1 . I am a junior high school student in Shenzhen. Today, I want to share my _______ as a volunteer (志愿者) in a marathon (马拉松) with you.

The Shenzhen Marathon was on December 3rd and it attracted (吸引) more than 20, 000 _______ from all over the world. I was one of the volunteers in the race. It was a rainy and cold morning. I _______ early and arrived there at 6:30 a.m. to help build a station. All the volunteers filled (装满) up water in _______ and passed them to the runners. As the runners were all in a hurry(匆忙), they had to _______ the cups on the ground after drinking the water. My _______ was to pick up the cups and throw them into the dustbin. When I did that, many people said “_________” to me. Even though it was rainy and cold, I felt very ________. After working for about an hour, my jacket and hair were all _______ . But I kept on picking up the cups and didn’t feel tired at all.

I learned a lot from my voluntary work. We should ________ think about things from another person’s perspective (角度). Maybe what you saw is not what people actually wanted to do. I enjoy being a volunteer to help and serve!

Beijing-zhangjiakou Winter Olympic Games will be held in the year of 2022. Would you like to be part of it? Come and join us now.

Volunteer are needed: 27,000 for Beijing 2022 Olympie Winter Games and 12,000 for the Beijing 2022 Paralympie Winter Games (冬季残奥会).

What are you waiting for? Join us and be a volunteer now!

Serving the hungry

Community service (社区服务) is unpaid work that we do to help others. My school asks students to do community service. Doing this kind of service not only helps others, but also allows us to examine real-world problems.

Homelessness is a big problem all over the world and is especially serious in Los Angeles, where I live. In Los Angeles, over 60,000 people have no choice but to live on the streets. In order to help these people, I have volunteered for different organizations where I make and hand out food to homeless people.

One of these volunteer programs is called Share A Meal. On Thursday nights, volunteers for Share a Meal meet at a food truck (卡车), where we take turns making burritos (墨西哥卷饼). Burritos are high in calories and protein, making them ideal (完美的) for homeless people. Volunteers also bring water and bananas.

After making the burritos, we drive around to neighborhoods, handing out burritos and other foods to groups of homeless people. Interacting (互动) with them has been a very valuable experience. Their life stories sometimes make me sad, but their warmth and hope for the future are great to see. This experience has made me want to do my best to be a helpful person in my community.

Glad to give a hand to a girl

In a busy bus station, a little girl sits alone on a bench (长椅). She seems to be lost.

A man walks up to her. He is a father himself, so he feels worried about this little girl. He asks, “Are you alright? Are your parents here with you?”

The little girl does not even look up at him! But he sits down next to her and touches her shoulder (肩膀). The little girl lifts her head and he sees that she’s crying.

He gives her a warm smile and holds out his hand. She looks scared, but she takes his hand. He takes her to the station’s information desk and makes an announcement (广播) over the speakers.

Minutes later, a woman comes in a hurry. As soon as she sees the little girl, she runs up to her and hugs (抱住) her tightly.

Then she turns to the man and says, “Thank you so much. I was looking for her everywhere. I could not announce it here because she is deaf.”

Now the man understands why the little girl did not answer him at first. He just feels glad that he could help her.

5 . In Darayya, a city in Syria (叙利亚), there’s a special library. It was about 15,000 books on almost every subject, but it is ________ other libraries. It is an underground (地下的) library, and only people in Darayya know where it is.

Over the years, because of war (战争), the city was ________ broken. Every day, many people left their homes. ________ couldn’t go to school. To help the kids with their ________, Anas Ahmad, a 19-year-old student, and his friends had the idea of ________ a library. To stop it from being bombed (被轰炸), at last, they ________ to build it underground. But they would be in great ________ to get books for the library. Why? Because Ahmad and his friends usually looked for books in the broken houses—they needed to be very ________, or they might die. But this didn’t stop them.

You may ask, “In Darayya, would people be interested in books?” “Just like the body needs food, the ________ needs books,” said one library user. In the library, people can enjoy their reading time and ________ about the terrible world above for a short time. Through reading, they can dream of a better life after the war.

10 . Dale is a 7-year-old boy. He has a good ________ at school. Her name is Mary. They are in the ________ class. Dale likes Chinese. He thinks it’s ________ and Mary does, too. Dale goes to school and goes home ________ Mary. They like tennis and they always ________ it after school.

One day at home, Dale says, “Mom, I want to lend（借）you to Mary.”

“Lend me to Mary? ________ do you want to do that?” his mother asks.

“All the students in my class have their mothers, ________ Mary doesn’t.” says Dale, “She doesn’t have a mother and she wants one.”

“You want to ________ your friend. I’m very happy.” says his mother. “I can be her mother. She can ________ to our home after class and I can take care of her.”

Dale is very ________ and says, “Mum, you’re so nice to my friend. I love you!”