【推荐1】Jane Addams was born into a rich American family with a long history of public service on September 6, 1860. She was the eighth child of John Huy Addams, a successful businessman, banker, and landowner. Learning from her father, Jane wanted to know what she could do to help others. Jane remembered the Chicago poor areas she had seen as a child, and she thought she might want to open a place and it would provide education and recreation (娱乐) to the poor people there.

In 1889, Jane and her friend Ellen Gates made Jane's dream come true. They opened Hull House in Chicago. Among its many activities, Hull House provided a place for poor immigrant (移民) families to play games, listen to poem readings or take music or painting classes.

Jane Addams' public service didn't stop with Hull House. Jane worked for laws to end child labor (劳动力) and fought for women's rights. She worked as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was chairman of the Women's Peace Party. Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. She died on May 21, 1935. All these years later, people still celebrate the service and life of Jane Addams.

【推荐2】When Juliet was a child, she often went to the city park and played with her friends. On a sunny morning, when Juliet came to the park with her mom, she looked around and felt very unhappy.

“What’s the matter, dear? What’s wrong with you?” asked her mom. Juliet replied, “Mom, how beautiful and clean it used to be! But now there’s so much trash on the ground.”

Juliet’s mom looked around. There were scraps (碎片) of paper, boxes, glass bottles and a lot of other trash everywhere. “What can we do?” asked Juliet sadly. “I’m sure you will think of something,” said her mom.

As soon as Juliet and her mom went home, Juliet painted a picture of the park and wrote a sign in large black letters at the top of the picture. The sign read “PLEASE KEEP OUR PARK CLEAN”. Later, she took plenty of bags and went back to the park with her mom. Juliet put up her picture on a big trash can (垃圾桶).

“Will you help me pick up the trash, mom?” Juliet said as she handed her mom a bag. “I surely will,” replied her mom smilingly.

The children at the park ran over to see what was going on. Juliet handed them each a bag. “Let’s clean this place up,” said Juliet. Then they began to pick up the trash, talking and laughing. Soon all the bags were full.

“We need to come back another day. There’s still some trash on the ground, but the park looks much better,” said Juliet. Her mom said, “So it does. I knew you would think of a way to help.”

【推荐1】Zhang Kai is from Heilongjiang, and he was a policeman in the past. In October 2021, Zhang and his volunteer (志愿者) team drove to Shanxi to help out. The flood (洪水) broke a lot of houses there, and people needed help. Zhang and his team took boats, medicine and clothes there.

In fact, Zhang just came back from Putian, Fujian before that. In Putian, he helped fight against COVID-19. And before working in Putian, he was in Zhengzhou, Henan to help save people after the flood brought many problems to the city.

Zhang started his volunteer work in 2020. In January that year, he set up a volunteer car team and took the necessary things to hospitals in Dongguan, Guangdong. One month later, Zhang and his team traveled over 1,100 km to take doctors, COVID-19 patients (病人) and other useful things to Wuhan. From then on, Zhang and his team kept driving to different places to help others.

▲ To save time, Zhang and other volunteers often had to sleep in their own cars, and be on standby (待命) twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. “When people need help, I will go to help them,” said Zhang.

【推荐2】Hello! My name is Li Yumei and I’m 13 years old. I am from Beijing. Here is a photo of some boys and girls. They are from the same place. Their families are very poor, so they don’t have much money to buy school things. I have five friends and they see the photo, too. We want to help them. These things are for them——six pencil boxes, six pencils, six rulers, six erasers, eight schoolbags and nine picture books. Our teachers help them, too. They give them two computers, five dictionaries and nine maps.

Do you want to help the boys and girls? Call me at 468-3399. Thanks!

It was a beautiful day with a clear, blue sky. Everything was quiet and the book in my hands was interesting.     1     At that moment, I thought to myself, “It is an earthquake (地震).” I was scared and I ran to tell my parents. But when I reached them, the earthquake stopped.

Nothing happened in the next few hours. My family and I were not in danger.     2     We watched the news about the earthquake. The epicenter (震中) was very close to Muzaffarabad. We watched the situation in Muzaffarabad on TV. People there were in great need.     3    .

I arrived in the city of Muzaffarabad with a few other volunteers.     4     After hours of digging, we found a few survivors (幸存者). We quickly sent for doctors to make sure they were all right. When they met their families, they cried for joy. That made me very happy.

    5     And I felt terrible when I saw the tears of the people crying for their loss. I thought we should give them more help and support.

Good evening! This morning, I played basketball with Jack. He told me you wanted to take a tour in the country. I’m from a town and Jack thought maybe I could give you some advice. He was right.

My town isn’t far from our city and it only needs half an hour by bus. In the morning, you can visit a big house with old furniture and pictures. I like one picture very much. It has dragons in it. Of course, you can also see the pictures of your favourite monkeys. You can enjoy potato noodles for lunch. They are traditional food in my town. They are delicious. We’ve got other vegetables, such as tomatoes and carrots. In the afternoon, you can play water games in the river. Children in my town often play and catch fish there. Maybe you can catch some too. You can take the last bus home.

Yours,

Bill

【推荐3】Look at this photo. It is a photo of Mary’s family. The girl is Mary. She is an English girl. The man is Mary’s father, Paul Smith, and the woman (女子) is her mother. The black boy is Mary’s cousin, Mike. He is Mary’s uncle’s son. Mike is from (来自) the USA. The woman with white hair (头发) is Mary’s grandmother. She is 60. What a good family!