My name is Feng Guixiang. I want to tell you about the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund (CCTF) and how it helped me.

One of the CCTF’s (A) special activities is the Spring Bud Project. In 1989, 4.8 million in the country, (B) ________ from seven to fourteen, were unable to attend school. Eighty-three per cent of them were girls. Because of this, the CCTF (C) ________ the Spring Bub Project to help (D) them. Since then, the project has helped millions of girls return to school. (E) It has also built a lot of schools.

The very first Spring Bud class was here in Guangxi in 1989. The Spring Bud Project paid for me to attend that class. (F) It also rented a room close to the school for me.

Before the project started, I stayed at home and helped my mother with the housework. (G)上学改变了我的生活. I learnt to read and write and do many other things.

Now I (H) am a teacher at a Spring Bud school here in Guangxi. I wish to help other girls the way the Spring Bud Project helped me.

It’s every teenager’s nightmare (恶梦): exam time. During the last three days of the term, we had six exams.

My easiest exam was maths. All of its questions were from earlier exams.

The biology exam was hard. At first, I thought I had failed it. It asked lots of things we never studied in class, so we could use our textbooks. But there wasn’t enough time to check every question. I guessed on many of them. But my teacher said I did well.

On the career (职业)planning and computer applications (申请)exam, we had a lot to do: a PowerPoint presentation (展示), a book report and a class evaluation (评估). I felt like I needed more time, but some of my classmates didn’t think so much. They just quickly wrote down some answers and then played games.

I don’t think I did very well in the English exam. We had to write an essay (读后感)about books we’ve read in class. But I didn’t study enough.

At our school, we can “Test out” of some classes. That means students can study by themselves and then take a class exam. If they pass, they don’t have to take the class, I tested out of both computer and health classes.

Studying for those exams was terrible. Those classes go for six months, but I had to teach myself everything in three weeks. Also, I had to do three big projects at the same time. I watched no TV for almost three weeks! I am so glad it’s all over, and now it’s the summer holiday.

For my classmates, it will be two and a half months of fun without school or homework. But I’m a Chinese, and you know what Chinese parents do with their kids’ free time: still more homework.