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If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others? Nowadays, more and more young people in America volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. Here are some of their plans.

1.Young people in the USA volunteer to spend ____ helping others.

2. What does Jim plan to do in summer?

3. From the passage, we know that Susan ____.

4.____ wants to be a teacher.

5.Which is the most possible title for this passage?

配对阅读。左栏是五个人的介绍，右栏是七条信息。请将这五个人与他们感兴趣的信息配对。

1.Jenny is a pet lover. She wants to work with pets.

2.David is the boss of a big education company. He wants to know some information about education in China.

3.Wang Lan just came back from England. She is looking for a job. She prefers to work in a big company.

4.Helen is a housewife. She wants to buy vegetables and fruit at low prices.

5.The students in No.2 Middle School plan to have a picnic. Whether they will do it depends on the weather. A．Lots of people miss their pets while they are on holidays. Our hotel can solve (解决) this problem. We lend cats or dogs to you. We are sure that you will be happy to stay with them.

B．Many people like animals and take them as their pets. Now pet hospitals are very busy. Kind people who love animals are needed to work in busy hospitals.

C．Living in another country can help you to learn a language, and about another culture. Many companies today need employees (雇员) who can speak a foreign language, or have the experience of living or working in another country.

D．We sell eggs, apples, tomatoes and pork at very low prices. Our business hours are from 6：00 am to 10：30 pm.

E．Our city will have a cloudy day tomorrow. It will be rainy at times. There will be a strong wind. The day after tomorrow will be sunny. It will be a fine day to go hiking or to have a picnic.

F．We have all kinds of video films, TV plays, and music videos. You can enjoy yourself and take time to watch your favorite videos at our shop. You can also borrow some videos home, each video for a week for 1 dollar.

G．A study of the people in China's largest cities shows that saving money for children's education has become an important reason for saving. It is the second most important purpose of people's saving habit. The result shows that people in China care much about education. The education market is very big in China.

The Internet has become part of teenage life. There’s a report on 3,375 students aged from 10 to 18 in seven Chinese cities. It says that 38% of them believe they use the Internet often. While most of them get useful information and use the Internet to help in their studies, some are not using it in a good way. Many are playing online games too much. A few even visit Web sites they should not look at. Bad things can happen if young people spend too much time on the Internet.
In order to help young people use the Internet in a good way, a textbook on good Internet behavior has started to be used in some Shanghai middle schools this term. It uses real examples to teach students all about good ways of using the Internet. Some students also make online friends. But if you are meeting a friend offline, let your parents know.
Teachers and parents all think the book is a very good idea. It will teach students how to be a good person in the online world. It will be a guide for teens using the Internet and keep students away from bad sites.
【小题1】The underlined word “it” means_____?
A. the book  B. the report  C. the Internet
【小题2】From the report, about____ students between 10—18 years old  
in the seven cities use the Internet often.
A. 3,375   B. 1,280   C. 2,100   
【小题3】 What do most of the students do on the Internet?
A. They get useful information to help in their studies.
B. They play online games.
C. They make online friends.
【小题4】Why do teachers and parents think the book is a good idea?
A. Because it helps with the students’studies.
B. Because it is used in Shanghai middle schools.
C. Because it teaches students how to use the Internet in a good 
way.
【小题5】Which is  the best title for the passage?
A. The Internet is very useful.
B. Students can’t use the Internet.   
C. Be careful when using the Internet.

Katie Spotz is a 22-year-old girl form America. She wants to cross the Atlantic Ocean by boat. If she succeeds, she’ll be the youngest and the first American to finish the 2500-mile trip.
Spotz began sailing when she was at university, but she has never tried to sail such a long way before. It will be a great challenge for her. In recent years, she has swum all the way down the 325-mile Allegheny River and traveled by bike form Seattle to Washington.
Spotz knows that she may see some dangerous things during the trip. It will be very dangerous if she meets very bad weather in the middle of the sea. But she believes that she can deal with all the difficulties.
“I never thought I could run 26 miles,” she said. “But once I finished it, I realized that maybe I could do something even more difficult.”
Spotz wants to collect money by going on this trip. She wants to collect money for an organization called “Blue Planet run”. The organization offers free, safe drinking water to people who need it.
It’ll take her about three months to finish this trip. Good luck to this brave girl and best wishes to her!

     If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not be a volunteer with us? Being a volunteer, you don’t think only of         . You work, and you don’t get money.         your helping hands can make both others and yourself happy. More and more young people are ready to           us. Let’s share some of their stories and plans.
Mary, 17
I visited the forest park with Mr Cao last week. I found there were not enough         there. I’m going to help the Forest Centre build new hiking paths in the mountains. It’s going to be great           —I’ll spend seven days living in a forest and enjoying the clean mountain air. I’m going to           with friends in the day and then sleep under the moon and stars. It will be a nice sport, and I’ll be able to do         good at the same time.
Andy, 18
This summer, I’m going to volunteer with Loving Pets Program. I         my neighbours’ pets last summer. And I fell in love with dogs and cats. This summer, I will work in the         centre and         my kindness and love to more pets. I am sure to make friends with more       !
Haitao, 16
Some children find reading         . They have problems with reading. They need our help. I’ll work for a       called Reading for Life. Every day, I’m going to help them choose and read books            they like. I want to be a          when I grow up, and I love children and reading, so this experience will help me in many ways.