Last year, I worked in a middle school near my mother’s house, and I stayed with her for a month. During the time, I helped her do some housework and buy some food.

After the first week, I noticed that the food was eaten up very _______. Then I began keeping _______ on my mum. To my surprise, I found that she would put some of the food into a paper bag and go out with _______ at about eight every morning. And finally, I decided to _______ her. I saw her taking food to the street children. She would also_______ a lot of time talking and playing with them.

When my mum got home, I gave her a big hug. I told her she didn’t need to keep it a secret _______ me. And she told me something about the children. Some of them lived with an old lady in a small house. _______ slept on the street for years. She was helping the poor street children by giving them food.

After she told me everything, I was so moved by how _______ she was. She helped others _______. As her son, I was so proud of my mum.

I continued to buy food for my mum after that, but I always ________ one more bag for her other children.

Penguin (企鹅) is a kind of lovely animal. Many people like the black and white bird very much. But perhaps no one’s ________ for it is stronger than an old man’s. Years ago, an old man called Joao Pereira ________ a penguin and let it go back to the sea at last. Then, the penguin ________ over eight thousand kilometers every year to come back to meet its human friend.

Joao is a part-time fisherman. He lives on a(n) ________ off the coast of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. In 2011, he ________ a dying penguin on the beach. He took it home, named it Dindim and fed it fish every day. When Dindim was ________ enough to return to the wild, the old man took it to the sea, never thinking he would see it again. To his surprise, Dindim returned to the island just a few months later. It has come back to visit Joao several times ________ it went back to the sea four years ago.

Now, Dindim spends eight months of a year living ________ Joao and the rest of its time living off the coast of Argentina and Chile. “It usually arrives in June and leaves in February,” Joao said ________, “I love the penguin like it’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me.” Dindim doesn’t let ________ people touch it except Joao. When it sees Joao, it wags (摇) its tail like a dog.

Jiang Danni is a 24-year-old volunteer from East China. She has volunteered in countries in Africa. And her videos about her experience have caught many people’s ________.

After graduating from university in 2020, Danni chose to work in Africa for a year and then took a trip to seven countries. A primary school in Africa stopped her. She had a (n) ________ time getting to know the polite and energetic children at the school. She taught children in Grades One to Four. Danni set up different kinds of ________ for her students, including Chinese language learning and crafts (手工艺). Danni also ________ to care for the students. While staying at the school in Africa, she usually went to a town that was far away from school to buy delicious food for the students.

In 2022, Danni arrived in Lebanon (黎巴嫩) in Asia and ________ a volunteer teacher at a school. This time, she taught arts and crafts to her students. She included some interesting activities in her teaching. Her students could learn paper cutting in class. They felt ________ enough to enjoy the creative activities.

Danni ________ beautiful relationships with children. Every time Danni arrived at the school, they would run to give her a hug or small gifts ________ candy. And after school, they would ________ invite her to their homes.

“I enjoyed spending beautiful moments with them. I really believe that their smiling faces gave me ________ and encouraged me to find meaning in volunteer work in different places,” Danni said. She has decided to further develop her dream to help others as a lifetime career (终身事业).