2 . Debby Tewa comes from Arizona, the USA. When she was very young, her home had no electricity. She couldn’t read at night. And her family cooked over a fire. When she was ten, she moved to a new home with electricity! She could turn on a light and use a phone. She liked it!

When she grew up, Debby started to learn more about electricity, especially solar energy. Solar energy is made when people put solar panels(太阳能电池板) on top of buildings. The sunlight hits these panels and is turned into electricity.

Later, Debby went to work for a company that provided solar energy for people’s homes. She believed it would be a good solution(解决办法) for people living without electricity. She also believed that solar power would work well in villages and small towns in Arizona because there was lots of sun there. Debby decided to help those families.

To get a family started, Debby helped them borrow money from a bank to buy the panels. And the good news was that there was no cost for using the sun’s power!

Debby also traveled to other cities in Arizona and New Mexico to help people get solar energy. Debby loved her work very much and taught people about solar energy.

Debby drove her truck from place to place. It was lonely with no one riding along. But when she thought about how exciting it was for people to use electricity, she was happy. Debby said she was “lighting up people’s lives”.

Volunteering in your community helps you give back. You’ll feel great when you are volunteering your time for your community. If you want to start volunteering, find an organization that ________ you, and then decide what to help with.

Use a(n) ________ site to find a good match. Much ________ job search sites, you can use volunteer sites like VolunteerMatch or Serve.gov to help you find volunteering jobs in your area.

Talk to your friends and family. If you ________ can’t decide where to volunteer, start asking people you know where they volunteer. You may find one of them to offer you a ________, and it can make it ________ to volunteer with someone you know for the first time. Volunteering with friends can make it more ________ because you are with people you know.

Pick an organization that will teach you ________ new. Volunteer opportunities (机会) can be ________ good for you. They can give you the experience you don’t have. Some organizations will also give ________ training and career (职业) development. For example, volunteering at a ________ can teach you something about the healthcare system (医疗体制), ________ volunteering at a library can teach you about community programs and library organization. If you volunteer in the park system, you’ll learn about ________ to run (经营) a park.

You could also choose organizations to develop the ________ you already have. ________, if you are good at another language, you could offer your skills as a translator to community organizations, improving your skills along the way.

8 . Yan Minwen, a retired(退休的) engineer in Beijing. set up a free class to teach left-behind children in her hometown in Hebei Province.

Although Yan is not a teacher, it is a common wish of her and her husband to open such a class in the village. She told her husband that she wanted to open a class in her hometown, and her husband agreed.

However, before she set up the “small desks”, her husband fell ill and died. Yan was very sad, but she didn’t forget their wish. She rented(租) a room from her uncle, bought some used desks and chairs and started the class on March 23.

There are 19 students from Grade One to Seven in Yan’s class. Yan knows about each child well and talks about them as if they were her own grandchildren. They learn together and work together to solve problems.

“It is not about teaching. but about company(陪伴),” Yan said.

After learning that Yan is teaching in the village to help left-behind children, her old classmates send books to her every now and then to help her.

Some young people also want to help with “small desks” and Yan is always happy to see this happen. She said, “I am too old to take care of the class all by myself.” Yan wants to see more volunteers help these left-behind children and is planning to open a library in the village as soon as possible.

Last Saturday I did some volunteer work for a group called Friends of Cherry Valley with some kids. I     1     myself although I was tired.

We arrived there very     2     in the morning. It was very beautiful and the air was fresh. All of     3     were excited.

During the day, we did many     4     kinds of activities. One of them was planting sunflowers. So many children had the chance（机会）to play in the dirt（泥土）,    5     it into boxes, and plant the sunflower seeds（种子）. We worked and laughed. I felt time went by     6    . Several hours later, when we finished, I had more dirt on me     7     the kids. However, I felt very     8    .

Besides, there were many other     9     such as birdhouse building, fishing and swimming, and so much more! Of course, we had free     10     and drinks for everyone!

We’re planning another volunteer work in October. We cannot wait     11     out and see all of the children again.