Last week I was in the boarding area of the airport, excited about my trip home to see my parents. I was busy planning for the weekend, but I was taken out of my daydreaming by an elderly woman talking 1  into her cellphone. She kept telling the person to 2 her where she was. She 3 the gate number again and again. She got a little louder each time she did that. Many people snickered (窃笑) because she was nearly 4 and thought how silly the old people could be.

    Then I heard her say, "I'm 5, but I can't hear you. There seems to be something 6 with my hearing aid." "That's too bad,” I thought as I moved forward to board the 7. As she tried to understand the person on the other end of the phone her 8 was becoming increasingly frantic (发狂似的). It was almost my 9 to board. I couldn't 10  looking back at the woman. It made me think how 11 I was to have my hearing. And I realized I could offer her some 12.

    I suddenly got out of the 13 and went to the woman. I let her 14 me the phone and shouted, "Let me help you. I'll tell you what the person is 15." She looked at me and agreed 16. I took the phone from her, 17 who I was, listened for a moment, and told the woman her husband was 18 her outside the airport as he could not enter the gate area. Finally, I pointed her in the right 19.

    It took me less than two minutes to finish the task, but my 20 in having been able to help her remains strong.

This is a story that happened 15 years ago, but it has always stayed with me since then.

On the way back from work every evening, there would be a 1 man, standing at the exit of the freeway. He often 2 at every car, smiling. Every time I got close to him, I would hand him some spare coins. He always said to me, "Thank you. I'm blessed!" And I always left with 3 and satisfaction.

It 4 me that even in the unsettled lifestyle i he was so 5. And his reply would remind me / of how 6 I was — a single mother with a lovely child, with a place to call home and with a t job to 7 my kid.

One day, I was informed by my boss that I was 8 due to the terrible economy. A feeling of 9 surrounded me. I was in no mood to do anything. On my way home, I didn't do 10 had always done when I saw the man, who was still 11 others by waving with a smile. I just drove straight ahead.

To my 12, while I was in line at a red light y to leave the ramp (坡道), he stopped at my car with a dollar bill, saying 13, "You look unhappy, but you know all will tum out fine. Give you a dollar today and 14!" Then he left.

That day he taught me a lesson. No matter what material things are taken from you, no one can take away your 15 to be joyful.

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    In recent years, studying abroad has been popular.

    Once upon a time, there was a small town. There (live) a man by himself who couldn't see. He was blind. Yet, he carried a lighted lamp with him whenever he went out at night.

    One night as he was coming home after having a dinner outside, he came across a group of young (travel). They saw that he was blind, yet carrying a lighted lamp. They started passing comments on him and made fun him. One of them asked him, "Hey Man! You are blind and can't see anything! Why do you carry the lamp?" The blind man replied, "Yes, (unfortunate), I am blind and I can't see anything a lighted lamp which I (carry) is for the people like you who can see. You may not see the blind man (come) and end up pushing me. That is I carry a lighted lamp". The group of travelers felt ashamed and apologized for their(behave). We should think before judging others. Always be polite and learn (see) things from others point of view.

    “Urgent action required”, “Do you still want to hear from us?”, “We've updated our privacy policy”, “Should we stop sending you updates? If not, act now!”

    Many of us will have received emails like this during the past few weeks. Triggering this flood of emails is something called GDPR that comes into effect in just under two weeks' time. Often the emails warn that if you don't respond, you will be removed from the company's database, which raises a lot of questions. What action, if any, do you need to take? Could it affect you financially?

    GDPR, which stands for General Data Protection Regulation, has been described as the biggest overhaul（彻底检查）of online privacy since the birth of the internet. It is designed to give all EU citizens the right to know what data is stored on them and to have it deleted, plus protect them from privacy breaches（破坏）. It comes into effect on 25 May.

    The new rules encourage the requirement for explicit and informed consent before data is processed. As a result, companies and organizations around the world are contacting users to check they are happy to carry on receiving their emails.

    However, many of us seem to be going down with “GDPR fatigue（厌倦）”: one article last week claimed that the “reconfirmation rate” - the proportion of people saying they want to continue receiving a company's emails - at UK micro-businesses was averaging just 10%, which meant “they could lose 90% of their subscribers - the life-blood for their business”. So it's no wonder some firms have adopted policies such as offering to enter people into a prize draw in return for them going in and updating their communication preferences.

    The average adult is said to have about 100 “data relationships” — companies and organizations that hold our personal data. Meanwhile, the reason why the company that occasionally emails you newsletters is now asking for your consent is perhaps because you never explicitly gave it permission to send you stuff. Maybe you only get its emails because you went to an event it organized ages ago or you once downloaded something from its website. Under the new regime, that almost certainly wouldn't count as explicit and informed consent, hence it's getting in touch now.

    The bottom line is that if it is a company or organization that you want to continue hearing from, you should probably click the button or log in to ensure you keep getting its emails. If it doesn't hear from you, it may decide to take you off its database.

China is a big old country, has a history of more than five thousand years. We are proud of (it) culture and part of the culture even influences the world  (great), for example, the thought of Confucius. As Chinese economy develops very fast and plays  important role in the world, more and more  (foreign) learn Mandarin (普通话) in Confucius institutions. The Chinese traditional culture can be tested by the time. It unites the whole nation and no matter kind of disaster comes, we will fight together for the country's future. Today, many young people lose faith in (tradition) culture and they are crazy about the western culture. They follow the western fashion, (think) we are the old style. But some day, they (realize) it is wrong  (abandon) traditional culture.