When I volunteered as a social worker at a domestic violence shelter in a developing country, I imagined the position for which my university experience had prepared me. I imagined conducting intake interviews and walking around from organization to organization seeking support that the women would ...
5.A 后面提到她没有注意那些老人,说明她确实很忙(busv)。 6.A 根据下一段首句中的 started asking her to sit and chat a bit 可知, 这些人聚(gathered)在这里闲坐和闲谈。 7.C 根据 at first she was too 5 to pay much attention和后面的She listened as they...可以判断她现在退休(retired)了。
Later I volunteered to be the social worker for a retirement community in a park, where I observed elderly residents sitting alone silently, heads down. Several stone tables in the park had chessboards imprinted on them. One day, I set up my chess pieces and waited. An elderly man cautio...
When I was in seventh grade, I volunteered at a local hospital during the summer. I spent most of the time there with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any , and nobody seemed to care about his condition. I spent many days there his hand and talking to him,
Both the mothers and the fathers described JPC as ‘a given,’ and a majority of the parents emphasized that the sharing should be equal, i.e., 50–50%. “It was really a given. Why should they live more with one of us when they are children to us both?” (Mother with a four-...
Having no takers on freecycle, so I posted it on craigslist as well, since that gets a wider audience. I had 2 takers. I offered it to the first respondent, who volunteered that he would use it for gardening, either as a trellis or shade structure. He also offered to give me some ...
His social worker assured me that he would be a good, reliable busboy. But I had never had a mentally handicapped employee. He was short, a little fat, with the smooth facial features and thick-togued speech of Down’s Syndrome(唐氏综合症). I thought most of my customers would be ...
I had to make 2 spreadsheets to keep track of all the steps and make sure they happened. Thank gods my sister Sarah volunteered to help me. We’re a pretty meticulous family, and she’s an accountant, so I knew I could trust her to count stuff. We spent 3 days, the weekend of ...
I volunteered to go first. I placed my left foot on the ice step.I gained a sense of the ice when I stuck my ax and crampons into it, and it felt good. Confident that I was safe, I put my full weight on it. Suddenly, I heard a crack, and a whole block of ice broke off ...
the contract from our previous employers and he became the go-to guy for three districts, or about 100 stores. When one of the district managers was to be transferred to Seattle, and wanted the same convenient services there, I volunteered to move and work for him to help expand the ...