(B) The Red Cross is an international organization. It cares for people who are in need of help. A man in a Paris hospital needed blood, a woman in Mexico hurt in an earthquake and a family in India lost their home in a storm—all of them may be helped by the Red Cross.

The Red Cross is in almost every country around the world. The world Red Cross organizations are sometimes called the Red Crescent (红新月会). All of these agencies (机构)share the same goal of trying to help people in need. The idea of forming such an organization started with Jean Henri Dunant. In 1859, he saw how people were suffering during the war in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people regardless of (无论) which side they were fighting for. The American Red Cross was set up by Clara Barton in 1881. Today the Red Cross in the United States provides a number of services for the people, such as helping people in need, teaching first-aid and providing blood.

( )51. A good title for this passage is _______.

A. People in Need of Help

B. Forming an Organization to Help the Soldiers.

C. The International Red Cross

D. How to Help People

( )52. The underlined word “suffering” in Paragraph 3 means “_______”.

A. 受苦的

B.生活的

C. 欢庆的

D. 死亡的

( )53. When will the American Red Cross celebrate its two hundred years birthday?

A. In 2059.

B. In 2200.

C. In 2081.

D. In 2018.

( )54. Who can be helped by the Red Cross?

A. The soldiers.

B. The Americans.

C. All the wounded people.

D. The old.

( )55. Where can you find the Red Cross?

A. We can only find it in the USA.

B. We can find it all over the world.

C. We can find it only in India, Mexico and Paris.

D. We can find it only in China.

(C) If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others? Don’t listen to people who say that young people today often think only of themselves. It’s not true at all. More and more young people in the USA volunteer to spend their holidays working for others. And they don’t do it for money. Here are some of their stories.

Alice Hamilton, 17 I’m going to help the Forest Centre build new hiking paths in the mountains. It’s going to be terrific. I’ll spend the whole summer living in a tent and breathing the clean mountain air. I’m going to sleep under the stars. It will be a nice sport, and I’ll be able to do something good at the same time!

Jason Moore, 18 This summer I’m going to volunteer with Special House Program. They build good, cheap houses and sell them to families that are not very rich. They’ll teach me what to do, so I’ll help people and also learn how to build houses.

Trish Anderson, 16 I’m going to teach kids who have trouble reading. I’ll work for a program called Reading For Life. Every day I’m going to help kids choose and read books that they like. I want to be a teacher, and I love children and reading, so this is going to be a great experience for me.

( )56. Young people in the USA volunteer to spend _______ helping others.

A. school holidays

B. weekdays

C. every morning

D. every afternoon

( )57. What does Alice volunteer to do in summer?

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