How old was I? I can't remember. Maybe I was only 10. It was the first 1 without my father because he was away for something. He left me to fill that sad place in my mother's heart. It was the Christmas when I stopped being a 2 and tried to play Father Christmas myself. I really wanted to make it happy and bright again. It was the Christmas of the 3.
Mom first saw the coat at Tobias, a nice 4 shop in our town's little shopping mall. It was dark green. And it was a 5, heavy, wool dress coat. Mom pulled it out from the rack(架) and held it up. “Long enough,” she said in a low voice and 6.
“I need a new coat,” Mom smiled before the mirror. She looked good on any clothes, 7 this coat suited her much better. She looked at the 8, then hung the coat back on the rack, standing there once more to 9
Eighty-seven dollars. But I decided to buy it for her. As we moved on 10 the mall, I found some excuse to return and asked one of the Tobias ladies to 11 the coat.
I helped clean every yard(庭院) in our neighbourhood—some yards twice, and soon I got the coat. The store ladies helped me put it in their biggest 12 with bright blue paper and thick silver ribbon(丝带). I don't remember 13 I got it home, but I can still feel the wonderful 14 and pride that filled me. I would imagine the big space which the box would take up under our tree. Here it was—joy, peace and15 —all in the box, waiting for Mom's surprise
Liang Min (not her real name) was 13 years old when she began working in a small restaurant in Chongqing last year. Usually she works for 13 to 15 hours a day. She receives people, serves tea, washes dishes and cleans the floor.
Liang Min can get about 350 yuan a month from her hard work. But she hardly gets a day off.
“At the end of the day I feel so tired,” said Liang. "My family is poor. There is no money for me to go to school."
Liang's story is not an unusual one. There are 250 million children in the world who are working in hard, sometimes dangerous. They do all kinds of work. Most of them are between the ages of 5 and 14. What has made children work?
Many children work to make money for their families.
Another reason is that schools are too far away or there are no schools in the area at all.
Some employers(雇主）are bad, too. They hire(雇用）children because they can pay them less money and give poor working places. They don't think that children will complain very much. In China, a law called Prohibition of Child Labour(《关于禁止使用童工的规定》）bans(禁止）any company hiring children under 16. The law says anyone who introduces a child to work will be fined(罚款）5,000 yuan.
Almost every child in big cities has the chance to go to school, but not all children in the countries are so lucky.
There is a girl called Xiao Fang. She is eight years old and lives in a small village in Guangxi. When she was young, she wanted to go to school. But she could not, because her family was too poor to afford the school fees for her, so her parents had to keep her at home. Instead of studying, Xiao Fang worked in the fields with her parents every day. Then Hope Project heard about Xiao Fang. It agreed to help Xiao Fang to go to school. Her wish of study came true, and now she is studying in a school.
Unluckily there are many thousands of children who can not go to school. You can join in Hope Project and help these children. You know all the good work needs money. Hope Project needs your help.
If you give Hope Project ￥300 each year, it can pay for one child to go to school for a whole year. With more money, Hope Project can build new schools, buy good desks, chairs, blackboards and books. Let's help the children together and give them a chance to have a good start in life.
Ashia Hansen is the world indoor triple jump (三级跳)record holder. She has given up getting a place in the Great Britain team for next weekend's European Indoor Championships（锦标赛）. Hansen, whose injured leg almost brought her career（事业） to an end three years ago, won the third prize at the Union Jumps International last Wednesday. “I could look for another competition, but it's pretty pointless（无意义的）. I just have not got enough speed to jump what I want to, ” says Hansen. She still wants to take part in this year's World Championships in Osaka. She says, “I can actually smile now because I know I have not lost anything in jumping ability. It's just that the speed is not there. I've now got three months to find that before the summer season starts. ”
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短文要点如下：1.学生应该守时、守信、不撒谎、不说脏话；
2.礼貌待人, 热心助人；
3.遵守交通规则；不在公共场所喧哗；不乱扔垃圾；
4.请你就此话题再补充一至两点个人看法。
要求：1.不要逐词翻译。
2.在文中不要提及真实的校名和姓名。
3.词数60~80。短文首句已给出, 不计入总词数。
How to behave well?
Behaving well is the secret of getting on well with others.
