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返回 返回 Unit 4 Section Ⅰ Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Do you know the Peace Corps and what the Peace Corps volunteers do? Read the following passage to get the answer. President John F. Kennedy began the program, Peace Corps, in 1961. The Peace Corps sends American volunteers to provide technical assistance in education and other areas in developing countries. Amanda Pease is one of almost 40 volunteers serving in rural schools in Sierra Leone. Ms. Pease teaches science at Saint Josephs, a high school in eastern Sierra Leone. She studied chemical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. She decided to serve for two years in the Peace Corps after she finished her degree. “I was trying to decide between going the academic (学术的) route and doing a postdoctoral (博士后) degree and go into industry, and then I had been doing some volunteer work and the idea was always floating around，” she says. Peace Corps volunteers left Sierra Leone in 1994 because of civil war. But now they are back. Science teachers are in especially short supply. Efforts in Sierra Leone to get more children through primary school have led to crowded high schools. Amanda Pease is the only chemistry and physics teacher at her school. She says she has to work hard to get students more interested in learning, as she thought they would be. “I had sort of a romantic idea coming to a developing country where everyone is super motivated but just does not have opportunities, and that is not exactly how it is. Not that I am saying the opportunities are so great, because of course there are limited opportunities if you compare it to America, but I think one of the biggest things is literally just motivation，” she says. What she loves best about her experience, she says, is the magical moment when students understand a chemical process or ask her for more exercises. More than 8,000 Peace Corps volunteers are curr