1 . 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.

2 . 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.

3 . 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.

5 . 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.

6 . 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.

One day, an old lady and her 10-year-old granddaughter were walking down a busy street. They _________ a homeless man. He was sitting against the cold wall of a tall building. The man _________ have an empty bowl on the ground for begging (乞讨), but he was busy making something. In fact, he was making leaf roses. When he noticed _________ unhappy boy, he gave the rose to him and said, “Wish you good luck and have a nice day.”

The grandmother stopped and asked _________ one of the leaf roses or not. The man smiled and said, “Kind lady, it is free.” The grandmother still took out _________ wallet and left him some money.

As they walked away, the grandmother _________ by the young girl, “Why did you give him money?”

The grandmother replied, “It is the man’s nature (天性) to help others. Also it is my nature to help him. And it is _________ our nature to help each other. We shouldn’t want or expect anything in return.”

The granddaughter nodded and said, “I understand and support you. I’ll do that like you.”

The grandmother’s _________ remind us that we should treat everyone with kindness. And we should certainly try to help people _________ need. A small action always makes a big difference and helps to make our world a much __________ place.

9 . A simple honk (汽车喇叭声) from the bus is one part of a secret code (代码) between the driver and ______ who live in a far-away village in Wanzhou district, Chongqing.

When seeing a schoolbag hanging from the doorknob (门把手) of an old house along the road, the bus driver drives towards the roadside and ______ a honk to answer the “code”. Then a boy runs outside, takes the schoolbag, and gets on the bus ______.

The boy’s parents work far from home, leaving him in the care of his grandmother. The boy is in ______ ninth grade this year. He comes home every Friday and goes back to school in the city every Sunday. To make the journey ______ , he and the driver, Cheng Lin, have developed a special “code”. When the boy’s schoolbag is hanging outside the house, it “tells” Mr Cheng, “Today, it’s time to go back to school. I need ______ the bus.”

The parents of the boy ______ when they know this. They show their thanks to Mr Cheng and feel happy that someone takes care of their son ______ they are away.

Mr Cheng has been driving the bus for many years. There are many left-behind children on this bus line. The driver wonders ______ something for the children, so he has paid more attention on Fridays and Sundays.

The driver’s ______ to the student touches the hearts of many people. One wrote online, “He is a good driver. The schoolbag is their code, packed with love inside.”

Last year, 13-year-old Abraham Olagbegi was seriously ill and needed a bone marrow transplant (骨髓移植). Luckily, he had it and ________ transplant was successful. About a year later, he got better news from “Make A Wish”. The group helps _________ who have serious illnesses like Abraham realize their dreams.

Abraham had ________ idea and he shared it with his mom. “Mom, I thought about it ________, and I really want to feed the homeless,” he said. ________ his mother heard that, she replied, “Are you sure, Abraham? You could do a lot ... Are you sure you don’t want a video game?”

Different ________ other teenagers, Abraham didn’t have interest in video games. He was sure of his wish to feed the homeless. Abraham’s dad thought ________ a wonderful idea because he always tried to teach his son about giving. In September, “Make A Wish”helped Abraham organize a day to give out food in Jackson, Mississippi. That day, Abraham fed about 5 people and that made him ________.

“When the plates ________ to the homeless people, several of them sing to us and thank us,” he said. “I get a special feeling when I see the look of joy on their faces.”

Abraham’s wish ________ finish. “Make A Wish” will help Abraham keep feeding the homeless every month for a year.