Read the passage below and choose the best answers.
Each nation has many good people who take care of others. For example, some of high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or home for the elderly. 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 the 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 and 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 understand 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. What do volunteers usually do to help those who are sick or old in their homes?
A. They mow lawns, do shopping, and clean up their houses.
B. They cook, sew, and wash their clothes.
C. They tell them stories and sing and dance for them.
D. They take them to baseball games.
2. What do they help boys whose fathers do not live with them?
A. To get to know things about their fathers.
B. To get to know things that boys want from their fathers.
C. To learn things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
D. To learn things about their fathers.
3. Which activity is NOT available for the students at the clubs?
A. playing games B. watching films C. going to interesting places D. learning photography
4. Why do they use many high school and college students as volunteers? Because......
A. they have a lot of free time.
B. they can understand the problems of younger boys and girls.
C. they know how to do the work.
D. they are good at playing games and learning crafts.
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
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2 donation
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