ClothesDonation (捐赠) Box

    Have youever put your old clothes into the donation box in your neighborhood? If not,you can do it right now because the clothes donation is becoming a trend (趋势) in Urumqi.

    "Fromtime to time, my mother clears out the clothes which I no longer wear. Youknow, we teenagers are growing fast. I think it's a good way to helpothers." Lin Tao, a junior student says.

    "Ioften pick out some of my clothes which are out of style after going shopping.Then I put them into the donation box." Miss Li, a pretty young lady says.

    "Thatseems like a good idea. Some clothes in the box are quite new. People caneither wear them or usethem to make things such as handbags and pencilcases," Mrs Wang, an old woman says, "sometimes I also look throughthe box for some nice clothes."

    However,there are some problems along with the popularity of clothes donation.Recently, a UTV reporter from Focus on the City has made a survey. Here are theresults:

    Some boxesare full of clothes in a short time. There is no more room for people to giveaway clothes.

    Somepeople sell the clothes in the donation box for making money instead of wearingthem.

    Somecommunities set the boxes in unsuitable places. So there are few clothes in it.

    Manyclothes are too old and shabby (破烂的).

   "What's worse," one of the staff in a community added,"we quite often see people throw rubbish into the box when they pass by.We've tried to stop them several times but failed. It has been the most seriousproblem since we set the box."

    In orderto make the donation box work in an efficient (有效的) way, our government is taking action. Clothesdonation will be better-organized and it'll be more convenient for people inneed to take the clothes away.

One day, Mr Smith goes to a dinner party. His clothes are very 1 . He comes into the room. There are many people in the room, 2 no one looks at him. And no one asks him to 3 at the table. He isn't 4 . But he doesn't say 5 . 

Mr Smith runs home very 6 and soon he puts on his best clothes. Then he goes back to the party. All people in the room 7 and look at him. They give 8 good food to eat. Mr Smith takes off (脱掉) his coat, and puts it on the 9 and said, "Eat, coat! It's time 10 you to have dinner." The other people are surprised (感到吃惊的) and 11 , "What are you doing? 12 do you do that?" 

Mr Smith says, "I am asking my 13 to eat food. When my clothes are old, you don't look at me. But after I 14 my nice clothes, and you give me good food. You shouldn't judge a man by his 15 !"

Mike is a twelve-year-old boy. He lives with his 1 in a small town. One day, Mike has a fight* with one of his classmates. After school, he tells his story to his grandfather angrily."The boy is bad,"Mike says,"I don't 2 him."

The grandfather says,"Don't be angry. Let me tell you a story. When I am a boy, I also hate* others for what they do. I often fight with my classmates 3 lessons. That's why many classmates don't like me at all. It makes me so sad."

As the boy 4 carefully, the grandfather looks at him and goes on,"Later on, I think about this problem for a very long time. I find that there are always 5 tigers in my body. One is good and kind. He gets on well with everything around him. 6 the other is bad and unfriendly. He fights with everything all the time, and for no reason. He can't think carefully because he always hates others. It is 7 to live with these two tigers inside my body. They both try to control* me."

The little boy looks into his grandfather's eyes and asks,"8 tiger always controls you, grandfather?"The old man says slowly,"The one that I feed*. I always feed the good and kind tiger, so I 9 get angry or hate others now."

Mike says,"I'd like to feed the good tiger like 10 and someday I hope I can become the class monitor and other classmates will like me!"

My problems started after I went to a new school far from home. I was only 14, and at first I missed my family a lot. I often called them and cried on the phone. But after two weeks, I found I enjoyed being with my classmates at school. 

I had many friends who were boys. I thought of them as my best friends—but only friends. I never guessed my friendship with boys would become a problem. 
    Then, three months later, my friends told me that some teachers and girls said I was hanging out（闲逛）with boys all day long in order to get attention from them. Seven months after that, the head teacher Mr. Wang asked the class to choose（选择）some students to join the Student Union. I thought I could win for I was doing well in school. I'd already won prizes（奖励） for the best in math and English exams. A week later, the list came out and it didn't include（包括）me. I was sad.

Mr. Wang came to me and said. "Don't be sad. I know you're excellent! Maybe you're a little distant（远） from the girls in our class. They don't know much about you, so some of them didn't choose you. It doesn't matter. Do your best to get along well with everyone and I think you'll make it next time. "

Kaitlin Douglass is a middle school PE teacher at Big Rapids Middle School in Michigan, US. She started to 1 ways to introduce activities with wheelchairs（轮椅） into her classes. This idea was inspired 2 the parent of one of her students, who uses a wheelchair, reached out to her. 

Chase Fuller, an 11-year-old from Big Rapids, has used a wheelchair since an accident in 2019. Chase has developed a love for wheelchair basketball and wanted to know if there was a 3 to have wheelchair activities in his PE classes at school. 4 about the idea, Douglass, worked with Fuller's mother to make it happen. 

The class has also tried a few different activities. They 5 wheelchair pickleball（匹克球）, wheelchair volleyball and wheelchair football. According to Douglass, wheelchair volleyball and basketball have been the most popular sports the class has tried on wheels. 

"I can see how bringing in the wheelchair has given some of my 6 a better understanding of those who need to use a wheelchair day in and day out," Douglass told the media. For the able-bodied students in the class, they can 7 know where their weaknesses are while trying different sports. Then they can think about how they can turn them into strengths, according to Douglass. 

Douglass spent long hours researching these sports. She also hopes to make these kinds of sports more 8 in school. She believes this will give students challenges and chances to grow. 

要求：
（1）短文需包括以下要点，可适当发挥；
What was your difficulty? 
How did you overcome your difficulty? 
What did you learn from your experience?
（2）80词左右（标题和开头都已给出，不计入总词数）；
（3）文中不得出现真实人名和校名。Word bank: overcome（克服）

My Experience of Overcoming Difficulty

Life is full of challenges. We all have our experiences of overcoming difficulty and becoming better.