【全国市级联考】山东省烟台市2020-2021学年高二下学期
期中考试英语试题
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Working with Kids - Volunteer in Peru!
Volunteers work with at - risk children in and around the historic city of Cusco, Peru. Placements include working in community centers, orphanages（孤儿院）, rural schools, and street children programs. Projects focus on providing boys and girls with shelter, food, and education. Various educational, recreational, and health projects are ongoing to support these unfortunate children. Volunteers work to help keep children off the street and to help provide them with a happy and productive childhood.
Depending on individual skills and interests, volunteers act as mentors（导师）, help children with their homework, organize sports and arts and crafts, and teach English. However, your care and support are the most important thing for these disadvantaged children.
This program is available year round and new programs begin every Monday. Volunteer programs are designed to lake place for as little as I week and up to I year.
NOTE: This, program qualifies for 3 - 4 university creditsvia our School of Record: （学分）California Suite University - Monterey Bay. To qualify, your program must be 4 weeks or longer.
Program Highlights:
1. Earn 3-4 university credits via our School of Record: California State University - Monterey Bay.
2. 2 hours/day of Spanish language classes are included in this program（optional）. 3. Cain international volunteer experience. 4. Improve your Spanish language skills.
5. Earn the President’s Volunteer Service Award（U. S. citizens）. 1．What is the program aimed to do? A．To improve Cusco’s education. B．To enrich the people’s life in Peru. C．To support the poor families in Peru.
D．To ensure a better life for the needy children in Cusco.
2．What are volunteers supposed to do in this program? A．Set up new schools. B．Clean the orphanages.
C．Give the children academic help. D．Involve the children in social practice.
3．Which of the following is not a benefit for volunteers in the program? A．Earning university credits. C．Celling volunteer experience.
How did you find out you’d been accepted to college? A thick, shiny packet（包）in the mail? Maybe an email?
Nolan Brown found out he’d been accepted to Butler University when he answered the front door Thursday afternoon and found a 65 - pound English bulldog on the other side. As the university’s live mascot（吉祥物）, Trip, tried to nose his way inside, representatives from Butler hand - delivered his admission packet. “We came from Butler to let you know you’ve been admitted to the Class of 2022,” said Michael Kaltenmark, Butler’s director.
Kaltenmark and Trip make anywhere from 40 to 100 home visits each year. Brown was just the seventh slop of the year and among the first likely Butler students to find out he’d been admitted. “These students have no idea.” Kaltenmark said, “which is really fun.”
It’s also really effective. Kaltenmark said students who get visited by Trip are three to four times more likely to choose Butler than students who are admitted but don’t get the personal visit. University administrators have been pleased with the results. too. “President Danko wants to done the dog and gel like 30 more,” Kaltenmark joked.
B．Developing more interests. D．Learning Spanish.
Nolan will wait to hear from a few other schools, but hopes he ends up in Butler’s strategic communications program. “I’ve been waiting anxiously for admissions from universities. It’s nice to know I’ve been accepted somewhere. This is the first one, and it feels good to get that monkey off my back,” he said.
Trip will continue to make visits throughout the college admissions season. Kaltenmark says they’ll make more stops around the Indianapolis area. “Sometimes the students already know they’ve been admitted, but Trip might make their decision easier. In those cases, we say ‘Congratulations! Here’s our dog, and we really want you to come in the fall,’” Kaltenmark said. “He’s sort of a hard face to say ‘no’ to.”
4．The author writes the second paragraph in order to . A．help students choose the right college B．suggest a new way to attract students
C．introduce an unusual means of admission deliver) D．prove that only excellent students can go to Butler
5．What docs “get that monkey off my back” in Para. 5 most probably mean? A．Gel rid of the burden. C．Be visited by the dog.
6．What can we infer from the text?
A．It is the first year for Kaltenmark and Trip to do the work. B．Students find it hard to refuse the admission because of the dog. C．Butler University will clone 30 dogs to help with the admission delivery. D．No students knew about their admission before Kaltenmark and Trip came. 7．What’s the best title of the text?
A．Students gel personal visits from Butler’s director B．How did you find out you’d been accepted to college? C．Butler University Admission Process Goes to die Dog D．Indianapolis Seniors are Admitted to Butler University
Listed below are the stories of women you may not know about, but definitely should. Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr starred in many films. But her film career is far from her only noteworthy achievement; she was also a brilliant inventor. In 1942, she and composer George Antheil received a patent（专利）for a device that could change radio signal frequencies. The purpose of the technology was to keep military enemies from figuring out messages. But it did more than that - it laid a foundation for the wireless technology we use today.
B．Discover a secret.
D．Recover from a pain in the back.
山东省烟台市2020-2021学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题(1)
