I started volunteering at a soup kitchen several years ago. The original reason why I was going was to _________ community service hours for school. My plan was to just go there a few times and get my service hours, but it taught me a lot. The volunteer there served _________ to people.

Basically, I was working for serving bread and juice to whoever wanted it, which was a _________ task. Some of the people were homeless, and some of them were too poor to feed their families. All of them were people in need of a hot meal and a place to _________ for an hour or several minutes. _________ some of them looked like they weren’t polite, we always took care of them.

The first time I went there was the day before _________. For the people coming to the soup kitchen, it was not a _________ time. Unlike them, most people were enjoying their big Christmas dinner. As for me, I had a nice home and I didn’t suffer from cold or hunger. How _________ I was! At that time, I decided that I surely wanted to go _________. I couldn’t __________ them much, but I could always volunteer my time and effort.

The experience also gives me a feeling of __________. Every time I go there, people are thankful that I __________ again. They know that I am happy to __________ them. It truly feels good to know that you can brighten someone’s day. I’ve realized that the feeling of doing good for people can be a better reward (奖励) than __________. You can’t buy that feeling. So I will continue my volunteer work and find more ways to show my __________ to people in need.

It was Sunday and Tom was staying home. After breakfast, he went out into the garden and played quietly by himself. There were no kids around and he always played alone quietly. He played with Bobby, the dog. He climbed up and down the tree. Sometimes a bird would come down to stand on top of the doghouse. Then Tom would have the greatest fun by throwing a stone or something at it. Though he never made it, he really liked doing this kind of things.

Then Tom had been in the garden for half an hour. Suddenly a crack sound was heard and the little boy began crying.

“What’s the matter, Tom?” his mother looked through the kitchen window.

Tom ran into the kitchen.

“Mum,” he sobbed, “I broke Bobby’s plate, I didn’t know it was so easily broken.”

His mother put her arms round him and said, “Don’t feel too bad, Tom. We have other plates for Bobby. But how did you break that one?”

“I threw this at a bird but missed, and it went straight to the plate.”

In Tom’s hand was his father’s gold watch!

Think about what you like to wear on the weekend. You probably like to put on a pair of blue jeans. At any moment, about half of the world’s people are wearing jeans. But according to a new study, our love for jeans may be bad for Earth. Denim(牛仔布) may be putting some sea animals in danger.

Every time we wash our jeans, very small bits of denim will flow out of our washing machines, down into the rivers, lakes and oceans.

You might wonder: Isn’t denim made of cotton, a natural material? How can it become a danger to nature? Well, when people make jeans, denim is treated with many kinds of man-made chemicals(化学物质). Some improve its durability. A pair of jeans may be worn for many years. Others give jeans their blue color. It makes jeans fashionable.

Scientists studied the Great Lakes in America and the Arctic Ocean in northern Canada. They found denim waste in all of the samples(样本). In the study, the scientists also washed jeans to see how many bits of denim each pair would drop each time to wash. The answer was terrible: About 50,000. Not all of them make their way into the environment. Some good plants hold back 83 to 99 percent of them. This may sound pretty good. However, one percent of 50,000 bits are still 500 per wash. Now think about the number of jeans around the world and the times each of them gets washed.

Does this mean we shouldn’t wear jeans? Probably not. “We need to buy fewer jeans and only wash them when we truly need to do it,” says Sam Athey, one of the scientists. “You don’t need to wash your jeans after wearing them only several times.”

When I was young, my parents told me many touching     56     about the CPC. The spirits of Hong Yan, Jinggangshan and Yan’an moved me so much. From that time forward, I became     57     in the Party(党).

Many years have passed, I have read lots of books and watched movies that show the spirits of the CPC. What’s more, I have joined     58     many activities that are about the Party in order to learn more about it. Now I am a League member(团员). I believe that before long, I will become a real Party member.     59     I become a member of the Party, I will do as much as I can to help others. I’m looking forward to     60     day!

Every time you’re online, pictures, articles, links and videos come out and try to tell their stories.     66    

Read these tips, and don’t get fooled by fake (虚假的) news!

Check the source (来源)

    67     Does it look real? Is the news written well? Fake news websites (网页) often use addresses that sound like real newspapers, but don’t have many real stories about other topics.

Watch out for fake photos

Many fake news stories use pictures that are PSed or taken from an unrelated site. Sometimes, if you just look closely at an image, you can see if it has been changed. Or use a tool like Google Reverse Image Search.

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Look to see if the story you are reading is on other news websites or newspapers that you know and trust. If you do find it on many other places, then it probably isn’t fake.

Look for other signs

There are other ways that fake news uses. These include that lots of ads that come out when you click on a link.    69     If the news story makes you angry, it’s probably designed to make you angry.

If you know these things about online news, and can use them in your everyday life, then you have the control over what to read and what to believe. If you find a news story that you know is fake, the most important advice is:     70