When my friends volunteered to help with a service project in my town, I had no idea what it was about. I was always ____ to be a volunteer and because of that I had been greatly honored. I ____ my friends thinking that I would also win honor through the volunteer work. _____, after knowing that there wouldn’t be any kind of honor and they might gather to help ____one family’s garden on Saturdays for more than 10 hours. I felt bored.

When I arrived at the house, I was ____ to see that many people were there, working happily to make the garden more beautiful. The house was ____ by an elderly lady, Mrs. Johnson, who was very thankful for our help and tried to do anything to ____ us.

I was getting ready to plant flowers in the garden ____ I heard the house owner, Johnson, said, “Honey, could I help you with it?” I nodded gratefully and we _____ together for a while. During the ____, I sat on a stone to rest and looked around, seeing the volunteers chatting ____ with their faces covered with sweat. I was deeply ____ and cried, feeling sorry for what I had ____ about helping before. Mrs. Johnson saw my ____ and asked. “Are you OK? I know there are ____ things you could do on a Saturday.”

I ____ her the reasons why I had come were to stay together with my ____ and win honor. After watching all these generous volunteers, I learned that every one of them was ready to ____ without thinking what they could get. I came to realize that receiving isn’t ____ but helping someone out is always a ____ thing!

Owura Kwadwo Hottish teaches computers in the school he works in. I think it is a ________ school except for the fact that the school didn’t have ________.

Owura became famous after he posted photos of him on the Internet. In the picture, people could see he was teaching his students by ________ an entire computer on the blackboard. The photos showed the ________ level of education for children in Ghana. People were ________ that Owura made sure each button (按钮) was drawn correctly.

Owura wanted the students to ________ what life with a computer could be like someday. He would come to school half an hour ahead of the ________ every day. He drew the computer on the blackboard, but at the end of his class, it was ________ off to start the next class, so he had to ________ it the next day!

Omura’ s efforts were________ when Microsoft (微软公司) took ________ of his act. They first took him to an international educators’ meeting in Singapore. He made a ________ about his teaching methods at the meeting. He ________ a standing ovation (致敬) after the speech.

________, Owura got the thing he always wanted for his students—some companies ________ computers to the school. Not a single child in the ________ had seen a real computer in their lives. Thanks to their teacher’s ________ the world took notice and responded with ________ to them.

“Your work has really ________ the world. At Microsoft, we believe that educators are heroes. They ________ influence the lifelong skills of their students.” said Anthony Salcito, Vice president at Microsoft.

California officials are praising workers for rescuing a 13-year-old boy who fell into a river of sewage(下水道)in Los Angeles. The boy, Jesse Hemandez, ___more than 12 hours in the city’s ___underground sewage system. It is ___with refuse liquids and other waste materials , some of them __.

Jesse had been playing at a public park with other ___during a family gathering on Sunday. At one point, the children were ___pieces of wood that covered an opening ___the sewage system. One of the wooden boards broke. The boy fell about eight meters down and ___in fast-moving sewage.

The other children ___told adults what had happened. The adults then called an emergency telephone line for help. Rescuers immediately began ___Jesse underground.

With the help of cameras they floated down the pipes, rescuers eventually located Jesse ___seeing images of handprints on one of them. A crew of sanitation (环境卫生) workers hurried to the ___and opened a manhole(检查井). The first thing they ___was “Help”. Their patience and optimism __.

The crew lowered down a long rope to Jesse. The boy held onto the rope while workers ___him up. By the time workers found Jesse, about 700 meters of pipes had been___ during a 12-hour period. Jesse was potted less than two kilometers from where he ___. He was taken to a hospital for a full physical examination and to be reunited with his   ___.

More than 100 people contributed much tirelessly to the ___of Jesse. Jesse was lucky to find a small area of ___air and wait there until he was found.