Would you like to take part in some activities when you are free? 【小题1】

The Book Bus

Do you like reading? Do you like children? Why not join us? 【小题2】 We read stories and plan activities to help the children learn English. Usually we spend about an hour staying with the children.

The Chimpanzee Project (黑猩猩项目)

Are you an animal lover? If you are, you can come to our zoo. 【小题3】 You can’t touch the animals, but you can stay very close to them. You may spend time building new houses for them.

The Old People’s Home

【小题4】 If you are, how about taking part in this project? You will eat meals together with old people. 【小题5】 You can make them happy by dancing and reading newspapers to them. We need you to work here every weekend.

Do you help others by donating money, clothes, food or something else? Now you can give away your time. It is called a time banking project. In Switzerland, people can save their time and put it in banks to use later. For example, you spend three hours raising money for people in need. Then the three hours is saved in your time bank. When you reach a certain(某个) age, you can use the time. That means someone will look after you.

What can you do to save time for yourself? They include babysitting the children, cleaning the public places, repairing broken things, giving out food to those in need or other jobs that take time.

Now many countries plan to begin the project.

Wang Yong is a young man from Wuhan. On New Year’s Eve, Wang learned that a nurse at Jinyintan Hospital couldn’t find a taxi to drive her home. 【小题1】 Because it was a dangerous place during the fight against COVID-19 in Wuhan. To go, or not to go, that was the question.

Finally, Wang Yong decided to do his bit.

Wang arrived at the hospital at 6 a. m. the next day and picked up the nurse. 【小题2】 She cried. On that day, Wang drove nearly 30 medical workers to and from the hospital. But that was only the beginning. 【小题3】 And over 20 warm-hearted people soon joined in and took turns to take the medical workers on a race against time. 【小题4】 They kept on solving other problems. For example, they helped buy food and clothes and looked for hairdressers.

【小题5】 His answer was simple, “They are saving lives. Everyone is working hard to help Wuhan. As someone born in Wuhan, I just did what I could.”