Every summer morning, I know I am going to my favourite place to volunteer and make a difference in someone’s life just by being with him or her-----a summer school for children with autism(孤独症)。
By helping the kids read or do math, I am not only teaching important skills but also helping them feel like any other kid. There are many wrong ideas about autism. The kids I work with can think and feel. They need help only in certain areas.
Of course, each kid is special. For example, some kids like to draw, and others like to sing.
At the school, the kids learn through about 20 activities. These activities can help them learn skills they will need later in life.
The very first day I volunteered, a boy came up to me, put his hand on my shoulder and said “Hello.” From then on, I knew I could make a difference.
Another boy loved to have me read books that can help him learn to read. Sometimes he could be encouraged to read a few words or sentences. Finally, one day during reading practice, he read nearly 220 words himself!
Summer school is also a time for fun. Last summer, bagpipe(风筝)players came to perform. Most of us had our hands over our ears because they were so loud. When they asked for a volunteer from the audience, one girl raise her hand as high as she could, got up on stage and even tried the bagpipes in front of everyone.
Through these experiences, I realize that the challenges these kids face do not stop them from doing many amazing things. I’m teaching them, but they are teaching me as well.
1.According to Paragraph 2, many people think those kids______________
A. can’t read or do math
B. don’t have important skills
C. don’t play with other kids
D. can’t think or feel
2.The writer believed he could make a difference when______________
A. a boy let him read books
B. a boy greeted him actively
C. a boy could read by himself
D. a girl tried the bagpipes
3.What does the writer mainly talk about in the passage?
A. His teaching experience in a summer holiday
B. How to make a difference in others’ lives
C. His experience as a volunteer in a special summer school
D. What the life of the children with autism is like
Our environment is being polluted faster. Man’s present efforts cannot prevent it .Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry, more cars, larger cities and the growing use of man-made materials.
What can explain and solve this problem ?The fact is that pollution is caused by man ----by his desire(欲望) for a modern way of life. We make “industrialization(工业化)”our main aim. So we seem to be ready to give up everything: clear air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. Large numbers of people are moving from the countryside into the cities, looking forward to the modern life. But as our world has developed so fast in the last twenty years, pollution has become a serious problem.
Isn’t it time for us to stop to ask ourselves where we are going-----and why? It makes one think of the story about the airline pilot who was heard over the loudspeaker, “I’ve some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we’re flying at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we’re lost and don’t know where we’re going.” The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when we talk about our modern society.(社会)
1.According to the passage, what does man believe to be the most important?
A. Industry B. Health C. Clean air D. The future of the children
2.The story about the airline pilot tells us that______________.
A. man knows where the society is going
B. people do not welcome the fast development of modern society.
C. man can do little about the problem of pollution.
D. the writer is worried about the future of the our society
3.What does the writer really want to say in this passage?
A. Pollution has become a serious problem
B. Lower the speed of development to stop pollution.
C. It’s time for us to take action to reduce pollution
D. As industry is growing fast, pollution is the natural result.
完形填空
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet．He held up a which said：“I am blind, please ．”He was there for several hours, but there were only a few coins in the hat．
A man was walking by．He took a few coins from his and dropped them into the hat．He then took the sign, it over, and wrote some words．He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new ．
Soon the hat began to up .A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy．That afternoon the man who had written the words came to see how things were．The boy recognized （识别）his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the ．I said what you said but in a different way.”
What he had written was,“Today is a day but I cannot see it．”
Should we be that the second sign was more effective(有效的)?
1.A. sign B. book C. letter D. newspaper
2.A. wait B. leave C. help D. look
3.A. box B. hat C. table D. pocket
4.A. threw B. turned C. put D. looked
5.A. buildings B. boards C. words D. beggars
6.A. get B. look C. stand D. fill
7.A. changed B. saw C. took D. missed
8.A. scene B. duty C. truth D. name
9.A. windy B. beautiful C. foggy D. cloudy
10.A. careful B. active C. satisfied D. surprised
--- Hi, Jack. We will go on an outing this weekend. Would you like to join us?
---- ___________. That’s the last thing in the world I would ever want to do.
A. It depends. B. With pleasure.
C. It’s up to you. D. No, thanks.
---Let’s go and visit Granny Zhang. She has ______. She must be very lonely at this time of the year.
----OK, let’s go.
A. either friends or relatives
B. neither friends nor relatives
C. both friends and relatives
D. not only friends but also relatives
The boy asked his father _____.
A. how life would be like in the year 2100
B. which room he would live in the hotel
C. how he called the man in a black suit
D. if Shakespeare was a great writer of English literature
