A：This is Jack speaking．Who is that?

B：This is Bob．Long time no see．I miss you very much，Jack．

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B：I'm volunteering in Africa．I work at an orphanage(孤儿院)．

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B：I teach the kids Chinese and help them with their homework．And I play with them a lot．

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B：Yeah, you're right．But working there is hard sometimes．There is always so much work to do．

A：What else do volunteers do there?

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A：I would like to help, but I can't go there right now

B：{#blank#}5{#/blank#}The money pays for a child's food，clothing and schooling．

A：I see．Bye, Bob．

    Do you know what is special about November and June in the UK? They are, possibly, the only two {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(month) with no school holidays. A newspaper recently did a survey among a group of students. In {#blank#}2{#/blank#}survey, 68 percent of the students said that their parents were at work in the school holidays. 73 percent said that they were bored during the school holidays and 35 percent said they were happy to go back to school! The results of the survey show that not everybody {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (want) to have many holidays.

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    Many schools take groups of students to some {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (train) centers. There, students can learn how to do things by {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (they). For example, students learn how to make a camp in the forest. They also learn a lot {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (many) about animals and plants. At the same time, they are {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (teach) how to find their way back to the centers.

    In most towns, some other centers offer students different courses,  {#blank#}10{#/blank#}as computer game design, film-making and painting. Students can also go abroad for school trips. They can practice their foreign languages and experience everyday life in different cultures.