It's Sunday afternoon. It's my son's eighth birthday tomorrow. I go into a cake shop to buy a big birthday cake for him.

      When I get there, the shop is full of people. When I am looking for a cake, I find a little boy watching the cakes for a long time. He is in poor clothes. At last he picks a cake. Then he gives money to the salesgirl and says to her, “I want the small cake.”

  “Sorry, the cake is 20 yuan, but you only pay 10 yuan.” says the salesgirl.

  “I …I have no more money.” says the little boy and he begins to cry. “Oh , my boy. Who would you like to buy the birthday cake for?” I ask.

 “My mom, madam.”

“Why doesn't she come and buy one?”

“My father left us a few years ago,” the boy says. “we don't have money. My mother has to work from morning to night every day. She celebrates my birthday every year, but she never celebrates her birthday. It's her birthday tomorrow. I want to buy a small cake for her. But I don't have enough money…”

“Oh, my boy! I'm your mother's friend,” I say. “I will buy her a nice birthday cake.”I give the money to the salesgirl and leave the shop.

    A few years ago, my young sons, Sam, Jerry and Alex, joined a bike competition in a town far from our home. As their father was busy, I drove them to the competition.

    We were quite new to the town and didn't know anyone there. But soon after arriving, one woman gave me a chair. In the afternoon, we talked happily. Her name was Bev and she was there with her sons Jim and Carl.

    Unluckily, in one of the last races, my youngest son, Alex, had an accident (事故). He cried and cried, so I ran to meet him. He badly broke his arm.

    Just before I decided to take Alex to hospital, I saw a familiar (熟悉的) face. It was Bev.

    Although I hardly still knew her, she could see I was scared by the accident and the worry of having two other children to care in an unfamiliar town.

    "You go with him to the hospital," Bev said. "I'll take the other two home with my boys. Here is my phone number. I live not far from the town hospital."

    Bev was an angel (天使). I will never forget her kindness in taking two children off my hands so I could give my injured (受伤的) child the best care.

    A friendship started that day; and is still growing now.

    When he was nine years old, American boy Milo Cress had a question: How many plastic straws(吸管) do Americans use every day?

    He quickly learned there wasn't a simple answer. The boy tried to work it out himself. Through lots of research, Cress found out that Americans use about 500 million straws every day. In hopes of reducing plastic waste, he founded the Be Straw Free project in 2011.

    Cress started the project in his hometown – Burlington, Vermont. He asked a local restaurant to stop offering straws with every drink order. It was a simple change. However, it would save money. And by doing that, the restaurant would cut down on its straw use by 50 percent.

    For the years that followed, Cress tried to spread his project across the United States. More and more restaurants agreed to join. They stop providing the customer with a straw unless he or she asks for one. Last April, Seattle became the first American city to completely ban (禁止) plastic straws.

    Plastic pollution has been one of the most serious problems today. According to scientists, more than eight million tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year. Plastic straws are especially terrible. They make it easy for people to get comfortable with single-use plastics.

    After his project became popular, Cress took his findings on the road. He has since spoken to tens of thousands of students around the world. He wants to encourage more people to say no to plastic straws.

    "Focusing(聚焦) on straws is one simple step we all could take," Cress says. "And it makes me feel that I, as a kid, could make a difference, too."

Sam is my friend and he is a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(法国的) boy. He can speak English very well. I heard from

him yesterday. He told me lots of {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(绝妙的) things in the email. He visited the US with his family last week. They {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(花费) four days in New York and three days in Los Angeles. In New York, they went to the {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(举世闻名的)Metropolitan Museum of Art. They took lots of {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(照片) there, In Los Angeles, they went to Disneyland first. Sam was {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(兴奋的) to see his favourite Mickey Mouse. The next day they {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (放松) in the hotel during the daytime. In the evening, they went for a walk when all the {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(灯) were on in the street. On the last day, they went to the Hollywood. They {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(遇到) some movie stars there. After that they went home{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (乘)plane. It was a really fantastic trip.

It was a sunny summer day and I walked back home1 school. When I stood in front of my2 , I found I lost my key. It was very terrible for me,3 I only had one key. And my parents were out for some days.

I walked4 the neighborhood, hoping to find the lost key. But I didn't find it. I called my mom and she told me to go to my aunt's home. My aunt lived in5 house of our neighborhood. I could6 with her that day, but I still needed to get my key back.

The next day when I went past the security hut (保安亭) in the neighborhood, I saw something on the window. It was my7 ! "Is that yours, boy?" the guard (保安) asked me. "Yes. I lost it yesterday.8 found it?" I said. The guard9 , "I don't know. Someone picked it up last night."

I was happy. Picking up the key and taking it to the security hut wasn't something great, but this kind action (行为) was so10 to me. I just felt so happy. I couldn't thank the person, but I can pass on (传递) his or her kindness by learning from the person.