Hi! I am Rick. I’m from England. I have a big family. My     1     get up at 7:00 a.m. every day. We have breakfast at 8:00 a.m. After breakfast, Dad     2     to work in a car. Mom, my sister, my brother and I go out     3     bus. It’s only ten minutes’ bus ride. My sister, brother     4     I are in the same school. My mom works in a store near     5     school. Classes start at 9:00 a.m. and end at 3:15 p.m. After we get home, my sister with my brother and me usually watches shows on TV. It’s at 6:30 p.m. now. We are     6     dinner together. After that, we need to do our homework. Of course, we can’t be too     7    . Because my parents are     8     strict in our study. On weekends, my parents encourage（鼓励）us to help other people and I practice     9     for the coming sports meeting next week. On Sunday, our family often     10     go to the movies or take a walk together. We have a good time!

It was a fine day. The sun was shining and the wind was gentle. The kids were playing in their backyard when a little cat tried to cross into their yard.     1    , it got stuck (卡住的) under the fence. The kids tried to free the cat, but they couldn’t. So they asked their mother     2    . The mother freed the cat. The cat looked so     3     that the children begged (乞求) to keep it. Their mother said, “I don’t mind myself, but you must ask your father.”

The kids waited anxiously for their dad back from work. “Do you think our dad will allow us to keep it?” the girl asked. Before the boy answered the girl, they heard their father     4    . “Hi, daddy,” they both shouted loudly at the same time.

“You are surely happier than     5     to see today. What is up?” their father said.

“Nothing, daddy. We just love you so much,” the girl replied. That’s when their mother said, “Go ahead. Ask your dad.”

The girl told her dad what had happened and asked to keep the cat. The father said, “No, you can’t. We     6     five cats so far. Your mommy and I have no time to take care of them anymore.” Hearing this, the kids     7     disappointedly (失望地).

Seeing the sad looks on the kids’ faces, the father changed his mind. He said, “All right.     8     you love it so much, you can keep it.” Hearing this, the kids happily screamed, “Hooray! Thank you, daddy!”     9    , the father added that they must promise to look after the cat by themselves.

The kids were so     10     to have another pet friend. Then the cat was given the name “Lucky” by the kids.

Mother love is true love. It gives everybody everything all his life. When you are still a baby, Mother takes good care of you as     1     as possible. In your waking hours, she always holds you in    2     arms. When you are ill, she stops her    3     to look after you day and night and forgets about herself. When you grow up day by day, she    4     very happy. When you are    5     enough to go to school, Mother still looks after you all the time. On cold winter days, she always tells you to put on    6     clothes. She always stands in the wind waiting for you back from school. When you hurry to leave home for school with little breakfast, she is always    7     about you at home. She usually knows    8     your study and spends much money on your school things. When you do well at school, the brightest smile will be    9     on her face.

Mother is always ready to    10    everything that she has to her children, not to receive. What true love that is in the world! We will remember Mother Love forever.

Once I saw off a friend to the railway station. We called a taxi and put several heavy     1     in the trunk (后备箱). Getting off, a middle-aged man leaning (斜靠) on a crutch (拐杖) opened the door for us. After that, he took out a small dirty hat     2     us. There are several one-dollar coins in it.

I asked my friend if she     3     some change. She shook her head. I had to give him all the only fifty yuan of change     4     I had. He kept shaking the hat, as if he received so much money for the first time. It was clear that he was deeply     5     to see the change.

Not caring, we went straight to the trunk to fetch the packages     6    , because the train was about to leave and time was running out. My friend tried her best to take out one. Just     7     she would pick up another, a dark hand reached out. “Let     8     do it.” He picked up the package and stuck to carrying it for us to the railway station entrance. “No, thank you. It’s not     9     for you.” My friend and I could not bear for him to do so. “No, I must send you off.” He limped (一瘸一拐地) towards the station, his left hand leaning on a crutch and his right hand     10     the large package.

To my friend or me, this is an unforgettable memory.

A Chinese boy has invented a box to help scan information

At the nucleic acid testing site (核酸检测点) of Longfuyuan community in Nankai district, Tianjin, a “magic box” for information input (信息录入) drew     1     attention.

By putting people’s ID cards in the holder, their information can be     2     scanned by mobile phones in the box. Within one second, everything     3     !

Xiong Wenhan, 13, made this “magic box”. When he was queueing for the nucleic acid testing, he found the process of information input took too much time. So he wanted to optimize (优化) the process by     4     a “magic box”.

The most important yet hardest part     5     to make sure phones of different models and brands all fit in the holder. So Xiong     6     six phones from his friends and classmates to test and adjust the holder. He also added a light shield (遮光罩) as well as a bulb to the box so it could work     7     being affected by both strong and low light. The box has a section to put heating pads (加热垫),     8     the mobile phones won’t lose power in cold weather.

Xiong made four of these boxes and called     9     the “elephant family”—father, mother and two children. Now all of them have been used at the nucleic acid testing site of his community. “The testing staff said I really solved their problems and made their work     10     easier,” Xiong said.

At school gates, you can see some volunteers with red vests (马甲). Can you guess     1    they are? They are parent volunteers. When students go     2     the street, parent volunteers put up a “Slow” sign to let drivers slow down. In order to become professional traffic volunteers, parents are supposed to learn how to give directions to students and stop them from     3     soccer on the road. Because of these volunteers, students can get to school and go back home     4    . Guangzhou Daily reports many parents are looking forward to being a volunteer. They wish to make an effort to protect the     5     safety.

Another group of “red vests” show up on main roads. They help cleaners pick up dirty paper, plastic     6    , glass bottles and so on. They ask the passers-by (路人) not to throw the rubbish everywhere.     7     their work seems simple, they still take it seriously.

Some teenagers     8     their free time in hospitals or old people’s homes. They cheer sick kids up or look after old people. In the countryside, some college students play a(n)     9     role in volunteering. They can provide science and technology help for farmers.

A lot of volunteers give     10     kindness with a helping hand. They can make a difference to people in need and the society.

When I was ten years old, I signed up for a summer     1     for the first time. I had never left my     2     before. The camp opened me up to a world of new people who didn’t look,     3     or act like me. When I went home, I had become a totally different person.

The camp taught me how to work together with     4    . At first, I wasn’t getting along with campers there very well. However, I still needed to be a team player. Finally, I learned how to solve problems     5     and how to talk with others when I needed help.

Long time ago, there was a man named Yu Boya. He was good at     1     the qin. One day,     2     a boat trip, he saw green mountains and clear water. “How     3     they are!” he thought and began to play a piece of music with his qin. At that time, a young man stood on the riverbank He enjoyed the music a lot.     4     name was Zhong Ziqi.

Yu Invited Zhong to the boat and played the qin for him. Zhong said, “    5     beautiful music! It makes me think of the high Mount Tai.” Then Zhong started to play music “How nice it is! The notes are like the running river,” Yu said to Zhong excitedly. Soon they     6     good friends. They said they would meet again in the same place the next year.

The following year, Yu arrived there on time, but later he knew that Zhong died of a(n)     7    . It made him very sad. He said, “My best friend is no longer here. No one can     8     my music now.” He played a piece of music. Then he broke his qin and never played it again.

The two friends shared the same     9     and they knew each other well. Since then, people have used their story to show the meaning of     10     friendship.