题目内容
Young Chinese travelers are also looking to experience something different.Rather than join package tours to tourist attractions, they are getting to know the locals by combining travel with work and study.Let's explore some unconventional ways of travelling.
Homestay
Visitors pay their host family for the accommodation in return for an unforgettable cultural experience.You should respect the house rules.You will participate fully in the family's daily life and improve your language.Students arrange homestays through their university or reputable agencies.
Check homestayfinder.com or homestaybooking.com.
Laboring on a farm
This is a way to learn about sustainable living and meet local farmers.In return for volunteer work on organic farms, your hosts offer free food and accommodation.You usually work for at least four hours a day and tasks range from composting (堆制肥料) to building with mud bricks.Willing Workers On Organic Farms (www.finternational.org) is the main organization which facilitates these experiences.For more projects, visit: pickyourown.org/jobsonfarms.htm
Volunteering
Volunteering gives you a sense of satisfaction as you improve the lives of those less fortunate.You can work in a hospital, help build schools, or volunteer at an orphanage in Africa.Do not expect to live in luxury and be prepared to get your hands dirty.Volunteers pay for their own airfares.
For more info, visit: worldwidehelper.org, and isvonline.com
Intern (实习) overseas
Organizations such as ALESEC (aiesec.org) arrange paid internships with different companies.They partner with companies to offer work.The length of an internship ranges from six weeks to 18 months.Check: nextstepconnections.com
1.Which way of travelling should you experience if you want to know about a different culture and improve your foreign language?
A.Homestay B.Laboring on a farm C.Volunteering D.Intern
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2.Who may help you to work on a farm?
A.Reputable agency B.University
C.Willing Workers On Organic Farms D.ALESEC
3.What should you do if you want to help the less fortunate?
A.Live in a host family B.Volunteer at an orphanage
C.Work in a company D.Work on organic farms
4.Where can you get information on internship in different companies?
A.Homestayfinder.com
B.Pickyourown.org/jobsonfarms.htm
C.Worldwidehelper.org,and isvonline.com
D.Nextstepconnections.com
1.A
2.C
3.B
4.D
【解析】略
LONDON (Reuters)—New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a FrenchCaribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities (怪异),researchers said.
The findings give hope to some people with severe facial disfigurement and suggest the transplants could prove longlasting without major problems.Despite the tissue rejection in the first year after their transplants,neither men had psychological problems accepting their new faces and have been able to rejoin society,they reported.
Only three people have received face transplants.The world’s first was carried out on French woman Isabelle Dinoire in November 2005 after she was disfigured in an attack by her dog.In 2007,her doctors reported that she had recovered slowly and steadily,overcoming two periods of rejection.
In 2006,Chinese doctors performed a face transplant on a 30yearold hit by a bear.While there were some complications with tissue rejection following the operation,two years later the man was doing well,his doctors said.“This case suggests that facial transplantation might be an option for restoring a severely disfigured face,and could enable patients to bring themselves back into society,” Shuzhong Guo and colleagues at Xijing Hospital in China wrote.
A French team described their work on a 29yearold man who suffered from Von Recklinghausen disease,an illness that changes the shape of his face.“The man,who was not named,was given a new nose,mouth and chin in a 2007 operation.He began to work 13 months after the transplant has more function in his face and has not rejected the new tissue,” his doctors said.
“Our case confirms that face transplantation is practical and effective for the correction of specific disfigurement,” Dr.Laurent Lantieri and colleagues at the HenriMondor hospital outside Paris wrote.
【小题1】What’s the main idea of this passage?
| A.Face transplants can work. |
| B.Face transplants help regain confidence. |
| C.Three people have received face transplants. |
| D.Disfigured people need face transplants. |
| A.He got a strange illness when he was young. |
| B.He received several operations in hospital. |
| C.He was the first person to receive a face transplant. |
| D.He was once attacked by an animal. |
| A.doctors have different opinions on facial disfigurement |
| B.patients could regain selfconfidence after face transplants |
| C.the new face of every patient has more functions than expected |
| D.it is easy for disabled people to be accepted by society |
| A.removing | B.recovering |
| C.repairing | D.rejecting |
| A.The patients wouldn’t accept the facial change. |
| B.It was hard for the patients to get along with others. |
| C.It took some time for the patients to recover from the operation. |
| D.The patients usually suffered from tissue rejection. |
My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening near my parents’ tomb in the churchyard.
“Hold your noise!” came a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the tombs at the side of the church. “Keep still, you little devil(小鬼), or I’ll cut your throat!”
A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. He seized me by the chin(下巴).
“Tell us your name!” said the man. “Quick!”
“Pip, sir.”
“Show us where you live,” said the man. “Point out the place!”
I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.
The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down, and emptied my pockets. There was nothing in them but a piece of bread.
“You young dog,” said the man, licking his lips, “what fat cheeks you ha’ got. Darn me if I couldn’t eat em, and if I han’t half a mind to’t!”
I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn’t, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.
“Now then lookee here!” said the man. “Where’s your mother?”
“There, sir!” said I.
He started, made a short run, and stopped and looked over his shoulder.
“There, sir!” I timidly explained, pointed to the tombstone. “That’s my mother.”
“Oh!” said he, coming back. “And is that your father alonger your mother?”
“Yes, sir,” said I; “him too; late of this parish(教区).”
1. The “voice” in the second paragraph came from______.
A. the church B. the man C. the bank D. the boy
2.The boy probably lived _____.
A. in the parish B. in the valley C. in the city D. in the country
3.We can infer from the passage _____.
A. the boy was very calm and smart
B. the man hit the boy in the face
C. the boy would forever remember the raw afternoon
D. the man was very kind and considerate
4.The passage is most probably adapted from________.
A. a news report B. a science fiction C. a novel D. a review