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疫情期间学生作出贡献 With their school still closed and boredom setting in, a group of teenagers decided to do something meaningful. Since April, students from Lake Highland Preparatory School in Florida, US, launched a free online tutoring service 1. ___________(help) younger students with their schoolwork. Since then, Orlando Student Tutoring has lined up about 50 clients (顾客), all of them children doing assignments from home 2. ____________the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered campuses. Their services, using Zoom, are open to any student who is interested. They’ve received signups from across central Florida and, much to 3. _______surprise, requests from students in other states such as California and Pennsylvania. The service offers a respite (喘息) to parents 4. _______find teaching on top of their own job responsibilities a struggle and gives the teenagers something to do since they can no longer go to school, play sports or take part in clubs and other 5. _________(activity) . The core group of tutors are members of Lake Highland’s robotics club. “We were all just so 6. ________(bore) ,” said Pavan Kanumalla, 17, who helped get the tutoring program running. 7. ________(know) the pandemic had done real damage 8. _____many others, they were “feeling guilty about being bored in quarantine,” he said. While not sure 9. ________to do at first, the group settled on tutoring and was soon designing a website and lining up other students to serve as tutors. The students plan to continue over the summer, 10. ____________(offer) fun, summer-camp type classes to younger kids. 1. boredom /ˈbɔːrdəm/ n. 厌倦；令人厌烦的事物 2. bored adj. 无聊的；无趣的；烦人的