DoSomething.org is the country’s largest non-profit organization for young people and social change. They provide some scholarships to reward teens who are social action leaders in their community. You may be interested in the following ones.
1. $2,000 Fight Climate Change like a Ninja(忍者) Scholarship
Ninjas release 86% less CO2 than the average person. Why? Because ninjas use a green form of transport ---- parkour(跑酷). DoSomething.org wants to teach you their ways of going green---- and offer the chance for a $2,000 scholarship. Submit(提交)one of your friends’ phone numbers. You’ll both receive a text message with ways to protect the planet, and you’ll be entered for the scholarship. Bonzail!
2. $3,000 Puppy Mills are Bad Scholarship
Use your phone to fight for millions of puppies born in abusive (虐待的) factory farms. Share a text messaging game on puppy mills with 6 friends and you’ll be entered to win a $3000 scholarship. Millions of puppies are born in horrible conditions each year, so puppy mills can make a profit. Invite your friends to step into the shoes of a pet store employee who discovers their store supports puppy mills. To enter for the $3,000 scholarship, visit www. Dosomething.org/puppy and submit six friends’ phone numbers.
3. $5,000 Safe Driving Scholarship
When you text while driving at 55 mph, your eyes go off the road for the length of an entire football field. Tell your friends about the danger of texting while driving to enter to win a $5000 scholarship. After entering, we’ll send you a free pair of “thumb socks” ---- a physical reminder to stop texting while driving. Send us a picture of you with your thumb socks and you’ll double your chance of winning the $5,000 scholarship.
1.What do the scholarships mentioned in the passage have in common?
A. They are provided by DoSomething.org.
B. They offer a small gift to every attendant.
C. They require attendants to be top students.
D. They require attendants to play a message game.
2.Ninjas contribute to environmental protection by ______.
A. giving practical advice
B. offering a scholarship
C. avoiding driving cars
D. influencing the young
3.To win Puppy Mills are Bad Scholarship, you have to ______.
A. work as a pet store employee
B. share a game with 6 friends
C. be good at playing games
D. love puppy mills very much
4.What’s the purpose of Safe Driving Scholarship?
A. To hand out more thumb socks.
B. To teach people how to drive.
C. To sell as many thumb socks as possible.
D. To warn people not to text while driving.
5.After sending your picture with your thumb socks, ______.
A. you will receive another pair of thumb socks
B. you will necessarily win the scholarship
C. you will win $10,000 scholarship
D. you increase the opportunity of winning the scholarship
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Eliza worked in an office with twenty other people, and she liked her job. Getting ahead in her career wasn’t to her. But she suddenly changed the promotion of her friend and co-worker Betty who couldn’t have gotten the if Eliza had tried to. In the eyes of the other co-workers Betty was cheerful, hardworking and ambitious, while Eliza had been low-key and easygoing.
Before Betty got the promotion, Eliza had been satisfied with her , even if she had not been happy. But once Betty was made head, Eliza began to fill up with resentment(怨恨)and she disliked her job and Betty. Finally she developed a big mistake she was filled with anger all the time. Eliza began to see Betty as the source of all her problems, and she to remember that she had not particularly wanted the promotion anyway. Now she just thought that it should be hers. Instead of herself to see what her real goal was in the life, she tried to how to trap Betty and regarded Betty as her enemy. Eliza became________focused on her resentment, and she couldn’t get out of the situation.
One of the major problems with resentment is that you ________ that your anger is completely caused by others. You ________ looking for what you can do to improve your situation, because you are sure that your ________ feelings are the result of someone else’s fault. You give up trying to find real ________ to solve your problem. Dealing with resentment needs ________ . Because of that, you are able to have a clear mind so that you can admit you are feeling resentful. Then try hard to force yourself ________ready to be less resentful. You believe you are to blame for resentment, and you actively look for the way that can ________ the problem in your life.
1.A. important B. ordinary C. simple D. challenging
2.A. during B. before C. after D. until
3.A. agreement B. chance C. prize D. business
4.A. always B. sometimes C. seldom D. never
5.A. partner B. work C. teammates D. leader
6.A. mainly B. perfectly C. exactly D. extremely
7.A. supported B. disclosed C. hated D. forced
8.A. because B. if C. but D. while
9.A. decided B. started C. managed D. failed
10.A. noticing B. ensuring C. persuading D. warning
11.A. get at B. deal with C. figure out D. make up
12.A. partly B. completely C. finally D. usually
13.A. strange B. boring C. funny D. dangerous
14.A. doubt B. analyze C. believe D. find
15.A. mind B. stop C. enjoy D. keep
16.A. negative B. inspiring C. childish D. social
17.A. details B. effects C. solutions D. causes
18.A. freedom B. calmness C. experiment D. courage
19.A. luckily B. hurriedly C. strongly D. truly
20.A. solve B. avoid C. predict D. face
The five young firefighters _________ to the green camp.
A. gave life B. brought life
C. gave their lives D. came to life
The five young firefighters _________ to put out the big fire.
A. gave life B. brought life
C. gave their lives D. came to life
I would rather I________ with her about it, so I will try to control my feelings tomorrow.
A. didn’t argue B. hadn’t argued
C. wouldn’t argue D. not have argued
I would rather I________ with her about it, but I didn’t control my feelings at that time.
A. didn’t argue B. hadn’t argued
C. wouldn’t argue D. not have argued
