1 . Danay Ferguson loves to read. Her parents often find her awake past her bedtime. “If you’re reading, you can be in your own world and do almost anything you want.” Danay says. To her, all books have a magic of their own.

Danay did some research because she wanted to open a bookstore. She learned that in low-income（收入）neighborhoods, there may be only one book for every 300 kids, while higher-income neighborhoods may be several books per household. Danay was shocked to find out that kids near her may not own books or get to visit a library. She decided that her dream of opening a bookstore needed to he changed.

So at the age of eight, Danay started an organization called Reading Heart to share her love of reading. Reading Heart collects books that are given away by people in the community. Then Danay and her family and friends hand them out for free to kids in schools, hospitals, and low-income neighborhoods.

After kids choose their books, Danay gives them a challenge. “They can keep their books for as long as they like,” she says. “But when they have finished it, they need to share it with a friend.” By trading books, Danay explains, kids get to read even more, yet still have a book to keep. “It’s like building mini libraries for each kid.” Once a year, Danay puts on a reading party at a neighborhood park.

Danay thinks it is special to help others discover the magic of reading. “It’s an amazing feeling to see kids’ smiles when they get a book for the first time.”

3 . Laura is only ten years old. She always does something meaningful on h    1     own.

Laura     2     (参加) a winter camp at the age of eight. During her stay in the camp, she went to v    3     some kids in poor areas. She felt     4     that the kids there didn’t have new clothes to wear and toys to play with. After she returned home, she kept     5     (思考) what to do to help those kids.

    6     morning Laura saw some elder kids selling lemon juice by the street. They wanted to raise     7     to help their friends. Then she     8     (想出) an idea.     9     (在……的帮助下) her mother, her first lemonade stand was     10     (建立). In week, it made $52.     11     it was only a little money, she helped 12 kids with it. She     12     ['hæpili] jumped into the air when she saw smile on their faces.

After that, her mother helped her start a program c    13     Laura’s Lemonade for Love. Up till now, she has already raised more than $17,000. She always s    14     the money on clothes, toys and books     15     the poor kids.

In some sense, the inner satisfaction is from giving not receiving. Helping others is as warm as sunshine.

4 . When I was 19 years old, I worked in a doctor’s office as a medical assistant (助理). I was shy and didn’t ________ myself, so I ________ talked with others. I was uncertain about my future.

I met a doctor there and became good friends with him. He ________ me to be confident and asked me to learn to communicate with others. He helped me accept ________ , and then he advised me to ________ one or two college classes. I did as what he told me and did very well.

One day, he asked me where I wanted to go ten years later and ________ I wanted my life to be like. I hadn’t thought about this before that day. That night, I ________ thought about the two questions. It was he that made me ________ a different world.

Later, I went to college and realized my ________ was to be accepted into a physician assistant training program. Unluckily, it was very ________ and I couldn’t afford it. When my dream was about to slip away(溜走), this wonderful man took me out one evening into a coffee shop and offered to help me ________ for my college education. And he didn’t ask ________ anything in return.

A few years later, I asked him why he helped me.

He said, “ ________ I knew you could be more than what you were, and because once, when I wasn’t sure whether I could succeed and didn’t have the money for school, ________ helped me.”

After ________ his words, I was shocked. I said, “Thank you, Joe! I will spread the love to others.”

6 . Seven years ago, Joyce Akinpe moved to Australia to start a new life, finding an exciting job in Sydney. After the outbreak (爆发) of COVID-19, she suddenly lost her job.

Seeing that there were many others like herself in trouble from the outbreak, Akinpe and her two roommates, Michele Gomez and Maureen Lee, brainstormed ideas for how to help their local community. They came up with a street pantry (储藏柜). Gomez said the idea was very simple, “Take what you need and leave what you can.”

With the help of Gomez’s father, they built the Blessing Box - a street pantry, with shelves and hanging baskets and two doors made from old furniture.

It sits just at the back of the three girls’ home, so they can look after it. They put some information notices into their neighbors’ mailboxes, and the Blessing Box was quickly filled with the donations (捐赠) from the community, “It is the community’s strong support that keeps the project alive,” Akinpe said.

We now have hundreds of people visiting our box every day. It might only an hour for the box to be full and next hour it might become empty again. “We are now helping others to carry out similar projects in their own communities, too”, Gomez said.

Lee said things in the box were mostly convenience foods, as well as some necessary life things such as spaghetti and toilet paper. “Few people take everything at once. They think there are other people who need them more.” Lee added.

There were many people rushing there for donations. The three girls needed to sanitize (消毒) all the donations and make sure all food packages were not broken. Gomez said that they had no time for rest, but what they did was well worth.

8 . Can everyone help him if an old man fall ill on the road? The answer is yes. Wang Ping is a 24-year-old bus driver. At about 10:00 a.m. yesterday, he saw a man lying on the road. A woman next to him was shouting for help. Wang Ping stopped the bus without thinking. He got off and asked the woman what happened. She said that the old man had a heart problem and we should take him to a hospital at once. Mr. Wang hoped all of persons could get off and wait for(等候) the next bus. But to his surprise(惊讶), all people would like to help him. Some of them helped Mr. Wang move the old man. The others were comforting the man.

The doctors saved the old man successfully. All people commended(赞扬) Mr. Wang for that action(行为). A person says, “Some people don’t want to help others because they don’t want to get into trouble（困难）.”But Wang Ping thought nothing about himself. He only thought about saving a life.

9 . Once there was a poor lady who lived on a hill near the seashore. Her husband died. She had no children and lived by herself. She was so poor that she had to work hard every day.

But one night as she sat at the table, the lady said to herself, "I wish I could be of some use to the world. Why can't I do good to someone else besides myself?" At last, she came up with an idea.

She decided that she would keep a lighted（点燃的）lamp at the window for the sailors every night. She found that ships sometimes hit the rocks in the sea, since there was no lighthouse（灯塔）to warn them of the danger at night. Maybe her lamp would warn them when their ships came near the rocks on the coast.

The lady felt glad when the thought came into her mind. She found that, if she worked an hour longer each night, she could make enough money to pay for the oil for the lamp. So she worked late and made money to buy the oil and then she placed the lamp at the window each night. In this way she saved many lives.

She did this for five years without any reward（报酬）, or the hope of reward. However, good deeds（行为）are often found out. The sailors whose lives had been saved began to send gifts to her from faraway countries. They sent her tea from China, cloth from India, silk from France and grapes from Spain. But the poor lady did not need these gifts to make her happy. She gave many of them to the poor and the sick.

She was happy with the thought that she was doing something good. So, as long as she lived, she would light her lamp each night and place it at the window.

10 . This is a story of an old man. I have seen him for years but never paid_______   attention to him. He always _______ a red hat and carried a rubbish bag. He usually spent his lunchtime_______around in that factory.   He_______ those used tins (罐)there.

One day, I was fixing one of the_______   machines when this"tin man" came with his bag wearing his hat. _______ , he picked up the tins, which were all around the place. My manager was standing there and watching us.

Several minutes_______, I heard my manager ask him, "How do you_______   those tins you have picked up?" "I will give them to my_______. He has neither the wife nor the child. What's ________,   his left leg got hurt badly.   He has________ in making a living," said the"tin man". I was ________ to hear that. I never thought about it________   I always considered that the"tin man"   would take them to the recycling center. So I asked him, "You mean you collect tins________ helping your neighbor?" "I know this does not help much," he said. "But I'll keep trying. He needs help."

The story of the "tin man" was really________. As the saying goes, "Roses given, fragrance in hand."