Once upon a time, there was a kind man named John. He was always ready to help people in trouble. 【小题1】

In order to help the poor, he learned medicine by himself and tried to help treat the sick people. 【小题2】

One day a poor woman asked Doctor John to go and see her husband, who was very ill and felt terribly weak. 【小题3】 The husband couldn’t find a job for a long time and the wife could hardly make any money, either. Doctor John examined him and to his surprise, the husband was not ill. 【小题4】

“Come to my house this evening and I will give you some medicine for your husband,” Doctor John said to the woman.

When the woman got to his house, John gave her a paper bag with something inside and said, “Here is the medicine and it will be good for your husband. 【小题5】

“What are the instructions for taking it?” the woman asked.

“You will find them inside the bag,” answered John.

After the woman got home, she opened the paper bag and found there was some money in it!

Araba Maze noticed neighborhood kids gather around her as she read children’s books to her niece (侄女). When she finished reading, one of the kids asked, “When are you going to do this again?”

Maze later made it an everyday event, and finally became a librarian. She took books to the streets, becoming a “street librarian”. Later, she created an organization called the Storybook Maze Project. It’s working to provide books for children in Baltimore.

Baltimore has a lot of book deserts. What is a book desert? According to the group Unite for Literacy, it’s a geographic area where printed books and other reading materials are hard to get. The book desert mainly lies in the poor area.

The Storybook Maze Project offers books to kids in Baltimore. One of the ways is to build community bookshelves. It is difficult to open bookstores or set up a library in Baltimore, especially in East and West Baltimore. But it’s easier to build bookshelves in the community as they don’t cost much. The organization also uses vending machines (自动售货机) to give away free books instead of snacks. Maze plans to place these machines in high-traffic areas such as markets and hospitals. What’s more, Maze hopes to set up free book stands (书摊) to offer books to as many kids as possible.

Maze thinks a lack (缺乏) of books has a bad influence on kids’ development. So she tries to get books into kids’ hands. Many books are a mirror of their experiences. Kids can see themselves in Line books, which encourages them a lot. Maze believes kids will spend more time reading with the help of the Storybook Maze Project and that they will develop reading skills and get into reading habits, Maze’s dream is to help them to be lifelong readers.

My name is Sam. I joined a club called “passing help” last month. Now let me tell you why I joined it.

One evening this May, on my way home my old car broken down. It was 25 miles from my home. I wanted to get a ride, but there was no car. It was also hard to take a taxi. I decided to take a bus home. I went to a bus stop nearby. After a while, a bus came, but it did not go to my town. And the bus driver was a young woman. She was kind and she told me which bus I should take. I waited there for about thirty minutes, but no bus came. At last, a car came to me and a woman came out of the car. She was just the bus driver.

“When I reached the bus station, I got to know that the bus to your town couldn’t come, so I returned here. I just can’t leave you here,” she said, “Get in my car and I will take you back to your home.”

“It is a long way.” I said.

“Come on, sir,” she said ,” Let’s go.”

On the way she told me a story. A few days ago, there wasn’t gas (汽油) in her car. An old man drove her up to a gas station and then back to her car.

When we got to my home, I wanted to give her some money to thank her, but she didn’t accept it. “I only want to help others and do something nice for somebody. Pass it along.” She said.