Many people volunteer to help look after others. For example, some high school and college students in the USA often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or old people’s homes. 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 draw pictures, clean up or repair their houses, do their shopping or mow (修整) their lawns (草坪). For boys who don’t have fathers, there is a group 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 several clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts (工艺). 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 people who help to bring happiness to others are the happiest in the world.
【小题1】How do volunteers usually help people who are sick or old?| A．They mow their lawns, do their shopping and clean up their house. |
| B．They cook, or wash their clothes. |
| C．They tell them stories and sing and dance for them. |
| D．They clean, and repair their cars. |
| 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 movie. | D．It’s a group for boys who don’t have fathers. |
| 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 are interested in volunteer work. |
| D．Because they like younger boys and girls. |
| A．they have to be unhappy to make other people happy |
| B．people who make themselves happy are the happiest in the world |
| C．people who are young and healthy are the happiest in the world |
| D．people who help to bring happiness to others are the happiest in the world |
