Question

Are you looking for something fun and would you like to help others in your spare time（闲暇时间）? Then join us to be a volunteer! We’re a non-profit organization(非盈利组织). We have volunteer jobs of all ages. Anyone, from twelve-year-old children to people in their seventies can become a volunteer.

You can help people in many ways. Schools need  help with taking care of children while parents are working. Hospitals need volunteers to look after children while their parents are seeing a doctor. Animal lovers can help take care of those dogs and cats without homes. There is something for everyone.

“As a volunteer, I don’t want to get anything. Seeing the children’s happy faces, I’m happy, too,”said Carlos Domingo, an old woman of 62. “I often played computer games in my spare time before. Now I help older people learn how to use computers, ”said another volunteer at the age of 18.

If everyone helps out a bit, we’ll have a better world to live in.

1._____ can be a volunteer.

A. Children    B. Anyone aged 12-70

C. Old women    D. Young people

2.Volunteers want to get ____ when they help others.

A. money    B. computers    C. nothing    D. everything

3.When do the volunteers help others?

A. In their spare time.    B. At weekends.

C. On weekdays.    D. In the evenings.

4.We can probably read such passage ____

A. in a storybook    B. in a newspaper

C. in a picture book    D. in a textbook

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.B

【解析】这篇短文给我们介绍了志愿者的工作，希望能有更多的人能加入到志愿者的队伍中来，去帮助别人，如果人人都献出一点爱，世界将变成美好的人间。

1.细节理解题。根据短文第一段中Anyone, from twelve-year-old children to people in their seventies can become a volunteer.可知，从12岁到70多岁的人都可以当志愿者。由此可知应选B。

2.细节理解题。根据短文中As a volunteer, I don’t want to get anything可知，作为志愿者，他们不想得到任何东西，他们都是义务的。故应选C。

3.细节理解题。根据短文的开头Are you looking for something fun and would you like to help others in your spare time可知，志愿者们都是在空闲时间去帮助别人。故应选A。

4.主旨大意题。这篇短文给我们介绍了志愿者的工作，希望能有更多的人能加入到志愿者的队伍中来，去帮助别人，所以这篇短文应该是一篇呼吁信，应该在报纸上可以看到，故应选B。