Many people have to work on the weekend. Some people do not mind. Other people think it is terrible.

One man thinks that working on the weekend can be ______. He is Graham Coates. Mr. Coates worked in an office in Brighton, England. One Saturday, he went to the ______ to do some work. When he got in the lift to go home, it ______ between floors. Mr. Coates could not get out of the lift. He was stuck! He did not have a cell phone,   ______ he started to shout. However, no one heard him. Then Mr. Coates remembered that Monday was a holiday. No one was going to come to work until ______!

There was ______ for Mr. Coates to do. He had to wait until one of his workmates came to work and found him. With nothing to eat ______ drink, Mr. Coates ended up sleeping for most of the time.

Early on Tuesday morning, the president of the company came into work and found the lift was not ______.   When someone ______ opened the lift, Mr. Coates came out and he felt cold, weak, and ______. He had been in danger for sixty-two hours!

Joe was driving home on a road one evening. He just lost his job. It was winter and it was very cold, just like his feelings.

An old lady with a car was standing on one side of the road. She needed help, but no one stopped to help her. Joe stopped in front of her and got out of the car. The old lady looked very worried. Even when he put a smile on his face, the lady still looked worried. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe, and he looked poor and hungry.

Joe knew how she felt. He said, “I’m here to help you, madam. Why don’t you wait in my car? By the way, my name is Joe.”

The lady thought for a while and then went into his car. There was something wrong with her car. Joe went under her car to repair it. It took him a long time to repair the car. He got dirty and his hands hurt. Then the lady told him her name was Mercedes. She asked Joe how much she should pay for his help.

Joe never thought about getting money. This wasn’t a job to him. This was helping someone in need. He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person help.

Two weeks ago, I got $100 from a friend named Jason. He works in Smile Group. He asked me to do good things with the money. From then on, I used the money to help those in need.

One day I was looking at some old books in a shop. The bookshelves were just next to the toy shelf. I noticed a poorly dressed woman standing behind me. At that time, a little girl came over to the woman. The girl wanted a toy dog on the toy shelf. The mother asked the shop owner how much it was. The answer was $3. Then the woman said “no”. The child said nothing. Maybe “no” was not new to her. But I could see from the girl’s face that she was disappointed.

I went up to the woman, put $5 in her hand and said, “Buy your daughter a book, too.” Then I walked out of the shop. But I knew the little girl smiled in the end. I think the money my friend gave me is to help me collect smiles in the world.

Lin is a very kind girl. She is always ready to help people who are     61     trouble. Now Lin is studying in the University of Texas. At the same time, she volunteers     62     (teach) at Heart House in her free time. Heart House is a local(当地的) after-school study program for children.

It provides some extra education for children who are not doing     63     (good) in school. Lin goes to Heart House to teach the children     64     (two) a week. She also makes a website(网页) for Heart House. In this way, people will learn more     65     Heart House and better help the children there.

    66     (thank) to Lin’s website, every week 125 volunteers spend two hours     67     (help) the children at Heart House now. “    68     Lin’s website, Heart House would never be able to have enough volunteers,” the program leader says. “I feel happy to teach those kids     69     to study. I won’t give up     70     (volunteer). I hope to continue teaching kids who need help,” Lin says.

A volunteer is someone who performs or offers to perform a service out of his own free will(意愿), often without payment. The year 2001 was the International Year of the Volunteer. 2005 was the UK Year of the Volunteer.

Some volunteer for clinical trials(临床试验) or other medical research.(A)Some may even donate their bodies to scientific research after their death.

An online volunteer is a person who spends time and effort with an organization through an online connection, (B)rather than in person. A great number of people from around the world are online volunteers. Online volunteers can provide help in many fields. The practice of offering online help goes by other names.

There are many opportunities for people to donate their services using the Internet. Online volunteers can do (C)a variety of tasks. Young or old, anyone can spend his spare time online offering some help as an online volunteer. Are you ready to be an online volunteer?