第2讲说明文A篇一、请阅读下面文章,并根据文章选择正确答案Volunteering means spending some of your free time helping others. You may volunteer to help other people, but you can also volunteer to protect animals, the environment, or any other thing that you care about. Volunteering helps others, but it can also help you. If youre worried about something thats happened, doing something can be a great way to cope with处理 your feelings. Volunteering can let you see your own lifein new ways. Sometimes its easy to worry about things like grades or get angry because you dont have the most expensive shoes or the newest puter game. Volunteering lets you spend some time on others for a while. Lots of people find that they really enjoy volunteering. Volunteer experiences经历often put you in a different environment. Doing volunteer work means one very important thing: You make a difference产生影响in the world. Volunteering is a great way to have fun with your family, and here are some ideas on how you can do together:Clean up a park, or a road along a river.Plant trees or flowers in your munity.Serve food at a homeless shelter. Give meals to people who are elderly or ill at home. Clean up a school or other public buildings. Some schools now require kids to spend some of their time on service to others. Volunteering gives kids a taste of responsibility责任心, because people are depending on them for something important. Volunteering also can help kids learn important things about themselves. A volunteer job can even help some kids decide what they want to do when they grow up. So what are you waiting for? Make a plan to start volunteering today!Vocabularies: 1. Volunteering n. 志愿活动；志愿者活动2. volunteer n.志愿者; adj. 志愿的; v.自愿3. care about关心；在乎；担忧；关怀4. cope with 对付；处理；应付5. make a difference有影响；起重要作用6. homeless shelter收容中心；流浪汉庇护所；7. requirev. 要求；需要；想要；命令8. responsibility n.责任；职责；责任感9. depend on 依赖；依靠；凭借10. grow up向上生长；长大；成熟1. To be a volunteer is useful to some students because _.A. they would like very much to buy expensive shoesB. their schools ask them to spend more time serving othersC. it can help them make their own decisions when they are olderD. they can serve food at homeless shelters2. Volunteering can give us a lot so that _. A. we neednt worry about our grades or the environmentB. we can enjoy being served better in different waysC. we have more fun only with our families and friendsD. we should try our best to do more volunteer work3. The reason why students are asked to do some volunteering is that _.A. students should be more responsible for their school work and social workB. students are too lazy to do any work, inside or outside their schools and homesC. students always depend too much on their schools and familiesD. students are always waiting for the decisions of their parents or schools4.What does the underlined word munity mean in Chinese? A. 公社B. 公司 C. 社区 D. 社团Keys: CDAC练习一. 英英释义1 Aunt Mary volunteered to clean up the kitchen. A. offer help willinglyB. want C. hateD. plan2 I mean to go shopping this afternoon. A. meanB. plan toC. am goingD. mean that I shall3If you require further information, you should ask the teacher. A. searchB. need C. order D. enquire4 We put off the conference in order to better cope with the tense situation. A. e up with B. mix with C. deal with D. together with5 The sea air has made a difference to his health. A. damagedB. made a difficulty to C. been different fromD. improved Keys: ABBCD二. 词性转换1 mean v. mean doing sth.意思是,意味着；mean to do打算 _ n. 意义；含义 _ adj. 有意义的 _ adj. 无意义的We fill up our lives with _ tasks.The child read the story but did not prehend its _.meaningWhat do you _ by opening my letters without permission?meanHe glanced _ at the other policeman, then he went up the stairs.We found no _ differences at all, she says.Keys: meaningless meaning mean meaningfully meaningful2 experience n. 经验,经历 _ adj. 老练的,富有经验的 _ n. 经验者,感受者 We should learn from _ teachers. We had never _ this kind of holiday before.Keys: experienced experienced3 responsibility n. 责任 _ adj. 有责任心的,负责的 _ adv.负责的Do you want to be _ for your own life decisions?It was his _ for foreign affairs that gained him international prestige.Keys: responsible responsibility1. Volunteering 2. volunteer 3. care about 4. cope with 5.make a difference 6. homeless shelter 7. require 8. responsibility 9. depend on 10. grow up三. 选词填空1. She would like to voluntee