Unit2 阅读技能突破
时文领读:
主题:人与社会——对社会有突出贡献的人物
语篇类型:记叙文
词数:304
难度:中
阅读用时:8分钟
背景导入:本文讲述了史莱娅·文卡特从小受父母的影响,非常乐于助人,她长大后建立了名为NEST4US的慈善组织,为华盛顿哥伦比亚特区的流浪者提供食物和必需品的故事。
阅读技巧:根据关键词迅速查找目标信息。
In her 17 years on earth, Shreyaa Venkat has don emore to help the planet and the people living on it than many adults two, three, and four times her age. The non-profit organisation she founded, NEST4US, has helped tens of thousands of people in the United States. She runs four different volunteer programmes and NEST Nurtures is one of them. Through NEST Nurtures, they’ve served over12, 000 homeless people in the Washington, D.C. area by providing food and other supplies.
Venkat’s passion for helping others started as soon as she could walk, as her parents, active volunteers themselves, brought her along on their various projects, like these creative ways to volunteer. By fifth grade, she’d developed such enthusiasm for volunteering that she started organising her own service projects in her community.
NEST4US was born when Venkat realised how much food waste there is, how many hungry people there are, and how simple it would be to use the former to help the latter. “There was a homeless man standing on a corner in Washington D.C. and he was holding a sign that said ‘Hungry Need Food’,” she remembers. “So I gave him my lunch——it was just a banana, a granola bar, and a little water——and his whole face just lit up. I found out he hadn’t eaten in a week! It was so easy; it only took me 30seconds, and it really helped him."
As much as she has helped others, they’ve helped her too, she says. Not only does she get a lot of joy and personal satisfaction from her volunteer work but she says running NEST has taught her important life skills like time management, public speaking, writing, and leadership.
①passion n. 热爱
②enthusiasm n. 热情
③leadership n. 领导才能
知识点击
living on it为现在分词短语作后置定语
she founded为定语从句,省略了关系代词that/ which
as soon as意为“一…就…”,引导时间状语从句
as 引导原因状语从句
such ... that引导结果状语从句
三个并列的how弓|导宾语从句
standing...为现在分词短语作后置定语
that引导定语从句,在从句中作主语
light up流露出喜悦
Not only 位于句首,其所在的分句部分倒装;
not only… but (also)...意为“不仅…而且…”
【译文】
17岁的史莱娅·文卡特为地球和地球上的人们所作的贡献比许多年龄大她两倍、三倍甚至四倍的成年人还要多。她创立的非营利组织NEST4US已经帮助了数以万计的美国人。她运营了四个不同的志愿者项目,NEST Nurtures就是其中之一。通过NEST Nurtures,他们已经为华盛顿哥伦比亚特区一万两千多名无家可归的人提供了食物和其他日用品。
文卡特刚会走路就开始有了帮助别人的热情,因为她的父母都是积极的志愿者,他们带她一起参加各种各样的项目,比如这些有创意的做志愿工作的方式。到了五年级,她已经对志愿工作产生了极大的热情,她开始在自己的社区组织自己的服务项目。
当文卡特意识到有很多食物被浪费,有很多人在挨饿以及用食物来帮助挨饿的人是多么简单时,NEST4US成立了。她回忆道:“有一个无家可归的人站在华盛顿哥伦比亚特区的一个角落里,手里举着一个牌子,上面写着‘饥饿,需要食物’。所以我把我的午餐给了他,就是一根香蕉,一根格兰诺拉麦片棒和一点儿水,他满脸流露出喜悦之情。我发现他已经一个星期没有吃东西了!这件事很简单,我只花了30秒,而这对他真的很有帮助。”
她说,就像她帮助了别人,别人也帮助了她。她不仅从志愿者工作中获得了很多快乐和个人满足感,她说管理NEST还教会了她重要的生活技能,如时间管理、公开演讲、写作和领导能力。