Anand is from a city in the south of India. In 2017, he was     1     as an engineer at a car factory.

One day that year, Anand and his friends passed by a dirty lake (湖泊). All of a sudden, he fell over and     2     into the lake. When his friends pulled him up, he remembered that this lake used to     3     very clean several years ago. He wondered, “    4     is it so dirty now?”

Anand planned to do something about it. He did a lot of study. Then, he found that this lake had once been part of a big network (网状系统) lakes. People built them to provide water     5     farmland (农田) about 1, 500 years ago.

Anand spent four months studying the network. And all this work won him a lot of prize money from     6     factory.

What’s next? Get people to join him! Luckily, Anand found     7     of volunteers. They began to work right away. By clearing the lake of waste, they opened up its blocked waterways (堵塞的水道). After that, they grew many plants around the lake. Six months     8    , when Anand boated on the clean lake, he found that everything was getting better and better. So he was filled with     9    .

Finally, Anand left his job to set up an organization to clean up more lakes for free. So far, it has cleaned up 35 lakes in the city. Anand’s work has not only made a big     10     to the environment, but also offered people clean water for farming and drinking. Anand really did a good job.

4 . Here are some ideas for you on how to help others through volunteering.

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When people get older, it becomes harder to do many things, from walking to the store to doing the housework. Old people living alone can also feel lonely. As a volunteer, you can do a lot to help the old in your neighborhood. You could visit them and help them with their housework.

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Many people with disabilities need help. You could volunteer to read books to the blind or deliver (递送) something for people who can’t get around too well.

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There are lots of volunteer jobs to do in hospitals and health care centers. As a volunteer, you can make beds, deliver flowers and gifts, help serve meals, and do lots of other important jobs.

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Some families don’t have enough money to buy food and clothes for their kids. Some people don’t have places to live at all. To help these people as a volunteer, you can give clothes, food or money to, or raise money for, a charity (慈善机构).

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Sometimes people need more help when the holidays come. Holidays are happy, but for people who are alone or unlucky, they can be a lonely, hard time. As a volunteer, you can deliver holiday dinners to less lucky people, visit the lonely old people and serve food to the homeless.

6 . It’s a Friday afternoon. School is over. Joey’s father is still at work, ________ he can’t drive Joey home from school. Then Joey plans to walk home with Chris. When the two boys walk and talk, they find an envelope (信封) on the street (街). “________ is it?” Joey says. “Oh, there is a ________ on it, Mary Hill. It can be hers.” Then he ________ the envelope.

“There is＄3,000 in it!” says Joey. “It’s so ________! Mary must be very worried (着急的) now. What can we do for ________, Chris?”

“We can wart for (等待) her here. She will ________ to look for it,” Chris ________ for a few minutes and says. “It’s a ________ idea. Let’s sit down and wait,” Joey says.

Thirty minutes later, _________ nobody (没有人) comes.

“What can we do now?” Joey asks again. “We can go to the police station (警察局) and tell the _________ that we found the money. They can _________ the woman,” says Chris. When they are ready (准备) to _________, a woman comes. She searches (搜寻) the street around the boys. “Hey, boys.Do you see an envelope?” she asks. “Yes. But can you tell us your name?” Joey asks. “I’m Mary Hill,” says the woman. Joey takes out the envelope and says “I think it is_________.”   “Yes, it is. Thank you very much. You two are so _________,” says she. “You are welcome,” Joey and Chris say.

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8 . Years ago, when I lived in England, part of my college volunteer job was to help children. I was chosen to work in a school with disabled children. The teacher asked me to take care of Nancy, a 10-year-old girl. One of her hands could not move. At her school, the teachers would think it was an achievement if she was able to put on her own coat. But I saw more in her. She had always wanted to put a string (细绳) through the hole of a key.

For five years, Nancy was in the school. The teachers always tried to help her, but always ended up doing all the work for her. I knew Nancy could do more, so I encouraged her to do something by herself. At first Nancy could never do it and got very upset. Sometimes I wanted to give up, too. However, after a week Nancy was able to do what she had wanted to do alone for so many years—she successfully put the string through the key hole. We all cried with joy when we saw what she was able to do with just a little encouragement.

With just some encouragement, disabled people can do something. I hope everyone will encourage people to do all that they want by themselves instead of telling them they can’t do it.

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