Volunteering
Just like the animals we shelter, people are very special to us. The Animal Shelter of Sacramento County has 300 active volunteers and always wants to add more. If you have a few hours each week and a love for dogs and cats, we at the shelter welcome your coming.
Children 10 years of age or older are allowed to take part in some of our programs as youth volunteers when accompanied (陪伴) by an adult. The adult car be a parent, or guardian (监护人) 18 years of age or older
Youth Volunteer Opportunities
Youth volunteers may fill the position of dog nuzzler, cat snuggler, or kennel aide, if there are openings (空缺). Please call our volunteer information hotline at 1-800-290-5992 to hear a recording of the positions available.
Dog Nuzzlers
Dogs need human care and exercise to keep their health and level of comfort around people. Dog nuzzlers walk and clean the dogs staying at the shelter. Dog nuzzlers must be knowledgeable about dogs and able to deal with medium-sized to large-sized dogs. Youth volunteer dog nuzzlers must be able to work at least two hours between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. on Sundays.
Cat Snugglers
Help our cats keep their lovely qualities by giving them lots of attention. Cat snugglers must be knowledgeable about cats and their needs. Youth volunteer cat snugglers must be able to work at least two hours between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. on Saturdays.
Kennel Aides
Providing food and water for the animals at the shelter is a demanding job. Kennel aides assist the Animal Shelter staff in feeding the animals in our care. Kennel aides must be able to work at least two hours between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. on either Saturdays or Sundays.
1.The main purpose of this text is to .
A. look for youth volunteers
B. call on people to protect animals
C. introduce what the voluntary work is
D. teach people how to care for animals
2.Any young person who wants to work shelter should .
A. work all day long
B. be over 18 years old
C. call its information hotline first
D. have rich experience of raising animals
3.What' s the duty of a kennel aide?
A. To walk the animals. B. To train the animals.
C. To feed the animals. D. To treat the animals.
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Speed-reading is a necessary skill in the Internet age. We skim over articles, e-mails and We Chat to try to grasp key words and the essential meaning of a certain text. Surrounded with information from our electronic devices, it would be impossible to cope if we read word by word, line by line. But a new trend calls on people to unplug and enjoy reading slowly, listing benefits beyond the intelligent stimulation.
A recent story from The Wall Street Journal reported on a book club in Wellington, New Zealand, where members meet in a cafe and turn off their smart phones. They sink into comfortable chairs and read in silence for an hour. Unlike traditional book clubs, the point of the slow reading club isn't exchanging ideas about a certain book, but to get away from electronic devices and read in a quiet, relaxed environment. According to the Journal, the Wellington book club is just one example of a movement started by book lovers who miss the old-fashioned way of reading before the Internet and smart phones.
Slow readers, such as The Atlantic's Maura Kelly, say a regular reading habit sharpens the mind, improves concentration, reduces stress levels and deepens the ability to sympathize(共鸣，同感). Another study published last year in Science showed that reading novels helps people understand other's mental states and beliefs, a fundamental skill in building relationships. Yet technology has made us less attentive readers. Screens have changed our reading patterns from the straight and information left-to-right sequence to a wild skimming and skipping pattern as we hunt for important words and information. Reading text punctuated(加标点符号)with links leads to weaker comprehension than reading plain text. The Internet may have made us stupider, says Patrick Kingsley from The Guardian. Because of the Internet, he says, we have become very good at collecting a wide range of interesting news, but we are also gradually forgetting how to sit back, reflect, and relate all these facts to each other.
Slow reading means a return to an uninterrupted, straight pattern, in a quiet environment free of distractions. Aim for 30 minutes a day, advises Kelly from The Atlantic. “You can squeeze in that half hour pretty easily if only during your free moments, you pick up a meaningful work of literature,” Kelly said. “Reach for your e-reader, if you like．Kindles make books like War and Peace less heavy, not less substantive, and also ensure you'll never lose your place.”
1. According to Patrick Kingsley, people are stupider partly because of_____________.
A. the straight, left-to-right screen
B. the lack of reflection
C. wide range of interesting news
D. a non-stop reading pattern
2.According to the passage, slow reading___________.
A. contributes to understanding among people
B. promotes the current technology advances
C. provides people with a quiet environment
D. cures the memory loss of elderly people
3.What's the best title for the passage?
A. Benefit of Reading Clubs
B. Reading of the Internet Age
C. Return of Slow Reading
D. Influence of Speed Reading
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They use computers to keep the traffic _________ smoothly.
A. being run B. run C. to run D. running
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阅读下面材料，用不多于 1 个单词的正确形式填空
In the United States, there were 222 people 1. (report) to be billionaires (亿万富翁) in 2003. The 2. (rich) of these is Bill Gates, worth 3. least $ 41 billion, who made his money 4. starting the company Microsoft. Mr. Gates was only 21 years old 5. he first helped to set up the company in 1976. He was a billionaire by the time he was 31.
6. , there are still some other people who have made lots of money at even 7. (young) ages. Other young people who have struck it rich include Jackie Coogan and Shirley Temple. 8. of these child actors made over a million dollars 9. (act) in movies before they were 14. But 10. youngest billionaire is Albert von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, who, in 2001, inherited (继承) a billion dollars when he turned 18!
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语法填空,阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Edison was one of the greatest scientists that greatly shaped modem society.
When he was seven, Edison's family moved from Ohio to Michigan after his father got a job there. Because of hearing problems, he had difficulty 1. (follow) the lessons and often ran away from school. However, he used the time 2. (read) books and set up a laboratory in his home. But the smell from his laboratory was often so strong 3. his mother had to stop him from carrying out any more experiments at home.
At the age of twelve, Edison got a job on the Grand Trunk Railway. There, he made use of an abandoned (被抛弃的) car 4. his laboratory. During that time, he 5. (success) developed a device (设备) that could send messages. By 1869, Edison' s inventions in telegraphy were widely accepted, 6. made him decide to leave the job and become a full-time7. (invent). Edison's most' "well-known" inventions included the electric light bulb, microphones and so on. In explaining 8. he could come up with so many inventions, Edison said "Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
Edison 9. (die) at the age of 84 on October 18, 1931. At the time of his death, he was still doing experiments in his laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. He clearly enjoyed his work and lived life to 10. fullest.
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完形填空,阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There was a woman in Detroit，who has two sons．She was worried________ them，especially the younger one, Ben，________ he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class________ fun of him because he seemed so________ ．
The mother ________that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She________ them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a________ a week and do a report about it for her．
One day，in Ben’s ________ , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben ________ up his hand and the teacher let him________. “Why did Ben raise his hand？” they wondered. He ________ said anything; what could he possibly want to say？ Well, Ben not only________ the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew________ the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were________ . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book________ ．
Ben later went on to the ________ of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University________ at last became one of the best doctors in the United States．
After Ben had grown up，he ________ something about his mother that he did not know as a ________. She，herself，had never learned how to ________ ．
1.A．about B. on C. with D. over
2.A．because B. so C. but D. though
3.A．played B. got C. took D. made
4.A．clever B. hard C. slow D. quick
5.A．asked B. decided C. forgot D. heard
6.A．made B. let C. told D. considered
7.A．notice B. message C. book D. question
8.A．class B. room C. office D. lab
9.A．looked B. gave C. took D. put
10.A．think B. leave C. stand D. speak
11.A．always B. even C. quickly D. never
12.A．found B. played C. knew D. threw
13.A．whether B. when C. where D. why
14.A．afraid B. surprised C. worried D. unhappy
15.A．pictures B. exercises C. shops D. reports
16.A．top B. end C. back D. side
17.A．so B. and C. or D. however
18.A．learnt B. remembered C. understood D. guessed
19.A．doctor B. child C. student D. teacher
20.A．read B. work C. teach D. show
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完型填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
My class and I visited Chris Care Center in Phoenix, Arizona to comfort the old people who needed a little cheering up during the holiday season.
The first two there were for persons requiring help in taking care of themselves. We sang________ for them. They loved our sweet songs and the flowers that we left with them.
As we were ________ on the third floor for old people with Alzheimer (老年痴呆症), most of them ________off at the walls or floor. However, one lady ________ my eye. She was sitting by the door, in a wheelchair, singing songs to herself. They weren’t the songs that we were singing, at least they didn’t ________ like that. As we got ________ with each festive song, she did as well. The louder we got, the louder she got. ________ she was singing, she was also ________ out to us with her hands and body. I knew that I should have gone over to her, but I thought that my________ were to my students. People who worked at the care center could ________ to her, I thought. Just when I stopped feeling ________ about not giving her the attention she needed, one of my students, Justin, showed me what the holiday season is really about.
Justin also ________ the same lady. The difference between us is that he ________ on her needs, but I didn’t. During the last song, “Silent Night,” Justin walked over to her and held her hand. He looked this aged lady in her ________ and with his actions said, “You are important, and I will take my ________ to let you know that.” This tired, elderly lady stopped singing and held his hand. Then she touched his cheek with the other hand. Tears began to fall down her face. No________ can completely describe that touching moment.
It ________ a boy to teach me, a man, about kindness and love. Justin’s example of a complete, selfless attitude toward another was a ________ that I will never forget. He was the teacher that day, and I consider myself ________ to have witnessed his lesson.
1.A. rooms B. buildings C. floors D. groups
2.A. bravely B. beautifully C. madly D. shyly
3.A. singing B. meeting C. gathering D. dancing
4.A. glared B. shut C. paid D. stared
5.A. looked B. caught C. escaped D. hurt
6.A. appear B. hear C. sound D. feel
7.A. higher B. nearer C. faster D. louder
8.A. As B. Because C. Since D. Though
9.A. moving B. reaching C. coming D. spreading
10.A. interests B. abilities C. feelings D. responsibilities
11.A. speak B. attend C. object D. compare
12.A. guilty B. sure C. afraid D. scary
13.A. feared B. avoided C. helped D. noticed
14.A. called B. acted C. insisted D. kept
15.A. tears B. hands C. eyes D. face
16.A. body B. flower C. time D. cheek
17.A. words B. poems C. expressions D. songs
18.A. made B. wasted C. caused D. took
19.A. message B. lesson C. activity D. class
20.A. clever B. foolish C. lucky D. right
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。
Alibaba founder, Jack Ma graduated from the Hangzhou Teacher’s Institute in 1988 with a major in English language education, and went on to teach at another university in the city. He gave up 1. university teaching job after 2. （discover）the Internet.
Ma became excited __3. the Internet during a visit to the United States in 1995 and wanted to find a way 4.（bring ）the online world to China. In 1999, he persuaded friends to give him $60,000 to start an e-commerce firm called Alibaba.
Seeing an opportunity for small businesses to buy and sell their goods online, he started Alibaba, firstly running the company out of his apartment in the 5. （east） city of Hangzhou. Alibaba Group includes Tmall.com for business-to-consumer trade and Taobao, China’s 6. （popular ）online consumer marketplace with hundreds of millions of products and services listed. Now the company is 7. Internet giant and Ma—a former English teacher---is among China’s most super-rich.
On his long road to riches, Jack Ma says his 8. （inspire） has been the film character Forrest Gump.
“I like that guy. I 9. （watch） that movie about 10 times,” he said in an interview with CNBC.
“Every time I get frustrated, I watch that movie.”
Ma said the lesson he learned from the film featuring Tom Hanks was 10. “no matter what changes, you are you. I’m still the guy I was 15 years ago when I earned $20 a month.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届河北正定中学高三上学期第五次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
You get anxious if there’s no wi-fi in the hotel or mobile phone signal up the mountain. You feel upset if your phone is getting low on power and you secretly worry things will go wrong at work if you’re not there. All these can be called “always on” stress caused by smart phone addiction.
For some people, smart phones have liberated them from the nine-to-five work. Flexible working has given them more autonomy in their working lives and enabled them to spend more time with their friends and families. For many others though, smart phones have become cruel masters in their pockets, never allowing them to turn them off and relax.
Pittsburgh-based developer Kevin Holesh was worried about how much he was ignoring his family and friends in favor of his iPhone. So he developed an app — Moment — to monitor his usage. The app enables users to see how much time they’re spending on the device and set up warnings if the usage limits are broken. “Moment’s goal is to promote balance in your life,” his website explains. “Some time on your phone, some time off it enjoying your loving family and friends around you.”
Dr. Christine Grant, an occupational psychologist at Coventry University, said, “The effects of this ‘always on’ culture are that your mind is never resting, and you’re not giving your body time to recover, so you’re always stressed. And the more tired and stressed we get, the more mistakes we make. Physical and mental health can suffer.”
And as the number of connected smart phones is increasing, so is the amount of data. This is leading to a sort of decision paralysis (瘫痪) and is creating more stress in the workplace because people have to receive a broader range of data and communications which are often difficult to manage. “It actually makes it more difficult to make decisions and many do less because they’re controlled by it all and feel they can never escape the office,” said Dr. Christine Grant.
1.What’s the first paragraph mainly about?
A. The popularity of smart phones.
B. The progress of modern technology.
C. The signs of “always on” stress.
D. The cause of smart phone addiction.
2.Kevin Holesh developed Moment to __________.
A. research how people use their mobile phones
B. help people control their use of mobile phones
C. make people better use mobile phones
D. increase the fun of using mobile phones
3.What’s Dr. Christine Grant’s attitude towards “always on” culture?
A. Confused. B. Positive.
C. Doubtful. D. Critical.
4.According to the last paragraph, a greater amount of data means __________.
A. we will become less productive
B. we can make a decision more quickly
C. we will be equipped with more knowledge
D. we can work more effectively
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