World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up by the UNESCO(联合国教科文组织)in 1955 to encourage people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of r1. Many countries celebrate World Book Day. On that day in the UK, millions of students can buy books of special p2., much lower than usual in any bookstore. It has been done every year since 1998. W3.do people like reading? First, reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent (勤奋的). S4., reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and technology. Besides, reading gives us i5.about other cultures and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that we don’t know well. We would have to think about them or do more reading to f6.out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. What’s more , reading is also one of the m7.important ways to learn a foreign l 8. like English.
“Reading makes a full man.” Books, magazines, newspapers can help us to know m9. about the outside world and perfect us. So it is necessary for us to form the h10. of reading every day.
UNICEF is part of the United Nations. It was set up in Europe in 1946. At that time , many c1. lives were changed because of the war.
Now UNICEF works in over 190 countries and areas. It helps g2. , communities and families make the world a better place for children.
UNICEF wants all children to live h3. so it provides them with clean water and food, and tries to p4. them from getting illnesses. It works to stop the s5. of some serious diseases, like AIDS.
UNICEF also believes it important for children to receive basic education so it helps them a6.
school. It works for the equal r7.of girls and women too.
We can help by donating money or working as v8. We can raise money by selling Christmas cards and o9. other activities. We can help a UNICEF officer learn about the c10. of the local people to improve their lives.
Holding doors open for people behind you, picking up litter, thanking people … these acts of kindness s1. very small. But students at No.1 Middle School know that s2. small acts make the world a better place.
Eighth-graders from this school, took part in the Random(随机的) Acts of Kindness Week f3. March 31 to April 4. During the week, they tried their best to do kind things for others. Murray, an English teacher at the school, started the activity. Since she was little, she has always tried to do small acts of kindness in her daily life. “I believe the world is c4. by small things,” she told the newspaper The Daily Times. Over the week, to her s5., Murray also saw great changes in her class.
Before that, she always needed to ask her s6. to push the chairs in or turn off the lights before they leave the classroom. Now, the students do those things by t7.. “The teachers have a lot of work,” said Jordon, one of Murray’s students. He learned to care more about others. Eliza, a8. student, gave out more praise to others. “It makes them feel happy and successful,” she said. The activity made students feel that they can make a difference. Murray decides to continue to do at l9. one act of kindness every week, however busy she is. She b10. her acts can encourage others.
In a history class, our teacher, Mrs Bartlett asked us to make a poster in groups about the culture that we were studying. She told us to write the names of three friends we wanted in one group and she would think about o1. choices(选择).
The next day, I was told to be in a “bad” group. The boy in the group was too weak in English, and the other two girls always w2. strange clothes. Oh, how I wanted to be with my f3.!
With tears(眼泪) in my eyes, I walked up to Mrs Bartlett. She looked at me and seemed to know what I was there f4.. I told her I should be in the “good” group. She gently placed a hand on my shoulder(肩膀). “I know what you want, Karma,” she said, “but your g5. needs you. I need you to help them. Only you can help them.” I was surprised and moved. Her words c6. me up.
“Will you help them?” she asked. “Yes,” I r7.. Then I bravely walked over to my group. I sat down and we started. Each of us did a part according to our interests. Halfway through the week, I felt m8. enjoying our group. We did a good job together. Nobody e9. Mrs Bartlett believed in our group.
Amazingly, our group got an A. But I think the A should be r10. by Mrs Bartlett. Mrs Bartlett brought out the potential (潜能) in four of her students.
Early in the morning, at noon, or in the evening you can see Americans running. Men and women, young and old run e1.— along the beaches of California, through Central Park in New York, down quiet streets in small towns or at the gym. Some people even run in their living r2..
Running wasn’t so p3. in the past. In the 1960s, runners were mostly athletes (运动员) and healthy, strong people. When people saw a runner, they used to ask, “Hey, what’s the hurry?” or they might say to themselves, “Is he c4.?” At that time, women almost n5. ran. If they did, they might be laughed at. But today all these attitudes (态度) have c6.. Men and women of all ages enjoy running.
Doctors say many of the health p7. in the United States come from these bad habits: eating too much, smoking cigarettes, and doing l8. exercise. Doctors tell us, “Eat less, don’t smoke, and exercise m9..” Running is a good exercise b10. it helps build a strong heart and lungs. It also helps most people lose weight.
It’s not easy to let young people accept the ways of the old. It’s becoming e1. more difficult in the face of new technologies. So officers gathered in Wuhan, Hubei Province that is proved to be good at m2. children interested in tradition. They shared some lessons. As we all know, many students know little about traditional things. Officers d3. how to make local operas popular in elementary and middle schools. Officers also agreed that every student should get the chance to w4. a traditional opera show for free every year.
The work of the theatre was divided into three p5.: speech, teaching and performance. By the end of November, about 146 e6. of these kinds were held. Opera artists are often invited to schools to communicate with students and teachers. Traditional opera lessons are t7. in more than 80 percent of its elementary and middle schools. More than 6,600 opera shows were performed at schools that year, and that was h8. praised by students and parents.
In this way students can have a taste of the traditional beauty of China. “At first I was afraid these events could be a distract (分心) from study. Now I r9. that our children have learned a lot from them,” said one parent of No.71 Middle School. One of the officers said o10. parts of the country could learn some lessons from Hubei Province’s experiences. They hope students all over China will have the chance to learn the art of traditional operas by the end of 2018.
