6 . Wildlife Protection Society (野生动物保护协会)在 China Daily上发布了一个招募志愿者的公告。假如你是李平，请你用英文给协会主席写一封信，申请成为志愿者，要点如下：

I would like to join the Wildlife Protection Society.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Ping

7 . Almost every Saturday morning, Molly pulls a table into her front yard. On the table she lays out some ________ in season, such as carrots and tomatoes. They are all from her garden and free for her neighbors to ________. “It’s just lovely, like you walk by and get a beautiful gift around the corner.” said one of her neighbors.

Molly started doing this in the summer of 2020. Earlier that year, a fire broke out in her house. Molly’s ________ had a hard time. “People in the neighborhood came to help. They brought us food and often called to make sure we were doing fine. I was deeply ________.” Molly said.

Then the pandemic (疫情) came. Molly and her family had much time to work in their garden. They decided to share what they had grown in the garden ________ life was not easy—most people were in need of food during that time.

________ knew about it at first. But ________, more and more people got to know and then, they got into the habit of coming around. They would always stop by and leave ________ some vegetables. Molly’s yard became a ________ place.

One thing Molly has learned from this ________ is that people have to work together when days are difficult so that they can go through difficulties. She is glad that love has spread in her neighborhood.

We all know it’s     1     (importance) to have dreams. However, to make the dreams come true is not an easy thing. A young Dutch man named Boyan Slat enjoys working hard to make his dreams     2     (come) true.

When Boyan was 16, he went diving (潜水) in Greece. He was shocked to see more plastic (塑料的) bags than fish in the sea. The boy wanted to clean up the ocean. However, everyone told him that there was nothing he could do if plastic bags went into the ocean. The teenager didn’t give up. He     3     (spend) several months studying plastic pollution. Finally, he came up     4     a science project—use floating barriers (漂浮的屏障) to collect the waste. That is to say “instead of     5     (use) nets and ships to collect the plastic bags”, the barriers can make the plastic bags come together with the help of natural ocean currents (水流) and winds. What’s more, the collected plastic bags can be recycled (回收利用) and made into products or oil.

Boyan won prizes for the project,     6     that was not enough for him. In 2013, he     7     (set) up The Ocean Cleanup. Together with scientists, engineers and     8     (volunteer) from all around the world, the young man is working hard to c    9     up the ocean and make our world a     10     (good) place. Would you like to j    11     them?

9 . Everyone may have a chance to make the world a better place. Teenagers can make a difference, too.

Kyle Van Der Velden is a 16-year-old student in Wayne Hills High School. One day in school, he met a cleaner and saw him ________ away a lot of pencils. The cleaner told Kyle that he got pencils every day ________ he cleaned up the classroom. ________ he did not know what to do with the pencils, so he just threw ________ away.

One day Kyle got some information from the Internet. Some people in poor countries needed pencils badly. So Kyle decided to collect pencils ________ them. Later Kyle joined a group called Right-to-Write as a volunteer. The group sends pencils ________ people around the world. They collect pencils and put them into bags. Then they give ________ bags to people who travel to poor countries. The pencils will ________ to people in need by these travelers.

Kyle goes to different schools to collect pencils. He ________ 3,790 pencils since he began the job two months ago. He has done the job really ________! We should learn from him.

Can middle school students be “teachers”? How will they teach? Chen Hao, a 13-year-old boy from Sichuan, volunteered to teach primary school students in a village.

Chen joined a teaching activity in Sichuan last summer. “I read the news that teachers were not enough in the village, so I wanted to give some classes to the kids there,” said Chen. His parents helped him get in touch with the school.

“My third-grade students have subjects like Chinese and English every day, so I wanted to teach them chess,” Chen said.

Chen carefully gave 10 chess lessons with rules and real games. “Chess can help with kids’ logical (逻辑的) thinking. They love the chess class very much,” said Chen. “They now know that there are many ways of learning, not just learning from books. I feel so proud!”

Before leaving, Chen visited his students’ homes. One father went to town to buy tea drinks for him. “I was so moved by these people when I saw the drinks. I know it is a kind of luxury (奢侈品) for the family,” Chen told the reporter.

Chen also learned important life lessons. “The kids there live a hard life, but they are hopeful about the future. That helps me get over hard things in life,” Chen said.