On a cold winter day, a fox {#blank#}1{#/blank#} mother bear that he would teach her how to fish. As she{#blank#}2{#/blank#} to learn, he took her to a hole in the ice, and told her to put her tail down in the water. He told her to keep the tail there for{#blank#}3{#/blank#} . Then{#blank#}4{#/blank#} she pulled the tail out of the water, she would find fish around the tail. The bear was foolish enough to believe{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the fox said. She sat for a long time with her tail in the water. She was {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the fish. But when she{#blank#}7{#/blank#} to pull her tail lout of the water, she found that it was frozen in the ice. She asked the fox to pull her out. But he laughed to himself and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} . so she called father bear to help her. Father bear came. He pulled hard and {#blank#}9{#/blank#} got her out, but a part of her tail was in the ice. That is{#blank#}10{#/blank#} people find the bear's tail so short.

            I work as a volunteer for an organization that helps the poor in Haiti. Recently I took my son Barrett there for a week, hoping to  1  him. Before setting out, I told Barrett this trip would be tiring and   2  . For the first two days, he said almost nothing. I worried the trip was too much for a 17-year-old boy. Then on day three, as we were climbing  3    high rocky mountains, he turned to me and grinned (咧嘴笑), "Pretty hard."

    After that there was no turning back. A five-year-old girl, wearing a dress several sizes   4  large and broken shoes, followed Barrett around, mesmerized (着迷). He couldn't stop   5   . Later he said regretfully . "I   6   I could speak French." I was  7－this from a boy who hated and    8   French classes throughout school.

       Usually silent, he made friends with Gaby, our host, and kept asking questions about the country and its people. He came alive

      However, the moment that really took 9    breath away happened during my interview with a woman villager for an article at her house deep in the mountains. 135 centimeters tall, she was small in figure but strong in 10  . Through determination(决心), she had learned to read and write and 11  to become part of the leadership of the village .    her story, Barrett was as touched as I by this tiny woman's achievements. His eyes were wet and 12  was a mixture of love and respect on his face. He had finally understood the importance of my work.  13       When leaving for home, Barrett  13offered to stay behind as a volunteer. My insides suddenly felt struck. This   14  achieved all I'd expected. Soon he will celebrate his 18th birthday. He'll be a man.

    Kate is a very kind girl. She is always willing to help people who are in {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Now Kate is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} in the university of Texas. At the same time, she is volunteering to teach at Heart House in her free {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. Heart House is a local (当地) after-school program for children. It provides some extra education {#blank#}4{#/blank#}those children who are not doing well in their studies.

    Kate {#blank#}5{#/blank#} also made a website (网站) for Heart House. In this way, more people have more chances to learn about Heart House and help the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} there.

    Because of Kate's website, every week 125 volunteers {#blank#}7{#/blank#} about four hours helping the children at Heart House now. “Without Kate's website, Heart House would be {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to have enough volunteers. We thanked her so much. ” the program leader says.

    “I feel happy to teach those kids how to study. The {#blank#}9{#/blank#} thing is that I can also learn a lot from them. I won't {#blank#}10{#/blank#} up volunteering after graduation (毕业). I hope to continue teaching kids who need help,” Kate says.

    If you want to get the most out of the study of a language, you must also read for pleasure: novels, plays, travel books, and so on. And in reading books of this kind the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}thing is to get on with the reading, to try to grasp(领会){#blank#}2{#/blank#}the writer is going to tell you in the book as a whole. This is impossible if you stop and think over the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}of every single word which happens to be unfamiliar. You cannot enjoy a story if you stop lots of times on every page for{#blank#}4{#/blank#}words in the dictionary. You may even prevent yourself from understanding the story as a whole by doing this.