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.
56. 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
57. 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
58. 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
59. 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
A. II only B. I only C. I, II and III D. I and II
60. According to the last paragraph, the typical volunteer now may be ______.
A. an enthusiastic but unqualified young student
B. a highly qualified headmaster or teacher
C. an executive or businessman with at least 15 years’ experience
D. a well-experienced accountant, manager, or doctor
Passage 4
With only about 1 000 pandas left in the world, China is desperately trying to clone the animal and save the endangered species. That’s a move similar to what a Texas A&M University researcher has been undertaking for the past five years in a project called “Noah’s Ark”. |
