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广东省云浮市云安区2018-2019学年度九年级上学期英语期末考试试卷(含完整音频)

信息归纳.请阅读一篇关于美国学生在假期计划做志愿者的短文,根据所提供的信息,完成信息卡。

    If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others?

    Don't listen to people who say the young people today often think only of themselves. It's not true at all. More and more young people in the U.S.A. volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don't do it for money. Here are some of their stories.

Alice, 17

    I'm going to help the Forest Center build new hiking paths in the mountains. It's going to be terrific(极好的). I'll spend the whole summer living in the 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, 18

    This summer, I'm going to be a volunteer. I'm going to the Special House Program. They can build good, low-cost(低成本)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 have a chance to learn how to build houses.

Rita, 19

    I'm going to teach kids who have trouble in 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.

Information Card

Plan

Volunteer

What to do

Alice

Help the Forest Center  new hiking paths in the

Jason

Go to the Special House Program to help people. Have a chance to how to build houses.

Rita

Teach kids how to  . Help kids books.

举一反三
There are hundreds of funny and strange expressions in the English language. A lot of them include country names or nationalities. Take these examples:
The Dutch(丹麦人)are the target of most English expressions about nationalities. Why are there so many jokes about the Dutch in English? And what do these expressions mean? In the 17th and early 18th centuries, there were three wars between the British and the Dutch, and Dutch became a bad word. So double Dutch means something that has no meaning or is impossible to understand. A Dutch uncle is someone who gives much stronger advice than they need to. There are later expressions, which are funnier and kinder, like to go Dutch, which is nowadays a popular expression. It means to pay for your part of a bill. This often happens when a group of friends have a meal together, and each person pays for the food they ate. I'm a Dutchman is another commonly used expression. This means not being able to believe something.
An expression with a similar meaning to double Dutch is it's all Greek to me, which means I don't understand. The expression was made famous in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar although the expression is actually hundreds of years older.
If you take French leave, you are not present or leave somewhere without permission. For example, you could take French leave from a classroom or the place where you work. This expression is from the 18th century when French people left parties without saying goodbye to the host or hostess.
There are Chinese whispers, which mean confused(令人困惑的)messages. This describes the fact that a message can often change as it is passed from person to person. This expression comes from the First World War when foreigners were often confused by Chinese language.
Many people find English expressions confusing, but now that you know about some of them, you can easily have fun finding out many more funny English expressions.

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