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Dear Kerry,

    I'm Li Hua, a student from Chongqing. I'm very glad to have read the post that you put on the English Forum.

Yours,

Li Hua

    He could have placed it in a corner or could have sold it to a friend down the street or a stranger on a shopping website.1Dave Kellner, of Riegelsville, decided to share his beloved cello(大提琴) with a young musician with ability and ambition who didn't2one.

    On Friday, the 69-year-old man 3the Easton Area Middle School to 4present his cello to Anna Smith, a seventh- grader who plays in the school orchestra(管弦乐队).

    Kellner 5the cello nine years ago when he retired and decided to start a6. He spent two years trying to improve his skills, but the effects of arthritis(关节炎) made it7for him to go on practising.

    He could have 8the cello to the district's music programme. But he wanted it in the hands of a talented, serous-minded local9who couldn't afford to purchase a cello. Donna Palmer, director of the school orchestra, said it was difficult to10after narrowing down the field to three worthy students. 11the instrument was given to a 13-year-old who says she hopes to 12 the cello for the rest of her life.

    Because of his kind act, Kellner will be able to experience the13of hearing it played at spring musical concert. And knowing she has another fan in the14could help keep Smith motivated to practise and perhaps eventually15the cello.

    Kellner's16to reach out and improve the life of a talented, young musician is17. A good cello can cost roughly $2, 000. That's a high18for many poor families. In the hands of a child with talent and determination, it can19a life. Here's hoping that there are more Dave Kellners out there who understand the value of passing on a(n)20musical instrument.

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    This winter holiday my classmates and I go to the Sunshine Welfare House for voluntary work. After we went there, we talked about how we could do for the kids over the phone. The next day, we arrived at there with gifts we had prepared, and we received a warmly welcome. Then we began to play with them. I drew picture with the older kids, and my classmates told stories to the young ones. We spent the whole afternoon with them, talked and laughing. It was getting late. We waved goodbye to him and felt delighted to able to accompany those children.

    In 1978, I was 18 and was working as a nurse in a small town about 270 km away from Sydney, Australia. I was looking forward to having five fays off from duty. Unfortunately, the only one train a day back to my home in Sydney had already left. So I thought I'd hitch a ride (搭便车).

    I waited by the side of the highway for three hours but no one stopped for me. Finally, a man walked over and introduced himself as Gordon. He said that although he couldn't give me a lift, I should come back to his house for lunch. He noticed me standing for hours in the November heat and thought I must be hungry. I was doubtful as a young girl but he assured （使…放心）me I was safe, and he also offered to help me find a lift home afterwards. When we arrived at his house, he made us sandwiches. After lunch, he helped me find a lift home.

    Twenty-five years later, in 2003, while I was driving to a nearby town one day, I saw an elderly man standing in the glaring heat, trying to hitch a ride. I thought it was another chance to repay someone for the kindness I'd been given decades earlier. I pulled over and picked him up. I made him comfortable on the back seat and offered him some water.

    After a few moments of small talk, the man said to me, “You haven't changed a bit, even your red hair is still the same.” I couldn't remember where I'd met him. He then told me he was the man who had given me lunch and helped me find a lift all those years ago. It was Gordon.

Fatima Bushin was losing her sight and was scared. She said what worried her most wasn't the fear of a long, painful journey to blindness. She feared being unable to feed her family because blindness would keep her from working, as mothers do. The tragedy is that Bushin's condition was preventable and, if caught in time, stoppable. She was among thousands of women in Tanzania who suffered from trachoma (沙眼), an infectious disease affecting largely poor communities in developing countries. Trachoma is one of neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, so named because they receive less attention than other tropical diseases.

All NTDs can be controlled or cured entirely with known public health approaches and interventions. Improved sanitation (环境卫生), medicines and medical procedures have produced truly remarkable results in preventing and controlling NTDs, including trachoma, in some of the world's poorest communities. Preventing, controlling and curing these diseases puts out poverty's fire at its base.

We know it can be done. Through long-term efforts, several of these NTDs have been stamped out in some countries such as Laos. To wipe out extreme poverty around the world, many countries continue to invest in what is one of the most successful foreign assistance programs. For example, U.S. Agency for International Development programs to combat NTDs have reached nearly 300 million people affected by diseases that can spoil the patients' appearance or weaken the patients physically.

For Bushin, the story ends well. Through foreign assistance program, she was able to leave the surgery needed to treat trachoma and save her eyesight. The surgery is relatively simple, performed in an hour at an outpatient clinic, and costs less than $300. In return, Bushin avoided a lifelong disability that would have recondemned her family to poverty with little hope for escape.

Jan. 30 marks the World NTD Day, a day that global public health experts say is needed to focus attention on the fight against tropical diseases. The success of the global fight against NTDs is good news for millions of people. It has been life-changing for a mother in Tanzania who continues to be able to provide for her family thanks to the constant efforts being made that kept her family out of poverty by saving her eyesight.

    Everyone (complain) about being stuck in traffic. It is quite possible that the future city will have no traffic at all. H.G Wells, in his book The Sleeper Awakes, tells something about the traffic. In the streets of that future London there will be no vehicles. The city (provide) with moving roads. One side of the road travels one direction; the other side moves opposite way. Anyone who wants to go to another part of the city steps on the moving “way” and sits on one of the seats until he arrives. He has none of the troubles a private car brings with it: whether there is enough petrol, whether the tyres are all right, where to park it. The moving way is always at his service, always moving (silent) along, always ready (take) him to his destination. That city of the future has no traffic jams.

    To link up the (vary) cities, vehicles driven by atomic power will pass along highways (divide) into two main groups of lanes. Each group will consist of several lanes, some for slow traffic, some for fast. Crossroads will not exist on these highways, but will be replaced by bridges and junctions(交叉口). Where these highways enter (city), ports and other built-up areas, they will pass through underground tunnels.

Green seaweeds played  important part in the ocean, long before green plants took control of the land. According to a new study, the oldest green seaweed appeared about 1 billion years ago.

Scientists have discovered the fossils of  is considered to be the oldest green seaweeds ever known. Even though it was tiny, the seaweed had a big role: It could produce oxygen (use) sunlight, water, and the gases in the air.

Until now, researchers didn't have (evident) that green seaweeds lived that long ago. Now that researchers have a fossil, they can  (confident) say that green plants we see today can  (trace) back to at least 1 billion years ago.

Life on earth depends  green plants and seaweeds for oxygen, yet land plants did not appear  about 450 million years ago. Moreover, green seaweeds aren't the oldest seaweeds on record. Red seaweeds (exist) over a billion years ago, and the red and green seaweeds came from a common ancestor. So the discovery of (they) fossils helps fill the gap and strengthens the timeline for the development of early life.

Here's something to think about the next time you ask your teacher for help: trying hard to do schoolwork on your own can help you learn. According to a recent study, the more you try while you are learning new information, the better you can remember it later.

This theory might surprise you. When teachers are presenting(呈现) new information, they often give students lots of help. But a new study shows this may not be the best way to support learning. "Don't be too quick to get help when learning something new," education expert Manu Kapur said. "Try to work on it yourself even if it means trying different ways."

Kapur came up with the idea that trying hard can lead to better learning. Then he tested it out on students in Singapore. He divided students into two groups, students were asked to solve the same problems by helping one another, instead of getting help from the teacher.

With the teacher's help, students in the first group were able to find the correct answers. Students in the second group did not solve the problems correctly. But they did come up with a lot of good idea.

The students were then tested on what they had learned. The group without any help from a teacher scored much higher than the group who had help. Kapur said working to find the answers helped students understand the process(过程), not just the solution.

Kapur's advice for kids is to put a lot of effort into learning something new rather than going to your teacher for help. "Simply doing a little work or nothing at all won't work," says Kapur. "Try to solve a problem in as many ways as possible."

    Most people, when they travel to space, would like to stay in orbit (轨道) for a few days or more. And this stands to reason, if you're paying $ 20,000 for your trip to orbit! So in order for tourism to reach its full potential there's going to be a need for space hotels. What would a space hotel actually be like to visit? Hotels in orbit will offer the services you expect from a hotel—private rooms, meals, bars. But they'll also offer two unique experiences: impressive views—of Earth and space—and the endless entertainment of living in zero gravity—including sports and other activities that make use of this.

    The hotels themselves will vary greatly—from being quite simple in the early days to huge luxury (奢侈的) structures at a later date. It's actually surprising that as later as 1997, very few designs for space hotels were published. This is mainly because those who might be expected to design them haven't expected the costs to come down far enough to make them possible.

    Lots of people who've been to space have described vividly what it's like to live in zero gravity. There are obviously all sorts of possibilities for dancing, gymnastics, and zero-G sports. Luckily, you don't need to sleep much living in zero gravity, so you'll have plenty of time for relaxing by hanging out in a bar with a window looking down at the turning Earth below.

    Of course all good things have come to an end, unfortunately. And so after a few days you'll find yourself heading back to the earth. You'll be thinking how soon you can save up enough to get back up again-or maybe you should change jobs to get to work in an orbiting hotel!

    People always think men are more skilled than women in driving. Nowadays women appear to have a positive image of themselves as safer drivers than men.

    In a survey done for insurer MetLife, 51% of women said they drive more safely. The evidence is on their side: Men are 3.4 times more likely than women to get a ticket for careless driving and 3.1 times as likely to be punished for drunk driving. “Women are on average less aggressive and more law abiding (守法的) drivers, which leads to fewer accidents.” the report says. However, not all male drivers share the same opinion. Of the men surveyed by MetLife, 39% claimed male drivers were safer. The findings did back them up on one point: automotive knowledge. The report showed that more men are familiar with current safety equipment such as electronic stability control, which helps prevent rollover accidents.

    Auto safety unavoidably matters to money. Insurance companies focus on what classes of drivers have the lowest dollar amounts of claims, and for now, that mainly includes women. In general, women pay about 9% less for auto insurance than men. A study by the website Insweb also showed that auto insurance rates are lower for women in most states. Among individual states, women get the greatest advantage in Wyoming (where they pay 20% less), South Dakota and Washington, D. C., where their insurance costs are 16% lower.

    “More than 11,900 male drivers died in U.S. traffic accidents in 2009, compared with just under 4,900 women drivers,” according to the study. “Based on miles traveled, men died at a rate of 2.5 deaths per 100 million miles traveled, v.s. 1.7 deaths for women.”