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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 (孤儿院) or homes for the old. 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 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 (修整) their lawns (草坪).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. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, 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 house.

B. They cook, sew or wash their clothes.

C. They tell them stories and sing and dance for them.

D. They clean 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 still remember what they felt when they were younger.

C. Because they know how to do the work.

D. Because they like younger boys and girls.

5.Volunteers think that ______________.

A. they have got to be unhappy in order to make other people happy

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

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.B

5.D

【解析】

试题分析：本文大意：每个国家都有许多帮助照顾别人的好人。例如，美国的一些高中生和大学生经常花多个小时在医院、孤儿院做志愿者或照顾老人。他们在这些地方给人们读书或只是看望他们和他们玩游戏或倾听他们的问题。他们认为帮助带来幸福的人是世界最幸福的人。

1. example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or homes for the old.可知选C。

2. 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 (修整) their lawns (草坪).可知选A。

3. boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization called Big Brothers.可知选D。

4. 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.可知选B。

5. believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.可知选D。

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