Do you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someone's life? If yes. don't care about sex or age! Come and join us, then you'll make it!
Position: Volunteer Social Care Assistant
(No Pay with Free Meals)
Place: Manchester Hours: Part Time
We arc now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Don't miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!
Role:
You will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued.
Skills and Experience Required:
You will have the right values and great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since you'll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous care-related experience will be a great advantage for you.
1.The text is meant to ______ .
A. leave a note B. send an invitation
C. present a document D. carry an advertisement
2.What docs the underlined part mean?
A. You'll make others' lives more meaningful with this job.
B. You'll arrive home just in time from this job.
C. You'll earn a good salary from this job.
D. You'll succeed in getting this job.
3.The volunteers' primary responsibility is to help people with learning disabilities ______ .
A. to get some financial support
B. to properly protect themselves
C. to learn some new living skills
D. to realize their own importance
4.Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer?
A. The one who can drive a car.
B. The one who has done similar work before.
C. The one who has patience to listen to others.
D. The one who can use English to communicate.
My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse (松鸡). It's for a grouse to have any contact (接触) with people. In fact, they're hard to spot, they usually fly off when they hear humans approaching.
This grouse came into our lives in Tom was working out in the field when he her walking around at the edge of the field. She was unafraid and seemed to be about what he was doing.
Tom saw the bird several times, and she got more comfortable around him. We quickly grew of the bird and decided to call her Mildred.
One day, as Tom was working, Mildred came within a few feet of him to watch. Tom he didn't see her and kept working to see what she would do next.
Apparently, she didn't like to be . She'd run up and peck (啄) at Tom's hands, then off to see what he would do. This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the and left.
As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to more and more often. Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom's leg and stay long enough for me to get a of the two of them together. This friendly grouse soon felt not just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by.
When hunting season opened, we put a at the end of our driveway asking not to shoot our pet grouse. My father, who lived down the road, warned people not to shoot her. . hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.
1.A. interesting B. reasonable C. impossible D. unusual
2.A. though B. because C. unless D. until
3.A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter
4.A. got B. kept C. noticed D. imagined
5.A. naturally B. certainly C. normally D. surprisingly
6.A. crazy B. curious C. concerned D. cautious
7.A. shy B. awkward C. friendly D. elegant
8.A. careful B. tired C. fond D. sick
9.A. supposed B. realized C. hoped D. pretended
10.A. ignored B. observed C. amazed D. disturbed
11.A. put B. back C. set D. take
12.A. game B. work C. place D. man
13.A. give up B. come out C. turn over D. fly by
14.A. Eventually B. Suddenly C. Constantly D. Presently
15.A. chance B. dream C. picture D. sense
16.A. comfortable B. guilty C. anxious D. familiar
17.A. lantern B. sign C. gun D. loudspeaker
18.A. drivers B. farmers C. hunters D. tourists
19.A. just B. yet C. thus D. also
20.A. In fact B. For long C. On the contrary D. By the way
— How about dinner tonight? It's on me.
— ______ .
A. You are welcome B. Oh, I'd like to C. Well, I'm afraid so D. That's all right
She ______ someone, so I nodded to her and went away.
A. phoned B. had phoned C. was phoning D. has phoned
I'll be out for some time. ______ anything important happens, call me up immediately.
A. In case B. As if C. Even though D. Now that
— I hope to take the computer course.
— Good idea. ____ more about it, visit this website.
A. To find out B. Finding out C. To be finding out D. Having found out
