During the Winter Olympics in Sochi(索契), 25,000 volunteers from Russia and other countries provided services for athletes and guests. The student Oksana Verkholyak helped translate Russian into English and Korean at the Games. She told us about their usual day.
“We get up at 7:30 in the morning. Then we have breakfast. Usually we have porridge for breakfast. There is always tea, coffee, bread and pies. After breakfast, we head for a bus stop and get on a bus which runs to the media center. It takes us 30 minutes to get there,” she said.
When volunteers arrived there, they went through the security (安全) check point. They couldn’t bring water or food with them. “Security guards check our bags. We are not allowed to have things made of metals. They check phones, video cameras, electric equipment and computers,” Oksana added.
In the evening volunteers got back to the apartment buildings. All of them were like one big family. They lived together and got some rest together—after dinner they went to the beach to watch the sunset.
Not only students helped organize the Sochi Olympics. There were many so-called silver volunteers who retired but didn’t lose interest in sports. Some of the volunteers had an experience working at the Olympic Games in other countries and even at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
小题1: How many foreign languages did Oksana Verkholyak use at the Games?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three.
小题2:Where did the volunteers go first after breakfast?
A. To the apartment buildings.
B. To the security check point.
C. To a bus stop.
小题3: What couldn’t the volunteers take into the media center?
A. Water and computers.
B. Video cameras and phones.
C. Knives and hamburgers.
小题4:Which is NOT true about the silver volunteers?
A. They’re all young people.
B. They love sports.
C. Some of them have volunteered for the Olympics before.
小题5:What is the best title of this passage?
A. A volunteer’s day at Sochi Olympics
B. 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
C. Different jobs for volunteers
