【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 es.‖ There are many different ways in which people can volunteer, such as taking care of sick people, working in homes for homeless children, and picking up garbage from beaches and parks. Volunteers may work within their own countries or in other countries. They are often people with a strong wish to help those who are less fortunate than themselves. Volunteers don’ t expect any kind of pay. At the root of volunteering is the idea that one person may have the ability to offer services that can help other people. Tracy, a good friend of mine, however, recently came back from India with a new idea of what being a volunteer means. She worked for two and a half weeks in one of Mother Teresa’ s homes in Calcutta（加爾各答） . The following is her story. I first heard about Mother Teresa in my high school, we watched a video about her work in India and all over the world. I was so moved by her spirit to help others and her endless love for every human being that after I graduated from high school, I also wanted to try her kind of work. So with two friends I flew to Calcutta for a few weeks. I was asked to work in a home for sick people. I helped wash clothes and sheets, and pass out lunch. I also fed the people who were too weak to feed themselves and tried to cheer them up. I felt it was better to share with them than to think that I have helped them. To be honest, I don’ t think I was helping very much. It was then that I realized that I had not really e to help, but to learn about and experience another culture that helped improve my own understanding of life and the world. 39. According to the text, a volunteer refers to a person who ______. A. is willing to help those in need without pay B. can afford to travel to different places C. has a strong wish to be successful D. has made a lot of money in life 40. Tracy started her work as a volunteer ______. A. after she met Mother Teresa B. after she finished high school C. when she was touring Calcutta D. when she was working in a hospital 41. Why did Tracy choose to be a volunteer? A. She liked to work with Mother Teresa. B. She had already had some experience. C. She was asked by Mother Teresa. D. She wanted to follow Mother Teresa’ s example. 42. What is Tracy’ s “ new idea” (Paragraph 2) of being a volunteer? A. Going abroad to help the sick. B. Working in Mother Teresa’ s home. C. Doing simple things to help the poor. D. Improving oneself through helping others. D Many people are surprised when they find the Inter was set up in the 1960s. At that time, puters were large and expensive. Computer works didn’t work well. If one puter in the work broke down, then the whole work stopped. So a new work system（系統(tǒng)） had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different puters. If part of the work was not working, information could be sent through another part. In this way puter work system would keep on working all the time. At first the Inter was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However, puters were still expensive and the Inter was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, puters became cheaper and easier to use. Today it is easy to get online and it is said that millions of people use the Inter every day. Sending is more and more popular among students. The Inter has now bee one of the most important parts of people’s life. 43. The Inter has a history of __________ years. A. less than 40 B. about 50 C. about 30 D. only 20 44. At first puter works _________. A. were used widely B. went wrong easily C. worked quite well D. were very popular 45. Computers bee cheaper and easier to use in the _________. A. 1960s B. 1970s C. 1980s D. 1990s 第二節(jié)（共 5 小題，每題 2 分，總分 10 分） 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后面的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。其中有兩項為多余項。 When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (團結(jié) ). To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. 46 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. Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn39。t have much money. They moved their family to San Fr