There is virtually no limit to how one can serve (1) community interests, from spending a few hours a week with some charitable organization to practically full-time work for a social agency. Just as there are opportunities for voluntary service (2) (VSO) for young people before they (3) full-time employment, so there are opportunities for overseas service for (4) technicians in developing countries. Some people, (5) those who retire early, (6) their technical and business skills in countries where there is a special need. So in considering voluntary or (7) community service there are more opportunities than there (8) were when one first began work. Most voluntary organizations have only a small full-time (9) , and depend very much on volunteers and part-timers. This means that working relationships are different from those in commercial organizations, and values may be different. (10) some ways they may seem more casual and less efficient, but one should not (11) them by commercial criteria. The people who work with them do so for different reasons and with different (12) , both personal and (13) One should not join them (14) to arm them with professional expertise; they must be joined with commitment to the (15) , not business efficiency. Because salaries are (16) or non- existent many voluntary bodies offer modest expenses. But many retired people take part in community service for (17) , simply because they enjoy the work. Many community activities possible. (18) retirement were also possible during one’s working life but they are to be undertaken (19) seriously for that. Retired people who are just looking for something different or unusual to do should not consider (20) community service.
A. look at
B. comment
C. enjoy
D. judge
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There is virtually no limit to how one can serve (1) community interests, from spending a few hours a week with some charitable organization to practically full-time work for a social agency. Just as there are opportunities for voluntary service (2) (VSO) for young people before they (3) full-time employment, so there are opportunities for overseas service for (4) technicians in developing countries. Some people, (5) those who retire early, (6) their technical and business skills in countries where there is a special need. So in considering voluntary or (7) community service there are more opportunities than there (8) were when one first began work. Most voluntary organizations have only a small full-time (9) , and depend very much on volunteers and part-timers. This means that working relationships are different from those in commercial organizations, and values may be different. (10) some ways they may seem more casual and less efficient, but one should not (11) them by commercial criteria. The people who work with them do so for different reasons and with different (12) , both personal and (13) One should not join them (14) to arm them with professional expertise; they must be joined with commitment to the (15) , not business efficiency. Because salaries are (16) or non- existent many voluntary bodies offer modest expenses. But many retired people take part in community service for (17) , simply because they enjoy the work. Many community activities possible. (18) retirement were also possible during one’s working life but they are to be undertaken (19) seriously for that. Retired people who are just looking for something different or unusual to do should not consider (20) community service.
A. course
B. cause
C. case
D. caution
There is virtually no limit to how one can serve (1) community interests, from spending a few hours a week with some charitable organization to practically full-time work for a social agency. Just as there are opportunities for voluntary service (2) (VSO) for young people before they (3) full-time employment, so there are opportunities for overseas service for (4) technicians in developing countries. Some people, (5) those who retire early, (6) their technical and business skills in countries where there is a special need. So in considering voluntary or (7) community service there are more opportunities than there (8) were when one first began work. Most voluntary organizations have only a small full-time (9) , and depend very much on volunteers and part-timers. This means that working relationships are different from those in commercial organizations, and values may be different. (10) some ways they may seem more casual and less efficient, but one should not (11) them by commercial criteria. The people who work with them do so for different reasons and with different (12) , both personal and (13) One should not join them (14) to arm them with professional expertise; they must be joined with commitment to the (15) , not business efficiency. Because salaries are (16) or non- existent many voluntary bodies offer modest expenses. But many retired people take part in community service for (17) , simply because they enjoy the work. Many community activities possible. (18) retirement were also possible during one’s working life but they are to be undertaken (19) seriously for that. Retired people who are just looking for something different or unusual to do should not consider (20) community service.
A. before
B. lately
C. never
D. ever
African elephants have been slaughtered at alarming (1) over the past decade, large ly because they are the primary source of the world’s ivory. Their population has been dwindled from 1.3 million in 1979 to just 625,000 today, and the rate of killing has been (2) in recent years because many of the older, bigger tusked animals have already been (3) "The poachers now must kill times (4) many elephants to get the same quantity of ivory," explained Curtis Bohlen, senior vice president of the World Wildlife Fund. (5) its record on the environment has been spotty so far, the government last week took the (6) in a major conservation issue by (7) a ban on ivory imports into the US. The move came just four days after a consortium of (8) groups, including the World Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation International, called for that kind of (9) , and it made the US the first nation to (10) imports of both raw and (11) ivory. The ban, says Bohlen, sends a very clear (12) to the ivory poachers that the game is over. In the past African nations have resisted an ivory ban, but (13) they realized that the decimation of the elephant herds poses a (14) threat to their tourist business. Last month Tanzania and several other African countries (15) an amendment to the 102 nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (16) would make the ivory trade illegal worldwide. The amendment is expected to be (17) at an October meeting in Geneva and to go into effect next January. But (18) now and then, conservationists (19) , poachers may go on a rampage, killing elephants (20) , so nations should unilaterally forbid imports right away.
A. head
B. lead
C. first
D. advance
(2)依据上述材料的论述评述“中国是一个未得到满足的、雄心勃勃的大国,它的目标是支配亚洲”这一观点。