How do you get to school every day? Can you believe that ________ children once had to swim to school?

This was true in the village of Layag-Layag in the Philippines. The school was 2 kilometers away from the village ________ there was no road to get to it. Swimming there was ________ only way. “The children are often tired, wet, and sometimes even injured（受伤的）when they ________ at school”, a headteacher said.

________ the children to get to school, Jay and Anton started the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation（基金会） in 2011. They ________ with only one boat at first. ________ could take 25 to 30 kids to school. Soon they found that ________ enough. They needed more boats.

How ________ boats are there in the foundation now? Over 4,600! They help over 11,000 children across the Philippines. When it’s time ________ school, the children take their bags and jump on the yellow boats. To them, these boats are boats of hope!

Nowadays, school buses are popular in China. Many students take a school bus to school. It looks like a tourist bus. The undergrounds and common(普通的) buses often take much time. But school buses can save a lot of time. How do children go to school in other countries?

In the US, yellow school buses are a common way for children to get to school. There are about 480,000 school buses in the country. But why are the school buses all yellow? Yellow became the color of school buses in 1939. American educator(教育家) Frank W. Cyr first suggested(建议) it. The color on the buses helped warn other cars: be careful. Black letters(字母) on a yellow bus are also easy to see in the early morning.

However, there are not many school buses in the UK. Students from public schools usually take buses or the underground to school. In Japan, schools are small in cities. So there is no need to use school buses. Children usually walk to school.

Body language is popular all over the world. People “talk”     81     their hands, head, and eyes.

When Japanese people meet, they bow. When Thai people     82    , they put their hands together. When British and American people meet someone for the first time, they shake     83    . When you wave to a friend walking across the street, you can also use body language. When you smile at someone, you mean “I want to be friendly.” When you put up your hand in class, maybe you are saying, “I think I know the     84     answer”. Usually, a policeman holds up his hand to stop a car     85     a bus.