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lean 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. 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 girlsVolunteers 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 busstop. B. In a park. C. In a hospital. ( ) 2. How do volunteers usually help those who are sick or old?A. They just play games with them.B. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, do their shopping and so on.C. They only talk with them .( ) 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 an organization for boys who no longer have fathers.( ) 4. Why so 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 still remember what they felt when they were younger.C. Because they like younger boys and girls.( ) 5. What do volunteers believe?A. To make others happy, they have got to be unhappy.B. When they are happy, the others will be happy.C. The happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.BJim is a little boy who stays with his grandma. He likes sweets and cakes. He always eats some food with sweets before he goes to bed. And as soon as he gets up in the morning, he can find some cakes on the table in his bedroom.One morning, before Jim got up, his grandma took some cakes to his bedroom. She saw Jim crying in bed.“What’s the matter, dear?” his grandma asked in a hurry.“I’ve a bad toothache,” said Jim.So his grandma had to take him to the dentist’s. Jim was looked over and the dentist pulled