1 . On the evening of February 17, 2021, the winners of Touching China were announced. Mao Xianglin, the party secretary(党支书) of Xiazhuang, Chongqing was among them.

In 1997, 38­-year­-old Mao started to work in this village. Around the village are 1000­-meter­-tall cliffs(悬崖峭壁), and there was only one way to get out of the village for many years. It took villagers three days to walk to the nearest town. Mao decided to build a road. “We can’t stay poor forever. I’ll lead us as we try, even though it will be hard.” Mao said.

He led more than 100 villagers to build the road with their hands. They hung from ropes and used different kinds of tools to build the road. It took them seven years to build an eight-kilometer road. But their work has improved people’s lives. It takes just one hour to drive to the nearest town now.

Mao then encouraged the villagers to grow oranges. Last year, their orange yield(产量) was nearly 40 tons. Young people have returned to the village to sell oranges online. By the end of 2019, 269 villagers had got out of poverty(贫困).

Mao, who will retire(退休) in five years, said, “Although the conditions are better, the spirit of the Xiazhuang people can’t be lost. It has to be passed down.”

One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat near his feet. He put up a sign which said, “I am blind, please     1     me.”

There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was     2     by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the     3    . He then took the sign, turned it around, and     4     some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could     5     the words.

Soon the hat began to fill up with coins. A lot of people were giving     6     to the blind boy. The afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see     7     things were. The boy recognized (听出) his footsteps and asked, “Are you the man     8     changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a     9     way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day,     10     I cannot see it.”

Karen was a social worker. Every day, on her way to work, she had to pass a place where many poor people lived. She had not paid much     1     to it before. But this changed one day when she met a poor boy     2     Ben. Ben knew she was the head of social service, and that she could     3    . He reached out his hand and said, “Can you help me? I’m looking for my dad.” His hands were so     4    . Karen asked, “What’s up?” “My mom is terribly sick. Her birthday is coming. I know my father’s coming     5     would be the best present. My dad had left us before I was two years old,” said the boy.

Karen was     6     moved and asked Ben to take her to his home. He led her to a small house. Karen saw a woman lying in bed. The woman knew she was dying. She said to Karen, “Please find a     7     for my son.” Karen took her hand and nodded with tears (眼泪). She got an idea! Her husband and she had     8     children, and looked forward to having     9    . Later Karen brought Ben home. Ever since then, the new family have had     10     and laughter.

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Life on weekends is an important part of our daily life. How can we make our weekends more meaningful?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In short, let’s make good use of our weekends!

My mother told me we would have a yard sale this weekend. Yesterday I ________ lots of old things from my bedroom. I had to ________ five things I no longer use. I was quite ________ at first. Although I have not played with my old toys for a long time, I ________ wanted to keep them. For example, I have ________ the toy car since my sixth birthday, and I played with it almost every day ________ I was ten. And I didn’t want to lose my toy bear, ________ . It was one of my favorite toys. It came from my grandmother. I have ________ it for five years. I wanted to keep them ________ they brought back many sweet memories. “Maybe some kids need the toys more than you. They don’t fit you anymore. But they can bring ________ to the kids,” my mother said. In the end, I gave away the toys to the kids in need happily.

One spring afternoon, I went to the shopping center with my son. As I was looking for the parking space (停车位), I saw a(n)     1     pushing her shopping cart (购物车) in front of us, and the cart looked too     2     for her — it was full of food and drinks. She was also carrying three bags in her hands. She saw us and tried to move to the side so that we could     3    . At that time, the wind blew away two of the food bags, and she ran to catch     4    . I asked if she was OK. “Yes”, she said, “I’ll be out of your way soon”. She picked up the two bags but another bag fell off.

I     5     my car and told my son to wait for a minute. I ran to the woman and she said sorry first. She told me those things were for her son’s     6     birthday party. I helped her put the things in her car. She said, “Thank you so much.” I smiled and said, “I am a mother,     7    . Many people helped me before. I’m just returning the kindness.” She said thanks     8     and got in her car.

When I walked to the shopping center     9     my son, he took my hand. It was the most touching gesture (动作) of all, and I realized that our children are always     10    .