If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others?

Don’t listen to people who say that young people today often think only of themselves. It’s not true at all. More and more young people in the USA volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don’t do it for money. Here are some of their stories.

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

A. school holidays????????????? B. weekdays???????????????? C. every morning.

2.What does Alice volunteer to do in summer?

A. To sleep under the stars.?

B. To spend the whole summer living in a tent

C. To help build new hiking paths in the mountains.

3.From the passage, we know that Jason Moore _____.

A. likes reading?????????????? B. is 18 years old?????????????? C. isn’t very rich

4.________ wants to be a teacher.

A. Alice Hamilton???????????? B. Jason Moore???????????????? C. Trish Anderson

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

A. Reading for Life.???? B. The Forest Center??????? C. Young American Volunteer.

任务型阅读（共5小题，计10分）阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下面表格中所缺的信息（共5小题，每小题2分，计10分）

Do you think it’s hard for you to learn English? Listening to English songs may be a fun way to learn. You might be thinking: Where can I find some online music? Well, there are plenty of places to listen to and download English songs.

? Google music is a good website. It has about 350,000 songs for download. You can search by artist and song name. You can also search by criteria(标准). For example, if you want to find a slow song by a female singer, just choose “ female singer” and “slow” on the page. On Google music, you can read the lyrics to the songs as you listen.

? Baidu MP3 is another big online music database(数据库). You can find some of the newest songs on Baidu and download them.

? If you just want to listen to music, you can try www. aiting.com and www. haoting. com. They are two large online Mp3 players.

? After you pick(挑选) the songs, you can start learning. Learning language from music is fun, so don’t think of it as work. You can listen on your way to school or before you go to sleep. Close your eyes and try to get the meaning of the songs.

1.There are _____________________________________ songs to download on Google music.

2.We can download English songs from ________________ and ____________________.

3.The ways of searching songs are ______________________________________

4.When we listen to songs, we can read the lyrics on__________________________________

5.The best title of the passage is _______________________________________

If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others?
Don’t listen to people who say that young people today often think only of themselves. It’s not true at all. More and more young people in the USA volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don’t do it for money. Here are some of their stories.

If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others?

Don’t listen to people who say that young people today often think only of themselves. It’s not true at all. More and more young people in the USA volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don’t do it for money. Here are some of their stories.

1.What does Alice volunteer to do in summer?

2.From the passage, we know that Jason Moore _____.

3.________ wants to be a teacher.

Reading Comprehension(阅读理解)：

　　A person's voice can travel, as an electric current, all the way around the world. Today people can use the phone to talk with others almost anywhere on the earth.

　　Being able to listen to and talk to a person far away is important. It's almost as nice as visiting the person. But it is not really the same thing. When you visit, you see a person, but when you use the phone, you don't see the person you're talking with.

　　That may change in the near future.

　　Today some people are using a kind of telephone called the picture phone or vision-phone. With it, two people who are talking can see each other.

　　Picture phones can be very useful when you have something to show the person you're calling. They may have other uses in the fixture. One day, you may be able to call up a library and ask to see a book. Then you'll be able to read the book right over your picture phone.

　　Or you may be able to go shopping through your picture phone. Suppose you see something in the newspaper that you think you want to buy. You will go to your phone and call the shop. People at the shop will show you the thing you're interested in right over the phone. You'll be able to shop all over town and never even leave your room!

Choose the best answer(根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案)：

1．People can talk with a person very far away ________.

[　　]

A．because a person's voice can travel fast

B．because a person's voice is an electric current

C．by using a telephone

D．by making a person's voice

2．Today people can use a vision-phone to ________.

[　　]

A．visit a person far away

B．travel round the world

C．see each other

D．shake hands with each other

3．Listening to and talking to a person far away is ________ visiting him.

[　　]

4．Which is NOT TRUE?

[　　]

A．You will be able to see the thing that you want to buy over a vision-phone.

B．You will be able to read the book that you want to borrow over a vision-phone.

C．You will be able to get a picture of what you are interested in over a picture phone.

D．You will be able to show something to the person you are calling over a picture phone.

5．The best title for this passage is “________.”

[　　]

A．The Telephone Is Useful

B．The History of the Telephone

C．The Importance of the Telephone

D．The Future Phone

6. You'll be able to buy anything ________.

[　　]

A．even without leaving your home

B．on TV

C．by asking someone else

D．by asking your mother to buy