A Thanks-giving Campaign Day
    Today, we had a thanks-giving campaign day in our school with a lot of activities. In the morning, I made some thank-you cards and they {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to my teachers after class. The teachers were very happy to get them. From 3: 00 to 4:00 p. m, I joined in a speech contest. In it, I {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  a thank-you letter to Mum and Dad. After I came back home in the evening, I helped my parents {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the room and cook supper.
    I had such a meaningful day today. I realize that my parents and teachers and many others {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a lot for me now. I must thank them by {#blank#}5{#/blank#} harder and becoming a useful person in the future.

    Now we meet Fantine. She is young and beautiful, and in love with a man in Paris. But she {#blank#}1{#/blank#} no family, and no money.

    Men are not kind to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. The man in Paris walks away, and leaves poor Fantine with a little girl {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Cosette. Fantine must find work, but {#blank#}4{#/blank#}?

    Fantine has a child but no husband, and a woman without a husband is nothing. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} than nothing. People are not kind to a woman with a child but no husband.

    They turn their faces away, they close their doors, they say, "There's no work for a woman {#blank#}6{#/blank#} you."

    Fantine likes her daughter {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, but what can she do? So, in 1818 in a village near Paris, she leaves her little daughter with Monsieur and Madame Thenardier. They ask for seven francs a month. Fantine {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the money, holds her daughter in her arms for the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} time, and leaves. She takes the road for her home town, and tears are {#blank#}10{#/blank#} down her face.

    One day at Bluesea Middle School in Hong Kong, about 450 students and teachers went without water at lunchtime. They were in a meeting to learn about saving water. The school also collected about HK $ 10,000. The money would be {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to plant 1,880 trees at the heads of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

    The local director of "Friends of the Earth, Ms Wong, explained that {#blank#}2{#/blank#} of the world's population still didn't have enough water for all their {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. She thought that by the year 2020, one half of the world's population would not have enough water. Ms Wong said she had visited the heads of the two rivers three times in the past year. "I had expected them to be clean places, as they are at the top of the rivers.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, sadly I found that they were polluted seriously, even worse than a few years ago."

    Ms Wong said that if everyone helped save water, the situation would get a little {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. She hoped that everyone could do something for saving. One of the students said, "I'm pleased to come to the meeting. Now I can remember how a third of the population lives. I think I'll try and{#blank#}6{#/blank#}some of my habits. Let's save water together.'