In 2011, the “free lunch” program began in Guizhou Province. Since then, the program has also worked in 26 other provinces and areas, helping over 370,000 poor students eat lunch without _______.

The program provides three dishes and a _______ each meal for 31,000 students from 92 schools for free. It keeps them from being _______ at school.

The first free lunch program was set up at Shaba Primary School in Qianxi. Guizhou. Children now have a better living and learning environment. They have more fantastic ideas about the _______ than their parents.

“I’ll study hard and become a policeman to _______ a lot of people in the coming years,” one boy said.

One of the sponsors(赞助商）of the program, Zhang Yan, said, “After 10 years, we can _______ see the light of wonder in the children’s eyes.”

Before the program, those students had to _______ back home for about three hours to have lunch. Some of them had to keep waiting for dinner after finishing a whole day’s _______ with eating nothing.

In April 2011, Deng Fei, one of the program’s organizers, called on the Children Foundation(基金会）to _______ the free lunch program. More and more kind people have joined the program to make it become what it is. It hopes to provide free lunches for poor children to help them ________ healthily.

Now every day more than 240,000 children get free lunches at 1,076 schools around our country.

【推荐2】Tarrick Walker is from California, US. ________ he was a 12-year-old boy, one of his classmates called him a “dumb N-word” one day. The N-word is a ________ word. People use it to insult (侮辱) black people. Walker reported this act of bullying to his school. Then he came to ________ that not everyone is brave enough to do this. He ________ an activity to help people fight against bullying.

Walker and his parents made “stop bullying” ________. They passed them out for free at his school. Walker designed (设计) the shirts. ________ are blue. Blue is the color for National Bullying Prevention Month (全国反霸凌月). It is ________ October. The shirts have a picture of children’s handprints and the words “STOP BULLYING”. They ________ made wristbands (腕带) with the same words.

They ________ 100 shirts. The T-shirts became so ________ that some other schools ordered them as well. There were over 200 orders.

One day, my 7-year-old daughter was in our car on her way to school. We passed by many ________ people and they were asking for help every day. My daughter asked ________ the same people were asking for help every day but no one gave them a hand. I really didn’t have a clear ________ this question. So I decided to ask her how she thought she could help them.

The next day during the morning journey to school, my daughter asked me to ________ at each corner where a homeless person stood. Then she asked me to roll down(摇下) the car window and asked the person to come over. My daughter ________ him 50 cents and told him she would see him every morning. This went on for three blocks(街区). She told me that her classmates ________ a lot of coins(硬币) and asked her to give them away to the “people on the corner”.

Every school day, we stopped and offered ________ or a good morning wish to the “people on the corner”. She could ________ get everyone to smile. My daughter’s kindness made the homeless ________ and we got some beautiful smiles in return.

What nice ________ my sweet little girl gave me on those days! Thank you, my dear!