To: Christin foo@hotmail.com

Date: 23^rd March
Subject: The Riding for the Disabled Association
Hi Christine,
Sorry I haven't emailed lately —I've been very busy since becoming a volunteer for the Riding for the Disabled Association.
Every Saturday, I help to get the horses {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  for the disabled(残疾) riders. Many more disabled people want to ride {#blank#}2{#/blank#} than you'd imagine. It's a disadvantage that I don't know how to ride —I'd love to got on long rides with the riders— but I'll learn soon {#blank#}3{#/blank#} . Right now, I'm just happy to be able to lead the horses around for the disabled riders.
    I'm{#blank#}4{#/blank#}  helping to organize a sale, which will be {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  next month. It's a lot more work than helping the disabled. I need to collect second-hand things to sell at the sale. There are {#blank#}6{#/blank#}  things available(获得的) than I thought, but I'm sure we'll have enough{#blank#}7{#/blank#}  next month.
     I hope the sale raises more money than last month's walk. It was rainy, so too few people took part in the event. Last week, we held an auction(拍卖). The auction took much less {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to organize than the walk. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} , for some reason, people offered too little money for the things, so we didn't raise enough money.
     I'm {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you some pictures in the letter, as well as a speech I gave last week.

  at all times，clean up，cheek in，pass on，in order to 

    Our music teacher's {#blank#}1{#/blank#} song is Old Mac Donald Had a Farm. She is a good teacher and she is{#blank#}2{#/blank#} to us. We all love her. All of the children in our class love to sing this song. We like to make the sound of the animals.{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the chicken we make the sound "cluck, cluck". For the pig we make the sound "oink, oink "and for the duck we say "quack, quack,"

    One day our teacher {#blank#}4{#/blank#} us to draw a picture of what Old Macdonald's farm may look like. I {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  good at drawing pictures. First I drew Old Macdonald. He is a {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. Then I drew the farm animals. I even drew cows saying "moo"! Around the cows I drew grass for them {#blank#}7{#/blank#} I also drew a garden for Farmer Macdonald to grow{#blank#}8{#/blank#} for his family. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}I drew a house for Old Macdonald and his family to live in. The music teacher hung all of our pictures on the wall. She{#blank#}10{#/blank#} we did a great job!

    Two men walked through the countryside toward another village. As they come to the edge of a river, they saw an old woman sitting there upset because the bridge was {#blank#}1{#/blank#}by the storm, and she was too weak to walk across the stream. The first man said {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, "We are tall enough, we can carry you across." The second man thought it troublesome, but he agreed reluctantly(不情愿地) . So the two men{#blank#}3{#/blank#}hands, lifted her between them and carried her across the river. When they got to the other side, they sat her down and she went on her way gratefully. After they had walked another mile or so, the second man began to complain. "My back began to hurt for lifting her." The first man{#blank#}4{#/blank#}smiled and nodded without a word