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Unit 2 I'll help to clean up the city parks

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Students Who Volunteer

Mario Green and Mary Brown from Riverside High School give up several hours each week 1 others.

Mario loves animals and wants to be 2 animal doctor. He volunteers at an animal hospital every Saturday morning. Mario believes it can help him to get his future dream 3 . “ It' s hard work , ” he says , “but I want to learn more about how to care for animals . I get such a strong 4 of satisfaction when I see the animals get 5 and the look of joy on their 6 faces.”

Mary is a book lover. She could read by herself at the age of four. Last year she decided to try out for a volunteer after-school 7 program .she still 8 there once a week to help kids learn to read. The kids are sitting in the library, but you can see in their eyes that they’re going on a 9 journey with each new book. 10 here is a dream come true for me. I can do what I love to do and help others at the same time.

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I’ll Send You a Photo of Lucky

Dear Miss Li,

I’d like to thank you for sending money to Animal Helpers. I’m sure you know that this group was set up to help 1 people like me. You helped to make it possible for me to have Lucky. Lucky makes a big 2 to my life. Let me tell you my story. What would it be like to be blind or deaf? Or imagine you can’t walk o r use your hands 3 . Most people would never think about this, but many people have these 4 . I can’t use my arms or legs well, so normal things like a 5 the telephone, opening and closing doors, or carrying things are difficult for me. Then one day last year, a friend of 6 helped me out. She talked to Animal Helpers about getting me a special trained dog. She also thought a dog might cheer me up. I love animals and I was excited about the idea of having a dog.

After six months of training with a dog at Animal Helpers, I was able to bring him home. My dog’s name is Lucky — a good name for him because I feel very 7 to have him. You see, I’m only able to have a“dog-helper” because of your 8 ! Lucky is very clever and understands many English words. He can understand me when

I give him orders. For example, I say, “Lucky! 9 t my book,” and he does it at once.

Lucky is a fantastic dog. I’ll send you a photo of him if you like, and I could show you how he helps me. Thank you again for 10 my life.

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French and American doctors have done an operation together in which the doctors were outside the operating room. This kind of operation is known as robotic operation.

Doctor Marescaux did the operation in an office in New York City last month , while a sixty-year-old woman patient was in a hospital in Strasbourg, France. A doctor in Strasbourg got the patient ready. He placed medical tools (工具)and a small video camera in her stomach(胃). Doctor Marescaux in New York watched the patient on a video screen. Then he used the computer to send messages to the robot machine. The robot moved the tools that cut the woman’s gallbladder(胆囊 ) away. The woman got well soon after the operation and left the hospital two days later. Experts say the main problem with such a robotic operation is based on high –speed Telecommunications ( 通讯系统) between the doctor and the robot. Technology must be able to send a doctor’s order (命令 ) to a robot to move the tool quickly. Experts also say a successful robotic operation will improve an operation . For example, the robot can make such smaller movements (动作 ) than a person can. A robot machine can turn tools in ways that a doctor’s hand cannot.

Doctors say such a robotic operation will make safer and better operations in the future. They say it will improve doctor training. It will also mean that doctors could do an operation on people in dangerous places far away. And it could mean that people could have operations done by top doctors without having to travel to the city where the doctors work.

( )1.The underlined phrase “robotic operation” means “ ________”.

A. a special kind of robot invented by doctors

B. something done to mend a robot

C. an operation done by French and American doctors

D.an operation done far away with the help of a robot

( )2.We use the robot in the operation because ___________.

A. it can send messages in a high speed (速度)

B. even a top doctor can’t do the o peration himself

C. it can make the operation safer and better

D. operations can be done without doctors

( )3.If we want to use the robot in the operation, we must solve (解决) the problem of _____.

A. top doctors

B. smaller movement

C. doctor training

D. high-speed telecommunications

( )4. Which of the following is NOT true ?

A .Robotic operation has been used in the USA.

B. Robotic operation is good for doctor training

C. Experts speak highly of robotic operation

D. The robot is used to watch the patient clearly

( )5. Wh ich do you think is the best title of this passage ?