Caring for animals, tutoring kids, helping seniors: Volunteer hours are more than a graduation must, they are life lessons.
Vilma Sooknanan cleans cat cages, Max Carroll teaches children how to cook and Michael Rosenthal rolls wheelchairs at a hospital.
What does this have to do with high school education?
Everything.
The three – and almost all other South Florida high school students – have to go outside of the classroom to earn their diplomas, doing what schools call “community service”.
Broward public schools require 40 hours to graduate. Palm Beach County public schools require 20, and most private schools require at least that much.
The purpose: To give students the chance to explore a career and create a habit of volunteering.
“We hope that when they finish high school they’ll continue service,” says Mike Roland, student activities officer for the Broward School District.
About half of U.S. public schools require community service, according to a national study. Broward School Board member Bob Parks says encouraging community service has launched all kinds of new projects, including tutoring and food collections.
Sooknanan, a student at South Broward High School, is part of the Humane Society of Broward County’s volunteer program, which is so popular that even the waiting list is closed. Students work one four-hour shift a week for four months, and leave with 64 volunteer hours.
Sooknanan changes litter boxes and puts down fresh newspaper for about 100 cats.
Combined with her volunteer hours at beach cleanups and helping teachers at school, she’s well on her way toward 250 hours, which she hopes will catch the eye of Nova Southeastern University, where she wants to study marine biology.
Carroll, a junior student at South Plantation High, has connected with FLIPANY, a nonprofit organization that offers cheap physical activity and food to low-income families. He helps teach children about cooking and healthy eating.
“It has been a life-changing experience,” says Carroll, who is now leaning toward a career as a sports trainer. "I want to find a career encouraging people to lead a healthier lifestyle.”
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN 15 WORDS.)
1. How many hours of community service are students required to do to graduate from most U.S. private schools?
2. Why do some U.S. schools require students to do community service to graduate?
3. The reason Sooknanan take up so many kinds of volunteer work is that ___________.
4. Volunteer work is popular in many high schools in the U.S., not only because it is a graduation must, but also because ___________ .
高二英语其他题简单题
Caring for animals, tutoring kids, helping seniors: Volunteer hours are more than a graduation must, they are life lessons.
Vilma Sooknanan cleans cat cages, Max Carroll teaches children how to cook and Michael Rosenthal rolls wheelchairs at a hospital.
What does this have to do with high school education?
Everything.
The three – and almost all other South Florida high school students – have to go outside of the classroom to earn their diplomas, doing what schools call “community service”.
Broward public schools require 40 hours to graduate. Palm Beach County public schools require 20, and most private schools require at least that much.
The purpose: To give students the chance to explore a career and create a habit of volunteering.
“We hope that when they finish high school they’ll continue service,” says Mike Roland, student activities officer for the Broward School District.
About half of U.S. public schools require community service, according to a national study. Broward School Board member Bob Parks says encouraging community service has launched all kinds of new projects, including tutoring and food collections.
Sooknanan, a student at South Broward High School, is part of the Humane Society of Broward County’s volunteer program, which is so popular that even the waiting list is closed. Students work one four-hour shift a week for four months, and leave with 64 volunteer hours.
Sooknanan changes litter boxes and puts down fresh newspaper for about 100 cats.
Combined with her volunteer hours at beach cleanups and helping teachers at school, she’s well on her way toward 250 hours, which she hopes will catch the eye of Nova Southeastern University, where she wants to study marine biology.
Carroll, a junior student at South Plantation High, has connected with FLIPANY, a nonprofit organization that offers cheap physical activity and food to low-income families. He helps teach children about cooking and healthy eating.
“It has been a life-changing experience,” says Carroll, who is now leaning toward a career as a sports trainer. "I want to find a career encouraging people to lead a healthier lifestyle.”
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN 15 WORDS.)
1. How many hours of community service are students required to do to graduate from most U.S. private schools?
2. Why do some U.S. schools require students to do community service to graduate?
3. The reason Sooknanan take up so many kinds of volunteer work is that ___________.
4. Volunteer work is popular in many high schools in the U.S., not only because it is a graduation must, but also because ___________ .
高二英语其他题简单题查看答案及解析
Kendall Ciesemier is the founder of charity Kids Caring 4 Kids, an organization she created after seeing a show on the difficult situation of AIDS orphans (孤儿) in Africa. Ciesemier was inspired to try to change the lives of those affected by AIDS and to encourage other children to do the same. She tells us of the power her personal story has in showing others they too can make a difference.
You saw Oprah’s show on AIDS orphans when you were 11 — do you remember how you felt?
When I saw the show I was shocked. I had never heard of AIDS before and was concerned that kids were growing up without parents and no one had troubled to ask for my help.
I wanted to create a place for kids to get involved and a place where their small contributions would be valued and celebrated. I also felt that I needed to take immediate action myself. I found an orphan sponsorship (赞助) program online and an eight-year-old girl from Mauritania who needed my help. I started there and Kids Caring 4 Kids grew from that experience.
How has your own illness inspired you to help others?
Growing up with a rare liver (肝脏) disease made me feel different, which I think attracted me to others who were different and those struggling with something. I knew how I felt and I wanted to help reduce that feeling in someone else. I always wanted to support people. Growing up with an illness gave me empathy (移情) for others.
How does your own story inspire others?
My own personal story is evidence that people can give from anywhere. I started Kids Caring 4 Kids from a hospital room. I started by helping one person and it snowballed from there. When I share my story, I think that’s what affects people the most — the fact that I started all of this during a time of personal struggle and weakness. If I could do that, then they can do something too.
1.According to the text, Kendall Ciesemier.
A. hosted a show on the situation in Africa
B. was affected by AIDS and a liver disease
C. made an effort to help African AIDS orphans
D. earned lots of money from Kids Caring 4 Kids
2.What made Ciesemier create Kids Caring 4 Kids?
A. Her experience in Africa.
B. Living with a liver disease.
C. Watching Oprah’s show on AIDS orphans.
D. Her work with an orphan sponsorship program.
3.Ciesemier’s own illness .
A. caused her to lose some close friends
B. made her discouraged and less enthusiastic
C. kept her away from those who were different
D. helped her easily understand other patients’ feelings
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Tips for Teaching Kids Responsibility
Your best friend has a teenager who helps with housework without being asked. Your cousin has a one-year-old child that puts her bottle in the sink when she finishes the milk, but no reminders are needed. 1. Raising helpful, good kids who know how to make a sandwich is not a fantasy! The following tips can give you a better chance of raising a responsible child who then grows into a responsible adult.
2. You can’t suddenly spring responsibility on a teenager and expect he will know how to follow through. He needs time to practice and totally understand what responsibility means.
Let kids help you. Don t complain when it's time to do housework. Smile and invite your son to help. 3. He will take these good feelings and learn to take ownership of his home and feel pride in keeping it up.
4. Make responsibilities age appropriate. You can show how to complete small tasks in daily life and perform them at a child’s skill level. For example, if your kid wants a snack, show him where the apples are and how to wash one off.
Teach your child consequences. Learning to take care of his things also helps a child develop a sense of responsibility for his actions. Get your son to clean up after an art project, and inform him that he won^ be able to play with his crayons the next day if he leaves a messy table. 5. The more you carry out the rules, the more likely he is to clean up without being asked.
A. Have a sense of responsibility.
B. Why do they make a sandwich for kids?
C. Show kids how to perform responsibility.
D. Where do these wonderful children come from?
E. Start to teach responsibility to kids early.
F. When your child is invited to participate, he feels valued.
G. Then take away his supplies if he does not take his responsibility.
高二英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
A lot of parents help their kids do homework and study for school. 1.
A photographer in India’s Bihar state took a photo of dozens of parents risking their lives to help their 10th-graders cheat on tests. The parents climbed the walls of a four-story school to throw cheat sheets through the window for their children.
2. About 600 students were expelled(开除) from the school. And police have detained(拘留) more than 1,000 people connected with the scandal(丑闻).
The tests the Bihar students were taking are called board exams. These exams help determine who will be considered the top students in each class. India’s best university will take only students with a 95 percent score or better. 3.
Students who make it into India’s top universities have a much better chance of getting well-paid jobs. They can help their families by becoming doctors or engineers. Many of the students who don’t pursue(追求) these kinds of careers have a much more difficult time making money.
4. About 30 percent of its citizens are considered poor. In many parts of the country, a family of five might struggle to survive on as little as $80 a month. For students who do well, the exams can be a life-changing event for their families.
Few believe the Bihar incident will stop people from cheating on exams. Many students think that because others are cheating, they also have to cheat to keep up. 5.
Officials believe that new laws and policies will help only so much. To stop cheating, they say, people need to change their attitudes toward it.
A. India has a high poverty rate.
B. This cycle has proved very difficult to break.
C. The exam season can be called cheating season.
D. The government cannot stop cheating in exams.
E. The serious cheating outbreak did not go unpunished.
F. But the parents of some students in India have taken helping their kids to a new level.
G. As a result, students throughout the country are under great pressure to do well on the tests.
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We parents have skyhigh hopes for our children. ___1.____. What can we do to help our kids grow up to lead happy lives? According to the experts, we can do many things to help our kids.
___2.____ In order to succeed,children need to feel they're good at something. So expose your children to as many interests as possible, and then let them choose those they like best. Applauded their achievements. A study found that students whose parents paid attention to their abilities were far more likely to do well in school and in life—than students whose parents didn't show such support. ____3.___
____4.____. Making his/her own decisions increases a child's sense of control and builds his/her selfesteem (自尊心). And allowing kids to make wrong decisions—so long as doing so won't harm them—helps kids learn from their mistakes.
Encouraging them to solve their own problems. As they grow, children need practice in communicating,standing up for themselves and compromising(妥协). One of the best places to learn these skills is at home. ____5.____.
A.Help them to find their talents.
B.Let them make decisions and mistakes.
C.Don’t criticize the kids in front of the public.
D.We expect them to be confident and content.
E. The children will lead a happier life if given more freedom.
F. So celebrate your kids’ achievements, no matter how small they are.
G. So the next time your child runs to you complaining that her brother is blaming her,step back and let them work it out.
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根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Some animals can be trained to help humans. For example, specially trained dogs help blind people walk around the town safely. Some kinds of monkeys can be taught things too. 1. The monkeys pick up the phone when it rings, carry shopping bags and do housework.
In the wild, animals and humans are not usually friends. 2. In Africa, the honey- guide bird works with humans to find food. The bird likes to eat the grubs (幼虫) — a type of insect that lives inside a beehive (蜂巢). It knows how to find beehives but it can’t open them and get the grubs. People like to eat honey, but they aren’t very good at finding beehives. 3. The bird flies to a beehive and people follow it. When the people open the beehive and take the honey, they give the grubs to the bird.
In Laguna in the south of Brazil, fishermen and dolphins work as a team. The ocean isn’t very clean, so the fishermen can’t see the fish. 4. When the dolphins find a large group of fish, they make a noise to tell the fishermen. Then the dolphins push the fish to the beach. The fishermen wait in the water near the beach and catch a lot of fish in their nets. The fishermen’s nets make it easier for the dolphins to catch fish too. In Laguna, fishermen and dolphins have been working together for many years. 5. Meanwhile, the dolphins must be happy to help because they teach their babies how to work with the humans!
A. They attack each other for food or something else.
B. So the bird and the people help each other.
C. They can learn how to help people who can’t use their arms or legs.
D. In fact, they usually help to get enough food for their babies.
E. The fishermen teach their children how to work with the dolphins.
F. However, there are a few interesting examples where they can work together.
G. However, dolphins can find them easily by using sounds.
高二英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
____to caring for an Ebola(埃博拉) patient, the nurse found herself also infected, feeling hopeless.
A. Devoting B. Devoted
C. Having devoted D. To devote
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I tried to grow a gardenia (梔子花).I had tried everything my mother taught me about caring for houseplants—more light, less water, spraying, even replanting, but _1_ seemed to work.
I _2_ Mom were here now.Mother’s Day was coming up, the second one since her death, and the pain of losing her was still so fresh.There is a Mother’s Day _3_ I follow.One wears a red flower if one’s mother is _4_ and a white one if she is not.I had hoped that planting a white gardenia, Mom’s favorite flower, would help me through the sorrow of her _5.
Mom had a way with all things _6_.My sister and I always joked, “Mom could _7_ a telephone pole grow leaves and bear fruit.”
Why can’t I? I thought.Still, I couldn’t stand throwing the dead plant away.Instead, I placed it into a dark corner of our bathroom.I didn’t even water it.I just left it there _8_ I could deal with it.
My husband asked me if I was going to wear a white flower to church that Mother’s Day.“Yes,” I told him, “but I need a _9_ gardenia.” I added silently.
Sunday morning I woke up early to get dressed and made for the _10_.Still _11_, I walked to the bathroom.Suddenly I was woken up by a pleasant scent (香味).I pushed the door open and stepped into the bathroom.That morning I knew I would be ready to wear a small white flower for Mom.In that dark corner, _12_ as if it had a light of its own, bloomed a perfect white gardenia!
1.A.everything B.nothing C.anything D.something
2.A.feel B.believe C.wish D.think
3.A.way B.method C.habit D.tradition
4.A.alive B.healthy C.dead D.ill
5.A.passing B.getting C.giving D.dying
6.A.white B.blue C.green D.yellow
7.A.cause B.make C.use D.allow
8.A.when B.until C.while D.if
9.A.red B.plastic C.paper D.fresh
10.A.market B.school C.church D.office
11.A.excited B.angry C.happy D.sleepy
12.A.bright B.dark C.large D.small
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
______ to caring for the poor, Mother Teresa is greatly respected throughout the world.
A. Having fully devoted B. Having been fully devoted
C. To have fully devoted D. Being fully devoted to
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Normally, kids have curiosity(好奇) about everything around them including animals. As a parent you are willing to teach everything to our children because you want to develop their EQ and IQ. But a few people have some troubles in how to introduce animals to their kids. Here I have some advice on how to do that.
1. Visiting a zoo.
This way must be the best choice to choose. If you have free time or maybe on holiday you can take your children to the zoo. Kids usually are excited to see live animals and feed them if possible. It can be an unforgettable moment for your children when they visit so many animals in a place. Parents can describe an animal to their children so they can learn something about that animal.
2. Doing a coloring activity.
If you have not free time or just have a short time, you can choose this. Actually doing animal coloring activity is mostly used by parents and teachers to tell children about an animal. You can download free animal coloring pages through the internet or you can buy your children an animal coloring book.
3. Doing a paper craft.
If it sounds difficult you can skip this method. Just forget it. Generally, the difficulty level depends on your paper craft models. You can find free animal paper crafts on the internet but make sure of the difficulty level. Remember your purpose is not about how beautiful your paper crafts are but to describe an animal to your children.
4. Story telling.
Have you heard about an animal story when you were a child? You still remember it? How about the character of those animals? Yeah! It is still in your mind. You can buy a story book of animals and read it for your children.
There are also many other ways and everything needed here is just the creativity to connect it with the children and make them enjoy and have fun with your activities.
59. What’s the purpose of this passage?
A. To satisfy the curiosity of the kids.
B. To develop children’s EQ and IQ.
C. To give parents and teachers advice on how to introduce animals to kids.
D. To introduce some activities to let parents know more about their kids.
60. In the author’s opinion, which is the best way to let a kid know something about an animal?
A. Visiting a zoo B. Doing a coloring activity
C. Doing a paper craft D. Telling a story
61. If you are busy, which activity can you choose?
A. Download some beautiful paper crafts on the internet.
B. Buy your kid an animal coloring book.
C. Give your kid an unforgettable moment to visit many animals in a place.
D. Buy your kid a story book.
62. According to the author, what matters most in whatever activities you design for your children?
A. fun B. joy C. imagination D. creativity
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