My beautiful 18-year-old daughter was admitted to psychiatric（精神病的）care. I ______her twice a day. She was the only ______who had visitors at every session. On the contrary, some were ______to have a visitor once a week.

I was asked by the patients to ______a Christmas basket on their behalf for the nursing staff, and I was ______enough money that they offered me to put together a luxury basket. My ______Olive came into our office when I was ______to make the basket while students were playing outside. She could see I was ______and unwell as I struggled putting the basket together. Olive offered to ______, made a great job of the basket and then helped carry it to my car.

When I _______and brought the basket to the patients in person, they were absolutely _______. I was there when they _______it to the nursing staff; they’d never been given anything like this before and they were so _______and appreciative. It was a beautiful _______as those in psychiatric care acknowledged those who cared for them.

A few days later, I _______a thank-you card and a box of chocolates from the patients for _______them with their basket. I can’t tell you how _______I was also at that time when seeing their smiling faces. These were people who were unable to _______outside hospital. They were _______people who were unable to look after themselves and were on very high medication, _______their hearts still found love and gratitude for the nursing staff and for me.249

Volunteering abroad comes with a bit of a social stigma(耻辱).   From my ____, this couldn’t be further from the truth.   Volunteering isn’t so expensive that it’s only a ____ for the well-off. I spent 10 weeks volunteering in Arizona with America Conservation Experience(ACE), helping ____ America’s natural beauty.

The ____ was arranged through BUNAC, a work and volunteer organization.  ____ it cost me around $1,000 — a sum which I ____ mostly by working part-time.

The self-indulgent(放纵自己的) image is ____ to overseas volunteer projects.   However, the work can be ____.   I spent my time maintaining trails, building fences and carrying out projects in some of the national monuments of America.   Summer temperatures in Arizona stay well above 35℃, ____ pleasant if you’re carrying 50kg of concrete for 10 hours at a time.   And then there was the wildlife to deal with, which ____ my strength of character and made my ____ of the English household spider disappear.

___ do most people volunteer for? Probably they want to ____ things to the world.   But in reality, you ____ just as much as the local communities and ecosystems you’re helping.

People need lots of trees, and many places are home to trees as well as stoves. But what if you _________ there and couldn't cut or buy wood?_________, Shane McDaniel and his twin sons, Harrison and Henry, are happy to lend a hand. The three men cut truckloads of wood, then give it to those in need.

The idea_________ as a father-son project. “I had to cut wood with my dad. He just_________ doing it,” says Shane. He wanted to pass on that feeling, _________ he and the twins spent the summer of 2018 like the _________.

The_________ was a great wall of wood piled up around their house. It was too_________ for the McDaniels to use themselves, and Shane started thinking of others. He_________ on Facebook: “If you are in need of firewood and cannot__________ it, please inform me and you will get it for__________!”

The response was__________. Some kind people raced at once to Norm's, the convenience store Shane owns, with more__________ for the pile. Single mom Katelyn and her daughter__________ wood-burning stove as their only way for heating, so it was good news to receive a truckload of firewood from the McDaniels .“To get that much wood brought me to__________” she said.

“Giving is getting”, Shane said. “It has nothing to do with whether it will be rewarded; it's about how much it's needed.”