Ronny looked like every other kid in the classroom where I volunteered as the Reading Mom. However, he had a speech problem so he couldn’t ________ like other kids in his grade.

I worked with all the students in Ronny’s class one by one to improve their reading skills. On the days when it was Ronny’s ________, I’d give him a silent smile. That’s why he sat very close to me and opened the book as if he was opening a treasure that ________ had ever seen.

I watched his fingers move ________ under each letter as he read out difficultly.

Every time he managed (完成) to read a word with a ________ pronunciation (发音), the biggest smile would spread across his face and his ________ would shine with pride.

A few weeks before the school year ended, I ________ Ronny a book—one of those Little Golden Books. A few days later, I returned to the school to visit. I ________ Ronny on a chair with the book. His head teacher said, “He hasn’t ________ that book since you gave it to him.” Deeply moved, I walked ________ Ronny, placed my hand on his shoulder and asked, “Will you read me your book, Ronny?” For the next few minutes, he read to me more ________ than I’d ever thought. The ________ were already dog-eared (卷角的), like the book had been read many times already. When he finished reading, Ronny closed his book and said with great ________, “What a good book!”

At that moment, as a writer, I knew I would get ________ about my own writing and do what that writer had done, and probably still does—care enough to write a story that ________ a child’s life, care enough to make a difference.

This is a story of a man who works in my factory. I have seen him for years, but I didn’t know him very well. He was a little bit weird (怪异的). He always wore an old red hat and carried a rubbish bag. He seemed to have no friend, and was always alone. He usually spent his break time and his lunchtime walking around in the factory and collecting used tins (金属罐). Maybe he was too poor, I guess. But I didn’t care much about him.

One day, I was fixing one of the broken machines in the factory when this “tin man” came with his bag. As usual, he picked up the tins, which were all around the place. My manager was standing there, watching me.

When I finished my job, I heard my manager ask the “tin man” about what he was going to do with those tins he had collected. I never even thought about this kind of question, because I always assumed that “tin man” would take those tins to the recycling center.

Unexpectedly, the “tin man” answered, “I will give these tins to my neighbor. He has been ill for many years and cannot work. He is too poor to buy daily bread now.”

I was so shocked to hear that, so I asked him, “You mean you collect all those tins just to help your neighbor?”

“I know this does not help much,” he said. “But I give everything to him, because he cannot work. He needs help.”

It was the most beautiful moment in my life. We are all able to help others no matter we are rich or poor. It has made me feel humble (谦卑的) every day since then.

When Yang Fan was taking a walk around the Yuliang Island, she saw a black swan (天鹅) in the grass. Yang Fan knew that swans could be fierce (凶猛的). But as she got close to this one, it didn’t move.

She was sure that the swan needed help. Although she had an important meeting to have, she still decided to do something for the swan. So Yang called her workmate first to pull off the meeting. Then she covered the bird’s head with her jacket to keep its cool, picked it up carefully and held it in her arms. She decided to send it to the Animal Care Center, but the center was across the Han River, far from the park. She didn’t know how to carry the swan there. Luckily, some strangers driving by gave her and the swan a lift to a nearby bus stop.

On the bus, no one seemed surprised by “the unusual passenger”. Instead, they were worried. Someone helped Yang Fan call the center on the way. And Li Tao, an animal-care manager, picked her up at the bus stop and drove them to the center. There, the animal doctors found that the swan was poisoned (中毒), caused by eating something used to kill mice. The swan was well looked after at the center. She even made a friend—a little dog. Thanks to people’s love and care, luckily, she was cured (治愈) two months later and sent back to the nature.

“It’s a moving story. Yang Fan travelled about two hours and it was really a long way.” Says Li Tao. “And all the strangers wanted to give her and the swan a hand.” He adds, “I am happy to see that more and more people have realized the importance of protecting the wild life since we are trying to build a civilized (文明) city.”

In the past, I didn’t get on well with my parents. I hardly talked to them, because they liked to compare me with my sister. And that made me     46     (happy) and sad. I didn’t know     47     to do. Sometimes I even     48     (argue) with them about this.

However, I wanted to show them that I could do things as     49     (good) as my sister. Then I began to spend most of my free time     50     (paint) in my bedroom.     51     (Lucky), my art teacher, Miss Green, offered me a lot of help. She taught me some drawing skills to help improve my paintings. At that time, she was the only person I would like     52     (communicate) with.

One day, I told Miss Green     53     my problem. She encouraged me to take part in a painting competition. She said the best way to communicate with my parents was to prove (证明) myself to them. After a few weeks’ waiting, the result finally came out. I got the first prize! When I took the prize home, my parents were so happy     54     they couldn’t stop laughing all the time! And they began to care more about me. Now     55     (relation) between my parents and me are very good. So I think it’s very important to have someone to talk to.

56. 学校的劳动教育课题组向你进行了在家进行家务劳动的调查，请你以“The Housework I Do”为题，根据内容提示写一篇英语短文，谈谈你做家务的频率，对家务活的看法，并介绍你喜欢做的家务活和不喜欢做的家务活。

内容提示：

How often do you do housework at home?

What do you think of doing housework as teenagers?

Talk about the housework you like and dislike.

Something more about them.

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The Housework I Do

In my family, it’s everyone’s duty to do housework._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________