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      Education plays an important part in modern life. However, in some poor areas, many children can't afford the expenses of schooling (付学费) and are forced (被迫) to leave school. At the same time, our country is not able to invest (投资) too much in it. Under this condition, the Project Hope is necessary to our country. Firstly, it will create conditions (创造条件) for the children to go back to school. Secondly, it can make more people educated. So it can lead to the improvement of people's standards (标准) of life.

　　In my opinion, the Project Hope is of great importance to our country. I hope that with its help more and more children can get the opportunity (机会) to be educated.

    People enjoy different indoor and outdoor activities in Britain. A recent European survey (调查) discovered that people in Britain spend about 45% of their free time watching television, 24% of their free time doing social (社会的) activities, 22-23% on sports and hobbies, and 10% on other activities. Other popular activities are listening to the radio, listening to music, reading, gardening, eating out and going to the cinema.

Television.

    The most common activity in the UK is watching television. People often spend 25 hours every week on TV. Almost every household (家庭) has at least one television set at home. In 1999, 13% of households had satellite television and 9% cable television.

    Radio

    People in Britain listen to about 15 hours and 50 minutes of radio every week.

    Entertaining (娱乐)

    Another popular activity in Britain is visiting or entertaining friends.

    Cinema

    About 123 million British people went to the cinema in 1998. It is the most popular cultural (文化的) activity in the UK.

    Eating Out

    More and more British people like to eat out. In 1999 every British person spent ＄5.63 every week on food outside.

    I took the bus to school every day when I was in primary school. Alvin, our bus driver, came every morning at 8:00 to1us poor children to school.

    Alvin picked up around twenty2in our area and dropped us off at school. About once a month he would make a3at the local drive in(车站). Someone would come out and ask each of us if we wanted an ice cream or a drink. Alvin would pay for the whole bus out of his own pocket, The kindness that he showed was4.

    I remember him5us to his home for a party at the end of the school year. He would6drinks and chips for everyone.

    Remembering the kindness he showed, I called him up twenty years7and thanked him. I told him that he probably wouldn't remember me, but I'm sure I remember him! We didn't see much kindness from others as we grew up, so it made this all the more8.

    I could hear the smile in his voice when he thanked me for9. He's the reason I do my10to show kindness to everyone around me. He has had such a huge impact(影响) on my life and I'm so grateful to him.

    "Stop! Stop!"

    The police officer ran down the street as fast as he could. "Stop!" he said again. But it was no use. The car kept going. The officer said to himself, "It must be going ten miles an hour."

    There weren't many cars on the road in the early 1900s. Most people thought driving ten miles an hour was too fast for safety. And since police officers didn't have cars of their own, they could only run after speeders(超速驾驶者).

    The early cars were faster than the horse-drawn buggies(马车) that most people still used. And they frightened( 使惊恐) the horses. One carmaker tried to keep the horses cool. He made the car with the horse's head. He hoped real horses would think it was a horse and buggy. They didn't. It frightened them just as much.

    The car with the horse's head wasn't the only early car that would look strange today. Some looked like buggies without a horse. Others had three wheels(轮子). A few even had their steering wheels(方向盘) in the back seat.