Helen Monson has always been interested in he...

Helen Monson has always been interested in helping her community. Her first volunteer experience was for the American Red Cross when she was in high school. When she was a school teacher, she also found time to volunteer.

After she retired, she started volunteering to help the old. When her father was older, he was not able to see as well as he used to, which made her sad because he had always enjoyed reading.

She decided it would be fun to read to elderly people in her community. She also helped one woman write her stories. Ann was almost 100 years old, and Helen wrote down information about her life when she visited Ann. She put the information in a book and got it published. Ann was very excited to share her life story with her children and grandchildren.

One day Helen read an article in the newspaper about refugees (难民) who needed to learn English. Now, she meets once a week with Sahra, a 38-year-old woman from Somalia. Sahra is learning reading and writing skills. Helen gave Sahra a camera and asked her to take pictures of her daily life. She developed the pictures, and then asked Sahra questions about them. In the end they wrote a book together and used the photos in the book. This helped Sahra learn many new words about her everyday life.

Helen says, “The most rewarding part of volunteer work is becoming friends with the people I help. They enrich my life as well as I enrich theirs.”

1.When did Helen first take up volunteering?

A. After retirement.　　 B. In high school.

C. After work.　　 D. In childhood.

2.In what way did Helen help Sahra?

A. By building her self-confidence.　　 B. By expanding her vocabulary.

C. By giving her financial support.　　 D. By finding her a new home.

3.Which of the following can best describe Helen according to the passage?

A. Brilliant.　　 B. Optimistic.

C. Thankful.　　 D. Devoted.

4.The underlined word “rewarding” in the last paragraph probably means 　　　　 .

A. worthwhile　　 B. convenient

C. extraordinary　　 D. practical

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Helen always helps her mother even though going to school ____ most of her day.

A. takes up        B. makes up      C. saves up     D. puts up

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Helen always helps her mother even though going to work ____ most of her day.

A. takes up　　 B. makes up

C. saves up　　 D. puts up

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Helen always helps her mother even though going to school ______ most of her day.

A. takes up            B. makes up    C. saves up         D. puts up

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Helen alway s helps her mother even though going to school _____ most of her day.

A. puts up　　　　　　 B. makes up

C. saves up　　　　　 D. takes up

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Helen always helps her mother even though going to school ________ most of her day.

A.takes up B.makes up

C.saves up D.puts up

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Helen always helps her even though going to school ________ most of her day.

A．turns up　　　　　　 B．makes up　　　　 C．saves up　　　　 D．takes up

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When her five daughters were young, Helen An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.

Helen An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helen and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn’t have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny’s mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helen and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helen did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.

Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains, “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”

Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together. Now the Ans’ corporation makes more than $ 20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.

1.Helen tied several chopsticks together to show ________.

A. the strength of family unity　　 B. the difficulty of growing up

C. the advantage of chopsticks　　 D. the best way of giving a lesson

2.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An family ________.

A. started a business in 1975

B. left Vietnam without much money

C. bought a restaurant in San Francisco

D. opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles

3.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. How to Run a Corporation　　 B. Strength Comes from Peace

C. How to Achieve a Big Dream　　 D. Family Unity Builds Success

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You 　　　　 have seen Helen in her office this morning because she’s been out of town for two weeks.

A. needn’t　　　　　 B. mustn’t

C. mightn’t　　　　　 D. couldn’t

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Scientists have always been interested in the high level of organization in ant societies. American researchers have watched ants build life-saving rafts to keep afloat during floods. They also have recorded how ants choose their next queen — the female whose job is to produce eggs.

New technology is helping to improve researchers’ understanding of the insects. But there is still a lot to be learned.

Fire ants living in Brazilian forests are perfectly at home in an environment where flooding is common. To save themselves, the insects connect their legs together and create floating rafts. Some ant rafts can be up to 20 centimeters wide.

David Hu is an engineer with the Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, saying, "If you have 100 ants, which means 600 legs, 99 percent of those legs will be connected to a neighbor. So they’re very, very good at keeping this network."

David Hu and other Georgia Tech researchers wanted to study ants and the secret of their engineering. They froze ant rafts and then looked at them with the help of computed technology, or CT images. The pictures showed that larger ants serve in central positions to which smaller ants hold. The larger ants create pockets of air that keep the insects afloat.

Scientists say small robots or materials that can change shape could be programmed in a similar way, working towards a shared goal.

Researchers at North Carolina State University are also studying ants. They examined how Indian jumping ants choose the leader of the colony when they lose their top female or queen.

1.The author takes fire ants as an example to tell us ________.

A. how ants survive　　 B. how ants seek food

C. how ants communicate　　 D. how ants live together

2.What can we know from what David Hu said in paragraph 4?

A. Ants know the way to keep in touch in the river.

B. Ants know the way to join together closely.

C. Ants know the way to look for each other.

D. Ants know the way to build a large raft.

3.Why did the larger ants serve in central positions in their ant rafts?

A. To stress their importance.　　 B. To help all the ants float.

C. To fight against the enemies.　　 D. To defend their top female.

4.What ideas do the ants give us according to the passage?

A. We can use similar-shaped machines in flooding areas.

B. We can combine small robots or materials into larger ones.

C. Small and shape-changeable things might work just like ants do.

D. Small robots or materials in the shape of ants can be made.

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