As a new teacher at Doull Primary School in Denver, Kyle Schwartz thought of a simple way to get to know her third graders, most of whom came from 1 families. She asked them to complete the 2 “I wish my teacher knew…" and share something about themselves.
Their 3answers gave the teacher a chance to understand her students' difficulties. "I wish my teacher knew I have no pencils to do my homework," 4 one child. "I wish my teacher knew sometimes my reading homework is not signed（签名）, because my mom is not 5 a lot,” wrote another. Some shared hope for the 6. " I wish my teacher knew that I want to go to college."
"Some notes are really heartbreaking," Schwartz tells ABC News. "I care 7 about each of my students and I don't want them to be poor forever." She explains, " I hoped to know 8I could better support them. So I 9 to let them tell me what I needed to know. That was why I created the fill-in-the-blank exercise."
10 the third graders were allowed to answer anonymously（匿名）, most wanted to include names. And some were even excited to read their notes out loud. 11 one shy girl who bravely said that she was lonely. "After she told the class, "I don't have friends to 12 me, I was worried what they would do." Schwartz tells Us Weekly. "However, I felt encouraged to see how much support the other kids offered 13. They invited her to play at break and sit with them at lunch. You see, 14 have an unusual ability to express empathy（同情）."
"The results have been 15," says Schwartz. "It speaks to the importance of giving people a voice and really listening to them."
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Sydney Fredette has a lot of things to deal with. Not only is she a high school student, but she has also set up her own organization, Beary Merry Christmas. She volunteers（自愿）to serve poor kids and families in Orange Country in California, US.
To remember her best friend who died of cancer nearly 10 years ago, Fredette decided toy animal that is made by children themselves in the stores' workshops. Fredette then gave them as gifts to the homeless children in California during the holiday season.
With donations at more than 100 bears a year, Fredette and volunteers host activities every year, where volunteers not only give out the bears, but also clothing, meals, and other things.
Not wanting to limit（限制）the giving to just the holiday months, Fredette now hosts other activities for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Halloween, providing the chance for her volunteer team to make a difference through the year.
"I love making relationships with the people I serve," Fredette said. "The thanks they have, hearing their stories and seeing how happy they are, it's so cool."
Future plans for Fredette include building a public food bank and providing a self-development class for students in her school who will soon attend college.
Heading to college herself in the fall, Fredette is looking to stay local and continue to help out in her hometown. In fact, she was regarded as a "Dreamer & Doer" not long ago for her work in improving her community, along with 32 other high school students.
More Chinese universities are opening their libraries to the public, allowing people to enjoy reading during normal time and the vacations.
But for some students, including Wang Ling, 21, in Sun Yat-sen University, this practice has caused headaches. "Members of the public come to our libraries more for sightseeing than reading," said Wang.
"They sometimes even bring their kids along, and take photos as if it were a place of interest."
Wang has found it hard to get a seat during busy times. Being short of space is a common problem for university libraries in China.
However, this is not the only reason why students dislike their libraries being open to members of the public. They fear that the quietness of the libraries will be influenced because of visitors' rude behavior.
Chen Jie, 18, a student in Tongji University, is one who would be against opening to the public. "I have been to a public library before. People were chatting loudly or speaking on cell phone so you can hardly read," Chen said. She notices teachers doing serious reading and feels their concentration（专注）has influenced her. "If too many strangers stay here, the whole library will be a noisy place and it's difficult for us to study quietly," she said.
Will there be alternative（可替代的）ways to share those libraries? Some experts consider that university libraries can prevent the public from entering certain areas. "We might keep magazines for academic research only for teachers and students," said Zhu Lina, library director in Jinan University.
Working together with the community library is another solution. "It's possible that a member of the public can order a book in our library over the Internet," Ge Jianxiong, the library director in Fudan University said. "We'll send it to a public libraries close to their home."
Have you ever seen a car without a driver? It sounds crazy, but these computer-driven driverless cars will soon be filling roads near you. Companies like Google and Tesla have been designing and testing these cars, and the technology is there.
So how? The cars have sensors（感应器）all around which can find other cars and objects in the road. Road signs are read by cameras, and satellite navigation systems（卫星导航系统）are used so the car knows how to get where you want to go. All you have to do is type in the address! Finally, a central computer system takes in all the information that it receives from the sensors and cameras and works out when to speed up, stop and turn.
Sound like your idea of heaven（天堂）? Sitting back, looking out of the windows and even watching a film or reading a book while ‘driving' would be possible with this new technology. You wouldn't have to worry about remembering directions to where you're going. In addition, computers would also drive more safely than people — they would obey the rules and have quicker action times when in dangerous situations.
However, there are many drawbacks of driverless cars. Computers would have difficulties making ethical（道德的）decisions: if a child ran into the road, would the computer choose to hit the child or turn suddenly and potentially kill the car's passengers? Moreover, I personally find driving fun –I'd miss never driving a car myself. There would also be many other decisions to be made –should children, or drunk people, be allowed in a driverless car by themselves? Or would there need to be a person with a driving license in the car at all times?
I'm not certain I'd want a driverless car – but it's only a matter of time before they'll become more affordable and popular on our roads.
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Daniel Kristiansea is a 14-year-old schoolboy from Denmark. Recently, while doing his history homework about World War Ⅱ, he had a surprising discovery （在……后面）his family's home. He found the remains of a World War Ⅱplane and a （飞行员）.
After telling his father about his history homework, Daniel was encouraged to go out onto their farm with a special machine to find （金属）. He and his father hoped they might find some old plates or something he could （给……看）to his classmates at school. Much to their surprise, on the （第五）day, they found some broken plane pieces. When they （挖）down seven meters, they suddenly came across pieces of （灰色的）clothes. They reported what they found to the government, and soon the news was （广泛地）heard across Danmark. Each day their house was （拥挤的）with news reporters.
Daniel's father, Klaus, remembered being told by his grandpa that a plane from （德国）had hit their farm during World War Ⅱ. But Klaus thought it was just a good story. Now it turns out to be true.
Malala Yousafzai, 19, is a Pakistani youth activist. She is the （young）person in the world ever to be named United Nations（U.N.）Messenger（信使）of Peace. The United Nations is international organization, which is meant to encourage （country）to work together on different opinions without the use of war. Yousafzai has (glad) accepted the role of working for girls'education. Usually, a messenger (stay) in the position（职位）for three years. “If want to see your future bright, you have to start working now and not wait anyone else,” she said at the acceptance meeting in New York. In 2012, Yousafzai was nearly killed by the Taliban because she worked hard (get) the same education for young girls in Pakistan. But later her condition improved. a brave girl! Since then Yousafzai (become) a symbol for peace and girls' right to receive an education.
Tuesday was like any other day for Morgan Bieley, 15. It was the fourth period, and she was the first student to arrive in the gym for her P.E. class. （1）.
"There was a sharp cracking noise and then a loud boom. After that, I didn't remember anything,"said Morgan.
The roof（屋顶）of the gym had fallen down under the heavy snow. Morgan couldn't get away. "I woke up and there was a big piece of wood on my leg. （2）. I was starting to get cold."
Luckily, help was nearby. A new program using "rescue（救援）robots" was tried for the first time.
"We were nervous about using the robot,"said Derric Sneed, the leader of the program. "But in the end the robot gave us exact information.（3） ."
The robot was able to go into the gym and find Morgan's place. "Once we made sure where Morgan was and knew it was safe, our men went into rescue her,"says Sneed. "Her leg was broken and she was scared, but thankfully, she was alive."
Doctors say that Morgan is doing well. （4）. "I want to meet my hero after I get out of the hospital," laughs Morgan. "That little robot saved my life!"
A. It went rather well B. I couldn't move C. She should be going home in three days C. Suddenly there was a loud noise. |
Who does Morgan think her hero is?（回答不多于3个单词）
同学主要观点 | 你的观点 |
●努力学习 ●尊重父母 ●服务社会 ●计划未来 | ……（至少两条） |
注意：1）短文必须包括表中所有内容，可适当增加细节；
2）你的观点至少两条；
3）词数：80—100；
4）短文首句仅供选择使用，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：尊重respect
短文首句：
I have recently done a survey about how a teenager can have a successful life. ……
