【正文】 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 too 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 the 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(文化 ) that helped improve my own understanding of life and the world.” 6 36. 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 big fortune in life 37. 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 38. 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’s example. D. She wanted to follow Mother Teresa’s example. 39. 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. B As nanny(保姆 ), cook, cleaner, shopper, driver, and gardener, she has one of the 7 most demanding jobs in Britain today. And paying someone else to do the chores(家務(wù)活 ) which take the average housewife 71 hours a week would cost €349. At over €18,000 a year that’s more than the earnings of 70 percent of the population, including train drivers, firemen, prison officers, and social worker. Looking after a baby less than a year old takes a housewife into a even higher pay league. According to a stud, she earns €457 a week – at nearly €24,000 a year, the same as teachers, engineers, and chemists. Researchers put a price on each chore, then tried to find out how long the average person takes doing them. They found housewives spend an average hours a week on housework – with looking after the children () and cooking and cleaning ( hours each) the most timeconsuming(費(fèi)時 ). A wife with a parttime job still works and average of 59 hours a week at home. Those in fulltime employment put in longer hours at home than in the workplace. The good news is that these hours sharply as children get older. While the average mother with child under one puts in 90 hours weekly, the figure drops to 80 hours from one to four and to 66 hours from five to ten. Motheroffour Karen Williams from London said, “Paying the housewives may not be practical, but the government should recognize the value of housework, perhaps through the tax. Running a house takes a lot of time and most husbands don’t understand this. For example, my husband only puts a shelf up now and again. He never cleans the kitchen – that’s the real test.” 40. Who earns most according to the text? 8 A. A social worker. B. A fireman. C. A gardener. D. A teacher. 41. We lean from the text that looking after children ______. A. takes more time than doing any other housework B. means more duties than being a teacher C. requires the mother to be welleducated D. prevents the mother from working outside 42. According to the text, a housewife with a baby less than one year old may work _____. A. 66 hours a week B. 71 hours a week C. 80 hours a week D. 90 hours a week 43. By mentioning her husband, Karen Williams wants to show that ______. A. housework is no easy job B. her husband has no time to clean the kitchen C. a housewife needs to be paid for cleaning D. the kitchen is hard to clean C Are you sometimes a little tire