Conor Grennan was unwilling to be a volunteer(志愿者). The 29-year-old American was not sure if he had the skills or a strong feeling for it.However, he went to work at an orphanage(孤儿院) in Nepal. His first thought was to make people impressed.

"I thought that if I volunteered just once. I could retell the story over and over," Grennan said in a Huffington Post article.However, his three-month stay it the orphanage turned into in unusual experience. It was 2004 and Grennan had given up his job to begin a year-long around-the-world trip, His first three months were spent in Nepal.

When he arrived in the village, he knew nothing about the children or the local culture. When he opened the gate of the Little Princes Children's Home, he was faced by the excited children.

The young American ended up caring for 18 children. He later discovered that they were trafficked(被拐卖的)children. So he walked through the mountains with great difficulty to find the kids' families, "I started walking with photos of the kids." he told the Reuters reporter. "I would show up in villages and show photographs around. I went with 24 photos, and I found 24 families." At the same time, he put his heart into Nepalese culture.

Grennan said, “Volunteering is the single best way to see how the rest of the world lives.”

He also encouraged others to do what he had done. He believes that volunteering needs only making decisions to show up.

Grennan's fight against child-trafficking has changed him. His book, Little Prince, came out last week.

1.At first, Grennan simply wanted to _______by volunteering in Nepal.

A. write travel stories B. impress people

C. help the kids there D. learn the skills

2.When Grennan came to the Little Princes Children’s Home. _______.

A. the children there felt excited B. 18 children were ill in bed

C. he decided to give up his job D. he’d lived in Nepal for a year

3.From the passage we can learn that Grennan _______.

A. found the kids’ families easily B. was good at taking pictures

C. wrote the book Little Princes D. asked others to go to Nepal

4.Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Volunteer travels in Nepal B. Volunteer is with the kids

C. Volunteer becomes a writer D. Volunteer changes a lot

Most of the sandstorms that had swept China last year came from foreign land, a Chinese official in charge of desertification(荒漠化) control said on Monday. And the invasions(入侵)could partly explain the frequent sandstorms in the country in recent years despite its achievements in desertification control.

Since the start of last spring, the north and northwestern Chinese regions had been hit by 17 sandstorms, of which, a dozen came from foreign land.

Situated in the central Asia sandstorm region, one of the world’s four largest sandstorm sources, China also suffers from sandstorms from outside the country while being blamed as a sand source to northeast Asia. The other three major sources are in Africa, North America and Australia.

The land suffering from desertification has been decreasing by 7,585 square kilometres annually in China, and the area of sandy land has also been falling by 1,284 square kilometres a year.

The shrinkage(收缩)forms a clear contrast to the fact that the land suffering from desertification and sandy feature was added by 10,400 square kilometers and 3,436 square kilometers late last century, respectively.

Currently, the desertification land in China makes up 2.64 million square kilometres, accounting for 27.46 percent of the nation’s land, and its sandy land totals 1.74 million square kilometres, accounting for 18.1 percent of the country’s total.

1.What does the underlined word “decreasing” mean in Paragraph 4?

A. Going down. B. Going up.

C. Coming from. D. Taking up.

2.Where do most of the sandstorms in China come from?

A. The northwestern Chinese regions. B. The northern Chinese regions.

C. The western part of China. D. Foreign countries.

3.Which of the following is believed to be the sand source to northeast Asia?

A. Mongolia. B. Africa.

C. China. D. Australia.

4.What can we infer from this passage?

A. The land in China suffering from desertification has been increasing greatly.

B. China has made achievements in its own desertification control.

C. The desertification land makes up nearly half of China’s territory.

D. Little progress has been made in controlling desertification in China.

In a garden filled with bushes and grass,there appeared a white rose.Everyone who saw her spoke well of her.But the flower couldn't ______ herself,and she thought of herself as a common grass.She had no idea how ______ she was.She spent the few days of her life,until wilting(凋零)set on,without knowing that all around her were ______ by her beauty.She was not ______ about herself and slowly bowed her head.

One hot,sunny day,a girl was walking through the ______,thinking about how many lovely things Mother Nature has given us, ______ she suddenly saw a white rose in a ______ part of the garden.The rose was beginning to wilt.“If the rose stays here till tomorrow it'll ______ ”,she thought,“ I'll take it home and put it in the lovely ______ .”And so she did.With all her ______,she put the wilting white rose in water,and carefully placed it by the ______.The reflection(映像) from the glass meant that,for the______ time,the rose got to see herself and what she ______ like.

“Is that me?” thought the rose.Little by little her leaves began to______.When she was back to her best she looked at her reflection and saw that she was ______ a beautiful flower.She thought,“Wow! Till now I hadn't ______ who I was.How could I have been so ______ ?”

The rose came to realize she had spent her days without appreciating her ______,unable to see herself,unable to______ who she really was.If you really want to know who you are,forget everything that's ______ you,and just look into your heart.

1.A. hear B. see C. touch D. save

2.A. poor B. weak C. pretty D. lonely

3.A. surprised B. annoyed C. bothered D. encouraged

4.A. careful B. worried C. confident D. crazy

5.A. school B. yard C. forest D. garden

6.A. when B. and C. so D. but

7.A. dark B. forgotten C. dirty D. good

8.A. grow B. complain C. fall D. die

9.A. house B. bottle C. box D. bag

10.A. strength B. heart C. love D. power

11.A. bed B. window C. house D. tree

12.A. first B. last C. worst D. right

13.A. smelled B. sounded C. tasted D. looked

14.A. sing B. drop C. cry D. rise

15.A. almost B. really C. always D. never

16.A. realized B. remembered C. forgot D. doubted

17.A. beautiful B. nervous C. blind D. cheerful

18.A. beauty B. personality C. advantage D. quality

19.A. explain B. know C. accept D. guess

20.A. about B. on C. with D. around

“Go to get help, quick!”I ordered my six-year-old brother Nicholas. Nicholas ran away, when I slipped onto the ice.

I moved towards the hole where the three boys fell. I reached my hand in but felt nothing. I put my face in to see if I could see anything, but I saw nothing .So I decided to go in.”Ah!”I screamed as I fell in the cold water. I saw Conner face down in the water. I caught him by the arm and pushed him to the surface. He lost his consciousness. I went down again with two hockey sticks(曲棍球球棍)this time, I saw Wilson searching for something to hold. I quickly swam to him, and he caught hold of my hand. When we finally came to the surface, Wilson became unconscious too. Morgan was left. I didn’t see him. I was about to give up when I saw him about fifteen feet away. I caught him, but his foot was caught in some weed. I managed to pull his leg free. I grabbed the hockey stick, but I was out of breath. I hit the ice with the stick with all my strength. Finally, it broke. I never thought I’d see the sun again! I brought Morgan to the surface, where firefighters had already saved Wilson and Conner.

The next thing I knew was that I was in hospital.“Hi, my boy, you could have died,” cried my mom.“Hi, mom,” I said.“They were going to die if I didn’t help them, and the nearest help was about a mile away. How are the boys?” “Everyone is OK. You are our hero,” said my father.

I won the Hero prize from my town for saving the boys. Now we are all best friends.

1.What did the author’s father think of his son?

A. Terrible. B. Normal.

C. Respectable. D. Creative.

2.What did the author do when he couldn’t see the boys from the hole?

A. He asked Nicholas to ask for help.

B. He called firefighters at once.

C. He struck the ice with hockey sticks.

D. He jumped into the water without hesitation.

3.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. An admirable hero.

B. Look before you leap.

C. Handling emergencies calmly.

D. How to save drowning people.

On a bright Friday afternoon in spring, Sumeja Tulic had every reason to enjoy walking in the streets of New York, a city she'd_______nine months earlier from London to attend a journalism school. “When the weather is good, it's very hard to find a reason to be_______or dissatisfied with the city,” she said.

Yet her time in New York has coincided with endless ugliness, As she_______toward the subway station, she thought, “Please, God, I want to see something_______today.” She said, “Enough of this craziness”.

At the City Hall_______, she settled onto a bench. It was just after 2 p.m. Only a few people were there. A man___________against a pillar(柱子), the way anyone might, waiting for the train. The stillness was interrupted by a(n)___________that the next train was two stations away. Then Tulic_______the man at the pillar collapsing forward onto the tracks.

A man, who was_______waiting for the train on the platform, ran over, peered over the edge and then jumped onto the________.

The man who had________was not moving. Two more men jumped down to help.

"I don't know________these men got the wit and the quickness," Tulic said. "The man who fell was kind of jammed in the tracks. They were very________to know that the train was coming. Will it stop? Will they________pulling him out?"

On the tracks, the________man was held up to a sitting position by the three men, who then lifted him from below to________who dragged him from above and rolled him onto the platform. Then the rescuers were themselves ____________, pulled back to safety by helping hands. As soon as they were all clear, the train pulled in.

An ambulance________soon and the man was taken to a local hospital with________but non-life-threatening injuries, doctors said.

"That is the greatest thing." Tulic said," The infrastructure(基础设施)in this city of millions is the________themselves providing, being there for others."

1.A. hung out B. moved to C. passed by D. left behind

2.A. pleased B. ashamed C. depressed D. relieved

3.A. walked B. rushed C. travelled D. toured

4.A. urgent B. strange C. mysterious D. nice

5.A. station B. school C. theatre D. store

6.A. struggled B. leaned C. lay D. sat

7.A. note B. report C. announcement D. poster

8.A. remembered B. foresaw C. ignored D. glimpsed

9.A. again B. also C. never D. seldom

10.A. tracks B. road C. train D. platform

11.A. stood B. settled C. fallen D. escaped

12.A. whom B. whether C. when D. where

13.A. nervous B. embarrassed C. dangerous D. disappointed

14.A. object to B. succeed in C. put off D. give up

15.A. unconscious B. dying C. active D. discouraged

16.A. them B. us C. others D. anyone

17.A. jammed B. recognized C. affected D. rescued

18.A. stopped B. started C. arrived D. raced

19.A. careless B. serious C. slight D. unforgettable

20.A. people B. passengers C. friends D. students

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