The 2010 Shanghai World Expo has been open for several months and there are large numbers of volunteers serving there. Chen Chuan，a 19- year-old student at Fudan University, is usually fast asleep at 6 am. But over the May 1 holiday, he was rising early to eat breakfast and 1 answer questions like，“Where can I find the toilet?” Such is the life of a Shanghai World Expo volunteer. But Chen and his 72,000 colleagues(同事)aren’t complaining, 2 ，they’re trying not to. “Volunteering is 3 work，”Chen said，“but it makes me feel happy. ” Other student volunteers have 4 feelings. Wang Lin an 18-year-old volunteer from Chongqing University，told us about trying to explain to a tourist why a line to visit a pavilion was so long. When the tourist suddenly got quite angry, Wang became upset 5 being shouted at. Wang said. “I didn’t expect we would have to face so many difficulties in our service. But I know serving is about giving 6. ”Still，the very next day, Wang received a reward(嘉獎)when she helped a lost child 7 his parents. “The happy smiles and their gratitude(感謝)made me feel so 8 ，”Wang said. “That’s 9I now always smile to others，even if they don’t look happy. Smiling makes me happy. ” 10 their green and white clothes，people call volunteers “Little Cabbage”. Wang likes this nickname(綽號). “We’re green, we are fresh，just like the vegetable，”Wang said.
In the past, large numbers of American people liked to use tomorrow’s money. However, since the economic depression(經(jīng)濟蕭條), many have learnt to live 1. Here is a true story about an American girl, Anna. After graduation, she began to live in Los Angeles on her own. She 2a job in a publishing house(出版社) and earned 3$30,000 a year. Her parents thought Anna’s life would be 4, but Anna was able to live on her money and still 5$5000 in the first year. How could she do so in 6expensive city? Cheap living always starts with keeping the 7cost small. For people, that 8housing. So Anna chose to share a flat with three other friends. Her next biggest cost was 9. When she ate 10, she went to cheap restaurants. 11she bought a $9.99 whole chicken at a local restaurant. She then took the chicken bones home and made soup out of them. Today young people often 12a lot of money on entertainment. But Anna loved going to museums and parks as the 13for these places were free. Did Anna feel poor by cheap living? Not really. She even 14to take two trips, one to the Netherlands, 15to Portland. “Don’t think of saving money as something hard. It’s a kind of game,” said Anna.
An old engineer went suddenly blind. She promised a doctor a lot of money if he could make her see again. “If you fail,” she said, “you’ll get nothing.” The doctor agreed. The doctor soon discovered what was wrong with her, but he decided not to cure her right away. Instead each time he visited, he secretly took some of her things. When he had taken away everything, he wanted to cure her blindness and asked for the money. Now the old woman could see again, she noticed that all her things had gone and she refused to pay the money. So the doctor took her before a judge. “What the doctor said is true,” she said to the judge. “But I say I was not well cured, because I still can’t see any of the things in my house.” The old woman won the case and the doctor went away unhappily without getting his pay.
1.
What did the engineer promise the doctor if he failed to make her see again?
A.
A lot of money
B.
Half of the money
C.
No money
D.
A little money
2.
The underlined word “discovered” in paragraph 2 means _______.
