Choose the word with the different stress pattern.
1. A. village B. summer C. contact D. winter
2. A. explain B. allow C. expect D. homesick
3. A. enjoy B. collect C. escape D. paper
4. A. answer B. repeat C. repair D. attract
Choose the word which best fits each gap:
Doing some form of voluntary work has (1) _________ been more popular with British people. Over 20 million people were engaged (2) _________ voluntary activities in 2013. Volunteering means giving up time to do work of (3) _________ to the community. It can be based in the UK or overseas. Volunteering can take many forms, from working with children with learning difficulties, in an animal hospital, or planting trees. (4) _________ London won its bid to host the 2012 Olympics, up to 70,000 volunteers were needed to help ensure the games were a success.
1. A. never B. any C. ever D. before
2. A. with B. for C. to D. in
3. A. comfort B. contribute C. benefit D. profit
4. A. How B. Where C. When D. Why
Read the passage, and then choose the correct answer.
Each country has many good people who take care of others. For example, some of students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the elderly. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, do the shopping. For boys who don t have fathers, there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to basketball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go and play games. Some of these clubs show movies or hold short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums, or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of students as volunteers because they are young enough to understand the problems of younger boys and girls.
1. What do volunteers usually do to help those who are sick or old in their homes?
A. They tell them stories and sing and dance for them.
B. They do shopping, and repair or clean up their houses.
C. They cook, sew, and wash their clothes.
D. They take them to basketball games.
2. Which activity is NOT available for the students at the clubs?
A. playing games B. watching films
C. going to interest places D. learning photography
3. Why do they use many students as volunteers? – Because .
A. they know how to do the work
B. they have a lot of free time
C. they can understand the problems of younger boys and girls
D. they are good at playing games and learning new things
Choose the sentence which is closet in meaning to the sentence above.
1. I haven’t eaten this kind of food before.
This is the first…………………………………………………..
2.I can’t sleep because the weather is hot.(so)
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3. I was standing right next to her. She didn’t recognize me. (because)
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4. I/ not/ visited/ museum/ three months
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5. Ms Linda/ beautiful photos/ few days ago.
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6. I /find /collect/ glass bottles/ interesting.
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