1 . Spiderman saves the day

A comic book fan dressed as Spiderman became a real superhero on Saturday. He tackled a thief who was trying to steal an expensive comic book.

Michael Wong, 24, was wearing a Spiderman costurne to attend the Asian Festival of Comics at the Sunny Sports Club.     1    

“There were about 50 people at the festival wearing superhero costurnes that day,” said Maddie Tam, the festival organizer. “    2    . However, we didn’t expect to see any of them actually stop a crime.”

The thief did not have a chance to escape. While Spiderman took hold of his T-shirt, several Star Wars characters waited at the exit to prevent him from leaving.     3    

“At first, I thought it was part of the festival,” said Sharon Luk, a fan dressed as Wonder Woman. “    4    ”

“We were rather surprised when we arrived,” said Police Constable Albert Mak.“It can be easily seen that Spiderman hates to let criminals get away.     5    ”

“Crime fighting is easy for Spiderman,” Mr Wong said, laughing. “The poor man was a bit unlucky as I teach judo (柔道) here at the club.”

Lu Lin, 16, a boy from Nujiang, Yunnan Province, has moved into a new apartment with his family. Seeing the great changes of his hometown, he can’t help recalling the past life.

Several years ago, Lu Lin’s family had to live a very hard life. There was no electricity so he couldn’t watch TV and he knew little about the outside world. Because of the traffic blocking, his parents had to walk very far to buy necessities of life. They also carried water from a faraway river. His parents couldn’t afford Lu Lin’s schooling. He even didn’t have enough food to eat and often felt hungry. The five members in his family had to live in a run-down room.

Nowadays, Lu Lin has a much better life. He can happily take the bus to school with his friends. He can know more about the outside world by watching TV. The wide roads have led to his house. He doesn’t need to worry about being hungry any more.

Thanks to the policy of “targeted poverty alleviation (精准扶贫)”, more than 800 million people under the International Poverty Line in China have been lifted out of poverty. “Shaking off poverty is not the end, but the new starting point for a new life.” President Xi said, “The people all over the country should work hard to push for higher-level development.”

为了巩固国家脱贫攻坚的成果，中山日报的英文栏目编辑发起了”Hand in Hand”的帮扶活动， 号召大家继续帮助怒江的学生。假如你是李明，请你写一封e-mail给编辑，申请参加该项活动。

I am writing to apply for the “Hand in Hand”program. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Ming

Recently, volunteering(志愿服务) is more and more popular in our daily life. It is becoming a common thing among people of all ages. We believe that being helpful is one of the most important qualities(品质). In some Chinese high schools, the students need to volunteer for at least 40 hours to graduate. There are many kinds of voluntary work, such as organizing books in libraries, taking care of children in hospital, delivering food to the old and so on.

Tom once volunteered in a primary school. His job was to help students.

When he first started, he was nervous. Then, as time went on, he became more and more interested in his job. He worked as a volunteer in the school for 2 months. He got along well with the students. When the voluntary work was over, he felt happy and excited.

请根据要求完成短文写作。

近年来，志愿者工作被社会广泛重视，越来越多的学生都积极参与到志愿者工作中。请就这一话题，根据所给的提示用英语写一篇短文。

2.语句连贯，词数80个左右。作文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。

In modern society, it is increasingly popular that young people volunteer on weekends to help the people in need._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4 . Phil White has just returned from an 18,000-mile, around-the-world bicycle trip. White had two reasons for making this epic journey. First of all, he wanted to use the trip to raise money for charity, which he did. He raised £70,000 for the British charity, Oxfam. White’s second reason for making the trip was to break the world record and become the fastest person to cycle around the world. He is still waiting to find out whether he has broken the record or not.

White set off from Trafalgar Square, in London, on 19th June, 2004 and was back 299 days later. He spent more than 1,300 hours in the saddle (车座) and destroyed four sets of tyres and three bike chains. He had the adventure of his life crossing Europe first, and then the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and finally the Americas. Amazingly, he did all of this with absolutely no support team. No jeep carrying food, water and medicine. No doctor. Nothing! Just a bike and a very, very long road.

The journey was lonely and desperate at times. He also had to fight his way across deserts, through jungles and over mountains. He cycled through heavy rains and temperatures of up to 45 degrees, all to help people in need. There were other dangers along the road. In Iran, he was chased by armed robbers and was lucky to get away with the little money he had. The worst thing that had happened to him was having to cycle into a headwind on a road that crosses the south of Australia. For 1,000 kilometers he battled against the wind that was constantly pushing him. This part of the trip was slow, hard and depressing, but he made it in the end. Now Mr. White is back and wants to write a book about his adventures.

Have you ever been a volunteer? My best friend, Ally and I spend a few hours of our time every week as volunteers for Buddy Ball. It is a     1     that help disabled kids do sports and make new friends. And it also brings out the     2     in us.

So     3     does a buddy do? At the moment. I am a buddy for an eleven-year-old boy called Tom. He is in a wheelchair and is a good basketball player, but just like any kid, it made     4     upset when he missed a shot or made a bad pass. He started to cry and didn’t want to play. Sometimes he even wanted to give up. So, as his buddy, I     5     him. Now we’re working on our basketball skills together. It is great to see how he has improved and he doesn’t get upset so     6    .

Ally is a buddy     7     Clara, a kid with very few language skills. She is also a bit wild! She likes running away. Ally has learned how to work with Clara and to get her to join the games. Now she loves baseball and has more     8    . Next week she’s playing in a team. Her parents are truly happy about Buddy Ball and they say that Clara has become more confident and sociable since she     9     Buddy Ball.

Baddy Ball is a great chance for everyone! Differences disappear and we     10     that we’re all just kids loving sports. I love volunteering for Buddy Ball because I know I’m doing something meaningful!

6 . A young and successful manager was travelling down a street, going a bit too fast in his new car. He was worried there were kids _____ from between parked (停着的) cars, so he slowed down. As his car passed, no kids appeared but a(n) _____ was throwing into the side door of his car.

The manager stopped his car at once and drove back to the place where the stone had been thrown. He jumped out of the car, caught a kid and pushed him _____ one of the parked cars. “What were you doing that for? The stone you threw is going to ___ a lot of money. Do you know? That’s my new car, my expensive new car!” the man shouted _____.

“Please, sir. please. I’m sorry, but I didn’t know _____ to do,” said the kid, “I threw the stone because no one would stop.” The kid was crying as he pointed around the parked cars. “It’s my brother. His wheelchair hit a stone, and he fell out of the wheelchair. But I can’t lift him up.” The kid was so sad, and he went on asking the manager, “Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s _____ heavy for me to carry.”

The manager was touched deeply, and he said nothing. He lifted the young man back into the wheelchair, checked him that _____ was going to be OK. “Thank you! Thank you very much!” the kid said to the manager. The manager watched the kid push his brother towards their home. It was a long walk back for the manager to his car…a long, slow walk.

Since then, he _____ the side door of his car. It reminds him of the stone ______ was thrown to the side door. It also reminds him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a stone at him to get his attention some day.

7 . When we think of heroes, we often think of strong, brave people. But anyone can be a hero. A hero is someone who helps other people in the face of difficulties. Fred Follows was such a person.

Fred Hollows was born in New Zealand and became an eye doctor. He believed that all people rich and poor, should have good medical treatment. After he began working as an eye doctor in Australia, he learned that many Aboriginal Australians had eye disease because of dirty environment and bad health. He set up a program to help people take care of their eyes. Because of his work, many Aboriginal people could see again and fewer Aboriginal people became blind.

Later, Fred Hollows learned blindness was also a big problem in Africa. Many people in Africa needed small eye surgeries to cure their blindness. The cost of a surgery was only twenty-five dollars. That is a lot of money to a poor person in Africa. There were also no doctors to help .

Fred Hollows wanted to help the people in Africa. But he couldn’t go to Africa because he had become sick. So he set up the Fred Hollows Foundation. This foundation collected donations from people in rich countries. It also provided equipment for eye surgeries and helped to train doctors. The foundation helped thousands of people to see again.

Unfortunately, Fred Hollows died before the foundation begins wonderful work in Africa and then other countries. Now the foundation helps save the eyesight of poor people all over the world Even after his death, Fred Hollows is still helping people. He is a true hero.

Fred Hollows learned that many Aboriginal Australians and Africans needed small eye surgeries, money and ________ to cure eye disease, so he ________ a program and a foundation.