With the assistance of office volunteers, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Boarders) can reduce administration expenses and fully apply resources to help more populations worldwide.
Office volunteers usually assist us with our clerical work including data entry, letter mailing and information arrangement in MSF-HK office during office hours. You are also welcome to assist us by doing translation, research, designing publications, producing video clips, and other projects according to your schedule at home.
We also need volunteers for our events like the MSF Orienteering Competition and our exhibitions to take photographs, and to head reception counters or information booths (咨询台).
If you are interested in volunteering for MSF-HK office, please look through our volunteer vacancies below.
● Donor Services Volunteer
We are looking for a regular volunteer to help our Donor Services Unit with various data entry work and update the database through making outbound calls to the donors and supporters.
● General volunteers
Apart from specific volunteer vacancies, MAF-HK also need general volunteers with greater adaptability to assist clerical work or event organization. Should you be interested in joining us as general volunteers, please simply upload your personal information to our volunteer database. Depending on our workload, we will search for volunteers who fit that skill set requirement and time frame, and further contact them for work arrangement.
Join our volunteer database
The personal information you provide in the application form will be stored in our volunteer database, and will only be used for the purposes of our voluntary work arrangement and the communication with you. Should there be a suitable match, we will notify you by email or phone. For suggestions and inquiries about our voluntary services, please feel free to contact us. (Tel: 2959 4229: Email: volunteer@hongkong.msf.org)
1.According to the passage, office volunteers for MSF-HK ________.
A. usually needn’t work overtime
B. should master at least two languages
C. are required to complete their task in the office
D. may have received a handwritten letter of appointment
2.Which of the following statements is true according to the advertisement?
A. Donor Services volunteers should adapt to different working environment.
B. General volunteers need to deal with data entry work and make calls.
C. General volunteers are chosen only according to their abilities.
D. Volunteers’personal information will be preserved well.
I find it interesting sometimes that even the most ordinary occurrences can have an impact on our awareness.
My wife, daughter, and I moved into our home nine years ago and we ______ a lot of time and energy in the yard to getting it looking like it does today. We ______ on a corner, higher than street level, and the entire side of the yard is ______ by a professionally built rock wall. We did the best to put what we had into ______ and called this area our “rock garden”. Whenever we had flowers or plants, my wife Denise or I would stick them out and plant them in the “rock garden”, just to bring some ______ to the area.
I still do all of my own yard work, even the ______ weed-pulling. After ______ my knee pads, I assume the ______ to clear the yard of weeds, even in the rock garden.
Last summer I had reached the end of the rock garden and found a tiny little ______ that I could not ______ identify. I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise ______ that she didn’t either. We decided to let it continue growing until we could ______ what it was.
Weeks passed and ______ I made my way back to the mystery plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. It was ______, looking with a tall thin stalk (茎) and only one head on it. I decided to ______ it and weed around it. As I ______ rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something ______. The sunflower had not started where I saw the stalk begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and ______ under and around it to reach the sun.
That’s when I realized that if a tiny little sunflower didn’t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the ______ of doing the same thing. As long as we try, we can find ways to go under or around our big ______ in order to reach our desires.
1.A. use B. spent C. applied D. devoted
2.A. work B. live C. stay D. play
3.A. crowded B. surrounded C. prohibited D. governed
4.A. effect B. practice C. use D. operation
5.A. color B. peace C. credit D. focus
6.A. plain B. bored C. tiring D. initial
7.A. holding on B. taking on C. bringing on D. putting on
8.A. position B. style C. tissue D. thumb
9.A. flower B. plant C. crop D. bush
10.A. suddenly B. hardly C. gradually D. instantly
11.A. claimed B. instructed C. described D. guaranteed
12.A. turn out B. figure out C. hold out D. pick out
13.A. as B. before C. since D. because
14.A. pitiful B. ugly C. pretty D. weak
15.A. admire B. consider C. attend D. observe
16.A. pushed B. removed C. transported D. conducted
17.A. cheerful B. unnatural C. unusual D. appealing
18.A. pulled B. dug C. expanded D. grown
19.A. power B. capability C. energy D. strength
20.A. conflicts B. responsibilities C. barriers D. chances
— Do you know the results of the examinations? Jonny has been admitted to his ideal university.
— No wonder he looks ______.
A. hot under the collar B. down in the dumps
C. on cloud nine D. fly off the handle
— I didn’t pass the exam.
— It’s a pity. ______ you had spent more time on your study!
A. As if B. Even if
C. If only D. Only if
______ Qidong won the title of National Civilized City made people in the city very excited.
A. That B. What
C. Which D. Whether
We must remember the health and safety of our oceans is our individual responsibility, _______ that we can’t afford to ignore.
A. one B. that
C. what D. who
