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Each country has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the USA often 1 many hours as volunteers in hospitals or orphanages(孤儿院) or 2 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 3.
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair houses, do their shopping and mow(修剪) their lawns(草坪). For boys who no longer have fathers, there is a(n) 4 called Big Brothers. College students and other 5 take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips. And they 6 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, the museums or other 7 of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as 8. Why? Because they are 9 enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that some of the 10 people in the world are those who help to bring happiness. Helping others brings them much pleasure.
()1. A. need B. spend C. waste D. pay
()2. A. caring for B. fighting with C. talking about D. looking for
()3. A. suggestions B. ways C. problems D. hobbies
()4. A. class B. organization C. village D. city
()5. A. men B. women C. kids D. friends
()6. A. help B. ask C. tell D. allow
()7. A. places B. palaces C. cinemas D. parks
()8. A. parents B. visitors C. volunteers D. teachers
()9. A. young B. different C. lazy D. difficult
()10. A. kindest B. happiest C. highest D. richest

1.B 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.A
6.A 7.A 8.C 9.A 10.B

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For Cameron Beck, volunteering is a part of his life. He spends every Saturday 1. at Project Open Hand in San Francisco, California. This organization serves food to sick people.
Volunteers need to prepare 2,500 meals and 200 bags of 2. food every day.
Cameron 3. learned about Project Open Hand when he was working on Polk Street. Cameron passed its storefront(店面) on his 4. to and from work each day. Some of his friends were working with Project Open Hand. All of 5. studied and looked for healthy food for the organization. Then, Cameron 6. how Project Open Hand worked. It worked by serving healthy food to those who have health 7. .
“8. I knew they kept doing such volunteer work and it made a big difference to sick people, I decided to help,” Cameron said. Now Cameron helps make sure the food is good for the people 9. HIV/AIDS, diabetes(糖尿病) or other serious illnesses. He hopes more volunteers will 10. them and help more sick people together.

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