— Her job is 　　　 the animals at the zoo.

Most time people think volunteering is to help others. It is true that volunteering can help others, 1 it can also help you. If you're sad about something that has happened, doing some volunteering can be a great way to do with your bad2 . Volunteering also lets you see your 3 life in new ways. Sometimes it's easy to 4  some things like grades and health or get angry because you don't have the newest computer games. Volunteering lets you5  some time doing other things for a while. Lots of people and kids find that they really enjoy volunteering. Voluntary experience often put you in a different environment.

—Yes, please.

    Children all over the world like to celebrate their birthday.

    They usually have a party and i their friends to join the celebration. The party may not be held on the exact date of their birthday if it comes on a school day. It may be held on the closest weekend instead.

    Two kinds of parties are the most p. One is held at home, Parents prepare a s birthday meal for their children. The other is held away from home. It may at restaurant, a park, movie theater or some other places

    There is a birthday c with candles on that day. Each candle means each year of a birthday boy or girl's age.

    As children grow older, their birthday parties change. In f, many people stop having parties now. They say they would like to forget their age.

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    Cao Wenxuan, Chinese children's fiction (小说) writer, w the Hans Christian Andersen Prize(安徒生奖)in April, 2016 , in Italy .

Cao Wenxuan was b in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province and he has t in Beijing University for over 30 years. He has w over 150 stories and novels. Some of them have been tinto English, F, Japanese and so on. I like reading the novel n “Grass House”. It is mup of nine parts which touched us deeply. The novel tells us how groups of children bravely f the difficulties and challenges of life. When the reporter I him, Cao Wenxuan said , “All of my stories are set in China, all of them are Chinese stories, but at the same time, they are the stories of the humankind(全人类).”

I'm Bruno. My family and I arrived in the United States on March 4, 1998. We came here from Italy by plane. It was hard for us to leave our home and our relatives, but we wanted to make a new life here. Since that time, I have seen many curious and exciting places. I have learned a lot. New Orleans was very strange to me in the beginning. It was very different from Rome, my hometown. New Orleans seemed small and unexciting. I saw no grand buildings or ancient monuments (遗址). While some areas of town seemed clean and modern, others appeared old and dirty. Since then, I have become familiar with New Orleans and I like it better. I have visited the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Audubon Zoo. I have taken a river cruise (巡船) on the Delta Queen. I have taken a boat tour of the bayous (支流) and swamps (沼泽). I have become acquainted with (熟悉) the French Quarter and jazz music. I have eaten in fantastic restaurants. Now I know that New Orleans is as exciting and alive as Rome. Now it seems charming and friendly to me.