One night I saw something on the news that made me sad. It was ________ a group of homeless people sleeping outside in the cold.

So I decided to start a ________ to raise money for the homeless. I called it the Rock Club. At the beginning, there were only five members in it, but that quickly grew to about twenty. I ________ had to ask anyone if they wanted to be a member. In fact, they came up to me and asked me if they could ________ the club!

We spent all of our free time on rock painting. We painted animals, flowers and even the names of sports teams on our rocks. We’d go around the school to ________ people who would buy them. By Christmas, we had raised thirty—three dollars and then we gave the money to a homeless shelter(收容所) in town. We all felt ________ that we could do something to help the homeless.

A few days later, a newspaper reporter came to our school to ________ with us about our club and took a photo of us. The photo and article ________ in the newspaper the next day. Later, ________ school, joined by three other schools, started a program(方案)for kids to help homeless shelters.

Something as simple as some painted rocks and _________ caring kids made me realize that I don’t need much to make a difference.

Every year thousands of young people in England finish school and then take a year off before they start to work or go to university. Some young people go to other countries and work as volunteers (志愿者). Volunteers give their time to help people. For example, they work in schools or hospitals, or they do something helpful for the environment.

Pauline Jones, 18, was born in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she wants to go to university to study Chinese, but now she’s living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’m working with other people here to save the coral reefs (珊瑚礁) in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted, the coral will die. I’m helping to do research on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs. All over the world, coral reefs are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.”

“I’m staying with a family here and I help do some housework. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I’m learning a lot about the people of Belize—and myself! When I finish my work, I want to stay here for another three months. I want to travel around Belize and Central America.”

Chores were not popular at my house. My children didn’t like to do chores. They always saw me do chores, but they hardly ever helped me do them.

A year ago, I made a game called “The Endless Chore Game”. It is really great. Here’s how the game works.

I make a card with forty squares (方框), and I write a different chore on each square. These chores can be easy and interesting like making dessert. Then my family rolls the dice (骰子) to decide what chores we have to do. The card also has a few squares with fun things, like watching TV and singing. If you are lucky, you can watch TV when the others are doing the chores.

My son likes the game very much. He goes to the kitchen happily every morning to do the game. It is really a good way to make my children do chores. You can have a try if you have the same problem as me.

Haiyan is 7 years old. Her parents gave her an iPad as a present for her birthday. A month later, her eyesight has decreased (下降). This is serious for such a young child.

Many children in China are facing the same problem: tablet (平板电脑) and iPad using is bringing problems to their eyesight. The problem is so common that newspapers even call the iPad the “No.1 killer of children’s eyesight.”

“There are about 30 shortsighted children coming every day,” said Hu Dali, an eye doctor at Guiyang Aier Eye Hospital. “Half of those children have poor eyesight because they have played with phones and iPads for too long.”

Doctors and scientists say children’s vision(视力) is not yet fully developed(生长) and their eyes get tired more easily. The screen of an iPad uses a very bright LED backlight. If children look at an iPad screen for a long time, their eyes do not have time to rest. This will make their eyesight worse over time.

Doctors advise that users should hold their iPads between 40-60 centimetres away from them. The brightness of the screen should be comfortable for children. Parents should also stop their children from using an iPad for more than one hour every day.

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I’m sorry to hear that you are getting a headache these days.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hope you will be better soon.

Yours,

Dr. Song