A. 10:00 a.m.
A. $ 4.1. B. 10:30 p.m. C. 2:00 p.m. B. $ 5.85 C. $ 6.00. D. 9:30 p.m. D. $ 6.60 ( ) 27. How much do a small hamburger, two chocolate cakes and a large soft drink cost?
( ) 28. How many kinds of things have chocolate in them?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
B
Volunteering means that you work to help people without being paid. There are many different volunteers. They help people who really need help. There are many places where you can be volunteers. Here are just a few places for you.
Hospital---ask if you can go and visit people who are really sick. Sometimes what they need is someone to
talk to, or someone to give them hope.
Orphanage (孤儿院) ---the children living there really need someone to play with them.
Food Shelter（救助站）---many food shelters need people to clean up the shelters and help give out food or
water to those who need it.
Seniors’ Home (敬老院) ---help the elderly people clean up their homes.
Community (社区) Center ---a lot of community centers are very well run. However, some of them really
need extra help, especially cleaning and repairs.
As a student you can also do a lot of things to help others at school. Maybe you could start a support group.
Here is some advice:
Help students give up smoking, drinking or other bad habits.
Help students who come from poor families.
Help new students get used to their school life soon.
Provide graduating students with information on future studies.
( ) 29. Volunteers don’t want to get ________ when they help others.
A. everything B. money C. some presents D. a job
( ) 30. How many places are mentioned for you to be volunteers in according to this passage?
A. Six B. Five C. Four D. Three
( ) 31. The volunteers can ________ in the community center.
A. give the sick person hope
B. give out food or water to the people who need it
C. play with the children in orphanage
D. clean up the yard
( ) 32. From the passage, you know the following volunteer jobs can be done at school except _______.
A. helping students who come from poor families
B. helping the students who have bad habits
C. helping the student to copy others' homework
D. helping the students in trouble with their studies
C
For a long time, humans have used technology (科技) to study the world around us, and Mars is the latest place we’re using machines to explore. Besides the earth, the “red planet” is seen, as the one place in our solar system most likely to have life.
Early last month, the first American robot, Spirit, landed on Mars without any problem. Opportunity, the second robot, landed on the planet more than a week ago. Scientists are very excited about these machines’ safe landing on Mars. It means that now we have an excellent chance to look for water and other signs of life. So far, the robots have found some stones that could show Mars was once a wet and warm planet.
But the trips made by Spirit and Opportunity were dangerous. Mars is often called the “death planet”, because in the past its environment has been unfriendly to the robot explorers. Before Spirit and Opportunity,