As is known to us all, there are many disabled people living around us. Some are blind, and others are deaf. They have many difficulties in living ______ themselves. They need us to help ______ .

In fact, we can do many things to help them.

First, we can give them financial(金融的) help. Many disabled people are poor and they ______ able to cure(治疗) their diseases. They need ______ money. Every year, the Red Cross holds(举行) some activities to call on us ______ money, and we can join them.

Second, we can give them help in everyday(日常的) life. Many volunteers ______ a lot of things to help them. For example, they help the blind do housework and some other things. Thinking ______ , we can do a lot.

Third, we ______ change our thoughts. Some people discriminate(歧视) the disabled. We should treat them equally(平等地). They have some disadvantages(劣势). They need our help ______ mercy(宽容), not discrimination.

Above all, we can do a lot to help them. If everyone gives a little help to them, I think their life will be much ______ .

Tom Costello was once afraid of homeless Americans . That changed seven years ago _____ his wife, a volunteer at a homeless shelter, asked him to help with a holiday dinner for shelter residents（居民）. Costello remembers going to a _____ and buying socks for the residents. He knew many of them were in _____ of clothing. At the shelter, Costello said, he dropped a pair of _____ into a bag for a woman. She asked him _____she could have socks for a friend who wasn’t with her that day. He gave _____ another pair.“She started to cry and told me that _____ had ever given her socks before,” Costello said.

That _____ at the shelter helped Costello end his fear of the homeless. It also led him to set up a group called The Joy of Sox . The Joy of Sox collects socks from donators and gives them mostly to _____ people. It has been expanding its reach. The ______ now provides socks to shelters in 21 states and three countries.

_____ socks? Costello explains that some Americans give food, coats and other clothing to shelters. But donating socks was not something ______ people thought about. And, he said, socks are very ______ at keeping people warm, in cold weather. A man named Kiwi, who has lived in homeless shelters, explained that socks are important to people who spend a lot of time ______. Kiwi said most of the time he can find enough food through shelters and soup kitchens. ______ socks are much more difficult to get, he noted.

Costello said his hope for “The Joy of Sox” is for it to be the best sock charity in the world.