Ⅲ.阅读理解
(2017·宣城高三模拟)Standing in the middle of a yard crowded with soldiers, Luo Ming, a 31yearold team leader with the Sichuan Emergency Response Volunteer Group, sees a threat (威胁) nearly as big as the earthquake that struck Western
China's mountainous area on Saturday: too many volunteers.
“The volunteers have created a certain kind of disaster themselves,” he says, obviously tired due to no sleep in 48 hours.“There are more volunteers than there are earthquake victims.They have no place to sleep, and nothing to eat, and most of them have no experience or training.”
Mr Luo is in charge at the volunteer registration (登记) tent at the town centre of Longmen, where the earthquake has left thousands of people without shelter, food and water for three days.He has registered more than 500 volunteers, but he has turned even more than that away.“For some people, the biggest help that they can do for disaster areas is go back where they came from safely,” he says.
Authorities are trying to make sure that no more volunteers show up.Beijing announced a ban on private volunteers and civil society groups entering the disaster area for the time being, and several universities in Sichuan issued notices to their students asking them not to travel to the earthquake areas, encouraging them to donate blood instead.
One of the reasons for the government's decision is transportation difficulty: large rescue vehicles and heavy
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