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【题目】 A blog posted Dec 7, 2018 at 12:17 PM by Alanna Mallon Alanna Mallon is a Cambridge City Councilor.

Each year in November, I receive a lot of emails and texts from friends who want to volunteer with their families on Thanksgiving as a way to give back. I also field phone calls from organizations who want to donate ( 捐赠 ) to local programs that provide Thanksgiving meals.

However, as an official who still works in the nonprofit sector (非盈利部门), I also feel deeply anxious (焦急的) because I know the other 51 weeks of the year, these key programs that provide food to residents (居民) in need are eager for both volunteers and donations. Hunger is a year round problem, and each week volunteers are the necessary part to make sure that programs are able to serve the community.

At Food For Free, we depend on about 100 volunteers per week, and each of those volunteers is extremely important to providing fresh, healthy food to people in the Greater Boston area who need it. School children who take backpacks of food home on Fridays, community college students who depend on our Family Meals program to support their healthy growth, elderly and disabled residents who receive twice monthly deliveries of food to their doors through our Home Delivery program, they all depend on us making sure enough volunteers show up to do the work.

These volunteers don't show up in your social media system, they don't win prizes and no one writes about them in the local newspapers. But they are heroes. And you can be too. If everyone made a promise to volunteer once a month, or even once a quarter, I know that we could reduce some of the anxiety these organizations feel, as a more trust-worthy volunteer network allows them to focus on helping people, not filling volunteer positions.

Here is a list of a few organizations who are doing important work in Cambridge to make sure the food to be safe. Offer your time to an organization, they will be deeply grateful, and I am quite sure that you will feel pretty good about yourself too.

Food For Free: http://foodforfree.org/volunteer.

CEOC: http://ceoccambridge.org/food-pantry.

Harvard Square Homeless Shelter: https://hshshelter.org/volunteer.

Community Cooks: https://communitycooks.org/join-us.

Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House: http://margaretfullerhouse.org

【1】The word "field" in paragraph 1 probably means "________".

A. makeB. keepC. deal withD. take away

【2】What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?

A. The food safety worries the writer.B. Volunteers are needed all year round.

C. Donations can be made through the Internet.D. People like getting together on Thanksgiving.

【3】The third paragraph is mainly about ________.

A. the duty of Food For FreeB. the donations of Family Meals

C. the value of voluntary workD. the difficult life of local people

【4】What's the main purpose of this passage?

A. To call for action.B. To express thanks.

C. To advertise programs.D. To introduce websites.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】C

【4】A

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。作者在一家非盈利部门上班，负责为当地居民提供免费餐。这些慈善项目经常需要大量志愿者确保项目的顺利进行，但志愿者数量还不够，因此作者呼吁更多加入这些项目。

【1】题意：第一段的单词field意思可能是_____________。

词句猜测题。A. make制造；B. keep（使）保持；C. deal with处理；D. take away拿走。单词所在句子为I also field phone calls from organizations who want to donate to local programs that provide Thanksgiving meals，句意为“我也要处理来自一些机构的电话，它们想对当地提供感恩节晚餐的项目进行捐助”，C选项符合句意，故应选C。

【2】题意：从前两段我们可以知道什么？

推理判断题。A. The food safety worries the writer.作者担忧食品安全；B. Volunteers are needed all year round.全年都需要志愿者；C. Donations can be made through the Internet.通过网络就能进行捐助；D. People like getting together on Thanksgiving.在感恩节这一天人们喜欢聚到一起。根据原文第二段I also feel deeply anxious because I know the other 51 weeks of the year, these key programs that provide food to residents in need are eager for both volunteers and donations，在每年其他51周里，这些为居民提供食物的关键项目急需志愿者和捐助，由此可推，作者所在的组织全年都需要志愿者，故应选B。

【3】题意：第三段主要讲_____________。

主旨大意题。A. the duty of Food For Free免费食物的职责；B. the donations of Family Meals家庭餐的捐助；C. the value of voluntary work志愿工作的价值；D. the difficult life of local people当地人们的艰难生活。通读第三段可知，主要还是说志愿者的问题，特别是本段最后一句they all depend on us making sure enough volunteers show up to do the work，一些项目都需要足够的志愿者去做工作，说明志愿工作的价值很重要、很高，故应选C。

【4】题意：这篇文章的主要目的是？

主旨大意题。A. To call for action.要求采取行动；B. To express thanks.表达感谢；C. To advertise programs.为项目打广告；D. To introduce websites.介绍网站。通读全文可知，作者一直在谈志愿者对其救助工作的重要性且志愿者数量一直存在缺口，故可推断作者的意图是呼吁更多的人加入志愿行动，A选项符合题意，故应选A。