If you have no special plans for your summer holidays, why not spend your time helping others?

Don’t listen to people who say the young people today often think only of themselves. It’s not true at all. More and more people in the USA volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don’t do it for money. Here are some of their stories.

⚫ Alice Hamilton, 17

I’m going to help the Forest Center build new hiking paths（路）in the mountains. It’s going to be terrific—I’ll spend the whole summer living in the tent and breathing the clean mountain air. I’m going to sleep under the stars. It’ll be a nice sport, and I’ll be able to do something good at the same time.

⚫ Jason Moore, 18

This summer, I’m going to volunteer with Special House Program. They build good, low-cost houses and sell them to families that are not very rich. They’ll teach me what to do.

⚫ Trish Anderson, 16

I’m going to teach kids who have trouble reading. I’ll work for a program called Reading for Life. Every day, I’m going to help kids choose and read books that they like. I want to be a teacher and I love children and reading, so this is going to be a great experience for me.

【小题1】Young people in the USA volunteer to spend _________ helping others.

A．school holidays

B．weekdays

C．every morning

D．every afternoon

【小题2】What does Alice volunteer to do in summer?

A．To breathe the clean mountain air.	B．To spend the whole summer living in the tent.
C．To sleep under the stars.	D．To help build new hiking paths in the mountain.

【小题3】From the passage, we know that Special House Program helps _________.

A．children in poor families	B．workers who build houses
C．poor families can’t afford houses	D．build hiking paths

【小题4】__________ wants to be a teacher.

A．Alice Hamilton

B．Jason Moore

C．Trish Anderson

D．none of them

【小题5】Which is the most possible title for this passage?

A．Reading for life	B．A Special House Program
C．The Forest Center	D．Young American Volunteers