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【題目】 A blog posted Dec 7, 2018 at 12:17 PM by Alanna Mallon Alanna Mallon is a Cambridge City Councilor.

Each year in November, I receive a lot of emails and texts from friends who want to volunteer with their families on Thanksgiving as a way to give back. I also field phone calls from organizations who want to donate ( 捐贈(zèng) ) to local programs that provide Thanksgiving meals.

However, as an official who still works in the nonprofit sector (非盈利部門), I also feel deeply anxious (焦急的) because I know the other 51 weeks of the year, these key programs that provide food to residents (居民) in need are eager for both volunteers and donations. Hunger is a year round problem, and each week volunteers are the necessary part to make sure that programs are able to serve the community.

At Food For Free, we depend on about 100 volunteers per week, and each of those volunteers is extremely important to providing fresh, healthy food to people in the Greater Boston area who need it. School children who take backpacks of food home on Fridays, community college students who depend on our Family Meals program to support their healthy growth, elderly and disabled residents who receive twice monthly deliveries of food to their doors through our Home Delivery program, they all depend on us making sure enough volunteers show up to do the work.

These volunteers don't show up in your social media system, they don't win prizes and no one writes about them in the local newspapers. But they are heroes. And you can be too. If everyone made a promise to volunteer once a month, or even once a quarter, I know that we could reduce some of the anxiety these organizations feel, as a more trust-worthy volunteer network allows them to focus on helping people, not filling volunteer positions.

Here is a list of a few organizations who are doing important work in Cambridge to make sure the food to be safe. Offer your time to an organization, they will be deeply grateful, and I am quite sure that you will feel pretty good about yourself too.

Food For Free: http://foodforfree.org/volunteer.

CEOC: http://ceoccambridge.org/food-pantry.

Harvard Square Homeless Shelter: https://hshshelter.org/volunteer.

Community Cooks: https://communitycooks.org/join-us.

Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House: http://margaretfullerhouse.org

【1】The word "field" in paragraph 1 probably means "________".

A. makeB. keepC. deal withD. take away

【2】What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?

A. The food safety worries the writer.B. Volunteers are needed all year round.

C. Donations can be made through the Internet.D. People like getting together on Thanksgiving.

【3】The third paragraph is mainly about ________.

A. the duty of Food For FreeB. the donations of Family Meals

C. the value of voluntary workD. the difficult life of local people

【4】What's the main purpose of this passage?

A. To call for action.B. To express thanks.

C. To advertise programs.D. To introduce websites.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】C

【4】A

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文。作者在一家非盈利部門上班，負(fù)責(zé)為當(dāng)?shù)鼐用裉峁┟赓M(fèi)餐。這些慈善項(xiàng)目經(jīng)常需要大量志愿者確保項(xiàng)目的順利進(jìn)行，但志愿者數(shù)量還不夠，因此作者呼吁更多加入這些項(xiàng)目。

【1】題意：第一段的單詞field意思可能是_____________。

詞句猜測題。A. make制造；B. keep（使）保持；C. deal with處理；D. take away拿走。單詞所在句子為I also field phone calls from organizations who want to donate to local programs that provide Thanksgiving meals，句意為“我也要處理來自一些機(jī)構(gòu)的電話，它們想對當(dāng)?shù)靥峁└卸鞴?jié)晚餐的項(xiàng)目進(jìn)行捐助”，C選項(xiàng)符合句意，故應(yīng)選C。

【2】題意：從前兩段我們可以知道什么？

推理判斷題。A. The food safety worries the writer.作者擔(dān)憂食品安全；B. Volunteers are needed all year round.全年都需要志愿者；C. Donations can be made through the Internet.通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)就能進(jìn)行捐助；D. People like getting together on Thanksgiving.在感恩節(jié)這一天人們喜歡聚到一起。根據(jù)原文第二段I also feel deeply anxious because I know the other 51 weeks of the year, these key programs that provide food to residents in need are eager for both volunteers and donations，在每年其他51周里，這些為居民提供食物的關(guān)鍵項(xiàng)目急需志愿者和捐助，由此可推，作者所在的組織全年都需要志愿者，故應(yīng)選B。

【3】題意：第三段主要講_____________。

主旨大意題。A. the duty of Food For Free免費(fèi)食物的職責(zé)；B. the donations of Family Meals家庭餐的捐助；C. the value of voluntary work志愿工作的價(jià)值；D. the difficult life of local people當(dāng)?shù)厝藗兊钠D難生活。通讀第三段可知，主要還是說志愿者的問題，特別是本段最后一句they all depend on us making sure enough volunteers show up to do the work，一些項(xiàng)目都需要足夠的志愿者去做工作，說明志愿工作的價(jià)值很重要、很高，故應(yīng)選C。

【4】題意：這篇文章的主要目的是？

主旨大意題。A. To call for action.要求采取行動(dòng)；B. To express thanks.表達(dá)感謝；C. To advertise programs.為項(xiàng)目打廣告；D. To introduce websites.介紹網(wǎng)站。通讀全文可知，作者一直在談志愿者對其救助工作的重要性且志愿者數(shù)量一直存在缺口，故可推斷作者的意圖是呼吁更多的人加入志愿行動(dòng)，A選項(xiàng)符合題意，故應(yīng)選A。