C. Foreign students paid hosting families a lot of money.
D. More mothers didn’t work outside and could look after children.
57. To deal with the problem in recent years, exchange programmmes have to ______.
A. extend the range of host families
B. limit the number of the exchange students C. borrow much money to pay for the costs D. make hosting foreign studetns more exotic
58. Which of the following is the best title of this passage?
A Exchange Students Keep Old People Young B. Idea of Hosting Students is Different C. Foreign-exchange Program Is Going on D U.S. Struggle to Find host Families
B
This is a time of year when we think about giving and receiving presents. Can you find a little extra to give? On this page we suggest a few organizations you might like to help.
Littleton Children’s Home
We DON’T want your money, but children’s toys, books and clothes IN GOOD CONDITION would be very welcome.
Also, we are looking for friendly families who would take our children into their homes for a few hours or days as guests. You have so much─will you share it?
Phone Sister Thomas on 55671 Children’s Hospice
We look after a small number of very sick children. This important work needs skill and love. We cannot continue without gifts or money to pay for more nursing staff. We also need storybooks and toys suitable for quiet games.
Please contact the Secretary, Little Children’s Hospice, Newby Road. Street Food
In the winter weather, it’s no fun being homeless. It’s even worse if you’re hungry. We give hot food to at least fifty people every night. It’s hard work, but necessary. Can you come and help? If not, can you offer a little money? We use a very old kitchen, and we need some new saucepans(平底锅). Money for new ones would be most welcome indeed.
Contact Street Food, c/o Mary’s House, Elming Way. Littleton Phone 27713 Littleton Youth Club
Have you got an unwanted chair?─a record-player?─a pot of paint ? Because we can use them!
We want to get to work on our meeting room!
Please phone 66231 and we’ll be happy to collect anything you can give us. Thank you!
The Night Shelter
We offer a warm bed for the night to anyone who has nowhere to go. We rent the former Commercial Hotel on Green Street. Although it is not expensive, we never
seem to have quite enough money. Can you let us have a few pounds? Any amount, however small, will be such a help.
Send it to us at 15, Green St, Littleton. Please make check payable to Night Shelter.
59. What kind of people are these organizations designed for?
A. Homeless and sick children
B. Less fortunate members of our society
C. Hungry people who have no beds to sleep in D. Friendly members of our society to help others
60. If you like children and you could offer a happy family to a homeless child, you may contact _____. A. Street Food B. The Night Shelter C. Littleton Children’s Home D. Children’s Hospice 61. What can be concluded from the passage?
A. There are too many social problems in this society. B. People are very poor during the time of giving.
C. To offer help is just an excuse for these organizations to collect money. D. There are many organizations trying to solve social problems. 62. What kind of things would Littleton Youth Club like to collect?
A. Old furniture and second-hand electrical equipment. B. An apartment and some saucepans. C. Hot food and storybooks.
D. A sum of money and children’s toys.
C
“REMOVE from friends.”
This is no ordinary button. One click and I have the power to erase a person from my life.
In late fall, I had around 400 friends on Facebook. Today, I have 134. Click. Make that 133.
When Facebook first entered my life in 2005, I panicked that my friend count was too low. If I wasn’t properly connected, how would anyone see my clever quote(引语)? Who would wish me a happy birthday? I accepted and sent out friend requests without a second thought and soon accumulated 391 friends.
There is an appeal to being able to communicate with someone or just “thumbs(拨动手指) up” a photo rather than make real conversation.
“It’s comforting and it’s easy,” said Larry Rosen, a psychology professor at California State University, who studies the way people communicate online.” There’s a sense of belonging in it. It’s a sense of community in a generation where community has sort of (有点)disappeared.”
However, I don’t talk to half of these people in the online community. There are some I would avoid if I met them on the street.
Click. 132.
I decided to rid my account of any “friend” that…well, wasn’t. Sound easy? You try it.
Look at who you’re dealing with: family, friends, classmates, crushes(爱恋的对象), acquaintances…
With every click of the “Remove from friends” button, you risk burning a bridge, losing a contact and missing an opportunity. So every time I go to click the button, my heart hurts.
However, I’m not the only one who has experienced a Faceboook friend refreshing. The New Oxford American Dictionary announces its “Word of the Year” each year, and last year, “unfriend” made the cut (入围) (though I’ll still stick with “defriend”).
When I started my mission(任务), a few friends joined. Most were surprised by how easily they could cut hundreds of connections without thinking twice.
“Oh my God, I defriended like 600 people today. I feel so good!” my friend Sarah messaged.
Dana, a close friend from high school, and I battled it out to see who could get our counts lower. She wins at 123.
To some, it’s poor “netiquette(网络礼仪)” to defriend. But to me, it’s the stage of life when we hold onto the people who count, the people who impact you.
63. According to the article, what happens when you click the “Remove form friends” button?
A. A message is sent out to your online friends. B. You accept someone as your online friend. C. You send out a friend request to people.
D. The number of your online friends is reduced.
64. The writer worried about her friend count in 2005 because ______.
A. no one would wish her a happy birthday
B .it was the first time she had made friends online C. she had only 391 online friends at that time D. she was eager to make connections 65. What is Larry Rosen’s opinion?
A. People living in the same area are closely connected in everyday life. B. Communication online helps people feel they are members of a group. C. It’s easy for people to make and break new friendships online.
D. Today’s young people spend nearly all their time communicating online. 66. Which of the following is the best description of the underlined sentence?
A. I made new friends online while I removed some old ones.
B. Some friends cut the number of their online friends just like I did. C. We competed to see who could remove the most online friends. D. When someone removed me from a friends’ list, I removed him/her.
D
At the age of twelve years, the human body is at its most vigorous（强壮的）. It has yet to reach its full size and strength. At this age the chance of death is least. Earlier, we were babies and young children, and consequently weaker; later, we shall undergo a progressive loss of our vigor and resistance which, though unnoticed at first, will finally become so steep that we can live no longer, however well we look
after ourselves, and however well society and our doctors look after us.
This decline in vigor with the passing of time is called ageing. It is one of the most unpleasant discoveries which we all make that we must decline in this way, that if we escape wars, accidents and disease we shall eventually \of old age\and that this happens at a rate which differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favor of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty. Some of us will die sooner, a few will live longer---on into a ninth or tenth decade. But the chances are against it_, and there is an actual limit on how long we can hope to remain alive, however lucky and energetic we are.
Normal people tend to forget this process unless and until they are reminded of it. We are so familiar with the fact that man ages, that people have for years assumed that the process of losing vigor with time was something self-evident, like the cooling of a hot kettle or the wearing-out of a pair of shoes. They have also assumed that all animals, and probably other organisms such as trees, or even the universe itself, must in the nature of things \do in fact age as we do, if given the chance to live long enough; and mechanical systems like a wound watch, or the sun, do in fact run out of energy according to the second law of thermodynamics (热力学). But these are not analogous to what happens when man ages. A run-down watch is still a watch and can be rewound. An old watch, by contrast, becomes so worn and unreliable that it eventually is not worth mending. But a watch could never repair itself---it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction. We could, at one time, repair ourselves---well enough, at least, to overcome all but the most instantly fatal illnesses and accidents. 67. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A. Our first twelve years represent the peak of human development. B. People usually are unhappy when reminded of ageing.
C. Normally only a few of us can live to the eighties and nineties. D. People are usually less likely to die at twelve years old.
68. The word \ A. remaining alive until 65.
B. remaining alive after 80.
C. dying before 65 or after 80. D. dying between 65 and 80. 69. What is ageing?
A. It is usually a phenomenon of dying at an old age. B. It is a fact that people cannot live any longer. C. It is a gradual loss of vigor and resistance.
D. It is a stage when people are easily attacked by illness. 70. What do the examples of watch show?
A. Normally people are quite familiar with the ageing process. B. All animals and other organisms undergo the ageing process. C. The law of thermodynamics functions in the ageing process. D. Human's ageing process is different from that of mechanisms.
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Cross-Cultural Solutions (CCS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1995, widely known as the leading organization in the field of international volunteering, with more than 4,000 volunteers each year. CCS has a worldwide staff of more than 300 people, and operates in 12 countries, with administrative offices also located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. It offers volunteer programmes in 12 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Cross-Cultural Solutions’ volunteer programmes in China are located in Xi’an, the crossroads of Western and Eastern China, and the starting point of the Silk Road. Culturally, Xi’an is a mixture of the ancient and modern worlds. Home to the famous terracotta army, Xi’an was once the imperial capital of China. The city’s ancient history is embodied by the huge stone walls that surround the city centre, originally intended to protect the city from invasion. In the modern world, Xi’an is the largest capital city in Central and Western China. Today, with a population of approximately eight million, this modern city still reflects its rich history and culture.
China’s diverse population is well represented in Xi’an’s Han and other minorities. Volunteering in Xi’an will provide you with opportunities to connect with individuals from a variety of backgrounds, exposing you to the wide scope of Chinese culture, one of the largest and most ancient cultures in the world.
Through our cultural and learning activities in China, you will see the work of local artists, visit the site of the famous ancient terracotta army, participate in weekly Chinese classes, and engage in lively discussions on Chinese culture and society. Activities may also include cooking classes or visits from experts in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine and a local painter skilled in the unique arts of Chinese painting and calligraphy(书法). Guest speakers may also cover topics such as Chinese folklore and traditional Chinese music. Many volunteers choose to participate in regular visits to local universities to meet with students interested in English conversation and cultural exchange.
CCS offers the following programmes in Xi’an, China: ? Volunteer Abroad---- two to twelve weeks ? Intern Abroad---- three to four weeks ? Insight Abroad---- one week
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