4 . Here is a charity sale(义卖) for the poor children in the mountain area. We’ll give away the money we raise in the charity sale. Please come and have a look.

Larry

I have an MP4 player. I have owned it for a year. It still works very well now. It stays with me whenever I feel sad. And I have downloaded some pop songs and classic movies in it. I hope it can be with you when you are unhappy. It costs 150 dollars. Now, you can take it with 50 dollars.

Nancy

I have some soft toys to sell. The toy rabbit is my fifteen-year-old birthday present. I have had it for half a year. It still looks very new. It costs me 60 dollars. You only need to pay 16 dollars for it now. Other toys are also very new but cheap, too.

Judy

I’d like to sell some of my fictions. I started to buy fictions when I was thirteen years old. My favourite one is Treasure Island. I believe anyone like me will learn a lot from this fiction. Each book only costs 20 dollars. You can get the second one at half price.

5 . Mandy is only 12 years old. She is a girl ________ of love.

At the age of five, she began to learn ________ play the ukulele （尤克里里）. And she was really good at it. She wanted to ________ the poor children in her town, so she decided to raise some money ________ playing the ukulele in the street. At first, only a few people gave her money. Several days later, she put a sign beside her. It says why she ________ doing so. When people saw the sign, they were all moved and started to help her. Mandy also ________ her favourite toys to collect money. When her teachers and classmates got to know this, they all began to sell their old toys, clothes and books to collect money, ________.

Mandy ________ money for three years, and now she’s got more than￥3, 000. She says she _________ doing this and help more ________ children.

6 . Every Sunday, Mary goes to buy clothes. Now, she has four new sweaters, three new skirts and six pairs of new shoes, but she is not happy.

Mary asks her friend Anna, “I have new clothes, but I’m not happy. You don’t buy new clothes, but you are always happy. Why?”

“Oh, I don’t think new clothes can make(使得) us happy,” says Anna.

“But what makes you so happy?” asks Mary.

“Helping people,” Anna says. “I go to help some old people with my sister Gina every Sunday. I tidy rooms for them and Gina plays games with them.”

“Can I go with you next Sunday?” Mary asks.

“Yes, sure,” says Anna.

7 . One day a poor farmer _____ taking a bag of rice to town. Suddenly the bag fell off his cart (马车) onto the road. He didn’t know _____ he could do about it because it was too _____ for him to lift (举起) alone. He only hoped that someone would soon pass by and give him a hand.

Just at this moment, a man riding a _____ came up to him. But the farmer felt _____ when he saw who he was. It was the great man who lived nearby.

He thought the great man _____ help him, and hoped another farmer would come up. But the man got _____ his horse right away and said, “I think you need help.” Then he took one end of the bag and the the farmer took ______. They lifted it together and put it on the cart.

“Sir,” asked the farmer, “How much should I _____ for you?”

“Don’t mention it,” the great man answered. “When you see ______ else in trouble, do the same for him.”

8 . Actress Jiang Yiyan has spent around a month a year volunteering as a teacher in mountainous villages in Guangxi for more than ten years in a row (连续地).

In 2007, when she took part in film shooting in that area, she was shocked by the poverty (贫穷) there. Children had to walk along mountainous roads to attend class at a neighbouring village school. So she came up with the idea of doing something for these children.

Besides giving classes, Jiang also plays games with children and sings songs to them. And she cares much for their daily life. Moreover, she donated a billion yuan to set up a fund (基金) for students there.

“Like the grass in stone clefts (裂缝), they have to try their best to find sunshine on their own rather than waiting for others to do it for them,” Jiang said.

“It’s not that I gave these kids love. I am actually learning about love,” Jiang added. To enjoy and share love is seen as the most important thing in her life.

At the same time, children in the big mountains have also influenced Jiang.

“Born in this kind of environment, they have to learn to face a lot of difficult things from birth. So, why can’t I?” said Jiang.

10 . Like many high school graduates (毕业生), Maggie Doyne didn’t go straight to college. She decided to travel and arrives in western Nepal in 2006. A war had just ended there and let many children live on the streets. They had work at hard physical jobs for little money.

One day, while Doyne was walking down a country road, she saw a little girl breaking up rocks. She soon learned that 7-year-old Hima sold the rocks to help her family. Feeling so sad, she decided to pay Hima’s tuition (学费) for school. The changes in the child encouraged Doyne. She thought, “If we can help one child, why not 10?”

Doyne felt that the street children’s greatest need was a home. She found a piece of land for sale and bought it with MYM 5,000 she saved from years of babysitting. In 2008 the Kopila Valley Children’s Home was set up. With the help from the community, Doyne reached another goal in 2010—the Kopila Valley School. Over 350 children now attend the school and over 50 live in the home.

Today, Doyne lives in the home and is “mum” to the kids.