If you want to be a volunteer, you have to answer the following typical questions. Do you want to work with people, animals or machines? Do you want to work indoors or outdoors, directly serve people in need or serve people behind the scenes? Every year, thousands of people in the west offer volunteer service. Volunteering greatly strengthens the community because it helps the old, the young, the weak, the sick, and the disabled and the injured to solve problems.

Volunteers usually help in many different ways. They may give people advice, offer friendship to the young, drive the elderly to church (if up to the driving age), advise kids against drugs, work as assistants in schools or nursing homes, raise funds, plant trees, help out in local libraries and do many other things. Volunteering can be a few hours a week or a few hours a month. Anybody who wants to serve people in need can become a volunteer.

In fact, the art of volunteering is a process of both giving and receiving. Volunteering allows volunteers to meet new people, make new friends and mix with people from all walks of life. Volunteering is an excellent way to experiment and try out new techniques and skills, discover your individual talents and explore career choice. Being a volunteer will take you on a wonderful journey and help you learn more than what you can get from books.

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As a volunteer, only when you grow old enough can you _______.

A. plant trees on hills                       B. drive the elderly to church

C. give advice to others                      D. help out in local libraries

2.

. How is the second paragraph mainly developed?

A. By listing examples.                   B. By comparing.

C. By giving explanations.                    D. By discussing.

3.

 It can be inferred from the passage that to be a volunteer, _______.

A. you can do experiments                 B. you must be very strong  

C. you need to work very long             D. you can get something valuable

4.

 What’s the best title of the passage?

A. How to hunt for jobs                   B. Volunteer service in the west

C. How to make friends                    D. How to work with animals

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Nowadays, science is developing at a high speed. With the development of science, many countries have improved their economy and raised their people’s living standards. Therefore, science is of great benefit to our daily life.

If we look at the things around us, we’ll find how closely our everyday life is related to science. In one case, at home we can turn on the central heating or air conditioner when we feel cold or hot, and we can watch TV or listen to the tape recorder for entertainment, and we can use a gas stove to cook our meals, and we have computers to help us with our work when we are working in the office, and we also have cars, buses, even planes as traffic tools when we go out. All these things are the results of the scientific development. It goes without saying that without science our society cannot make rapid progress and our life cannot be comfortable and convenient.

Now that science is so significant in our daily life, we should try to make as many contributions as possible to the development of science. As college students, we must first of all study hard to gain useful scientific knowledge, and then put what we have learnt into practice. We should make the most of science to serve our society.

I didn’t make sense of _______poem until I read it _______ third time.

—I like your new shoes!

—Thanks．I had to try on almost a dozen pairs ______ I decided to get them．

There’re more than 100 elements found in nature, ______  are metals.

In the early stages of skill or character development, imitation（模仿） is helpful. When I first learned to cook, I used recipes (菜谱) and turned out some tasty dishes. But soon I grew bored. Why follow someone else’s way of cooking when I could create my own? Imitating role models is like using training wheels on a child’s bicycle; they help you get going, but once you find your own balance, you fly faster and farther without relying on them.

In daily life, imitation can hurt us if we subconsciously (下意识地) hold poor role models. If, as a child, you observed people whose lives were bad, you may have accepted their fear and pain as normal and gone on to follow what they did. If you do not make strong choices for yourself, you will get the results of the weak choices of others.

In the field of entertainment, those stars look great on screen. But when they step off screen, their personal lives may be disastrous. If you are going to follow someone, focus on their talent, not their bad character or unacceptable behaviors.

Think of the movies, books, teachers, and friends that have affected you most deeply. The world is changed not by those who do what has been done before them, but by those who do what has been done inside them. Creative people have an endless resource of ideas. The problem a creator faces is not running out of material; it is what to do with the material knocking at the door of imagination.

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.Imitation proves useful when you        .

2.

To avoid the bad result of imitation, we should________.

3.

According to the author, the world moves on because of those who are          .

4.

The trouble a creator faces is          .

5.

The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to __________.

For some time the discussion went with no one saying      word. Alice finally broke.

     Silence.

She must have ranked her birthday presents in order of           because the top one is her favotite.

－Do you really mean it when you say he will       a good president?