O. Henry was an American writer. He wrote lots of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy, he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for a long time, but he learned everything he wanted to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he did different jobs. He first worked in a newspaper, and then he has a job in a bank. When some money went missing from the bank, O. Henry was suspected (被怀疑）. Because of that he was sent into prison（监狱）. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the poor life there. People liked his stories, because although simple(简单), to the reader's surprise, the stories would finish with a sudden change at the end.

    Hello, boys and girls. I'm Tom. Nice to meet you. Tom is my first name, What's my last name? My last name is Hanks. Tom Hanks is my full name(全名). I'm twelve years old. I'm from England and I'm English. Thanks.

要点: (1)外形。 (2)功能。 (3)便捷之处。 (4)是否产生污染。

The Car in the Future

People around the world work together to help our planet on Earth Day, April 22. But in fact, lots of people protect the Earth all year long. They are Earth heroes(英雄). And some kids do, too. We have four kids here, telling you that you can help even if you are a child.

Saving the frogs

John is from the USA. He always loves frogs. When John was 5, he learned their living places were in danger. So John started a group, For the Love of Frogs. They sold toy frogs to collect money to help frogs. John is now 10 and the group has more than $ 20,000 to protect frogs!

Growing right

Mandy lives in a city in India. She saw a wasteland near her house at 15. She turned it into a garden. She used native plants that lived or grew around her city. Native plants could make insects like butterflies and animals come to her area.

Mandy is now 18. She is teaching people about native plants." The way to reuse the wasteland is not just to plant any tree," she said." It is to make sure that you grow the right plants in the area."

Cleaning up

Zhang Min, 13, and Zhang Jie, 15, live in a city in China. To fight plastic pollution, they made a plan. They wanted to clean up plastic waste in the Pearl River.

Zhang Min and Zhang Jie put up posters at school to make people care more about plastic waste." You need to have people talk to one another," Zhang Jie said," Everyone can do something to help."

It was a fine summer afternoon. Sam was going home from school. When he was walking along the road slowly, he was reading a book 1 . He even didn't see a tree and almost knocked onto it. Sam had spent all his money 2 the book. He liked it very much.

When he came to the high road, there was a blind man, holding out his hat. The poor man said, "I haven't 3 anything since yesterday. Please give me some 4 . I want to buy some bread." But Sam had 5 to give this poor man. So, he felt very 6 for him and had to walk on.

Soon after,a fine carriage(马车) 7 up, and in it were Harry and his mother. The blind man still stood there and held out his hat. "Let us give the poor man something," said Harry to his mom.

His mother found some coins in her bag and passed them to him. 8 , Harry did not put them into the man's hat. He threw them into the 9 beside the poor man. 10 could the blind man find them?

11 Sam turned back to look at the fine carriage, he saw Harry throwing the coins into the bush. So he walked back at once and helped 12 the money until he found all the coins.

As the blind man held the 13 , he smiled. It 14 Sam's heart. At that moment, Sam knew that kindness wasn't always about 15 actions; sometimes, it was just a small act of giving a helping hand that could make a difference.