Three years ago, I became a high student. In the beginning, I was not sure which path 【小题1】 (follow). So in my spare time in high school, I searched 【小题2】 any clues (线索) that might answer the question.

When a teacher offered 【小题3】 (I) a chance to work as a volunteer, I found the answer. I 【小题4】 (warn) that the activity would require countless hours of service. Without 【小题5】 (think) much about it at all, I 【小题6】 (glad) accepted the big challenge. Looking back now, I know the 【小题7】 (decide) was correct. I’ve become more generous, reliable and independent. My work of serving as a volunteer was 【小题8】 (success) and the experience was valuable. Now as a senior in high school, I have volunteered many hours of my time.

Graduating from high school will be a moment of both joy and sadness. I will always remember the days 【小题9】 I stayed with the people I helped. Although high school is coming to 【小题10】 end, I hope more teenagers can continue to follow the path I chose.

Our school was built in 1902. When I studied there, it 【小题1】 (be)famous throughout the country. By 1978, the school’s use 【小题2】 (change) several times. By the end of last century, our school 【小题3】 (become) a provincial model high school. When I graduated, our school 【小题4】 (win) many honors both at home and abroad. Before last year’s anniversary of the founding of our school, all the school buildings 【小题5】 (rebuild) and it is now larger and more beautiful than before.

UK School Opposes Poverty Shaming

These days there is a lot of pressure to look good at school in the UK, and that tends to mean wearing the kind of expensive clothes that not many students can really afford. One UK school now has a policy【小题1】expensive clothes that can make poor students feel inferior.

Woodchurch High School in northwestern England has announced a ban on expensive designer coats, including Canada Goose, Moncler and Pyrenex, 【小题2】often cost hundreds of dollars, aiming to end the “poverty shaming” of less wealthy students.

The ban has created a lot of debate in the UK. Some applaud the ban, 【小题3】(believe) it relieves the worries of parents on lower incomes. “When we talk to parents they tell us about the stress they experience… and the worry they have about their children being bullied at school because they are not able to have a decent winter coat, let alone a designer winter coat,” Katie Schmuecker, head of policy at Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 【小题4】UK anti—poverty charity, told ABC News.

However, not 【小题5】supports the ban. “We can’t remove poverty shaming by taking away the right of the wealthy to buy 【小题6】they want for themselves or their children,” Michelle Singletary, a columnist, wrote on The Washington Post. She believes that it’s more important to teach students to realize that it is not clothing itself 【小题7】is a measure of the value of a person.

This ban is in line with “poverty proofing”, a growing movement among UK schools, according to CNN. The idea of “poverty proofing” in the UK 【小题8】(pioneer) by Children North East, a children’s charity. It asks schools to take action to eliminate practices and policies that might stigmatize poor students.

For example, in May, St. Wilfrid’s Primary School in the UK banned students from using designer pencils 【小题9】poor students who couldn’t afford them wouldn’t feel inferior, reported BBC News.

Libby Purves, a UK journalist, believes that the movement has created a level playing field for students.

“It is intensely (极度地) important to pay attention to all this, because how you feel at school can affect your whole life,“ she wrote in The Times newspaper. “You shouldn’t feel marked down when you are still a fresh new person 【小题10】(bless) with no chance to prove yourself.”