人教版英语精品资料（精修版）Section_Warming Up & Reading PrereadingDo you know the Peace Corps and what the Peace Corps volunteers do? Read the following passage to get the answers.President John F. Kennedy began the program, Peace Corps, in 1961. The Peace Corps sends American volunteers to provide technical assistance in education and other areas in developing countries.Amanda Pease is one of almost 40 volunteers serving in rural schools in Sierra Leone.Ms Pease teaches science at Saint Josephs, a high school in eastern Sierra Leone. She studied chemical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. She decided to serve for two years in the Peace Corps after she finished her degree.“I was trying to decide between going the academic (学术的) route and doing a postdoctoral (博士后) degree and go into industry, and then I had been doing some volunteer work and the idea was always floating around，” she says.Peace Corps volunteers left Sierra Leone in 1994 because of civil war. But now they are back.Science teachers are in especially short supply. Efforts in Sierra Leone to get more children through primary school have led to crowded high schools.Amanda Pease is the only chemistry and physics teacher at her school. She says she has to work hard to get students more interested in learning, as she thought they would be.“I had sort of a romantic idea coming to a developing country where everyone is super motivated but just does not have opportunities, and that is not exactly how it is. Not that I am saying the opportunities are so great, because of course there are limited opportunities if you compare it to America, but I think one of the biggest things is literally just motivation，” she says.What she loves best about her experience, she says, is the magical moment when students understand a chemical process or ask her for more exercises.More than 8,000 Peace Corps volunteers are currently serving around the world. Volunteers become part of the community where they work and live.Warming Up1Look at the following pictures and fill in the blanks.2What do the volunteers do?3The picture is the sign for Chinese Young Volunteers Association. Now you can try your best to match the meaning of each part to the divided signs.The heart stands forAhelpThe hand stands for Blove and careThe dove stands for CpeaceThe letter “Y” stands for Dyoung答案：BACDFast Reading1Read the text quickly and complete the main idea of it.The text is a letter written by Jo, a young volunteer who teaches in a(n) high school in a poor mountainous village.She writes of her experiences as a teacher and her visit to the village where one of her students lives.2Read the text and then match the main idea with each part.(1)Paragraph 1A. Jo and Jenny visited Tombes home in the village.(2)Paragraph 23 BClosing of the letter.(3)Paragraph 48 C. The school where Jo worked and Jos work at school.(4)Paragraph 9 D. Opening of the letter and introduction to what will be talked about in the passage.答案：(1)(4)DCABCareful Reading1Read the text and then choose the best answers. (1)Jo wrote the letter to her friend to _.Aencourage her friend to come to Papua New GuineaBshare some photos she took in Papua New GuineaCdescribe her work experience in Papua New Guinea Dintroduce Papua New Guinea to her friend(2)The boys jumped out of the windows in the chemistry class because they_.Adidnt like doing chemistry experimentsBwere frightened by the bubbling mixtureCwanted to ask someone else for helpDcouldnt stand the smell of the mixture(3)Why does Jo wonder how relevant chemistry is to the kids?ABecause she thinks chemistry is too difficult to learn.BBecause she thinks chemistry may make little difference to the kids life.CBecause the kinds there hardly come across anything of chemistry.DBecause she thinks chemistry useless.(4)What can we learn about the school?AIt is located in a bush.BIts buildings are round.CIt is very dark inside.DIt is far from most students homes.(5)Why did Tombe throw the leftover food out of the hut?ABecause he disliked the leftover food.BBecause it was too dry to eat.CBecause he believed leftovers attracted evil spirits.DBecause he always wasted food.答案：(1)(5)CBBDC2Read the text carefully and fill in the form.Thehigh schoola bush school the classrooms are made of (1)bamboo and the roofs of grassno electricity or water and even no (2)textbooksTombeshousea low bamboo hut with (3)grass sticking out of the roofno (4)windowsthe narrow (5)doorwaydark insidefresh grass laid on the floor and a newly made platform for us to sleep ona fireplace in the (6)centre of the hut near the doorwayone broom, a few tin plates and cups and several (7)jarsLocal dietand customsStones are laid on the (8)fire o