Today is December 15th. It is Linda’s thirteenth birthday. My friends and I go to her birthday party. We get to her house with some presents (礼物) at about 3:00 p.m.

Linda is very happy to see us. “Thank you very much. I’m very happy to get so many nice presents.” She says. Then she starts to sing, dance and play games with us. At about 5:00 p.m., Linda’s mother brings us a big birthday cake and puts it on a desk.

We get around the table, and sing Happy Birthday for Linda, Linda is happy and makes a wish. “What’s your wish?” one of us asks. “I wish (祝愿) all of us happy every day.” says Linda.

【推荐1】Hello, I’m Emma, a 6-year-old girl. I live on a farm in Victoria, Australia. There are a lot of vegetables and fruit on the farm. I know food is very important for us.

One day, I want to get some information on the Internet. And I see an interesting programme. Its name is Foot Steps Challenge（足迹挑战）. Some people in the world don’t have enough food to eat. So the programme encourages people to walk to help these people.

I’m very happy to join in the programme. I spend much time walking every day. My home is near the school. So I usually walk to school with my friends Lucy and Mary. On Saturday and Sunday, I walk a lot more. Sometimes I walk with my family near our house. Sometimes I walk alone on the farm. When I’m tired, I’ll say hello to the animals there and give food to them. Then I go on walking. I enjoy walking very much because walking makes me happy and helping others makes me happy, too.

The programme is so meaningful. How about joining in it?

【推荐2】Nora Ball was nearly hit by a car at the crossing in front of her school. Three years earlier, a student lost her life at that same place. Nora decided to do something. She gave a speech at City Hall in Atlanta, America with Bria Brown. They said the crossing was not only bad for students. It also does harm to the earth.

Nora and Bria went on to set up Atlanta Students Advocating for Pedestrians （ASAP）. One of the group's goals is to help the earth and the community by making it easier to travel by bike. In 2019, the organization received an award（奖项）from the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition.

Nora, 17, explains that every gallon（加仑）of gasoline produces about 20 pounds of CO₂. It’s bad for all living things in the world. It also leads to global warming（全球变暖）.

Nora says riding bikes and walking, instead of driving, can help us build up a green world. She says, “Biking is a good way to exercise and to enjoy the beauty of the earth!”

【推荐3】It was a cold Christmas Eve. David saw a middle-aged man sitting in front of the supermarket with a sign that said “Please help”.

David used to give people like him 20 dollars, but tonight was special, so he decided to put in some time. David stopped and said, “Put your things away and let’s get you something.”

They walked into the supermarket while talking. David learned the man had a place to live, but no money for food.

Anyway, David still wanted to help him. David let him pick whatever he needed. However, the man just took a bag of instant（速食的）noodles. David asked him to choose something else. The man then took the cheapest bottle of milk. Knowing that the man had two sons, David asked him, “What haven’t your sons eaten yet?” The man said meat. So David picked out a steak（牛排）for him. Later, David tried to buy him some vegetables and fruit, but he refused. “That’s enough. Thank you, sir! I can work at your house to pay back the money,” said the man.

Hearing this, David smiled and said, “You don’t need. I’m glad I can help you.”

Accept help without being greedy（贪心的）, and give help without expecting anything in return. The two made the cold night warm.

【推荐1】The most popular food in America was invented because a cook got angry. George Crum was a cook at a restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York. One day in 1853, a customer (顾客) who had ordered fried (油炸的) potatoes sent them back to the kitchen. He wanted the cook to slice (切) them thinner and fry them longer. George Crum had a bad temper (脾气), and he thought the potatoes were fine the way he made them. To teach the customer a lesson, he sliced potatoes very thin and fried them until they were crispy (脆的). But instead of being angry, the customer loved the new fried potatoes. He asked for more. Other people who tried them like them too, and customers kept asking for them. Far many years, people called them Saratoga chips after the town where they were first made.

Even now, after more than 150 years, potato chips are very popular. At least one of every ten potatoes grown in the United States is made into potato chips. So if you like potato chips, be glad George Crum had a bad temper!