The British like DIY. A lot of people always spend their holidays    1    (make) their homes more beautiful. If there is anything     2    needs repairing or decorating around their homes, such as painting walls and putting in a new shower, they will do the jobs     3    (they). They share DIY experience     4    their friends. DIY can save money. So, it is not surprising that DIY is very popular.

DIY can be difficult. People often find it not easy     5    (build) a piece of furniture because they can’t understand the     6    (instruct) well. What’s more, DIY can also be     7    (danger). For example, anything electrical should be done by a professional worker.     8    (unlucky), many people don’t care about this warning and put themselves in danger. It is reported that thousands of people    9    (injury) while doing DIY in the UK last year.

All in all, DIY can bring us fun and help us save money,     10    it is not always as easy as it is thought to be.

Zhou Liang is the     1     (good) friend of mine. He is sixteen. He is not very tall, but he is smart. He has many different     2     (hobby).     3     (listen) to music is his favorite. He is     4     (interest) in sports very much. He is     5     member of our school football team.

Zhou Liang also likes     6     (play) the piano. He works hard at his lessons so he does well     7     all the subjects. He can work out the math problems so     8     (easy). He is kind and ready     9     (help) others. He is the person     10     has helped me make progress. I hope our friendship will last forever.

Do you know the UK government has     1     (successful) passed a law banning branding on packs of cigarettes? That means tobacco makers will be forced to pack     2    (they) cigarettes in plain packets.

The motivation behind this     3     (decide) is to make smoking less appealing to people, especially children.

A similar law     4     was passed in Australia in 2012 has resulted     5     a fall in smoking rates from 15.1% to 12.8% for people aged 14.

As of January 2015, 22% of adult men and 17% of adult women smoke in Great Britain. The possibility of smoking in the UK increases with age so that by 15 years of age 8% of school children     6    (be) regular smokers. Children, it is thought, will be less attracted to cigarettes     7     (sell) in unbranded boxes.

Smoking is one of     8     biggest causes of preventable deaths in England. Every year about 80,000 die and over 450,000 people     9     (send) to hospital due to smoking. This places a large stress on the health service and is also a factor in why the government would like to prevent people     10     (take) up smoking or help them quit.

When 11-year-old Khloe realized that homeless women didn’t have a lot of basic items they needed, she    1    (know) she had to do something. “It all started with a woman I saw on    2    (I) way to school,”Khloe explained.

Around this time Khloe’s grandma was teaching her    3    to make tote bags (大提包), and that’s when Khloe got an idea. “I wanted    4    (include) bath items in a tote bag and give them to women in need,” Khloe said. She explained the idea    5    her parents and they said, “Let’s    6    (make) it happen.” Khloe and her family and friends filled tote bags with soap, toothbrushes, socks and other important items. They then gave the bags to homeless women    7    live in their community.

Khloe’s dad suggested they start with 25 bags, but they quickly made 30 bags and passed them out to women in need. Two    8    (year) later, they made over 1,000 tote bags! “Never allow your age to stop you from making a(n)     9    (different),” Khloe said. “It feels so great to help your community. It makes you    10     (true) happy.”

One act of kindness is leading to another. And as kindness     1     (pass) to another, new friendships are forming and existing ones are strengthening.

My elderly neighbor called my daughter and me     2     (pick) fruits from her tree as the fruits were high and it was required to step on a huge ladder to get them. After an hour spent     3     (chat) and picking the fruits, she treated us to a glass of fruit juice.     4     addition, she gave us plenty of fruits to hand out to     5     (we) friends.

I then gave them to three other senior friends of mine. One of them gave me a hot tomato soup. I tasted it. It was so delicious     6     I couldn't help asking her about it. She told me that her mom and grandma were both top     7     (cook) and she learned it from them when she was helping them in her youth.

This was     8     (total) unexpected and interesting to know. Besides, she invited me again and agreed that we would prepare the dish together,     9     was the best part of all. I feel very     10     (thank) for these friendships and connections. Kindness and friendship always go hand in hand.

Fourteen years ago, Wu Jingxun started visiting the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture (自治区), Sichuan Province.    1     his surprise, the volunteer found not a single book was in any family in a village. There were only several magazines     2     (leave) by tourists in the local primary school.

“There     3    (be) no other reading material besides those magazines     4     covers had been worn out,” recalls Wu.

After that, Wu donated many books, including picture books that won the Caldecott Medal, to the primary school. One year     5     (late), when he revisited the school, he was shocked to find the children's favorite books were Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf and Boonie Bears.

“That showed children in the village were not     6     (interest) in reading and didn't know how. Even if you offered them great books, they just went through the picture books without gaining any     7     (impress),” Wu says. “If they can take up reading as     8     habit, they can benefit more. They can read in their free time rather than watching TikTok on their phones.”

By now, thousands of books     9     (donate) to the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture to promote reading and to teach children how to read,     10     (particular) in poor villages.