1 . March is the month to learn from Lei Feng in China. Lei Feng is probably the most famous Chinese soldier. He helped many people during his 22 years of life. He passed away more than 60 years ago. But the “Lei Feng spirit” still encourages Chinese people to do volunteer work. In 1963, Chairman Mao Zedong called on (号召) the nation to learn from Lei Feng, and each year’s March 5 has been named as “Lei Feng Day.”

At this time, a group of Malaysian students, studying at the Changsha Social Work College, volunteered to serve passengers at the Changsha Railway Station with their Chinese schoolmates. They worked patiently to help passengers with boarding safety (乘车安全) and ticket booking. They also provided waiting rooms for special passengers and solved problems for them.

“I was so excited when I was called a ‘living Lei Feng’! That was the highest praise for me as a volunteer!” said Lan Zhicong (Chinese name), an international student from Malaysia. He learnt about Lei Feng’s stories when he was in Malaysia. After he came to Changsha, the hometown of Lei Feng, he became a “living Lei Feng” and continued the “Lei Feng stories” with his behavior. “Volunteering is about giving, but I’ve gained a lot, too.” he said.

The Changsha Social Work College has organized a “learn from Lei Feng in Lei Feng’s hometown” activity this year. Several volunteer teams of teachers and students carried out different volunteer services at railway or bus stations, communities or campuses (校园) to carry forward the Lei Feng spirit.

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4 . 今年暑假，你所在的城市将举行青年运动会，人们都在积极地为迎接运动会做准备。为了更好地主办这次运动会，组委会将组建志愿者服务队。假如你是李华，想当一名志愿者，请你给组委会写一封英语书信，提出申请。

My name is Li Hua. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I am looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

5 . There were some big wildfires in Chongqing last summer. Although they were dangerous, we still saw many good people help in the big fires. Francis Stonier, a 43-year-old foreign teacher from Southwest University, was one of them.

The summer was very hot in Chongqing. One Sunday night, a forest fire broke out (爆发) and started to spread (扩散). The local government (当地政府) called for volunteers with special skills and experience to join in the firefighting.

Francis heard the news and decided to help. He said he had volunteered many times in Virginia, USA in the past. For example, he helped build houses for homeless people after big storms. He wanted to do something this time. So Francis signed up to fight fires. His work was to make sure the chainsaws (链) that would be used to create (创建) fire barriers (防火屏隆) worked well. During two hours of work, Francis group checked about 50 chainsaws and gave them to fire fighters. “Francis did a really good job. He checked each chainsaw carefully.” said He Wu, a 50-year-old teacher from Francis’ university. He was also one of the volunteers and a translator (翻译家) as well.

Thanks to people like Francis, the fire died out very soon. “Chongqing is my home. I really enjoy my life here.” Francis said, “The people here are very friendly. I’m planning to live here for along time, possibly even retire (退休) here.”

Last year, I worked as a volunteer (志愿者) at a Children’s Hospital in South Africa. My ________ was to help the kids feel happy when they were staying in the hospital. Sounds interesting, right? But some people can’t ________ why I did it.

Let me tell you why I did volunteering. To help make a greater future for people was the ________ reason. In this big world, so many people need help. Please look at the ________ in the hospital where I worked. They felt ________ and lonely when they faced all the difficulties. However, their parents had other kids to care for. So, why not try to help ________ as much as possible? That’s my idea.

Volunteering in Africa and ________ people there let me see other parts of this planet. It also ________ me a side of the world I did not know about before. I met people from all over the world, each with their own ideas, experiences and dreams. We got to share so much with each other. We cheered ________ for our success and grew together.

I really felt close to these people. I wanted to ________ to my country with new experiences and ideas so that, together, we can help more people and make a greater future for everyone!

9 . When I was eleven years old, my life changed forever when I got a serious disease. My life was ________ with operations and treatments. I felt worried because I was really not ________ about everything that was happening.

One day, I was receiving my thirteenth operation in the hospital. Being away from my friends and school was causing me almost as much pain as the operation ________.

During that hospital stay, I received a card from a volunteer. That simple ________ meant much to me and gave me hope again. I’ll never ________ the way I felt after that small act of kindness, I started creating an organization called Cards for Hospitalized (住院) Kids.

The charity (慈善) began with a simple dream of giving ________, joy land magic to those kids. It later ________ a national organization (组织) that sent cards to over 5, 000 sick kids at more than 50 hospitals across the country.

It is hard to believe that an act as simple as a card can do so much good, ________ it does. Seeing a picture of a child ________ one of our cards with a huge smile makes us keep this wonderful charity alive. ________ might provide medicine for these sick kids, but we provide that little bit of hope and magic that’ll go a long way.