1 . 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.

2 . Last summer vacation, on one of the hottest days of the year, I was watching TV in the living room. _________ the weather changed and it began to rain heavily. I stood up and went to close all the windows at once. While I was ______ the last window, I saw a little girl standing under a big tree to keep herself from getting wet.

There was no umbrella in her hands. She seemed to be afraid of the heavy rain and didn’t know ______ to do at that time. It was very ______ for her to stay under the big tree. I took two umbrellas and rushed out of my house. When I gave her an umbrella, I found she was my neighbor. ______ I didn’t know what her name was. She accepted my umbrella and ran to her home quickly.

The next day, she visited me with her _______ and gave the umbrella back to me. “We came home very late yesterday. You couldn’t _______ how thankful we were when our daughter told us about your help. Thanks to you, she could come back home safely from staying alone outside,” her mother said politely. And her father _______ my hands with a smile.

Ever since that day, they have _______ my best friends in my neighborhood. We often help each other a lot and give some good advice whenever we need. The close friendship between us makes me know that a small act of _______ can make a big difference to our life. We never know what we can do for others unless we try.

3 . It’s five o’clock in the afternoon. School _______ and the students from Class 3 are going to Grandma Liang’s house. Grandma Liang has no _______ or daughters. So the children often go to help _______ do some housework.

Now the children are at Grandma Liang’s _______, Grandma Liang is very _______ to see them. Look! Lily is talking _______ Grandma Liang in the living room. Betty is cleaning the _______, Jane is washing clothes outside the room. _______ is Ann? Oh, she is in the kitchen.

She is making _______ for Grandma Liang. Jim is next to Ann. He is _______ her.

5 . Volunteering in your community helps you learn a lot. 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) ________  website to find a good match. Much ________ job search websites, you can use volunteer websites like Volunteer Match 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 do. You may find one of them to offer you a ________, and it can make it easier 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 something new. Volunteer chances can be really good for you. They can give you the experience you don’t have. Some organizations will also give you 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 organizations. If you volunteer with the park system, you’ll learn about ________ to run a park.

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

6 . Two years ago, Daniel decided to take part in volunteer work. He ________ to work as a barber (理发师). He spent Saturdays giving free haircuts to ________ kids so that they’d look cool on their first day of classes. But he had a game time. “The kids should receive their free haircut by ________ a book to me,” Daniel said.

The idea was so ________ that he continued it for the next two years. Five-to-ten-year-old kids would sit in the barber chair with a book, and read loudly. If they had difficulty in reading it, Daniel was there to ________.

“These poor kids are excited to learn. They want to open their minds.” Said Daniel. He believes that not every ________ has enough time to read with their kids. “You are working on your jobs, and you have to clean the house or cook dinner.________ maybe you don’t have time to listen to them reading. That’s why I say bring your kids in and let them read to ________.” Daniel said to those parents.

“There was a seven-year-old boy who had trouble in reading ________.” Said Daniel. He let the boy take the book home and practice. “When the child came back a few days later, he read it with no problem. That ________ me,” He said.

The barbershop is a wonderful place for the kids. They can not only read books but also get help from free reading.

7 . How far do you have to go to get a cup of clean water? Maybe it is just a few ______ away. But for Jimmy from a country in Africa, getting water meant walking three miles to the nearest well (井). The water was not ______. People might get sick after drinking it.

When Ryan, a Canadian boy, ______ the need for clean water in Africa, he decided to do something about it. He was only six years old at that time, but he didn’t let that ______ him.

Ryan asked his mom and dad for ______. They said that he could do housework to make money.

After four months, Ryan had 70 dollars. He ______ that would be enough to build a well. Ryan’s mom drove him to an organization (组织) that builds wells for poor people all around the world. ______ , people at the organization told Ryan he needed to spend 2, 000 dollars building a well. Ryan had to do more to raise money. Finally, Ryan raised enough money ______ he helped to build a well for Angolo Primary School in Uganda.

Years later, Ryan set up a foundation (基金会) called Ryan’s Well Foundation to help ______ the world’s water problem. Now Ryan’s foundation is a team of people working hard to provide safe ______ for people in poor countries.

9 . To be a volunteer is really a wonderful experience for me. Four years ago, I ________ a club with the name of Helping Others.

Soon after that, I began to do many things to help those who needed ________ . For example, I often helped old people cross the roads, bought some food for ________ children and did small acts for our neighbors ________ need.

Today is the International Coastal Clean-up Day. It is only 20 minutes’ ride from our house to the sea. In the morning, my parents and I rode there as ________ as usual with a bag to put the rubbish in. Many people were enjoying themselves on the beach, ________ some of them left plastic bags on it. So we decided to clean the ________ . We spent the whole morning ________ the rubbish on the nice beach. What a meaningful day it was!

We feel it is a very ________ experience and we will continue doing that on our own. We should try our best to protect the environment because we have only one earth. We need more ________ to make a difference to the world.

10 . In my childhood, my mother spent her evening hours doing something for someone else. Sometimes she knitted (编织) hats for babies, and at other times, she cooked chicken soup for sick neighbors. So I wasn’t ________ when one evening my mother said she had taken on a new project.

“I am going to telephone seniors (老年人),” said my mother. “Every ________? But you don’t even know these people.” “It doesn’t matter,” she said. “What’s important is that I ________.” I was fifteen years old and couldn’t understand why my mother was willing to spend her evenings talking to ________. She had friends and my two older sisters to call if she felt lonely. “They will talk all the time on the phone. Some people didn’t even stop to catch breath.” I said.

My attitude (态度) didn’t stop my mother’s love for the project. That evening, I listened as she ________ the woman on the other line about her day and what she had eaten for dinner. When she finished the call, I said, “________ do you care whether (是否) she had cookies or rice pudding for dessert?” My mother said, “I’m the ________ person she talked to today.”

It took me more than thirty years to ________ understand the meaning of my mother’s words. Now, as my mother is nearly eighty, I find myself thinking about those nightly ________ she used to make. I am often the only person who telephones my mother, and sometimes I’m the only person she speaks to all day. I ask her what she cooked for dinner, but mostly I just listen as she describes a walk she took, or how her dog Lucky stole foods from the fridge. I ________ that my mother’s calls were lifelines, which made sure housebound seniors to keep in touch with the world. Without her, their world would have been empty.