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When it comes to benefits of volunteering, a lot of people think it’s all about the warm feelings after helping someone. 1. For example, volunteering...

1. Teaches you new skills

From helping make websites to teaching kids languages, to arranging events for charity, volunteering can really be almost anything. 2. And through overcoming these you learn and start to master completely new skills.

2. Can be relevant work experience

Something that seems to stop many is that experience often seems to be a prerequisite (必备条件) for some jobs. 3. There’s many a journalist that gets his or her start through volunteering for a college or university paper, and that’s not at all the only profession this applies to.

3. Can be therapeutic (治疗的)

One of my close friends has completely transformed since she started working for disabled kids. 4. It allows you to see the world and other people from a whole different point of view, which in turn can make you grateful for what you already have and see your own personal value.

4. Helps you expand your network

One of the great things for volunteering is that you meet a wide variety of people. 5. Sometimes it’s very convenient to have a broad network.

A. Volunteering helps you grow as a person.

B. As it turns out, that’s far from the only benefit.

C. Volunteering can actually help you get the experience you need.

D. Volunteering helps you look outside yourself and your problems.

E. It’s a way to prove that you’ve not just been sitting and doing nothing.

F. That means when you get involved in voluntary work, you will face many challenges.

G. You’re getting to know people involved in many different walks in life that you wouldn’t have had the opportunity to meet otherwise.

Probably no other musical instrument is as popular as the guitar around the world. Musicians use the guitar for almost all kinds of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.

Music experts do not agree about where the guitar was first played. Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than 1,000 years ago. Most experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the 12th century. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the 1700s it became similar to the instrument we know today.

Many famous musicians played the instrument. The famous Italian violins Niccole Paganism played and wrote music for the guitar in the early 1800s. Franz Schubert used the guitar to write some of his famous works. In modern times Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make the instrument extremely popular.

In the 1930s, Les Paul began experimenting to make an electric guitar. He invented the solid-bodied electric guitar in 1946. The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous Les Paul Guitar in 1952. It became a powerful influence on popular music. The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings (弦) as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different. Les Paul produced a series of extremely popular recordings that introduced the public to this music. Listen to this Les Paul recording. It was the fifth most popular song in the United States in 1952. It is called “Meet Mister Callaghan.”

1.What can we infer from the first paragraph?

A. The guitar plays a very important role in music.

B. The choice of musical instrument is important for a band.

C. The guitar was the most popular musical instrument in the past.

D. Every musician likes playing music instrument with the guitar.

2.According to most experts, the guitar developed into a modern form like today in ________.

A. EgyptB. PersiaC. SpainD. Italy

3.In Paragraph 3, the author introduces ________.

A. the method of playing the guitar

B. the exact time of the guitar’s origin

C. the way that the guitar was made

D. some musicians who played the guitar

4.Where does the passage probably come from?

A. A newspaper.B. A broadcast.C. A magazine.D. A history book.

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