Have you ever worked as a volunteer? Volunteers don't get paid for what they do, but the experience of helping others can be more valuable than_______. There are many charities（慈善机构）around the world. They are always in need of volunteers who want to make a difference.

Do you want to_______  a volunteer? Think about what skills you have? If you speak more than one language or you are good at_______things, you can find places to use your skills to help other people.

Volunteers doesn't always mean doing great things. You can start with_______things. There is a famous saying that goes, "Charity begins at home". If people help those around them,_______will be in trouble. There are always people in your neighborhood who need help _______some tasks, such as walking their dogs, looking after their kids, and carrying their heavy shopping bags. You can also volunteer by giving_______to hospitals. These things may seem small, but they can still make a difference in someone else's life.

Volunteers don't_______help people. Environmental volunteers work hard to protect the environment. They plant trees or_______ city parks. Other volunteers work for animal charities which save the homeless or injured（受伤的）animals. They feed the animals and show them love. They take care of the animals until they are__________enough to be put in good homes.

All in all, volunteering is really a good way to make a contribution to your hometown and to the world.

   Once upon a time, there was a young man. He lived in a small village. He was the only child in his family, so his parents loved him very much and did everything for him. He just hung out every day, doing nothing.

One day, he met an old man in his village. The old man asked him, ”My boy, why don’t you work hard to achieve something when you are young?”

The young man replied without care, “Why do I have to be in a hurry? I’m young, so I have plenty of time! Besides, I haven't made any plans for my future yet. "

"Time waits for no man!" the old man said. Then he asked the young man to go into a dark house with him.

"I can't see anything!" the young man said

The old man lit a match and said to the young man,  "Before the match goes out, pick something in the house as you like. "

By the weak light, the young man tried to see the things in it. But before he found something, the match went out, and the house became dark again at once.

“Before I could get something, the match had gone out,” the young man said angrily.

The old man said,” My boy, your youth（青春）is like the burning match, which can only last for a short time. So you shouldn’t waste your time!

Nowadays, we are having a much busier life, and we are using our eyes more than ever before. So we often have tired eyes after a day’s work or study. Here are some good methods of protecting eyes against tiredness to keep them healthy.

 Get into the habit of paying attention to the way you sit. Try to stick to the proper posture that doctors suggest.

There are some special pictures online that can help relax your eyes. You may download such pictures to your computer or smart phone. When there is nothing far away you can look at to relax your eyes, you can use one of these pictures. A picture with something like a tunnel（隧道）in it is quite popular. Try to look as far into the tunnel as you can for 30 seconds（秒）. Do you feel better?

Step 1. Sitting comfortably, imagine there is a clock in front of you and turn your eyes up to 12 o’clock. Pause（停顿）for a second, and then lower your eyes to 6 o’clock. Pause again, and then repeat this step 10 times. Complete the exercise by cupping your hands over your eyes for a few seconds, letting them rest in the darkness.

Step 2. Look at something on the right. Keep your eyes on it and slowly turn your head to the left as far as possible. Then do the same thing on the left. Repeat the exercise a couple of times.

Step 3. Hold your finger in front of your nose and keep looking at it. Slowly move the finger towards yourself as close as you can without losing focus（焦点）. Then look outside the window as far as possible. Repeat this several times.

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For years, psychologists（心理学家） have been against giving children prizes or money for their performance in school. “Outwards” prizes, they say, can undermine the joy of learning for its own good and can even lead to cheating.

“Whether such efforts work continues to be a debate(争议) ,” said Barbara Marian, an assistant professor of education at Pennsylvania State. She is against using prizes as encouragement. Among parents, it often leads to very hot discussion. And in public education, a new focus on school reform(改革)pushes researchers on both sides of the debate to make more efforts to get data(数据) that may provide information on when and where prizes work.

“We have to get beyond our biases（偏见）,” said Roland Fryer, an economist at Harvard University who is planning and testing several prize programs. “Luckily, the scientific method allows us to examine most of those biases and let the data do the talking.” In the cash programs being studied, Roland Fryer and other economists compare the school performance of groups of students who are paid and students who are not. In the study, they find that the students who are prized get higher grades on the SAT and go to better colleges than those who are not.

Anna is a little girl. She loves reading books.

Last
66．, she and her parents went on vacation. Anna took some books with her. She read her books
67．the plane. She read her books at the hotel. She read her books at a museum. She read her books at a
68． garden.

“Anna, we are here to visit interesting places, not to read books,” said Dad.

“Stop reading and tell us
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“I need more books,” said Anna. “I want to see the
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When I got up and looked out of the bedroom window, I found, to my great surprise, it
71． heavily. I was very excited since it was the first snowfall this winter.

Shi Peng won the top prize in a college, students’ start-up (创业) competition for setting up a website to help children find playmates (玩伴).   

Shi was brought up by his grandparents in a village in Hubei Province.
86． Later, the 22-year-old student at a university in Wuhan decided to set up a special website for children. He hoped that his website could help children meet new friends of the same age and feel less lonely.

87． According to his research one about 6,000 children in cities like Guangzhou, Wuhan and Suzhou, most of them don’t have brothers or sisters and they are in need of playmates. “From my own experience, I think it’s a great idea to have such a website on which children can find playmates," Shi said.

The website is set up mainly for pre-school children in kindergarten (幼儿园) and their parents. All the users of the website must use their real names.
88． Through the website, parents who are busy during the day can get in touch with other parents who are free and willing to find some playmates for their children.

   下图描述了李华今年春节得到压岁钱(lucky money)之后，他和父母对于如何花压岁钱产生的不同观点。请根据图片提示，用英语写一篇100词左右的短文。