Blueberries (蓝莓) are nice. But do you know _____ blueberries grow? They grow on bushes. Each blueberry is small and round. Many blueberries can grow on one bush. At _______, blueberries are green. The green berries are not ready to eat. They _____ a lot of sun and rain. The sun and rain can help them ______ fat and sweet. When the berries turn blue, they are ripe. Now people are ready to pick them.

Some farmers grow blueberries in big fields. The people near the fields often help pick the blueberries. They can make money. ______ of them takes a pail (桶) out to the field and fills it with blueberries. They work very fast, so they can fill many pails. They want to make much ______. When they are working, their fingers (手指) are ______ from the juice of the berries.

After people pick the blueberries, they put the berries in the boxes and send them to ______. People buy the blueberries and take them home ______. Some people like to wash the berries and eat them one by one. Other people like to ______ with blueberries. They make blueberry muffins (松饼) and cakes. Blueberries taste great!

Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or homes for the old. 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, 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 girls.

Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.

How do you feel when you are fooled by others? No doubt, feel bad. There is nothing worse than falling for a joke and being a fool except one day. Yes, that’s Fools’ Day. Nobody will be angry to be an “April Fool”.     26     The headmaster at my school decided to play an April Fools’ joke on the students when I was in high school. On March 31, she announced that our school would hold a “Dress to Impress day”.     27     Girls were told to wear formal dresses and smart jackets, while a suit jacket and tie for each boy would be the best. The teachers, we were told, would do the same.

On April Fools’ Day, many of us students came to school dressed in our best clothes.     28     In the morning, all of us got together on the playground, waiting for the headteacher. She would speak to the students.     29     Instead, she wore jeans, running shoes and a T-shirt. The other teachers also got dressed casually like her.

“April Fools!” she said with a big smile on her face. “We just want to remind you that teachers have a sense of humor, too!”

Surely, all the teachers weren’t April Fools.     30