The fourteen-year-old girl Susan is having a party. At the party, there are neither cakes nor candles. There is only a room full of art supplies（用品）and many kids she never met. And all the kids are homeless.

Susan got the idea last year after her school. She worried that kids who could not afford their own supplies would give up drawing. So she started to write letters to big companies to ask for help. Then the girl received lots of donations（赠品）from some of the biggest art supply companies. Susan collected more than $3,000 in supplies, enough to make a home for kids to paint their own watercolors.

By far she’s held three parties. What she did was encouraged by the White House. Susan received the President's awards（奖赏）. Now Susan does it for a different reason—to get the poor kids to enjoy art.

【推荐2】My name is Mariko. I come from Tokyo. I can speak a little English. But I can’t speak Chinese. I usually get up at 6 o’clock and go to school at 7:30 in the morning. I think art is interesting. I don’t like math. I think it is boring. I want to visit China and Canada. I think they are very interesting.

My name is Mario. I am twelve years old. I go to school at 7:50 and I go home at 4:20. I have lunch at school. I usually have fish, rice and vegetables for lunch. My favorite subject is music, because it’s fun. I want to join a music club. I don’t like P. E. I usually do my homework at 5 o’clock and I go to bed at 10 o’clock.

I am Boris. I am from Canada. I like math and art. I want to join the art club. Swimming club is not interesting. I don’t like physics. I think it’s boring. I get up at 6:30 and then I run on the playground. My good friend is Sam. He knows Chinese. He likes Chinese food. He wants to join a Chinese club.

Time spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good shop, no assist ant will come near to you and say, “Can I help you?” You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. You may just try to find out where the book you want is and read it. But if you fail, the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is not interested in selling any books at all.

There is a story which tells us about a good shop. A medical student found a very useful book in the shop. But it was too expensive for him to buy. He couldn’t get it from the school library, either. So every afternoon, he went there to read a little at a time. One day, however, he couldn't find the book from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant singing to him. To hissurprise, the assistant pointed to the book in the corner. “I put it there so that it couldn’t be sold out.” said he assistant. Then he left and the student went on with his reading.

【推荐1】When Sally was a child, she went to the city park with her mom on a sunny morning. She felt very unhappy. Her mom saw that and asked why. Sally told her mother that she felt so sorry to see so much rubbish on the ground.

Her mom looked around. There were pieces of paper, boxes, glass bottles and a lot of other rubbish everywhere. “What can we do?” asked Sally sadly. “I’m sure you will think of something,” said her mom.

As soon as Sally got home with her mom, she painted a picture of the park and wrote a sign in large black letters at the top of the picture. The sign said, “PLEASE KEEP OUR PARK CLEAN”. Later, she took plenty of bags and went back to the park with her mom. Sally put up her picture on a big rubbish box.

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

Then Sally’s mom led them to put the rubbish into different kinds of rubbish boxes. When they looked at the clean park, they all had a strong feeling of satisfaction.

From then on, Sally has been keeping doing the cleaning and sorting (分类) rubbish. More and more people joined her to play a part in environmental protection.

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Last summer, a big flood (洪水) hit Henan Province hard. Some people died or went missing in this terrible disaster (灾难). People all over China came to help Henan.

A hairdresser (理发师), Mr. Zhang, closed his shop for one month. He went to Zhengzhou to help with the rescue (救援) work. Mr. Li is a restaurant owner. He wanted to go to Henan to help out. I was really moved by their spirits.

But unlike them, some people did nothing but complain online. They said bad things about the local government, the rescue work and many other things.

I don’t think they did the right thing. During disasters, pointing fingers (指责) can’t help anyone. It may cause fear and worry. Saving lives is the first thing.

I think we should learn from Mr. Zhang and Mr. Li. Helping others is the best way to help ourselves.

【推荐3】Every Sunday, Sally goes to buy many clothes. Now, she has four new sweaters, three new skirts and five pairs of new shoes, but she’s not happy.

One day, Sally asks her friend Anna, “I have so many new clothes, but I’m not happy. You don’t buy new clothes, but you’re always happy, why?”

“Oh, dear, I don’t think new clothes can make one happy,” says Anna. “But what makes you so happy?” Sally asks.

“Helping others,” Anna says. “I often go to the old people’s home with my sister Gina. Gina cleans rooms for them and I play games with them.”

Now, Sally wants to join Anna and Gina. She says, “Can I go with you?” Anna says, “Yes, sure.”

My name is Eric. Welcome to my home. Look at my house. We have two rooms.

The first room is my parents’. The next room is for my brother Alan and me. Look at my parents’ room. There are some books in the bookcase. They like reading. A computer is on the desk. My mother’s hat is on the chair. Their room is tidy, but our room is not.

This is our room. Our things are everywhere. My white model plane is under the chair. My blue notebook is on the desk and my pencil box is on the desk, too. My watch is under the bed. Alan’s ID card is in the bookcase. His black schoolbag is under the table. His quilt is on the bed. Next to the bed is a yellow sofa. That dictionary on the bookcase is mine.

Helen is a happy girl with a kind heart.

One day Helen’s mother gave her some money to buy her favorite ice-cream. When she arrived at the ice-cream shop, she saw a homeless(无家可归的) man outside it. The man looked hungry. Helen thought he was the poorest man in the world.

Helen looked at the ice-cream in the shop and the outside for a while. Then she decided to give the money to the poor man.

The man smiled and said, “Thank you, little girl. You are very kind. But I’m not a poor man. In fact, I’m the richest man in town and I sometimes wear old clothes to see what people will do.”

Then the rich man took Helen to a big shop and said to her,” Choose a gift for yourself, even the most expensive one, if you like.”

Helen asked, “Can I choose two?”

“Of course!” answered the man. Helen took a big cup ice-cream for herself and a new coat for the man.

Ben is a Grade 7 student with a busy life. He likes sports very much and plays tennis after school every Monday and Thursday. He practices the piano for 2 hours every Wednesday.

One Friday after school, Ben leaves his classroom. His father is waiting for him at the school gate. On their way home, Ben sees some boys skating(溜冰) in a park. He wants to skate with them. But his father says, “You have no time to skate. You must do your homework first. Then I’ll buy you an ice cream. ”

Ben goes home, finishes his homework and gets his ice cream. When he starts to eat it, a fly(苍蝇) comes along. It stops on the ice cream. Ben’s father tells Ben to drive the fly away. Ben says, “You won’t let me skate because I have homework to do. But the fly doesn’t have homework. Can’t you let him skate for a while?”