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* * She said helping others changed her life. Curriculum focus Character building: the quality of helping others Learn about the life of a common person and think about the meaning of life. Language skills Learn how to write a life story with the past tense. Section 1 Before You Read Think of people who need help. We can clean their home. Old people Something we can do for them People who need help The kids Your classmates The poor 2004年度感动中国人物徐本禹 Xu Benyu is a volunteer teacher. He volunteered to teach in a rural area in Guizhou. And worked there for years. a rural area Section 2 While You Read Put these words into the correct space as you read. a) world b) brothers c) changed d) agreed e) mountains f) different She said helping others changed her life. Teaching high school students in a poor mountain village in Gansu Province may not sound like fun to you. However, it the life of Yang Lei from Beijing. The Peking University graduate first went there as a volunteer on a one-year program. village 乡村 Peking University 北京大学 graduate (大学)毕业生 volunteer 志愿者 changed The program was started by the Ministry of Education and the Chinese Young pioneers. Every year they send 100 volunteers to teach in China’s rural areas. Life in the was a new experience for Yang Lei. Her village was 2,000 meters above sea level, and at first the thin air made her feel sick. the Ministry of Education 教育部 Chinese Young Pioneer 中国少年先锋队 rural 乡下的；乡村的 area 地区；地域 mountains meter 米；公尺 sea level 海平面 thin 稀薄的 make sb. do sth. 使某人做某事 The food was very simple----teachers ate porridge three times a day. Fortunately, Yang Lei’s mother ______with her. She said that both she and her husband thought this was a good idea. “Young people today need to experience______ things,” she said. eat--ate fortunately 幸运地 husband 丈夫 agreed different Most of the pupils live in school dormitories. They work very hard. The