I want to say thanks to my mother, the greatest mother in the world. She taught me many things about life.

When I was in Grade Seven, I did a wrong thing. We had a math class and I knew everything already, so I felt the class was boring. And I decided to put a pen into one of my ears for fun. That made my classmates laugh. My teacher was angry and told me not to do that.

But I put another pen into the other ear for a few minutes. The students laughed again. My teacher took me to the headmaster’s office. The only problem was that the headmaster was my mother.

To my surprise, she just had a short talk with me. From those words I knew she was sad and disappointed. That was not what I wanted to see. She gave me a lesson by her kindness and love.

Here are some ideas for you on how to help others through volunteering.

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When people get older, it becomes harder to do many things, from walking to the store to doing the housework. Old people living alone can also feel lonely. As a volunteer, you can do a lot to help the old in your neighborhood. You could visit them and help them with their housework.

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Many people with disabilities need help. You could volunteer to read books to the blind or deliver (递送) something for people who can’t get around too well.

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There are lots of volunteer jobs to do in hospitals and health care centers. As a volunteer, you can make beds, deliver flowers and gifts, help serve meals, and do lots of other important jobs.

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Some families don’t have enough money to buy food and clothes for their kids. Some people don’t have places to live at all. To help these people as a volunteer, you can give clothes, food or money to, or raise money for, a charity (慈善机构).

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Sometimes people need more help when the holidays come. Holidays are happy, but for people who are alone or unlucky, they can be a lonely, hard time. As a volunteer, you can deliver holiday dinners to less lucky people, visit the lonely old people and serve food to the homeless.

Every day cars kill or bump (撞伤) many people on roads. Sometimes the drivers drive too _______ or do not drive carefully enough. Some of them _______ traffic rules and cause accidents.

According to some researches (调查), it is usually the pedestrians (行人) who cause the _______. A lot of road users are very careless. They walk or run _______ the roads in front of the cars. Some do not take the trouble to _______ the green lights and simply cross the roads against the red lights. A CCTV news program showed that in only an hour, more than 500 people jumped _______ lights when crossing a road in Suzhong, Jiangsu.

Many people think accidents often happen in _______ roads in large cities, but this is not always true. _______, Tokyo is one of the world’s largest cities and probably one of the busiest cities. However, there are _______ accidents to pedestrians. That is because the ________ there are very strict and the pedestrians are very careful. Pedestrians never cross the roads against a red light and they ________ follow the traffic rules.

Do you know alcohol (酒精) is another main ________ of traffic accidents? It makes people’s reaction (反应) slow. Those who have drunk alcohol are ________ in making decisions. They need a few more seconds to react. Drinking alcohol is ________ dangerous for motor car drivers. It is not only drivers who may have accidents ________ drinking, drunk pedestrians may put their lives in danger as well.

As young students, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as     36     the Nobel Prize; they can also be small, such as becoming one of the     37     students in your class. Once you have a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever     38     to make your dream come true?

Andrew Matthews, an Australian     39    , tells us that making your dreams real is life’s biggest challenge (挑战). You may think you’re not very good at every school     40    , or that to become a writer is difficult for you. Those kinds of ideas stop you     41     realizing (实现) your dream. In fact, everyone can realize his dream. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is.

Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling     42     what you want every day and then your dream will come true faster. You should know that a big dream is, in fact, made up of (由……组成) many     43     ones. You must also never give up your dream. There will be     44     on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important and make a     45     to follow your dreams.

I was not a confident girl before. I never thought I could do one thing     46     best. But last summer holiday, a trip to Mount Tai changed me greatly.

We arrived there early in the morning and began to climb. Soon all of us felt tired and we stopped to have a rest. While we     47     having a rest, my mother changed her mind and decided not to climb anymore. I couldn’t decide whether to stay there     48     go on climbing with my father. “No matter how hard it is, I am sure you can get there,” said my father. So again we started the hard journey. We were very tired, but we kept going on and on. Another hour     49     , we got to the top. It was really beautiful. I was so excited     50     I couldn’t help shouting, “I made it! I can make it!”

I learned a lot from the trip!