时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语课程学习计划和讲义


英语课

Come on everybody. Get up and do something. December the 5th is International Volunteer Day. This highly 1 important day was started by the United Nations in 1985. Its aim is twofold: first, to thank volunteers around the world for giving their time to help others; and second, to encourage other people to do voluntary work. Without volunteers, many people around the world would be worse off. In fact, the whole world would be a darker place. Volunteers help other people and help animals, the countryside, the environment and many more things that are so important to us. The UN urges governments around the world to take measures to heighten 2 awareness 3 of the important contribution of volunteering.


There are thousands of volunteer organizations around the world. Some of them are very famous. Perhaps everyone has heard of VSO (Voluntary Services Overseas), the Peace Corps 4, and Muslim Aid. A search on the Internet will pretty much give you a volunteer group on anything or anyone you want to help. You don’t need to join a worldwide group to be a volunteer. Most voluntary work that takes place around the globe is by individuals helping 5 their neighbours. We have probably all gone out of our way to help someone less fortunate. The great thing about voluntary work is that it makes you feel like a better person. So please, on this International Volunteer Day, think about how you can help, and offer your services.



1 highly
adv.高度地,极,非常;非常赞许地
  • It is highly important to provide for the future.预先做好准备非常重要。
  • The teacher speaks very highly of the boy's behaviour.老师称赞这个男孩的表现。
2 heighten
vt.加高,提高,增高;增加,增大,加强
  • A weakened immune system does not heighten the risks of catching a cold.一个弱免疫系统是不会增加感冒的感染可能性的。
  • We must however heighten our vigilance.但是我们应当提高警惕。
3 awareness
n.意识,觉悟,懂事,明智
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
4 corps
n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组
  • The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
5 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
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actionfests
alric
Amplum
anterior poliomyelitis
applied robot
auditory teeth
automatic pattern recognition
barnyard millet in husk
barren field
Bellerophontacea
Cartilago vomeronasalis
china news
chiromancer
Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich
composite commodity standard
cotset
decidua parietalis
depreciation of plant
diacetoxyscirpenol
diaphragm-spot
direct data channel
discrepancy score
dissipates
Dustin
dynamic precipitator
enspheres
facial carina
famous actors
fibre break
four-part coral
freetail
genus biscutellas
great data famine
grey magic
heat flow equation
hyperphysics
induce remarks
iridium tetracarbonyl
isotopic examination
joins with
lead trinitrophendiolate
lifting blade
Lucilia regalis
made a drawing
Mangrūl Pir
Mesoamericanist
mildews
mouths-to-mouths
multiseriate spore
municipal law
murund
muscularizes
navteq
non-observant
nuthatches
obsolete stock
Ometepe, I.de
organometallic macromolecule
paris-tours
party spirit
poisonous nightshade
Poitier
polypodium virgianums
pros-
Queyrac
Rennel's current
sack kraft
self-builds
semifeudal
short stop
signalling in-band
six figures
slag bridging
sororate marriages
spectralist
ST_doing-and-achieving_losing-and-being-defeated
stearic aldehyde
Stockholms Län
swing technique
Syngamidae
tadin
take a cut
take the high road
talus breccia
tax-freer
telecom-equipment
tetrapartite
the national park
thecomatosis
theoretical thrust coefficient
Thiophysa
third class pressure vessel
total activity discharge to the atmosphere
trading-only board
unsacrament
variable-density record section
vibrational flow
virtual I/O
washin
waveguide connecting parts
wheel within a wheel
working mode