Harvard student Julie Zauzmer turned 20 on January 22, and her birthday couldn’t have been better: She got to working the overnight shift at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter.
That might seem an extraordinary act of selflessness for someone turning 20. But there’s increasing evidence that commitment to community service is becoming much more ordinary to today’s young adults.
“Young adults are doing more volunteer service than in any point in history,’’ said Scott Seider, an assistant professor of education at Boston University who studies the civic development of young adults.
At Harvard, the Winthrop Street Homeless Shelter is one of 86 social service programs associated with the Phillips Brooks House Association, which is a student-run nonprofit organization. Students can work with deaf children, bring pets to nursing homes, and prepare Chinese students to become US citizens, and so on.
Volunteerism develops well outside of colleges, too. Applications to AmeriCorps have risen to a very high level, jumping from 91,399 in 2008 to 258,829 in 2010. City Year, which puts young people in high-poverty schools as tutors and mentors for at-risk students, has had a 140 percent increase in applications since its 2007-2008 service year. Citizen Schools, which uses volunteers to work with students in middle schools, has had a 28 percent jump in applicants between 2008 and 2009.
“Most of my friends know it’s their duty to give back before they settle down,’’ said Samantha Wolf, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate serving with City Year in a Mattapan school.
City Year corps member Antonio Gutierrez, 22, graduated last year from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., and is applying for admission to law schools, but this year he is tutoring and mentoring students at the Blackstone Elementary School in the South End.
“I grew up in similar circumstances,’’ said Gutierrez, who said he was a weak student until enrichment programs changed his academic trajectory (軌跡). Raised by a single mother in low-income housing across the street from City Year’s South End Headquarters, he used to watch the red-jacketed corps members come and go, and decided to become one someday.
【小題1】We learn from what Scott Seider says in Paragraph 3 that young people today .
| A．study harder than before |
| B．do more volunteering than ever before |
| C．don’t care much about others |
| D．like to find jobs in their communities |
| A．It helps to find jobs for college students. |
| B．It offers shelters to the homeless people. |
| C．It helps to build schools for poor students. |
| D．It engages young people to teach at high-poverty schools. |
| A．He wants to give back as a volunteer. |
| B．He has always been an excellent student. |
| C．He never expected to become a volunteer. |
| D．He now works as a teacher. |
| A．Volunteering spirit has disappeared |
| B．How to become a college student |
| C．College students learn to give back |
| D．The real life of young adults today |
【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】A
【小題4】C
解析試題分析: 文章通過幾個(gè)大學(xué)生的例子說明，當(dāng)今的年輕人越來越熱衷于做志愿工作。
【小題1】B。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文章第三段Young adults are doing more volunteer service than in any point in history可知，這位專家認(rèn)為當(dāng)今的年輕人比歷史上任何時(shí)候都更熱衷于志愿工作。故選B。
【小題2】D。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文章第五段City Year, which puts young people in high-poverty schools as tutors and mentors for at-risk students可知，這個(gè)機(jī)構(gòu)是讓年輕人到貧困學(xué)生集中的學(xué)校去任教。故選D。
【小題3】A。推理判斷題。文章最后一段說明，這位大學(xué)生曾經(jīng)得到過別人的幫助，他一直想要成為一名志愿者。故選A。
【小題4】C。主旨大意題。綜合分析全文可知，文章通過幾個(gè)大學(xué)生的例子來說明，年輕人熱衷于做志愿者工作，回報(bào)社會(huì)。故選C。
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| C．when they are at school（在上學(xué)） |
| D．because they are children |
| A．聊天 | B．核對(duì) |
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| C．To arouse the readers' interest in happiness. |
| D．To introduce the happiness course. |
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| B．practice how to speak in front of people |
| C．equip them with required social skills |
| D．confidently speak out one's opinions |
| A．to help students discover the ways to happiness |
| B．to make all the students happy all the time |
| C．required to be taken by the first year students |
| D．created by the Willy Hellpach School |
| A．the students can certainly become happy after the course |
| B．the students just took the course as a laughing matter |
| C．the students' self'-respect can also improve happiness |
| D．the students waste time learning something without value |
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| A．they are usually asked to e-mail their homework and essays |
| B．they can correct the mistakes they make quickly and conveniently |
| C．they find it not easy to remember how to write a character |
| D．computers have become popular in China. |
| A．Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic value. |
| B．The writer’s thinking and personality are shown in his or her handwriting. |
| C．Handwriting contains the writer's emotion. |
| D．Handwriting can impress people well and build up one’s self-confidence. |
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| A．more and more students will pay attention to handwriting |
| B．more and more students will give up writing on a computer |
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【小題1】What did the writer think of Timothy after learning about his typical day__________?
| A．Timothy was very hardworking. |
| B．Timothy was being mistreated. |
| C．Timothy had a heavy burden. |
| D．Timothy was enjoying his childhood. |
| A．Children should be allowed enough time to play. |
| B．Playing board games works better than playing video games. |
| C．The more they play, the more creative children will become. |
| D．The depression caused by homework makes children unwilling to play. |
| A．About ten minutes. | B．No more than twenty minutes. |
| C．No more than thirty minutes. | D．About fifty minutes. |
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Now came great news! It came from a neighboring state, where the family’s only surviving relative lived. It was Sally’s relative—a distant relative by the name of Tilbury Foster, seventy and single. Tilbury now wrote to Sally, saying he should shortly die, and should leave him thirty thousand dollars, cash; not for love, but because money had given him most of his troubles, and he wished to place it where there was good hope that it would continue its evil work. The bequest would be found in his will, and would be officially handed over provided that Sally should be able to prove to the executors (遺囑執(zhí)行人).
As soon as Aleck had partially recovered from the strong emotions created by the letter, she sent someone to the relative’s home and subscribed for the local paper.
For the rest of the day Sally made confusion with his books, and Aleck could not keep her mind on her affairs, not even take up a flower-pot or book or a stick of wood without forgetting what she had intended to do with it. For both were dreaming.
“Thirty thousand dollars!”
All day long Aleck was absorbed in planning how to invest it, Sally in planning how to spend it.
There was no romance-reading that night. The children took themselves away early, for their parents were silent, disturbed, and strangely unentertaining. Two pencils had been busy during that hour —note-making; in the way of plans. It was Sally who broke the stillness at last. He said, with excitement, “Ah, it’ll be grand, Aleck! Out of the first thousand we’ll have a horse and a buggy for summer, and a cutter and a skin lap-robe for winter.”
Aleck responded with decision and calmness.
“You can spend a part of it. But the whole of the capital must be put right to work.
“Why, yes. Yes, of course. Have you got it invested yet?”
“No, there’s no hurry about that; I must look around first, and think, er…, I’ve turned it over twice; once in oil and once in wheat.”
“Why, Aleck, it’s splendid! What does it amount to?”
“I think — well, to be on the safe side, about a hundred and eighty thousand clear, though it will probably be more.”
“My! Isn’t it wonderful? Good heaven! Luck has come our way at last, Aleck!”
Then they went up to bed, but they left the candle burning in the sitting room. They did not remember until they were undressed; then Sally was for letting it burn; he said they could afford it, if it was a thousand. But Aleck went down and put it out.
A good job, too; for on her way back she hit on a scheme that would turn the hundred and eighty thousand into half a million before it had had time to get cold.
【小題1】 Why would Tilbury like to give all his money to Sally?
| A．Because Sally was Tilbury’s only relative alive. |
| B．Because Tilbury loved Sally and his family deeply. |
| C．Because Tilbury wanted his money to continue its function. |
| D．Because Sally and his wife are good at investing. |
| A．a(chǎn) gift of personal property | B．a(chǎn) proof of a person’s identity |
| C．a(chǎn) method of getting money | D．a(chǎn) reason for giving money |
| A．They were in deep sorrow and stayed up all night. |
| B．They cared little about the bequest and lived their life as usual. |
| C．They paid a visit to Tilbury to confirm the truth of the letter. |
| D．They had a big ambition to invest the money and make huge profits. |
| A．Thrilling News | B．Sally’s Distant Relative |
| C．The $30,000 Bequest | D．A Smart Investment |
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