Home garages (车库)usually have space for a car and maybe things like tools and bicycles. But at Jaecee Rae Carr's home in Tennessee, USA, her parents, garage is filled with blankets and towels.

    After a visit to the local animal shelter (收容所), Jeacee decided to do something to help make the animals more comfortable.

    "I started asking friends, family and neighbors to donate blankets and towels to our local animal shelters," said Jaecee. "I didn't expect people to give so much! We have donated all of them to 20 shelters in 7states."

    Still, Jaecee Rae wanted to do more for shelter animals. So she started pet food donation. "Family, friends, teachers and people in my community donated about 2,700 pounds of dog and cat food," said Jaecee.

    In 2013, Jaecee was praised on different situation because of her hard work. After a year she won the Tennessee Governor's Volunteer Stars Award. She was the youngest person to win the prize and that made her so proud.

    Jaecee didn't stop trying to do more. "In March 2019, my family and people in the community donated things to my Humane Yard Sale. "Our garage was full! "said Jaecee, didn't realize so many things to help. It was a lot of work, but totally worth it. We sold so many things and raised over $1,000 from the yard sale!"

    What's next for the young volunteer to do for animals? Maybe a look at her garage will tell the tale!

    An American boy has made a cheap machine that can help blind people read.

    The blind can read by using Braille-a system of small bumps (隆起物) that the blind touch to read the letters. The machine that makes these small bumps usually costs at least $2,000. It is called Braille typewriter. The American schoolboy, Shu ham Banerjee, made a new Braille typewriter from a Lego tool that lets people create robots. Banerjee has called his new machine the Braigo-a combination(组合) of the words Braille and Lego. It costs just $350. It works by changing electronic texts into Braille and then printing it using a computer or a mobile machine.

    Banerjee designed (设计) his Braigo for a school science project. Since then, he has caught the interest of Silicon Valley in the USA. The big technology company Intel spent money on Banerjee's machine in November, but they did not say how much money they put in. Banerjee also got $ 35,000 from his father to help him start the project. His father works as a computer engineer (工程师) at Intel. He spoke about why he gave so much money to his son, saying, started to be interested more, thinking that he's on to something and this invention has to continue, dream would probably be having most of the blind people use my Braigo.

After two rounds of the competition with 20 debaters (辩论者), I finally sat in the leader's chair in the finals of our school debate competition.

We began by debating whether the Internet makes people 1 or reduces communication with others. I personally held the former. However, many people didn't 2 my opinion. They thought the Internet makes people communicate less with each other. Then we had a debate.

Our team made lots of 3 for the competition. We discussed many topics about the argument. We 4 as many points as possible on cards so that we could give quick and correct answers. We also prepared more information for the competition. It seemed that we would surely 5 .

However, as I sat in front of thousands of people, things turned out 6 . In my opening speech, time flew by so fast that I felt 7 and failed to finish my speech properly. Then it was our opponents' (对手的) turn. They asked me several questions. But one of them could show my weakness. I had no choice but to 8 answering it. I was worried that we would lose marks because of my answers.

Luckily, our 9 paid off. Our team 10 won the competition. The debate taught me to look at everything in different ways and always be fully prepared.

Once upon a time, there was a soldier. He was brave and strong. But he was not as1 as he thought. One day, he met a blacksmith (铁匠). The blacksmith talked to the soldier about his2 . He told the soldier that his talents were very 3 . He could not only make die best armor (盔甲) but also make it magic as well.

The soldier wanted a magic armor. 4 , he was not very rich. However, the blacksmith said that the soldier could5 him money "little by little". After having the armor, the soldier began a long6 with other soldiers. During the war, the soldier7 the richest and most famous soldier because of his magic armor.

Since he had plenty of 8 , he came to the blacksmith. He said, "Now I'm the richest man in the land. I want to pay for this 9 armor." The blacksmith said, "No, you don't need to pay me. Every spell (咒语) I put upon your armor 10 a day of your life. Your debt is paid and you will die tomorrow."

My name is Sally. I am a junior high school student from Guangdong. My school life is very busy but exciting. I have eight lessons a day. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} But my favourite subject is labour(劳动). I have two labour classes every week. I like labour classes because I can learn much from them.

In June 2024, some junior high school students in Guangzhou visited the Guangdong Museum. As for my school, we also go out of the classroom to learn new things. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}It is usually from 17th to 22nd in September. 

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} We can plant some trees and flowers. We clean our school. We also learn to cook. Now I can cook tomato and egg noodles. It's easy. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} And I can cook the noodles by myself when my parents are not at home.

Sometimes we also go to the farm and help farmers. 

We can pick some fruit and vegetables. We learn that the work on the farm is difficult. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

Having labour classes makes us learn something new. I love labour classes so much.

Dear Zhang Hua,

How time flies! I'm now in Grade 

9. I've changed a lot. I'm more active in both study and life than I was 2 years ago. How about you? What is your biggest change? By the way, I'm still weak in Chinese learning. Could you give me some advice?

Looking forward to your reply!

Yours, Tony

Dear Tony,

Yours, Zhang Hua