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A blog posted Dec 7, 2018 at 12:17 PM by Alanna Mallon

Alanna Mallon is a Cambridge City Councilor.

Each year in November, I receive a flurry of emails and texts from friends who want to volunteer with their families on Thanksgiving as a way to give back. I also field phone calls from organizations who want to donate to local programs that provide Thanksgiving meals.

However, as an official who still works in the nonprofit sector, I also feel deeply anxious because I know the other 51 weeks of the year, these critical programs that provide food access to residents in need are starving for both volunteers and donations. Hunger is a year round problem, and each week volunteers are the necessary part to ensure that programs are able to serve the community.

At Food For Free, we rely on about 100 volunteers per week, and each of those volunteers is extremely important to providing fresh, healthy food to people in the Greater Boston area who need it. School children who take backpacks of food home on Fridays, community college students who rely on our Family Meals program to thrive in class, elderly and disabled residents who receive twice monthly deliveries of food to their doors through our Home Delivery program, — they all rely on us ensuring enough volunteers show up to do the work.

These volunteers don’t show up in your social media feeds, they don’t win awards and no one writes about them in the local newspapers. But they are heroes. And you can be too.

If everyone made a promise to volunteer once a month, or even once a quarter, I know that we could reduce some of the anxiety these organizations feel, as a more reliable volunteer network allows them to focus on helping people, not filling volunteer slots.

Here is a list of a few organizations who are doing critical work in Cambridge to address food insecurity. Offer your time to an organization, they will be deeply grateful—and I am going to bet that you will feel pretty good about yourself too.

Food For Free: http://foodforfree.org/volunteer.

CEOC: http://ceoccambridge.org/food-pantry.

Harvard Square Homeless Shelter: https://hshshelter.org/volunteer.

Community Cooks: https://communitycooks.org/join-us.

Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House: http://margaretfullerhouse.org

1.What can be learnt from the first two paragraphs？

A. The food safety worries the author.

B. Volunteers are needed all year round.

C. Donations can be made through the Internet.

D. People like getting together on Thanksgiving.

2.Paragraph 3 is mainly about ________.

A. the need for fresh food B. the duty of Food For Free

C. the value of voluntary work D. the difficult life of local people

3.The passage is to ________.

A. call for action B. express thanks

C. advertise programs D. introduce websites

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.A

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。社会全年都需要志愿者，这些志愿者不会出现在你的社交媒体上，他们不会获奖，也没有人在当地报纸上报道他们。但他们是英雄。文章呼吁我们行动起来。

1.推理判断题。根据第一段第一句Each year in November, I receive a flurry of emails and texts from friends who want to volunteer with their families on Thanksgiving as a way to give back.“每年11月，我都会收到一大堆朋友发来的电子邮件和短信，他们想在感恩节和家人一起做志愿者，作为回报。”和第二段最后一句each week volunteers are the necessary part to ensure that programs are able to serve the community.“每周志愿者都是确保项目能够为社区服务的必要部分。”可知，全年都需要志愿者。故选B。

2.推理判断题。根据第四段中These volunteers don’t show up in your social media feeds, they don’t win awards and no one writes about them in the local newspapers. But they are heroes.“这些志愿者不会出现在你的社交媒体上，他们不会获奖，也没有人在当地报纸上报道他们。但他们是英雄。”故选C。

3.主旨大意题。根据最后一段Here is a list of a few organizations who are doing critical work in Cambridge to address food insecurity. Offer your time to an organization, they will be deeply grateful—and I am going to bet that you will feel pretty good about yourself too.“以下是一些在剑桥大学为解决粮食不安全问题而进行重要工作的组织。把你的时间奉献给一个组织，他们会非常感激你——我敢打赌你也会自我感觉很好。”可知，本文呼吁我们行动起来。故选A。