1 . 假如你所在中学的校刊近期开辟英文专栏，征集发生在大家身边的感人故事。请根据以下提示，为该专栏投稿。

On a cold morning, people in our community were ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4 . Today, Mike and Tom are going to the zoo. They are waiting ________ a bus.

A red bus stops ________ the bus stop. Mike and Tom ________ on the bus. “Here is a seat for ________, Mike.” “No, thank you. There is ________ seat at the front. I can ________ there.”

The bus stops at the next stop. An old man gets on the bus. Mike and Tom ________ stand up. Tom says, “Here’s a seat, Grandpa. Please sit here.”

Mike also says, “Please ________ here and have my seat, Grandpa.”

“Mine is ________ the door. So take this seat, please, Grandpa.” Says Tom.

“Thank you. That’s very nice ________ you.” Says the Grandpa

5 . Each nation has many volunteers（志愿者） who help to take care of others. They ________ books to the people in hospitals or homes for the aged. Sometimes they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their ________.

Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or ________. They paint, clean up, ________ their houses or do their shopping. For boys who no longer have ________, there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or fishing places and help them to get to know things that boys ________ learn from their fathers.

Each city has a number of ________ where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts（工艺）. Some of these clubs organize short trips to the mountains, beaches, or other places of interest ________. Most of these clubs use high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to ________ the names of boys and girls.

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

6 . This story will warm you better than a coffee on a cold winter day.

One day, my friend and I ________ a little coffee house and ordered two cups of coffee. ________ we were waiting, two young men came in and began to order, “Five cups of coffee, please. Two of them for us and three suspended（待用）.” They ________ for their order, took the two and left. I asked my friend, “What are those ‘suspended’coffees?” ________ giving me the answer, he told me to wait and see.

Some more people came. Two girls ________ one coffee each, paid and went away. Then came three lawyers who paid for seven coffees—three for themselves and four suspended. While I still wondered ________ the suspended coffees were, I enjoyed the sunny weather and the beautiful view ________ the coffee house. Suddenly a poor man like a beggar（乞丐） came into the coffee house. He kindly ordered a suspended coffee and sat there ________ it.

At that moment, I knew the meaning of the suspended coffees. It’s simple—people pay the coffee in advance（预先）for someone who can’t ________ it. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Italy, but it has spread all over the world. Meanwhile, I understood suspended coffee is not only a cup of coffee, but also the ________ and love to someone in need.

Mr. Daves is an 80-year-old man and he lives alone. He has a 40-year-old friend named John. They often go fishing together. They have already fished in the same lake for over 15 years, but they have n    1     been tired of (厌烦) it.

However, just a few years ago, Mr. Daves had a stroke (中风) and he couldn’t walk or speak, s    2     he was put into an old people’s home. Lying in bed and being u    3     to communicate with others, he felt very sad.

When John got the news of Mr. Daves’ illness, his heart was almost broken. He wanted to do something to make the old man happy. He w    4     to the old people’s home and got permission (允许) to take Mr. Daves out for a trip in his car. They were both excited. However, it was very difficult for Mr. Daves to be lifted into John’s car, so John felt w    5     about this. Then one day he had an idea. He decided to s    6     his lovely car and buy a truck so that he could put a wheelchair in it. Two days later, he had a truck. Since then, he has used his truck to take the old man out for a t    7     every day.

Last year John bought a special fishing rod (竿) for Mr. Daves so that they can still go fishing together. Even though Mr. Daves can’t talk, he has let the n    8     in the old people’s home believe John is his son.

Thanks to John, Mr. Daves is still enjoying life now. John is really great. He g    9     up his lovely car to help a friend—a person who is in need. He is surely a good e    10     for others.

8 . Last Monday, a school bus driver made a quick stop to go to the bathroom in a gas station while on the way to school. But the bus didn’t stop without him. Moments after the driver got off, the bus began to run down the mountain, with 27 young students on the bus.

But luckily, an 11-year-old student, David, went to the driver’s seat and began to drive the school bus. He couldn’t stop the bus running down the mountain, but he stopped the bus from running into a car. At last he stopped the bus on a bridge and luckily everyone on the bus was all right.

David’s mother got surprised when she learned about what her son did. “I saw the bus. It nearly ran down the bridge,” she told the reporter. “I couldn’t believe that he could stop the bus all by himself.”

David kept very quiet about the accident, but he was really a hero. “If he didn’t drive the bus, all the students might go down into the river with the bus,” said Brian, a teacher in the school. “He saved all of those children’s lives.”

10 . I am a volunteer(志愿者) in Saving the Environment Club(环保俱乐部) of my school. The children grow(种植) vegetables and take care of animals. Students at Gateway International School have started farming a small piece of land in the school. The students in the school are from different countries, such as England and America.

“To make the children develop(建立) friendship between children from different countries, we asked them to grow vegetables. They were excited about the idea,” said Grace, the head teacher of the school. “They give part of the harvest to us and we cook it for them. We will ask the parents to buy the vegetables planted by the children.

The students also learn to keep pets(养宠物). Every day they feed the animals in the morning and look after them through the day. It’s a good way for them to learn something new

Peter, a student in Grade 8, said, “I understand how farmers work. When we grow the vegetables ourselves, we will not waste(浪费) them. It is a very interesting hobby.”

A parent said happily, “Now they are learning to love the environment. They will learn a lot from these activities(活动).”