Do you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someone’s life?
If yes, don’t care about sex or age! Come and join us, then you will make it!
Position: Volunteer Social Care Assistant
(No Pay with Free Meals)
Place: Manchester
Hours: Part Time
We are now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Don’t miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!
Role:
You will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to acquire new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued.
Skills and experience required:
You will have the right values and great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since you’ll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous care-related experience will be a great advantage for you.
1.The text is meant to .
A. Leave a note B. send an invitation
C. present a document D. carry an advertisement
2.What does the underlined part mean?
A. You’ll make others’ lives more meaningful with this job.
B. You’ll arrive home just in time from this job.
C. You’ll earn a good salary from this job.
D. You’ll succeed in getting this job.
3.The volunteers’ primary responsibility is to help people with learning disabilities .
A. to get some financial support
B. to properly protect themselves
C. to learn some new living skills
D. to realize their own importance
4.Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer?
A. The one who can drive a car.
B. The one who has done similar work before.
C. The one who has patience to listen to others.
D. The one who can use English to communicate.
书面表达
假如你是李华，你的美国朋友Mike给你来信告诉你他要和父母在春节期间到中国度假。想询问有关中国传统节日———春节的情况，请你给他写一封回信向他介绍这个节日和庆祝活动等。（第一句已经给出）
Dear Mike,
I’m glad to know that you are coming to China with your parents and spend Spring Festival here.
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Yours，
Li Hua
短文改错
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
As a famous saying goes, time is money, which shows the important of time. Time is valuable but limited. When time is gone, they will never come back.
How a pity it is that many of us make poor use of time. We spend much time play games and chatting online. We don’t realize wasting time are equal to a waste of our life. As the result, we will regret having achieved little one day. However, we should get rid the habit of wasting time. Do not put off that what can be done today until tomorrow. Laziness will not only brought us failure, but also lead us to poverty.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
1. (exact) when the first people arrived in what we now know as California，no one really knows. However, 2. is likely that Native Americans were living in California at least fifteen thousand years ago.
Scientists believe that these first settler 3. (cross) the Bering Strait in the Arctic to America 4. means of a land bridge which existed in prehistoric times. In the 16th century, after the 5. (arrive) of Europeans, the native people suffered greatly. Thousands were killed or forced into slavery. In addition, many died 6. the diseases brought by Europeans. However, some survived these terrible times, and today there are more Native Americans 7. (live) in California than in any other state.
In the 18th century, California was ruled by Spain. Spanish soldiers first arrived in South America in the early 16th century. Two centuries later, the Spanish had settled in most parts of South America and along the northwest coast of 8. we now call the United States. Of 9. first Spanish to go to California, the majority were religious men, whose ministry was 10. (teach) the Catholic religion to the natives.
根据课文内容填空
Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals can be very happy events. People are 1. because their food is 2. for the winter and the agricultural work is over. In European countries, people will usually decorate churches and town halls 3. flowers and fruit, and will get together to have meals. Some people might win 4. for their farm produce, like the biggest watermelon or the most handsome rooster. China and Japan have mid-autumn festivals when people 5. the moon and in China, enjoy mooncakes.
Wang Peng was amazed at this and especially at the prices. It cost more than a good 6. in his restaurant! He could not believe his eyes. He 7. down the menu and hurried outside. On his way home he thought about his own menu. Did it make people fat? 8. he should go to the library and find out. He could not have Yong Hui 9. away with telling people lies! He had better do some 10. .
完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Fool’s Day falls on 1st of April. People ___________ forget the significance （意义） of the day.
In March 1980. I was ___________ at Durham University with seven other Chinese students. I had ___________ to go to another university after graduation and had ___________ application (申请) forms to several___________ . Every morning I arrived at the porter’s office (传达室) and waited my fate. But no ___________ came.
On April 1st, as I was eating my ___________ , Huang came in , with a toothbrush ___________in his hand. 29 fearing that he might forget the important news , he passed me the___________ . “Morning , Wu,” he said , “I saw Mr. G this morning. He told me that a letter had arrived in his office for you from Manchester University, and asked you to go and get it ___________ possible.” I jumped with ___________ .
I even didn’t___________my breakfast and rushed to Mr. G’s office but he wasn’t ___________ . I then went to the secretary’s room and ___________ everything to her. She opened Mr. G’s room. I looked at everything. There didn’t seem to be a letter for me. “If he had asked you to pick it up from here,” said the secretary , “ he would have put it in ___________ or simply left it to me.”
Greatly ___________, I walked out of the room and ___________ the secretary lock it. ___________ the secretary’s eyes ___________. “Sorry,” she said. “It’s April Fool’s Day!”
1.A sometimes B. never C. always D. seldom
2.A. Staying B. working C. visiting D. studying
3.A. continued B. planned C. managed D. remembered
4.A.returned B. taken C. handed D. sent
5.A. people B. colleges C. cities D. offices
6.A. application B. report C. reply D. chance
7.A. dinner B. lunch C. supper D. breakfast
8.A. still B. even C. yet D. already
9.A. Because of B.As if C. After D. While
10.A. message B. sign C. letter D. notice
11.A. if B. as soon as C. when D. as fast as
12.A. the news B. the letter C. joy D. luck
13.A. take B. finish C. complete D. have
14.A. anywhere B. in C. at D. away
15.A. asked B. told C. explained D. answered
16.A. the office B. his desk C. the room D. an obvious place
17.A. disappoint B. disappointed C. disappointing D. disappointment
18.A. watched B. made C. saw D. let
19.A. Quickly B. Strangely C. Finally D. Suddenly
20.A. closed B. opened C. brightened D. darkened
