Question

If you have no special plans for your holidays， why not spend your time helping others?

Don’t listen to people who say the young people today often think only of themselves. It’s not true at all. More and more people in the USA volunteer(志愿) to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don’t do it for money. Here are some of their stories.

Alice Hamilton， 17

I’m going to help the Forest Centre build new hiking paths in the mountains. It’s going to be terrific—I’ll spend the whole summer living in the tent and breathing the clean mountain air. I’m going to sleep under the stars. It’ll be a nice sport， and I’ll be able to do something good at the same time.

Jason Moore，18

This summer， I’m going to volunteer with Special House Program. They build good， low-cost houses and sell them to families that are not very rich. They’ll teach me what to do， so I’ll help people and also have a chance to learn how to build houses.

Trish Anderson， 16

I’m going to teach kids who have trouble reading. I’ll work for a program called Reading For Life. Every day， I’m going to help kids choose and read books that they like. I want to be a teacher and I love children and reading， so this is going to be a great experience for me.

1.Young people in the USA volunteer to spend ___ helping others.

A. school holidays  B. Weekdays

C. every morning    D. every afternoon

2.What does Alice volunteer to do in summer?

A. To breathe the clean mountain air

B.To spend the whole summer living in the tent

C. To sleep under the stars

D. To help build new hiking paths in the mountain

3.From the passage， we know that Special House Program helps     .

A. children in poor families

B. workers who build houses

C. poor families can’t afford houses

D. build hiking paths

4.______ wants to be a teacher.

A. Alice Hamilton      B. Jason Moore

C. Trish Anderson     D. none of them

5.Which is the most possible title for this passage?

A. Reading for life

B. A Special House Program

C. The Forest Centre

D. Young American Volunteers

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.C

4.C

5.D

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要讲述了并不像人们想的那样现在美国越来越多的年轻人们自愿利用自己的假期去帮助别人不要任何的报酬，通过对Alice Hamilton Jason Moore Trish Anderson三个年轻人的故事的介绍相信世界将变得更好。

1.A考查细节理解题。根据短文第二段第二句More and more young people in the USA volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others.故选A.

2.D考查细节理解题。根据I’m going to help the Forest Center build new hiking paths(小道) in the mountains.可知。故选D。

3.C考查细节理解题。根据文中Jason Moore 的叙述“This summer， I’m going to volunteer with Special House Program. They build good， low-cost houses and sell them to families that are not very rich.”可知选C。

4.C考查细节理解题。根据Trish Anderson的介绍“ I want to be a teacher and I love children，so this is going to be a great experience for me.”可知C。

5.D。

考点：考查文化教育类短文阅读。