. D.
      memories
  20. 20.
    1. A.
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    2. B.
      call
    3. C.
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New Beijing, Great Olympics
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However, Rome was not built in a day. To carry out the promise of “New Beijing, Great Olympics”, deeds speak louder than words.

  1. 1.

    What does the underlined word “metropolis” in paragraph 2 mean ?

    1. A.
      suburb
    2. B.
      small city
    3. C.
      capital city
    4. D.
      town
  2. 2.

    Which sentence is not true according to the author’s opinion in the passage?

    1. A.
      Beijing has a crowded traffic since a long time ago.
    2. B.
      Experts in architecture are also important to the city’s construction.
    3. C.
      In order to host the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing has preparations to make in many ways.
    4. D.
      Hardware” refers to quality of people in Beijing.
  3. 3.

    How many aspects does the author mention to prepare for the Olympics in Beijing?

    1. A.
      two: basic-structure construction and people’s quality
    2. B.
      three: basic-structure construction, traffic problem and overall city planning.
    3. C.
      two: basic-structure construction and overall city planning
    4. D.
      three: basic-structure construction, overall city planning and people’s quality.
  4. 4.

    What can be inferred from the text?

    1. A.
      Beijing is going to host the 2008 Olympic Games.
    2. B.
      To carry out the promise of “New Beijing, Great Olympics”is a long-term work.
    3. C.
      Traffic jams will cause a lot of trouble and make people feel sick..
    4. D.
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In the Hollywood movie, scientists reproduced dinosaurs from the DNA they found in a mosquito fossil and disaster soon followed.

  1. 1.

    Scientists are excited _________________________ .

    1. A.
      because they have got dinosaur DNA
    2. B.
      about making a movie called “Jurassic Park”
    3. C.
      because they found the liquid to dissolve fossils
    4. D.
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  2. 2.

    The latest discovery can tell us       .

    1. A.
      what the animals were like
    2. B.
      how fossils form
    3. C.
      how the dinosaur lived
    4. D.
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  3. 3.

    What does the underlined phrase“flesh out”mean in the article?

    1. A.
      add more details or information to
    2. B.
      take more photos of
    3. C.
      make the public know more about
    4. D.
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  4. 4.

    Why is the latest discovery very important?

    1. A.
      It could make it possible to make dinosaurs return to the former position.
    2. B.
      It could throw light on how dinosaurs lived many years ago.
    3. C.
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    4. D.
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  1. 1.

    According to the passage,_______

    1. A.
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    2. B.
      if we were healthy, we could spend our days in doing things with less sleep
    3. C.
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    4. D.
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  2. 2.

    In order to keep good health, _______

    1. A.
      we should eat a lot of sweets
    2. B.
      one needs a large amount of fat
    3. C.
      people should eat according to the foods nutrition
    4. D.
      we must try to sleep now and then
  3. 3.

    Eating more and sleeping less_______

    1. A.
      can keep healthy
    2. B.
      is no good for you
    3. C.
      gets you more energy
    4. D.
      will keep your personality
  4. 4.

    The writer explains ______in this passage

    1. A.
      how to eat
    2. B.
      the importance of doing exercise
    3. C.
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    4. D.
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The invention of the electric telegraph gave birth to the communications industry. Although Samuel B. Morse succeeded in making the invention useful in 1837, it was not until 1843 that the first important telegraph line was constructed. By 1860 more than 50,000 miles of lines connected people east of the Rockies. The following year, San Francisco was added to the network.
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  1. 1.

    The main topic of the passage is        .

    1. A.
      the history of journalism                               
    2. B.
      the origin of the national telegraph
    3. C.
      how the telegraph network contributed to the expansion of railroads
    4. D.
      the contributions and development of the telegraph network
  2. 2.

    The word "gathering" in line 11 refers to        .

    1. A.
      people                   
    2. B.
      information                   
    3. C.
      objects                                    
    4. D.
      substances
  3. 3.

    The author's main purpose in this passage is to         .

    1. A.
      compare the invention of the telegraph with the invention of the steam-driven rotary press
    2. B.
      propose new ways to develop the communications industry
    3. C.
      show how the electric telegraph affected the communications industry
    4. D.
      criticize Samuel B. Morse
  4. 4.

    This passage would most likely be found in a        .

    1. A.
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    2. B.
      book on trains  
    3. C.
      science textbook
    4. D.
      computer magazine
  5. 5.

    It can be inferred from the passage that          .

    1. A.
      Samuel Morse did not make a significant contribution to the communications industry
    2. B.
      Morse's invention did not immediately achieve its full potential (潜力)
    3. C.
      the extension of the telegraph was more important than its invention
    4. D.
      journalists have the Associated Press to thank for the birth of the communications industry

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There is a scene that is repeated up and down the land during the month of June. Outside a church in some Scottish town or village a small crowd has interrupted its daily affairs to gather on the pavement. Near the west door a dozen or so overdressed people are glancing impatiently at their watches. The men seem a little self-conscious in their hired kilts; the women hold their wind-blown dresses and loudly admire each other’s hats. They are all lively and talkative, yet at the same time strangely reserved. The crowd ignores them, barely noticing when they disappear into the church. Even the arrival of the groom rouses little excitement. These participants are not the main attraction. We are waiting for the bride.
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  1. 1.

    Why is the scene mentioned in this article often seen all over Scotland in June?

    1. A.
      It’s hot in June so men can wear kilts and women can put on beautiful dresses.
    2. B.
      A lot of Scottish people like getting married at that time of the year.
    3. C.
      In June people can get away from their daily affairs and go to church.
    4. D.
      June is considered the luckiest month of the year.
  2. 2.

    The underlined word “them” (in Paragraph 1) refers to ________.

    1. A.
      the overdressed people    
    2. B.
      the bride and groom
    3. C.
      the people on the street    
    4. D.
      the people’s hats
  3. 3.

    Please put the following in correct order.
    a. The bride arrives.
    b. The couple walks out of the church.
    c. A piper plays some music.
    d. The groom arrives.
    e. The bride and groom lead people to the reception.
    f. People wait outside the church.  

    1. A.
      f, d, a, c, b, e                
    2. B.
      f, d, a, b, c, e
    3. C.
      d, f, a, b, e, c                          
    4. D.
      d, a, f, b, e, c                
  4. 4.

    The underlined part “putting the photographer off his work” (in Paragraph 3) most probably means _____.

    1. A.
      making the photographer feel relieved
    2. B.
      giving the photographer a chance to rest
    3. C.
      disturbing the photographer when he is taking pictures
    4. D.
      having the photographer taken away from his duty
  5. 5.

    What can we infer from the passage?

    1. A.
      Women going to a wedding ceremony pay most attention to each other.
    2. B.
      Spectators of a wedding ceremony are particularly interested in the groom.
    3. C.
      Confetti is forbidden at the wedding ceremony because it is not all white.
    4. D.
      If the bride is dressed all in white traditionally, she is considered beautiful.

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For people between 5 and 45, accidents are the second leading cause of death worldwide after AIDS, and about 600,000 injured patients bleed to death every year. Experts estimated that if TXA were readily available, between 70,000 and 100,000 lives a year could be saved. Though the drug wasn’t tested on children , experts said it would almost certainly work with them as well.

  1. 1.

    The underlined word” hemorrhage” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________

    1. A.
      serious illness
    2. B.
      heart disease
    3. C.
      heavy bleeding
    4. D.
      lack of drug
  2. 2.

    What can we learn about TXA from the passage?

    1. A.
      It can only be made in England
    2. B.
      It was only used in operations before
    3. C.
      It is a patented drug
    4. D.
      It is mainly used in poor countries
  3. 3.

    Doctors were worried about using TXA because ________

    1. A.
      a lot of patients died unexpectedly after using it
    2. B.
      it has no treatment effect on patients
    3. C.
      it can cause blood clots or stroke
    4. D.
      they hadn’t used it on accident victims before
  4. 4.

    What do we know from the last paragraph?

    1. A.
      It is a pity that TXA wasn’t widely used on injured patients before
    2. B.
      Tests have proved that TXA can be used on children
    3. C.
      People between 5 and 45 should be injected with TXA every year
    4. D.
      Accidents are the first leading cause of death worldwide.

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Father and his crew radioed for help when water started pouring in his ship. We flew out there about an hour ago and dropped them a pump. “Take it easy. He will be back soon.” “What if the pump doesn’t work?” Mom questioned. “You should do another fly-over.” The man tried to comfort Mom, “He must be all right now, Mrs Hemingway, or we would have heard a radio signal from him.” “You haven’t got a Mayday?” “No, but we will let you know if we hear the radio signal.” Mom hung up.
I remained crying. Mom called the Coast Guard again. Finally, they said they would send out a rescue plane.
At midnight the phone rang. It was the Coast Guard. They had found my father and all his crew floating in sea 15miles off Jamaica. Dad’s ship had sunk, but fortunately all were safe.
“The pump they dropped didn’t work fast enough,” Dad said. “I radioed a Mayday, but I couldn’t get through.”
Dad didn’t get through to the Coast Guard because of the storm, but he got through to us. Really, there is something that can’t be seen but exists, as is said but can’t be explained, between us, the families. 

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “Mayday” in the first paragraph probably means “_________”.

    1. A.
      a radio program                                       
    2. B.
      the signal for help   
    3. C.
      the holiday in May                                          
    4. D.
      a sign of feeling sick
  2. 2.

    Why did the man on duty say the author’s father would return soon?

    1. A.
      The pump they dropped was of high quality.
    2. B.
      The author’s father called him and told him so.
    3. C.
      The plane waited until the pump worked.
    4. D.
      He thought no news was good news.
  3. 3.

    We can infer from the text that _________.

    1. A.
      the man on duty in the Coast Guard was careless
    2. B.
      the plane failed to find the ship which was in danger
    3. C.
      the author’s father was in charge of the ship
    4. D.
      the pump saved the author’s father finally
  4. 4.

    What may be the explanation for the author’s (as a baby) crying?

    1. A.
      He might feel hungry in the evening
    2. B.
      He might see something terrible in the room.
    3. C.
      He might be afraid when left alone in room
    4. D.
      He might have a feeling of uneasiness.

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