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Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and
college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes
for the aged. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them
or listen to their problems.
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or
repair their houses, do their shopping or mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an
organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on
fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts (手艺). Some
of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places
of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are
young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls. Volunteers believe that some of the
happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.
1. Where can you often find volunteers in the United States?
A. At a bus stop.
B. In a park.
C. In a hospital.
D. In a shop.
2. How do volunteers usually help those who are sick or old?
A. They mow their lawns, do their shopping and clean up their houses.
B. They cook, sew or wash their clothes.
C. They tell them stories and sing and dance for them.
D. They clean, wash and repair their cars.
3. What is Big Brothers?
A. It's the name of a club.
B. It's a home for children who have no brothers.
C. It's the name of a film.
D. It's an organization for boys who no longer have fathers.
4. Why do most of the boys' and girls' clubs use many high school and college students as volunteers?
A. Because they have a lot of free time.
B. Because they can remember the problems of younger boys and girls.
C. Because they know how to do the work.
D. Because they like the work.
5. What do volunteers believe?
A. In order to make others happy, they have got to be unhappy.
B. The happiest people in the world are those who make themselves happy.
C. The happiest people in the world are those who are young and healthy.
D. Bringing happiness to others makes them the happiest people in the world.
