1 . Two years ago, I took a bus to visit a friend living on a farm in the UK. My friend promised to _________ me up from the bus station.

Once I _________ off the bus, I took my two suitcases and walked to the pickup area. Unluckily, my friend got stuck in the heavy traffic and I had to wait for an hour at the area. To make things _________, it started raining heavily half an hour later. Looking _________, I was sad to find that there was no place to hide from the rain. Just as I was feeling _________, a man driving a car stopped in front of me and handed me his _________. I asked for his address so that I could mail it back when I didn’t use it. To my _________, the man said, “You don’t have to give it back. Just pass the umbrella on to _________ who needs it when your car arrives.”

When my friend finally arrived, I gave the umbrella to a lady carrying a baby. She just arrived at the pickup area. _________ I left, I asked her to give the umbrella to other people in need of it. When I got to my friend’s farm, I was very tired, but happy that I was able to pass __________ on to others.

5 . “Mom, my dancing shoes are too small!”

“Again?”

“Again!”

It was one day about five years ago. Both of us were asking our mom for new dancing shoes. Our ________ had grown. It was time for a quick stop at the dancewear store.

“Didn’t I just buy you shoes two months ago?” Mom said as she walked into our room. ________ emptied out our drawers looking for footwear. And guess what she found! In the drawers were countless bags of ________ dancing shoes and more than 100 costumes (演出服) from our years of performances. We sat in our room and ________ about what to do with them. Donate 2 Dance was then born. We wanted to collect seldom used dancewear and shoes and give them to dancers in ________.

________ did we want to do this? Well, my sister and I were lucky enough to have danced for ten years. We were lucky enough to have been able to take lessons from really great teachers. We were lucky to be in a family that could pay for buying new shoes and dancewear whenever we needed them. Many kids love to dance, ________ not everyone is as lucky as us. Many young dancers cannot pay for new shoes or dancewear as they grow.

So far, we have helped more than 60,000 dancers around the world. Many people, including some famous dancers, have ________ us. Every day, we come home and see boxes of donations (捐赠品) from warm-hearted dancers.

It has been ________ to see all these dancers coming together to support one another. We love reading the thank-you letters we get from the receivers. It’s a great ________ to know that every day we are helping someone.

6 . If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others? Nowadays, more and more young people in America volunteer (志愿) to spend their school holidays working for others. Here are some of their plans.

Jim, 16 years old

I’m going to help the Forest Centre build a new road in the mountains. I’ll spend the whole summer living in the tent and breathing the clean mountain air. I’m going to sleep under the stars. It will be a nice sport, and I’ll be able to do something good at the same time.

Susan, 15 years old

This summer, I’m going to work for Special House Program. They build good, low-cost houses and sell them to families that are not very rich. They’ll teach me what to do, so I’ll help people and also have a chance to learn how to build houses.

Michael, 17 years old

I’m going to teach children who have difficulty reading. I’ll work for a program called Reading for Life with my friend called Tom. Every day, I’m going to help children choose and read books that they like. I want to be a teacher and I love children, so this is going to be a great experience for me.

7 . After serving as a doctor in the village for over 50 years, Ma Wenfang, who is from a village of Henan Province, still likes people calling him a “barefoot (赤脚的) doctor”.

“Back in the 1950s and 1960s, there was no doctor in our village,” Ma said. Ma’s mother died of typhoid (伤寒) at the age of 32 in 1961. His younger brother also died of the same disease in less than two months. 10-year-old Ma saw his family die, he made up his mind to become a doctor.

After finishing his studies in middle school in 1967, Ma started to have medical training as a barefoot doctor. He learned both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. Finally, Ma won the villagers’ trust through his hard work. In the 1960s, malaria (疟疾) made many people lost their lives and people had no idea how to control it. Ma visited his village’s families one by one to tell them about malaria. If someone was not at home, Ma would go out to look for him or her. When some villagers refused to take the medicine, Ma would persuade them into accepting it.

In the 1990s, Ma said he had more than 150 patients a day at the busiest time. At that time, he could make some money. After saving some of the money for his family, Ma used the rest to help poor villagers.

Now people live a better life and they want better medical services. And Ma still tries his best to help the villagers.

8 . There is a school called the Huaping High School for Girls in Lijiang, Yunnan Province. Its headmaster (校长) Zhang Guimei opened it twelve years ago and she has sent 1, 804 girls here to great colleges (大学) all over the country.

In 1996, when Zhang Guimei came to teach in Huaping, she found many young girls left school at a very young age. They went to work or got married because their families didn’t have money. To let these young girls have a good education, Zhang decided to open a free school for them.

After years of hard work, the Huaping High School for Girls finally opened. Zhang almost gave all her life to the students here. Some girls were afraid of the dark teaching building when they came to school early, so Zhang went to the school at 5 a. m. and turn on the lights of the teaching building for them. When the students studied in the classroom late at night, Zhang kept staying with them at school. Zhang also kept visiting the students’ homes to know more about them.

Zhou Yunli was one of Zhang’s students. She became a middle school teacher in a big city after finishing college. When hearing that her old school needed some math teachers, Zhou Yunli went back to her home town right away, “Without Ms. Zhang’s school, I would be nobody. It’s time for me to repay (报答) her and my old school.”

Zhang Guimei is the headmaster of Huaping High School for Girls, who has been given the title “Role Model of the Times” for     1     girls from poor families. She believes     2     is very important to the girls. She moved to Lijiang to teach in the middle school in Huaping county     3     the age of 17. Once, she got badly ill but had no money. The local people raised money and helped her. “From then on, I told myself that I must do something for those people who helped me,” Zhang said. She was sad when she saw her     4     couldn’t afford (负担得起) to go to school.     5    , a dream appeared in her heart. In 2008, she managed to     6     up Huaping High School for Girls. This is a free school for girls from poor families. When people asked why she     7     so hard, she just said, “I hope these girls can live a     8     life than me.”

With her great efforts, she has     9     more than 1,800 students to universities up to now. As a teacher, Zhang loves the children like they were     10     own. She says, “Love is the key for heart-to-heart communication between teachers and students. The children gave me the honor of a teacher, the consolation (安慰) of being a mother, and the happiness of being a woman. My life is my teaching.”

10 . For most kids, the best thing about having a birthday is the party. Unluckily, many children are very poor. They don’t have enough money to have birthday parties. But poor children in the USA are lucky, thanks to Chenault and her Birthday Party Project (项目) (BPP).

Chenault came up with the idea in 2009 when she saw a photo of a poor boy. This made her think more about poor children. Their parents don’t have enough money to have birthday parties for them. Chenault wanted to do something for the poor children.

Over the past three years, Chenault and her team have tried their best. They have over 1,350 parties for 12, 000 kids. And things are going on well now. This year, BPP has planned over 180 parties across the country, from San Francisco to Minneapolis to New York.

Chenault says her goal (目标) is to make every child know that they are important. She is happy to have birthday parties for them. Seeing the big smiles of the kids, we can say that she is doing well!