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A toy animal might not mean much     1     the average person. But for a child, it could mean the world. When 10-year- old Leon Ashworth’s mom couldn’t afford     2     (buy) him a toy panda he badly wanted, he wrote a pitiful note on the toy’s box begging other     3     (shopper) not to buy it. What happened next     4     (be) so heartwarming that it would melt you.

The boy, Leon Ashworth,     5     lives in Liverpool, England with his mom, first saw his beloved “Pandy” at Asda (a supermarket). Though he was willing to wait with     6     (patient) until his mom     7     (pay) the next week, the supermarket’s staff decided to do something extremely     8     (thought) after they noticed Leon’s note. They decided to buy it for him.

In search of the young author, whom they didn’t know at the time, they posted the note on Facebook and eventually attracted the attention of Debbie Ashworth, who     9     (immediate) recognized her son’s handwriting. The Asda crew invited the mom and her son back to the supermarket, and had a wonderful surprise for them. “This is     10     best day of my life,” Leon said to his mom excitedly.

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More and more public schools in America make it a rule that students must finish a certain amount of community service     1     they are allowed to graduate from high school. They work on projects like making the environment better or    2    (feed) homeless people.

Many school systems in the United States now ask students to do some kinds of community service as part of their studies. Students     3    (involve) in service projects help     4     (they) as well as their communities. They learn about the needs of people and aid     5    (organize). For this reason, holidays     6     (become) the prime period for volunteer work so far. Volunteers get no pay, but experts point out that it is    7    excellent opportunity to learn and practice new skills.

According to the statistics, more than 60% of young Americans have participated     8     different kinds of community service, such as cooking for homeless people, or painting old buildings, etc. Some students like to do their volunteer work in     9    (centre) parts of America, but the majority of teens prefer to do it in their hometowns. Tom,a 16-year-old middle school student in California, often     10    (do) community service in a local hospital. He works 16 hours every week either receiving calls at the information desk, or helping push patients back to their wards(病房).

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In Hangzhou，borrowing books from the library is now as simple as shopping online：click，pay and wait for delivery.

The city’s public library recently launched a program on WeChat，    1     popular Chinese messaging software，enabling     2    （it）readers to check out books online and get them     3    (deliver) to their homes at low prices.

To enjoy the “Hangzhou enjoyable reading” service，one first needs to follow the library’s official WeChat account,    4     provides a list of books. After picking books，borrowers are required     5    (present) their information such as their library membership cards，cellphone numbers and so on. The selected items will be delivered by express within three days after payments. Each reader can borrow up to 5 books once and 20 books at most     6     total. The books can be kept for up to 40 days. Readers now can borrow the library’s most popular books in this way. The online books will be renewed and enriched     7    (gradual) according to readers’ borrowing habits and     8    (prefer). At the end of December，the library’s old and classic books     9    (put) online too，making the total number of books available and bringing borrowers a lot of     10    (convenient).

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The Popular Mobile Library

Around the world, the mobile library projects are bringing books and even advice to communities with serious and urgent needs.

Every week, two modified blue buses     1     (stock) with children’s books carefully run down the streets of Kabul. These travelling libraries stop off at schools in different parts of the city,     2     (deliver) a wealth of reading materials directly to the youngsters who have limited access to books. “A lot of schools in our city don’t have access to something as basic as a library,” says Rim, a 27-year-old Oxford University graduate who     3     (inspire) to start Charm, a non-profit organization, in her home city having grown up without many books herself. “We were trying to understand     4     we could do to promote critical thinking in our country.”

For many people a bus or train journey presents a rare opportunity to get stuck into a book, and in some cities public transport is being regarded as means of getting books to communities that need     5     most. The vehicle was rebuilt not only to spread the joy of reading, but also to improve people’s life.

Comic books were left on trains, buses and underground systems in the cities around the UK     6     (early) this month to mark 80 years of Marvel Comics.

Carriages on the two subway trains in Beijing were turned into audio book libraries, where passengers were able to download books. To give the train a library feel, the walls are decorated with books,     7     covers look like bookshelves.

People in the Netherlands get to travel on trains for free during the country’s annual book week celebrations. Passengers can present a novel     8     a rail ticket.

In the Greek city of Thessaloniki, the transport ministry installed mini libraries at bus stops     9     (allow) passengers to read as they wait for the bus, or borrow and read on their journey to be returned at a later date.

Passengers on New York’s subway     10     download free short stories, poems, essays and so on to their devices.