I'm Ann. I'm English. I'm twelve. I was born on May 17^th, 1991. I learn Chinese at Beijing No.3 Middle School. I have a good friend. Her name is Lucy. She is twelve, too. We are in the same grade. But we are not in the same(同样的) class. I'm in Class Two, and she is in Class Three. We have the same Chinese teacher. Her name is Zhang Ying. We all like her. Lucy's parents are English teachers in China. She has a sister. Her name is Lily. She is only five years old.

    Brittany Amano wants to make sure every child in the US has enough to eat.

    Brittany Amano, now 18, knew {#blank#}1{#/blank#}it felt to go hungry. Her mother tried to find a job in Honolulu, Hawaii to support the family. Her grandmother helped out {#blank#}2{#/blank#}much as she could. But the family still had to depend on a local food bank{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(live) on, and for that she was  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(thank).

    When they lost their home, Amano's family had to live in{#blank#}5{#/blank#}friend's basement(地下室). “I could feel how{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(hungry) and homelessness influenced my family.” Amano told a reporter from TFK. “The experience made me want to give hope to others in the same situation.”

    In{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(four) grade, she and some of her friends started a food project. They raised $ 700 and collected 800 pounds of food. At twelve, Amano set up the nonprofit (非营利的)group Hawaii's Future Isn't Hungry. She hoped to raise $10,000  when she finished high school. She ended up{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(raise) more than $ 500,000 in four years.

    With the money {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(collect), the nonprofit group, now called The Future Isn't Hungry, can offer fresh fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods to school kids on Friday. This is to make sure that the kids and their families have enough food to get them{#blank#}10{#/blank#}the weekend. So far, the effort has helped more than 750,000 people.

    Little Bob was born in a poor village in New York. His father has been ill for a long time and cannot do any 1at all. Bob's mother is very busy with the housework 2 working. Bob understands how hard his mother works, and he always helps her3some housework. 4 he does too much housework, his mother is still very strict with him. There are some family rules for Bob.

    He must5his things in his room and keep them tidy. If he makes them dirty, he must clean them up 6. He is allowed to keep a parrot, a cat and a dog, but he must feed them often and give them water 7 every day. After school, he is allowed to play with his pets for a short time. 8 his clothes, he isn't allowed to choose his own clothes. On school nights, he can't go out 9 and only on weekends, he is allowed to watch TV.

    Sometimes Bob hates the rules so much that he wants to break them, but he thinks the rules his mother has made are 10 him, so he faithfully obeys them.

    Once there was an old man who was very proud of 1 things. One was his long white beard (胡子) The other was his ability to fall asleep the moment his head 2 the pillow(枕头).

    One day, his 3-year-old grandson asked him 3 he did with his beard when he slept : did it go under the quilt(被子)or above the quilt?

    The old man had never paid attention to this 4 and he didn't remember whether hisbeard remained above or went under the quilt. So he promised to 5the answer. It was very cold that night. The old man got into bed early and pulled the quilt over6Then he suddenly remembered his grandson's7.

    He knew that his beard was under the quilt. He 8it from under the quilt, and placedit above the quilt. This made him fell that something was not quite 9.So he put the beard under the quilt again. But he soon felt it would be 10if it was out. In and out went the beard; first under the quilt, then above it, then under once again. The old man had a sleepless night.

    The next morning the first thing he did was cut his beard. It wouldn't trouble him forever.

    Rachel lived in a small town in America. She always wanted to help others when she was young. At the age of 5, she learned about an organization named Locks of Love. It uses hair donations to make wigs(假发) for children who have 1 their hair because of cancer or other illnesses. Rachel then asked her mother to cut her long hair and send 2 to the organization.

    At 8, she learned that other children had no clean 3 in Africa, and she was shocked. When her school began 4 money to build wells(井) there, she asked her parents to stop holding her birthday party. Also, she asked her friends each to donate $9 to the project in Africa 5 giving her birthday presents.

    One year later, it was her 6 birthday on June 12. She made a birthday page on the Internet with a goal of $ 300.However, Rachel was able to raise only $ 200.This made her a little sad.

    Unluckily, Rachel was badly hurt in an accident 7 eight days. That was a terrible shock to her friends. They wanted to find some ways of showing 8 to her. They began donating on Rachel's birthday page. Donations 9 her $ 300 goal quickly and kept rising.

    When it was clear that she would 10 come back to herself(苏醒), her parents donated her organs(器官) to other children. They also donated her hair a final time to Locks of Love.

    More money was being raised. The total donations soon reached $ 100, 000, and then $ 300, 000. So far, more than $ 850, 000 has been raised from all over the world, including donations from the Africans who are moved(感动) by the little American girl.