Topic(题目)：
You have decided to give several hours of yourtime each month to improve the communitywhere you live. What is one thing you will do toimprove your community? Why? Use specificreasons and details to explain your choice.
Model Essay(范文)：
Volunteering a few hours each week to some community activity is an important way ofinvesting in the future of our society. I chose to spend my time working with elementaryschool children helping them to learn to read. Developing good reading skills will help thesestudents keep up with their classmates, open new worlds to them, and help them succeed inlife.
Students who are not good readers cannot keep up with their studies. They will notunderstand the lessons; they will come to school unprepared; they will not be able toperform. By learning to read, students will be on equal footing with their classmates. They willbe active participants in class.
Books on different lifestyles, occupations, cultures, or governments will open new doors tostudents. Students who can’t read will only know what they see around them. Students whocan read will be able to travel to new worlds and experience new ideas without ever leavingtheir classrooms.
Today, a person who can’t read is severely handicapped. A non-reader will have to work at themost menial jobs. Readers, especially good readers, have the whole universe open to them. They will have the possibility to learn any job that interests them.
By volunteering to help an elementary school child learn to read, I am helping him or her notonly today, but for the rest of his or her life. I am helping them keep pace with their peers andexplore the world and themselves through books.
重点单词 全部解释
perform[pə'fɔ:m]v. 执行，运转，举行，表演
understand[.ʌndə'stænd]vt. 理解，懂，听说，获悉，将 ... 理解为，认为<
menial['mi:niəl]adj. 适合仆人做的，卑微的 n. 佣人，家仆，卑贱的
explore[iks'plɔ:]v. 探险，探测，探究
specific[spi'sifik]adj. 特殊的，明确的，具有特效的
n. 特
universe['ju:nivə:s]n. 宇宙，万物，世界
elementary[.elə'mentəri]adj. 基本的，初级的，元素的
community[kə'mju:niti]n. 社区，社会，团体，共同体，公众，[生]群落
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