Are you looking for something fun and would you like to help other people in your free time? Then join us.

We have jobs for people of all ages;Anyone from twelve-year-old children to 80-year-old people can become one of us.

You can help people in many ways.Schools need help with taking care of children while their parents are working.Hospitals need us to look after children while their parents see a doctor.Animal lovers can help take care of thosedogs and cats without homes.There is something to do for everyone.

“As a member of this group,I don’t want to get anything.Seeing the children’s happy faces,I am happy,too.”said Susan,an old woman of 62.

“I often played computer games in my free time before.Now I help older people learn how to use Computers,”said another one at the age of 18.

If everyone helps out a bit,we’1l all have a better world to live in.

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1.The passage is_______.

A.a story B.an advertisement

C.a play D.a song

2.What kind of people can become a member of that group?

A.People from 12 to 18.

B.All young people.

C.People from 12 to 80.

D.People from twenty to eighty.

3.Which of the following is not talked about in the passage?

A.Help people in hospitals.

B.Help children in schools.

C.Help animals.

D. Teach cooking.

4.Who does Susan look after?

A.Children. B.Old people

C.Animals. D.People in hospital.

5.What will you do if you want to join the group?

A.Call them or visit them.

B.Call them or visit their website.

C.Visit their website or write to them.

D.Visit them or visit their website.

Reading is the key to school success, and like any skill, it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. An excellent sportsman practices until he can play quickly, correctly and without thinking.

Educators (教育家) call it "automaticity (自动性)”.

A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and finding the meaning of the words. With more and more practice, he stumbles less and less. As a result, he can read by the phrases and soon by sentences. With automaticity, he doesn't have to think about the meaning of words, so that he can give all his attention to the meaning of the text.

It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found that automatic readers in the first grade not only read almost three times as fast as the others, but also got better results in exams.

According to Rossman, the key to automaticity is the amount of time a child spends reading, not his IQ. Any child who spends at least 3.5 t0 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will probably reach automaticity. It can happen if a child turns off TV just one night for reading at home.

You can test yourself by reading something new which is suitable for your level. If you read aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, you probably are an automatic reader. If you read brokenly, one word at a time, without expression or meaning, you need more practice.

1."Reading is the key to school success" means that reading_______.

A. helps school develop faster

B. is a key to a successful school

C. helps students go to a key school

D. can improve students' learning results

2.Children with "automaticiy" can read faster because they_______.

A. know how to read the words

B. pay attention to the meaning of the text instead of the words

C. read by themselves without any help

D. do not have to think while reading

3.Rossman tells that any child who __________ will possibly be an automatic reader.

A. turns off TV one night 4 weeks

B. reads books by the word quickly

C. spends an hour reading every day

D. gets the same grades as others in exams

4.The underlined word "stumble" in the second paragraph means“ _____ ”in Chinese.

A.结结巴巴地读 B.全神贯注地读

C.心不在焉地读 D.声情并茂地读

5.The best title for the passage is“_______”.

A. IQ is the Key- to the Automaticity

B. TV is Bad for Children's Reading

C. Automaticity Needs a Lot of Practice

D. Automatic Readers Must Be Successful

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