Every year thousands of young people in Britain finish their school life and then take a year off before they go to university. ________ young people go to another country and work as volunteers（志愿者）. Volunteers give their time ________ people—for example, they work in schools or hospitals.

Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she ________ to university to study Spanish, but now she is living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’m working here to protect the sea near Belize. The sea here is beautiful, but ________ people pollute the sea, the fish will die. I’m helping to study the fish. All over the world, the fish ________ . We are ________ and we need to do something about the problem before it is too late.”

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

Mr White is a member of his office. He’s able to easily deal with（处理）all kinds of things. So he ________ gets more than his workmates. Of course, he is often ________ and has no time to do the housework. His wife ________ him well and does all at home.

Bad luck! Their daughter was hurt in a traffic accident last month and had to be in ________. Now Mrs White has to ________ her there and she can’t go home. Mr White often eats something in the restaurant. As he never did some ________, the rooms were all very dirty.

Yesterday morning, before Mr White got up, the telephone ________. He sat up to answer it. His friend told him to ________ an important telephone number down. But he could find neither a pen nor a piece of ________. He found there was much dust on the table and wrote the number on it. But soon he forgot it and went to work. Two hours later, his wife came back and looked for a sweater for her daughter. Her husband came in while she was cleaning the table. He couldn’t ________ the number on the table and called out angrily, “Who let you clean the table?”

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My name is Esha and I live in Sydney, Australia! I only moved here two years ago and I love it! I am 12 years old, and I am in Grade 7 at Park School. I love the colour GREEN! I have no idea why, but I just do! My star sign is Aquarius（水瓶座）and I love playing sports such as tennis and baseball. I also love to read, write and... BLOG! My favourite animals are dogs, pandas and most definitely dolphins! I love dolphins and once I went to a place in New South Wales（where Sydney is）and I was able to swim with a Dolphin! Another thing you should know about me is that I am a CRAZY fan of Harry Potter! My favourite books are the whole Harry Potter series and my favourite movie would have to be all of them, too. My favourite cartoon movie, on the other hand is The Lorax. Well, I think that’s all you need to know about me!

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From July 1st, people in Shanghai must follow a new law. They can’t throw away all the rubbish together. They need to sort the rubbish.

According to the law, the rubbish has four kinds: dry rubbish, wet rubbish, recyclable rubbish and harmful rubbish. If people don’t sort the rubbish, they will get the fine（罚款）. For a person, the fine can be 200 yuan. For companies, the fine can be 50,000 yuan.

For many people, it’s difficult to sort the rubbish. So how do we sort the rubbish? Here are some ideas about it. For example, we can use paper again. So it is recyclable rubbish. Batteries（电池）are harmful rubbish, because they are bad for people and environment. The leftover（剩下的）food, flowers and tree are wet rubbish. Finally, if the rubbish isn’t recyclable rubbish, bad rubbish or wet rubbish, it is dry rubbish.

It’s important for us to sort rubbish in daily life. Let’s do it!

Are we alone in space? Is the Earth the only planet that has life?     56     Now we may get one step closer to the answers.

On Feb. 22nd, NASA said they found seven Earth-like planets.     57     The planets go around a dwarf star（矮星）called Trappist-1. It is much smaller and cooler than our sun. They are about 39 light-years（光年）from the Earth.     58     But scientists say it’s a little close.

    59     If you lived on one of them, you could possibly see the clouds around the next planet. More importantly, three of the planets are at the perfect distance（距离）from the Sun.     60     If there is liquid water（液态水）, there could be life.

For scientists, the finding is not an end. Next, they will try to find out if the planets have atmospheres（大气层）.