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4.主旨大意题 一 A (2019·北京丰台区一模) 话题：志愿活动 难度：★ 建议用时：6分 A blog posted Dec.7,2018 at 12：17 PM by Alanna Mallon who is a Cambridge City Councilor. Each year in November，I receive a flurry of emails and texts from friends who want to volunteer with their families on Thanksgiving as a way to give back.I also field phone calls from organizations who want to donate to local programs that provide Thanksgiving meals. However，as an official who still works in the nonprofit sector，I also feel deeply anxious because I know the other 51 weeks of the year，these critical programs that provide food access to residents in need are starving for both volunteers and donations.Hunger is a year­round problem，and each week volunteers are the necessary part to ensure that programs are able to serve the community. At Food For Free，we rely on about 100 volunteers per week，and each of those volunteers is extremely important to providing fresh，healthy food to people in the Greater Boston area who need it.School children who take backpacks of food home on Fridays，community college students who rely on our Family Meals program to thrive in class，elderly and disabled residents who receive twice monthly deliveries of food to their doors through our Home Delivery program—they all rely on us ensuring enough volunteers show up to do the work. These volunteers don’t show up in your social media feeds，they don’t win awards and no one writes about them in the local newspapers.But they are heroes.And you can be too. If everyone made a promise to volunteer once a month，or even once a quarter，I know that we could reduce some of the anxiety these organizations feel，as a more reliable volunteer network allows them to focus on helping people，not filling volunteer slots. Here is a list of a few organizations who are doing critical work in Cambridge to address food insecurity.Offer your time to an organization，and they will be deeply grateful—and I am going to bet that you will feel pretty good about yourself to