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　　There's an old saying, “Whether it's cold or whether it's hot, we're going to have weather, whether or not.” That is true, weather is always around us.

　　Everybody spends a lot of time doing something about the weather. You get dressed every day. You wear warm clothes in winter and put on light clothes in summer. You take an umbrella when it looks like rain, and you put on boots if there snows. If it's cold at night, you put on more blankets on your bed. If it's hot, you take them off. Every time you do any of those things, you've done something about the weather.

　　There are lots of people earn a living by doing something about the weather, such as the people who make clothes and umbrellas, the ones who make air conditioners, the people who sell these things or fix them or deliver them, the people who help to build buildings and the ones who make the tools and materials buildings are built with.

　　People spend lots of money doing something about the weather. They buy clothes, they pay rent or buy houses, they buy coal, oil or gas to warm the houses and they also buy air conditioners to cool them in hot summer.

　　Can people change the weather by doing these? No, but they change what weather does to people. Weather is one of the main things that make us live the way we do.

1．The story is mainly about ________.

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A．things people do to change the weather

B．things people do because of the weather's changes

C．people spend a lot of time doing things to change the weather

D．weather is very changeable

2．If you lived where it was very hot, you could do something about the weather by ________.

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A．going skating on the lake

B．buying coal or oil to warm the house

C．using an air conditioner to cool yourself

D．taking an umbrella with you

3．If the weather was always the same, people ________.

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A．might build more houses

B．might not spend as much money

C．might not earn a living doing something about the weather

D．might live happily

4．People change what weather does to them when they use ________.

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A．fans, sunglasses and boots

B．televisions, radios and books

C．clothes, socks and pants

D．roads, bridges and buildings

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 n hospitals, orphanages(孤儿院) 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 or do their shopping. For boys who no longer have fathers the, re 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, 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 bring happiness to others.

62. Where can you often find volunteers in the United States?

A. In a hospital.　　　 B. In a park.　　　 C. At a bus stop.　　　　 D. In a shop.

63. What is Big Brothers?

A. It's the name of a club.

B. It's the name of a movie.

C. It's a home for children who have no brothers.

D. It's an organization for boys who no longer have fathers.

64. Why do most of these clubs use many high school and college students as volunteers?

A. Because they like younger boys and girls.

B. Because they know how to do the club work.

C. Because they can still remember what they felt when they were younger.

D. Because they have a lot of free time to play with the young boys and girls.

65. What do volunteers believe?

A. To make others happy, they have got to be unhappy.

B. Bringing happiness to others makes them the happiest people in the world.

C. The happiest people in the world are those who make themselves happy.

D. The happiest people in the world are those who are young and healthy.