Each country has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or homes for the aged. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.

Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses or do their shopping. For boys who no longer have fathers, there is an organization (组织) called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to play baseball games or on fishing and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers. Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn skills. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls. Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.

As the saying goes, “One good turn deserves (值得) another.” Liz’s life was changed forever that year. It all started with her ______ towards two strangers. One early morning, they walked into the restaurant where Liz worked.

Tim and Paul stepped into the restaurant for breakfast ______ they fought with a terrible fire for 12 hours. When they prepared to pay for the meal, they were very ______. The young waitress had paid for them, leaving a sweet message on their bill instead, “Your meal is on me today. Thank you for serving people and running into dangerous places.”

Touched, the two firefighters ______ her kind action on social media, and it spread quickly. After that, they found out the true story of the waitress. Liz’s father had a brain illness. She was trying to make a living and ______ took care of her father. They decided to help the woman. They ______ an organization to raise $1,000 for a wheelchair for her father. However, Mobility Ventures, the company which made the wheelchairs, heard of her story and ______ to take the money. It gave the family one for free as a Christmas gift.

Liz was so ______ to the two firefighters and many other people who have reached out to help her. “I hope these kind actions bring hope to other people in difficult situations and inspire people to help those in need in any possible way,” she said.

Ann loves reading books very much. She     1     to be very shy. She was afraid of     2     to others. So she began to read books. Last year, Ann’s dad got a serious     3    . Ann was very sad. And then books became the best comfort (安慰) for her.

Some months later, Ann’s dad got much     4    . Then Ann came up with a plan to help others.

Ann started a book drive in her hometown. She collected lots of books and took them to the children in hospitals. So far, Ann has     5     more than 10,000 books.

Ann and her father are very close. When her father knew about     6     plans for the book drive, he wasn’t surprised. “Ann is always interested in books,” he said. “And she always wants to do things for the neighborhood.” Ann ran the book drive well with her     7     help. And she was very happy to do something     8     for others.

Ann still runs the book drive now. She often says, “It’s a wonderful thing for me to make a     9     to our society. And helping others     10     always a cool thing. I think I want to do this type of work forever.”

9 . Zhou Jingyi is a second-year postgraduate student from Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics, and 2024 marks her third year working as a railway volunteer, as well as her third experience with the Spring Festival travel rush.

As a local, she serves at Wanzhou North Station during the winter vacation. She began to participate in volunteer activities in 2019. According to Zhou, she was influenced by her mother to become a railway volunteer, “My mother works for public good, which leads me to get involved in volunteer activities.”

Wanzhou North Station operates 124 trains per day on average, with an estimated (估计) daily departure of 18, 000 passengers and an arrival of 19, 000 passengers during this year’s travel rush.

There are only six railway youth volunteers, like Zhou, working in the station, helping passengers after pre-job training. During the travel rush, she gets up at 6:30 am and arrives at work by 7:50 am every day. At the station, she provides passengers with services like helping them buy tickets and board the train, keeping order, answering questions, and dealing with the transfer. Zhou has to repeat to answer the same question from different people hundreds of times, but she never loses patience.

“It might cause my legs to ache and my throat to become uncomfortable, but the volunteer activities warm the people on their journey and paint my vacation colorful, as well as improve my ability in communication and expression,” she added.

The most unforgettable experience for Zhou was that she met a grandmother with a lot of luggage. “I helped her carry the bags from the entrance to the ticket gates. She kept saying ‘Thank you’ and gave me two oranges, telling me that ‘you look so much like my granddaughter’,” she recalled.

She said those were the sweetest oranges she had ever had. “This proves that warmth can produce warmth, strengthening my mind to be a volunteer.”