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.

Helen Monson has always been interested in helping her community. Her first volunteer experience was for the American Red Cross when she was in high school. When she was a school teacher, she also spent time being a volunteer. She also used to volunteer on holiday every year,

After she retired, she started volunteering to help the old. When her father was older, he was not able to see as well as he used to, which made her sad because he had always enjoyed reading. She decided it would be fun to read to elderly people in her community. She also helped one woman write her stories. Ann was almost 100 years old, and Helen wrote down information about her life when she visited her. She put the story in a book and got it published. Ann was very excited to share her life story with her children and grandchildren.

After a hurricane (飓风) destroyed some southern cities, Helen volunteered again for the American Red Cross. She prepared food and answered phones in a care centre. She says,"I have always been in interested in the Red Cross because the organization helps people in need.

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1.Helen's first volunteer experience for the American Red Cross was in ___________________

2.When Helen was a __________,she also spent time being a volunteer.

3.Helen started volunteering to ______________________________________ after she retired.

4.Ann was excited when the book got published because she could ______________________

with her children and grandchildren.

5.Helen worked in_________________________ when she volunteered again for the American Red Cross?

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