内容正文:
第三部分 “人与自我”篇
目录:
Passage 1 义工旅行:远离城市的治愈时刻
Passage 2 数字虚拟人异军突起
Passage 3 用视频记录高中三年热血时光
Passage 4 95后科幻小说作家天瑞说符
Passage 5 侯逸凡,最年轻的“棋后”
Passage 6 “有思想”的智能假肢
Passage 7 灵感来自科幻小说的发明
Passage 1
Travel with a purpose
主题语境——人与自我——义工旅行:远离城市的治愈时刻
Have you watched the popular TV series Meet Yourself? In the TV series, the heroine Xu Hongdou travels to a village in Yunnan province and volunteers at a local cafe. She gets free 1. _______ (meal) in return. As the show finds a growing audience, volunteer travel---an old-yet-modern form of travel similar 2. _______ Xu’s type of work---has attracted more attention.
During the trip, volunteer travelers often provide services like teaching, cooking, animal caring, and 3. _______ (culture) activities. In exchange for their help, the volunteers may get free or discounted accommodation, meals and laundry, activities, or classes.
It seems as if these long journeys could only 4. _______ (make) possible in recent years by modern transportation. Nevertheless, volunteer travel 5. _______ (date) back to the 1960s, when Alec Dickson and his wife Mora from the UK founded Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), 6. _______ international volunteer organization.
Traditionally, the volunteer activities take place in a foreign country. However, just as what Meet Yourself depicts, more volunteer trips 7. _______ (take) place within the same countries or regions the volunteers originate from in recent years. Yang Yan, a founder of a volunteer platform, told the magazine that it has indeed been a growing trend for urban residents to volunteer in rural areas.
People try volunteer travel for several reasons. By working 8. _______ (voluntary) while traveling, travelers may make a real, positive impact on the world. The services volunteers provide can be through charities with lower costs for the communities they serve. Another benefit of volunteer travel is that it helps urban dwellers to get a taste of rural life. For those 9. _______ are sick of urban pressur