浙江新目标（Go for it）版初中英语九年级Unit 8 Section A 同步练习

    A few months ago, a strange thing (发生) in my life. I heard a strange (噪音) outside the window every night. I was scared and didn't know what to do. I thought there might be a (小偷) standing outside the window. I asked my parents to see what it was. But they didn't find (任何东西). They thought it might be the (风). But I didn't think so.

    That lasted for a few days. I couldn't sleep (好). Sometimes I even couldn't fall (睡着的). One day, I (买) a flashlight(手电筒) in a market, At  midnight, as soon as I heard the strange sound, I jumped out of my bed with the flashlight. I saw a black cat jumping up and down (在……附近) the window. He might want to make friends with my pet cat, but he couldn't get into my house.

    Do you think it is strange? Have you ever had this kind of (经历) in your life?

Is there in today's newspaper?

    Kaitlin Riffle's dream of ending poverty (贫困) started when she was visiting her father, who worked for the homeless.

    "I never realized there were people in the world who didn't have a house or food before," said Kaitlin, who is now seventeen. "I knew there was something I had to do about that.

    At age eight, she started raising money to build a playground. "It took me two years," Kaitlin said. "We started small. We wanted to do something to make a difference. "

    In 2014, when Kaitlin was thirteen, she visited Central America, and saw people going hungry and families living in houses made of cardboard. That year, she set up Kids on a Mission, which has helped hundreds of people there.

    "The rooms were smaller than my bedroom, but there would be eight people living in each one," Kaitlin said. "We also got to see the dirty rivers that those people were drinking out of."

    Providing clean drinking water, food and clothes for people living in poverty is now an important task for Kids on a Mission. "This young lady is changing the hearts of people, and also changing the world,"" said the headmaster of Kaitlin's school.