One rainy afternoon, I had nothing to do at home and felt very bored. “Why not volunteer to meet people and try something new?” I thought. So I turned on my computer and on a website（网站）, I found a _________ that wanted some volunteers for a month. It was summer holiday, so I _________ go. I sent them an e-mail, and soon I worked there.

On the farm, I _________ fifteen horses and fifteen sheep! I soon found I was a terrible “father”. But I was _________ happy because I made some great friends and also improved my French. In fact, you needn’t go to other countries to _________. I’ve had lots of volunteer experiences at home, too.

It is true that helping others makes us feel _________, but volunteering can bring other good things, too. I once volunteered in a clothes shop so I could fill my wardrobe（衣橱）_________ lots of nice cheap clothes.

Volunteering is really fun, _________ my favorite part of volunteering is creating and sharing stories. My _________ on the farm gave me many funny stories to tell. Volunteers from different countries also helped me __________ more about the world. I feel thankful to have had so much fun with many nice people because of volunteering!

【推荐2】My 12-year-old niece was staying with us for a little while. One night we stayed up talking about how we used to ______ and take part in random (随机的) acts of kindness. We talked about how so much had changed, and how it would be ______ to do so many of those things now, ______ when it came to helping out strangers.

The next day, I ______ something from downtown and took her with me. As we walked around, we heard a beautiful male voice singing. We turned around to see a middle-aged man ______ on a corner with his guitar. A couple was sitting on a bench nearby and listening to his ______.

After I ran my errand (差事), we expected to sit at an outdoor restaurant across from him on ______ side of the street. My niece kept ______ and saying how wonderful his singing was. Seeing how moved she was by his music, at the end of our ______, I gave her a $10 bill and asked her to put it in his bowl.

She was ______, but headed over. As she got ______, the man was just finishing a song, and they had a conversation. She told him how touched she was ______ his music, and he told her she made ______ day exciting. As she was excitedly talking about the ______ with me, she mentioned, “He didn’t even know how much it was. He just ______ that someone was enjoying his music.”

【推荐3】Life is full of the unexpected. This is a true story. One evening, a woman was _______ home when she saw a truck close behind her. She drove more quickly to be far away from the truck, _________ when she sped up（加速）, the truck did, too. The _________ she drove, the faster the truck drove. The woman felt afraid, so she drove onto a main street, hoping to _________ the truck in a traffic. But the truck jumped a _________ light and went on running after her.

Finally the woman drove her car into a service station, and got out of her car, shouting for _________. The truck driver didn’t leave, instead he went to the woman’s car. He _________ the back door, and pulled out a man hidden（藏）in the back seat. The woman was running from the wrong person. The woman was _________ at last.

From the place where the woman stopped her car, the driver _________ a criminal（罪犯）in the woman’s car. The driver drove after her not to _________ her but to help her.

【推荐1】There are many earthquakes in some countries. But _______ do not have any. For example, there are _______ earthquakes in Britain. There is _______ a great sound during an earthquake. The ground moves and the houses _______. Sometimes lots of people _______ their lives in the earthquake. Earthquakes may also happen at sea or near volcanoes（火山）, _______ not very often. The force（力量）inside the Earth can destroy rocks. It is strong enough to _______ houses and other buildings come down. Sometimes it breaks _______ buildings than the earthquake itself does. An earthquake _______ in India in 1986. The land moved 5.5 feet to one side and then back again. People ________ nothing about it.

Every year, thousands of people’s lives are affected by disasters. This week, in News Magazine a disaster survivor, Fiona Jones, tell us her stories.

NW: Fiona, you were in a cyclone(飓风). _______ was that?

FJ: In north Australian, in Normanton. That’s where I live.

NW: What did you do when the cyclone arrived?

FJ: We all stayed inside, in the basement, because that’s the safest place. We could hear the   _______ coming closer and closer. The noise was awful. At one point there was a really              loud noise. I thought: ‘That’s it! It’s going to destroy the house!’ I was shaking.

NW: And what happened after the cyclone?

FJ: There were terrible floods. More than 360 millimetres of rain came down in just twenty-four hours. The army had to bring food and water to the whole area by plane and helicopter. The _______ thing was that waves from the coast and rivers flooded the land and carried three crocodiles(鳄鱼) to near my house! One of my neighbours hit a crocodile with his car – it was 1.6 metres long.   

NW: Really? That’s unbelievable! So is everything back to normal again now?

FJ: Not really. The floods have gone, but they destroyed a lot of homes and farms. It’s going to cost at least 110 million dollars to_________this damage.

NW: So is the weather _______ this bad?

FJ: No, but this summer was very hot. If it stays hot , there will probably be another cyclone.

All the experts say that the extreme temperatures and heavy rain will only _______ because of climate change.

【推荐1】Everyone admires heroes. When we are asked who are our heroes, someone well-known like Yang Liwei or Zhong Nanshan may come into our _________. They make a big difference to the world. However, there are “everyday” heroes in our daily life. They may not be so _________ to the public, but these common people are also working hard to build a better world. Among them is Sun Jun.

Sun Jun comes from a poor village. The villagers used to have no enough food. He knew much about the _________. When he was a college student, he found that the problem of food waste was more and more _________. He started to collect unsold food from restaurants and stores for homeless people.

After graduating, Sun Jun joined a volunteer _________ called Green Food Bank, which was set up in Shanghai in 2014. The purpose is to build a bridge between people who are ready to help others and those who are _________. It works by collecting and _________ free food for the poor, the disabled and so on.

Sun’s team developed a phone app. It can _________ how much food restaurants leave each day. Usually, the workplaces of volunteers are not far from the restaurants, _________ they can just walk there to get the food for free. Then it can be given out in just a few hours.

So far, Sun and his team have done something _________ to the society. On the on hand, they’ve saved a lot of food. On the other hand, they’ve helped some people. _________, more volunteers and restaurants join them now. The small actions of these heroes can make a _________ influence than we imagine.

Why does Sun do all these things? He says, “Thanks to Grandpa Yuan Longping we are almost no longer _________ of food. We need to think about how to _________ wasting. There’s a long way to go, but I won’t _________ halfway. It’s just the start. We still have much to do.”

【推荐2】We all look up to heroes. When we are asked ________ our heroes are like, well-known characters like Yuan Longping or Yang Liwei may come to our minds. They all make a big difference to the world. ________ there are “everyday” heroes in our daily life. They may not be so ________ to the public, but these common people are also working hard to build a better world. Among them is Sun Jun.

Sun Jun comes from a poor village. The villagers didn’t use to have enough food. He knew much about ________. He learned to save food at an early age. When he was a college student, he found that the problem of food waste was more and more ________. He started to collect unsold food from restaurants and stores for homeless people.

After leaving college, Sun Jun joined a volunteer organization called Green Food Bank, which was set up in Shanghai in 2014. The purpose of the organization is to build a bridge between people who are ready to help others and those who are ________. It works by collecting and ________ free food for the poor, the disabled and so on.

So far, Sun Jun and his team have done something ________ to the society. On the one hand, they’ve saved a lot of food. On the other hand, they’ve helped some people. More volunteers and restaurants join them now. The small actions of these heroes can make a ________ influence (影响) than we imagine.

Sun Jun says, “Thanks to Grandpa Yuan Longping, we are almost no longer short of food. There’s a long way to go for stopping wasting, but we won’t ________ halfway. It’s just the beginning. We still have much to do.”

【推荐3】I don’t usually watch TV at night. Last Thursday night, I finished my homework early and _______ to watch TV for half an hour. To my surprise, there was a wonderful _______.

The program was about food waste (食品浪费). It asked cooks (厨师) to make meals from food that people threw away (扔掉). The cooks went to _______ to find food. They found lots of bread. The bread was three days old but was _______ very good. At some street markets they found bananas and strawberries. The _______ was a little brown, but it was OK to eat!

From the program, I learned how much food people throw away every week. It is _______. We waste so much food because we _______ so much and we can’t eat it all! The program also showed that some farmers throw away a lot of their vegetables because they aren’t the right _______ for the shops! People don’t want carrots when they are very big or very small, _______ the farmers throw them away or give them to pigs!

The program showed people that food waste is a big problem. We must ________ food waste together. From now on, I will eat everything in the fridge (冰箱).