【推荐1】Last month, I joined a club called “Passing Help”. This group was set up to help somebody out and pass help along. _________ did I join it? Let me tell you the reason.

One afternoon in winter, my old car broke down _________ my way home. It was 30 miles from my home. It’s too far to go home on foot. I wanted to find a taxi but there wasn’t one. _________ I decided to take a bus home.

I waited at a bus stop nearby. It was _________ and everything looked white. After a while, a bus came, but it didn’t go to my town. The bus driver was a young woman. She was kind and she told me which bus I should take. I waited there for about thirty minutes, but _________ bus came. A car came to me and a woman came out of the car at last. She was just the bus _________.

“When I reached the bus station, I knew that the bus to your town couldn’t come, so I returned here. I just can’t _________ you here,” she said, “Get in my car and I will take you back to your home.”

“It’s a long _________,” I said.

“Come on, sir,” she said, “Let’s go.”

On the way she told me a story. A few days _________, there wasn’t gas in her car. An old man drove her up to a gas station and then back with some gas.

When I __________ home, I wanted to give her some money to thank her, but she didn’t accept it. “I only want to do something helpful for somebody. Pass help along,” she said.

【推荐2】I grew up very poor and with a single mom in the throws of addiction(吸毒成瘾). Often there was no money for food, and I was very _______

On my fifth birthday, a couple close family members were invited to go to a park to celebrate my birthday. No cake, no presents, not a problem. Except for my aunt. She had an ______ in her hand.

Before everyone sang happy birthday, I saw a little boy, probably my age, and a woman, digging in the park dumpster for ______. Something happened to me. I begged my mom to invite them to my party but my mother ______. She said no.

I didn't know others are hungry like me until that day. It hurt my heart. I   _____them when my aunt handed me an envelope. I opened it and I saw there was 100 dollar in it. But my mother was ______ that my aunt would give me such a large amount of money.

We were poor, I didn't eat 3 days a week, I had a very _______childhood. But I had never dug in a dumpster(垃圾箱)for food.

My aunt told me I can do ______ I want with that money. So I did. I walked to the dumpster to the boy and his mother. I _______to the boy that it was my birthday and my one present was a $100, and I wanted to give it to them. There were so many tears and thank yous.

I and my aunt understood how ______ it was to give the only money I've ever seen away. My mother never did. I paid dearly for the action that night. But it was worth it.

【推荐3】Two years ago, Daniel decided to take part in volunteer work. He ________ to work as a barber (理发师). He spent Saturdays giving free haircuts to ________ kids so that they’d look cool on their first day of classes. But he had a game time. “The kids should receive their free haircut by ________ a book to me,” Daniel said.

The idea was so ________ that he continued it for the next two years. Five-to-ten-year-old kids would sit in the barber chair with a book, and read loudly. If they had difficulty in reading it, Daniel was there to ________.

“These poor kids are excited to learn. They want to open their minds.” Said Daniel. He believes that not every ________ has enough time to read with their kids. “You are working on your jobs, and you have to clean the house or cook dinner.________ maybe you don’t have time to listen to them reading. That’s why I say bring your kids in and let them read to ________.” Daniel said to those parents.

“There was a seven-year-old boy who had trouble in reading ________.” Said Daniel. He let the boy take the book home and practice. “When the child came back a few days later, he read it with no problem. That ________ me,” He said.

The barbershop is a wonderful place for the kids. They can not only read books but also get help from free reading.