单选题
Pictures in the British papers this week of Prince William,
Prince Charles's 18-year-old son, cleaning toilets overseas, have led to a surge
of altruism (利他主义). Raleigh International, the charity that organized his trip,
has seen inquiries about voluntary work abroad rise by 30%. But the image of
idealistic youth that William presents no longer reflects the reality of the
volunteer force. It's getting older and older. Voluntary
Service Overseas (VSO) has about 2000 volunteers in the field around the world.
After a dip in interest in the mid-1990s, applications to work abroad are at
record levels. Last year 7645 people submitted applications, and 920
successfully negotiated the VSO selection process and were sent abroad. When the
organization was founded in 1959, the average volunteer was in his early 20s.
Now, the average age is 35, and set to rise further. Partly,
that is because there are more older people who want to do VSO. More people take
early retirement; more, says the ehief executive of VSO, "still feel that they
have more to give and are in good health" . And the demands of the African and
Asian countries where most of the volunteers go are changing, too. Their
educational standards have risen over the past couple of decades, so they want
people with more qualifications, skills and experience. BESO
(British Executive Service Overseas) recruits executives and businessmen with at
least 15 years' experience for short-term contract work overseas. It organizes
500 placements (工作安置) a year, and at the moment supply is surpassing demand. A
BESO spokesman said that the organization is "limited by funding rather than a
lack of volunteers" Enthusiastic but unqualified students do
not impress as much as they once did alongside accountants, managers and
doctors. The typical volunteer, these days, has been in full-time employment for
at least five years and is highly qualified. And the profession which provides
the biggest portion of volunteers is education--headmasters and school
inspectors as well as classroom teachers.
单选题
According to the passage, the volunteers ______.
A. are getting older and older
B. are becoming fewer
C. are inexperienced and unqualified
D. are mostly students
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[考点] 细节理解题
[解析] 线索：文章的第1段提到“But the image of idealistic youth that William presents no longer reflects the reality of the volunteer force. It's getting older and older. ”这里的it指代的就是前面提及的volunteer force。因而只要理解了volunteer force，问题也就解决了。force可以作动词，表示“迫使某人做某事”；作名词讲时，表示力量、武力或军队、一群人等。如：workforce，劳动力。volunteer force指的就是志愿者队伍，即志愿者们，这也就表明选项A是正确答案。
这个题是考查大家对词的理解，即volunteer force。说到底也就是对force的理解。这是解决该题的难点之处。
单选题
All the statements are true about Prince William EXCEPT that ______.
A. his trip has triggered a surge of altruism
B. his trip was organized by a government institution
C. he presents the image of idealistic youth
D. he is not a representative volunteer in age
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[考点] 细节判断题
[解析] 线索：文章的第1段A、C、D选项都被提及，唯独B没有被提及，文章中提到的是“Raleigh International, the charity that organized his trip, ...”这里作者并没有告诉我们这个组织是否是政府机构。这就表明选项B是正确答案。
可以采用排除法。
单选题
From the second paragraph we can know that ______.
A. the number of applications to work abroad declined in the mid-1990s
B. the average volunteer now is not much older than forty years ago
C. of those who have submitted applications a majority have been chosen and
sent abroad
D. there were more applications to work aboard in the early 1990s than in
the late 1990s
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[考点] 细节分析题
[解析] 线索：文章的第2段提到“Aftera dip in interest in the mid-1990's, applications to work abroad are at record levels.”这里关键是要理解单词dip的含义，dip除了有“浸，沾”之义，也有水平或数量上的降低之义。这就表明选项A是正确答案。
这个题的难点在dip一词上，考点也在dip一词上。因此，在平时单词积累时一定要对单词进行全方面的了解。
单选题
There are more older people who want to do VSO because
______. Ⅰ. more people take early retirement
Ⅱ. more older people feel they are in good health
Ⅲ. the foreign countries where the volunteers go want people with more
qualifications, skills and experience