The Seine is a beautiful river which goes through France. However, the Seine has been seriously polluted. There are even laws that do not let people swim in the water. 11-year-old Raphael wants to clean the river. He wants people to swim in the Seine by 2024. That is when the city will host the Olympic Games.

Cleaning the river is a big job. Raphael fishes rubbish out of the river. He has done it nearly every weekend for the past two years. He fishes with his dad. They can catch a ton of rubbish in a single day. They have caught anything from phones to scooters. The biggest thing Raphael found was a motorcycle. It was so heavy that it took a team of people to pull it out.

Raphael learned about cleaning rivers from YouTube. In 2019, he found a video. People were fishing metal objects out of rivers. They used ropes tied to magnets(磁铁). That Christmas, Raphael asked his parents for supplies. He wanted some ropes, a hook, and a powerful magnet. The magnet was very strong. It could attract metal objects weighing more than a ton.

When he began, fishing for metal was just a lazy weekend activity. But Raphael soon saw just how much rubbish there was at the bottom of the river. He wanted to do more. It became like a full-time job,he said.

Last October, Raphael won an award for his efforts. He received the Medal of Paris. Raphael is confident about his progress in the last two years. A section of the Seine is clearer than the rest of the river. That is where he first started fishing for metal.

Raphael cannot clean the river alone by 2024, but he won’t give up. He hopes he is one of the first to swim in the water once it is safe.

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On April 15, Xi’an carried out a new round of nucleic acid test (核酸检测). After the nucleic acid test was completed, the sticker we received was “Huo Qubing”, as a sign before the test results came out.

The first stickers of nucleic acid test in Xi’an are made up of pandas, monkeys, antelopes (羚羊) and crested ibis (朱鹮).     16     Jia Han, the designer of the sticker, said the Four Treasures of the Qinling Mountains stand for the history, culture and natural ecology (生态) of Shaanxi.     17    

According to China News Service, Xi’an, as the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, has the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, the Bell and Drum Tower, and the Ming City Wall.     18     The deep historical and cultural effect by “Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties” has also become one of the reasons to make the nucleic acid testing stickers popular.

Many people have joined the “fancy sticker competition”. Stickers with local characteristics are not only the pictures for citizens to complete nucleic acid tests, but show more efficient and warm prevention measures.

Zhucheng, Shandong Province, which is famous for its dinosaurs (恐龙), carriedout nucleic acid tests.     20     Who doesn’t love such cute little stickers?

In our neighborhood, there used to be a beggar（乞丐）who would walk from one house to another to beg for food and money. A little girl would watch _________ carefully from her window.

One evening, the girl asked her parents _________ some people drove the poor beggar away. Her father explained that a healthy man should not expect anyone else to _________ him. Her mother added, “Work can make him feel proud of himself. He should not _________ others.”

The next morning, the girl went to the door when the beggar came knocking. She asked him why he didn’t try to find a _________ to support himself. The beggar kept silent, and the girl told him to wait. She went into her house and soon came out, giving him all the _________ she had. The beggar took some of them and left.

The beggar was nowhere to be _________ for a few days after that. Somebody said he might have died. On hearing this, the little girl felt _________. She was worried about the beggar.

Three years later, a well-dressed stranger took a big rocking horse out of his car and _________ it on the doorstep of the girl’s home. Seeing how __________ the girl’s mother looked, he explained that the rocking horse was a(n) __________ for the little girl.

That evening, the girl __________ that it was the beggar who sent her the gift. He wrote a note explaining what had happened to him __________ he left. He had used the money to go into town to find work. And __________ he became the owner of a toy shop. He wanted the girl to know that it was she who made a __________ to him.