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　　Last summer I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer(扫盲志原者)．The training I received, though excellent, did not tell me how it was to work with a real student, however．When I began to discover what other people's lives were like because they could not read, I realized the true importance of reading．

　　My first student Marie was a 44-year-old single mother of three．In the first lesson, I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn't know which bus to take．When I told her I would get her a bus schedule(时刻表)，she told me it would not help because she could not read it．She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket because she couldn't always remember what she needed．Since she did not know words, she could not write out a shopping list．Also, she could only recognize items by sight, so if the product had a different label(标识)，she would not recognize it as the product she wanted．

　　As we worked together, learning how to read built Marie's self-confidence(自信心)，which encouraged her to continue in her studies．She began to make rapid progress and was even able to take the bus to the supermarket．After this successful trip, she reported how self-confident she felt．At the end of the program, she began helping her youngest son, Tony, a shy first grader, with his reading．She sat with him before he went to sleep and together they would read bedtime stories．When his eyes became wide with excitement as she read, pride was written all over her face, and she began to see how her own hard work in learning to read paid off．As she described this experience, I was proud of myself as well．I found that helping Marie to build her self-confidence was more rewarding than anything I had ever done before．

　　As a literacy volunteer, I learned a great deal about teaching and helping others．In fact, I may have learned more from the experience than Marie did．

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阅读理解

　　Last summer I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer(扫盲志愿者)．The training I received，though excellent，did not tell me how it was to work with a real student，however．When I began to discover what other people's lives were like because they could not read，I realized the true importance of reading．

　　My first student Marie was a 44-year-old single mother of three．In the first lesson，I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn't know which bus to take．When I told her I would get her a bus schedule(时刻表)，she told me it would not help because she could not read it．She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket because she couldn't always remember what she needed．Since she did not know words，she could not write out a shopping list．Also，she could only recognize items by sight，so if the product had a different label(标识)，she would not recognize it as the product she wanted．

　　As we worked together，learning how to rebuild Marie's self-confidence(自信心)，which encouraged her to continue in her studies．She began to make rapid progress and was even able to take the bus to the supermarket．After this successful trip，she reported how self-confident she felt．At the end of the program，she began helping her youngest son，Tony，a shy first grader，with his reading．She sat with him before he went to sleep and together they would read bedtime stories．When his eyes became wide with excitement as she read，pride was written all over her face，and she began to see how her own hard work in learning to read paid off．As she described this experience，I was proud of myself as well．I found that helping Marie to build her self-confident was more rewarding than anything I had ever done before．

　　As a literacy volunteer③，I learned a great deal about teaching and helping others．In fact，I may have learned more from the experience than Marie did．

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阅读下列短文,从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项．

　　One of the sailors who sailed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World was a man named Juan Ponce de Leon．This voyage changed his life．

　　He decided to stay when Columbus returned．Ponce was named governor of Puerto Rico (then called Boriquien) in 1508．

　　While there, he heard many stories of a magical water source．People called it the Fountain of Youth and said that drinking its water kept you young．

　　For the next few years, Ponce tried to find out where the Fountain of Youth was．He asked permission from Spain's King Charles V to go in search of it．The king consented, as long as Ponce paid for the ships and crew himself．

　　The young explorer did so readily, and they set off．It was March 1513．They sailed for days but didn't see the fountain．On March 27, he came within sight of the Florida coast．On April 2, he landed at what he named St．Augustine．This was the first Spanish settlement on the mainland of North America．

　　He had several adventures along the way．He did not, however, find the Fountain of Youth．He returned to Boriquien．

　　He continued to govern tile island, and he continued to hear stories of the Fountain of Youth．Finally, in 1521, he set out again．

　　This time, he landed on the Florida coast again．While he and his men were building houses for a new settlement, they were attacked by native tribesmen(部落成员)．Many of his men died, but Ponce escaped, although he was injured．He reached Cuba and entered a hospital, where he died of wounds from the attack in Florida．Juan Ponce de Leon never found the Fountain of Youth．Neither did anyone else, at least as far as we know．

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