Every year many young people leave school for a few weeks or months and enjoy an unusual type of educational program. They learn new skills by living in a different country and doing unusual jobs. There are several organizations. They help students to find the experience they are looking for. The table below shows a few possibilities for students.
Country | Job | Time | Description |
India | Teaching young children | One month | ·Teaching music and dance ·Helping children learn how to communicate |
Ghana | Health care work | Two months | ·Seeing how doctors work in a less developed country ·Helping care for patients |
Thailand | Saving elephants | Three weeks | ·Cleaning elephants ·Helping train elephants |
New Zealand | Teaching Chinese | Six weeks | ·Helping adults learn Chinese ·Spreading Chinese culture |
One interesting possibility is helping elephants in Thailand. Most people think of elephants as animals in zoos. In fact, many elephants in Thailand are no longer kept in cages. Now, hundreds of them are homeless. They don’t have owners to care for them. Although they may look well, they are often in poor health and don’t have enough to eat.
One center in Thailand cares for these elephants. It gives them a safe and natural living space. When they are at the center, they stay in a building but are free to walk around. Students come from all over the world to help here. The student helpers work with the elephant keepers. These keepers train the students in caring for the elephants. In the morning, they go to the forest together and lead the elephants to the center. They clean them and give them food. In the afternoon. They take the animals back into the forest for the night. Helping at the center is interesting and the young people learn a lot.
1.Which country can you choose if you want to prepare yourself for a medical career?
A. India. B. Ghana. C. Thailand.
2.Which job might be suitable for the students who love children and arts?
A. Teaching young children B. Health care work C. Saving elephants
3.What does the underlined word “they” in the last paragraph probably refer to?
A. The keepers. B. The doctors . C. The elephants.
4.What does the writer think of the unusual educational program?
A. It is amazing. B. It is boring. C. It is helpful.
One morning,an old gardenner found lots of flowers missing.He was so angry that he shouted loudly, “Who did this?” In order to protect his flowers, he locked the garden gate in the evening.
The next morning,he found some of this flowers missing again. He decided to find out how that happened. When night came,he sat quitely to watch his garden.Soon he saw a tortoise(乌龟) moving slowly into the garden.
The gardener shouted, “I catch you this time!” The tortoise quickly said, “I’m sorry. If you really want to punish me,no matter what you decide to do, please do not throw me into the water. It’s terrible to die that way.”
“You destroyed so many of my beautiful flowers. I must punish you!” said the old gardener, and he quickly threw the tortoise into a lake next to his garden.
After a while , the tortoise swam away happily. The old gardener then knew that the tortoise was not afraid of water.
1.Why was the old gardenner so angry?
A. Because his flowers were not alive.
B. Because he found his flowers missing.
C. Because his flowers were not beautiful.
2.What did the gardenner do to protect his flowers at first?
A. He watched the flowers in the evening.
B. He locked the garden gate in the evening.
C. He did nothing in the evening.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. The old gardenner was very smart.
B. The tortoise was so clever.
C. The old gardenner was very happy.
Some time ago one of my chairs had a broken leg. I _________ think there would be any difficulty ______ getting it fixed, as there were a lot of furniture shops near my home. So I left home one morning with the chair. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception(接待). But I was quite wrong. The man didn’t even look at my chair.
In the _________ shop though, the situation was just the same, and in the third and in the fourth.
I entered ________ shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the ________ ,“Would you like to buy the chair ?” He ________ it carefully and said,“Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?” “Twenty dollars, ”I said. “OK,” he said, “I’ll give you twenty dollars,” I said. “Yes, I saw that. It’s nothing.”
________ was doing according to my plan. “What will you do with it?” I asked. “Oh, it will
be easy to _______ after the repair is done.” “I’ll buy it,” I said. “What do you mean? You’ve just sold it to me,” he said. “Yes, but I’ve changed my mind.” “You ______ be crazy,” he said. Then, suddenly the penny drooped. “I know what you want,” he said. “We don’t do repairs, not enough money _______ with too much trouble. But I’ll fix this for you.”
1.A. don’t B. didn’t C. do
2.A. in B. with C. on
3.A. two B. second C. twice
4.A. other B. another C. the other
5.A. customer B. shopkeeper C. agent
6.A. saw B. looked at C. watched
7.A. Something B. Anything C. Everything
8.A. buy B. use C. sell
9.A. must B. can C. might
10.A. but B. and C. or
– How beautiful your dress is!
– ________.
A. Yes, I like it. B. Not at all. C. Thank you.
– is it from your home to school?
–It’s about 20 minutes’ walk.
A. How long B. How far C. How many
–Jim’s brother is playing basketball now!
–Yeah, he has finished the homework.
A. doing B. does C. done
