I was walking down the road one day 1my cell phone rang. A strange voice on the other end spoke to me, "Dad, please come back soon. I miss you so much!" I judged that it was a 2number .A little while later, the call came once again, so I rudely 3, "You've dialed the wrong number!" and then 4.

During the following days, I got the same 5 now and then. But I didn't care much about it.

Then one day she constantly called me even though I didn't answer, which 6 me that something unusual would happen. Finally I answered the phone and heard a weak voice, "Dad, please come back. I miss you so much! Dad, I'm 7 so much pain! Mom said you were too busy to take 8 of me. But, dad, please 9 me again, OK?" The simple 10 was difficult to refuse. I made a 11 kiss on the phone and heard the weak voice say, "Thank you...Dad, I am so…happy, so…happy…"

Shortly after this, I became 12 about who had been on the other end of my phone. So I called back, and a woman answered, "Sorry, sir. I am really sorry to have 13 you. My daughter has suffered from bone cancer 14 she was born. And her father… died in an 15 a short while ago. I dare not tell her this sad 16. Poor baby.When she couldn't bear the painful cancer treatment, she would cry for her dad, who had always given her 17 to carry on. I really couldn't bear it, so I gave her your phone number…"

"How is your daughter now?" I couldn't 18 to ask.

"She's 19. She passed away with a smile, tightly holding the cell phone…"

Tears filled my eyes and I was so sad to hear that, 20 at the sky for a long time.

    According to Chinese speaking practice, lion is a special animal to Chinese people. A pair of stone lions, a male a female, are (common) seen in front of the gates of traditional building.

    The lion (regard) as the king in the animal world, so (it) images represent power and prestige. The stone lions are also used to indicate the ranks of officials.

    It is interesting to note that China had no lions originally. The earliest stone lions were sculpted the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty from A. D. 25 to 220 with introduction of Buddhism(佛教) into ancient China. In the Buddhist faith, the lion, can protect the truth and keep off evils, is considered a divine animal of nobleness and dignity. In Chinese folk tales, the lion has become a symbol of (brave), power and good luck.

    It was also popular to decorate bridges with stone sculpted lions for the defending reason. The (well) known of bridges is the Lugouqiao, (build )from 1189 to 1192.

In all the world's cultures, people sing, play instruments, and celebrate with music. It plays such an important role in our lives that all fields focus on its study, including one looking at the biology of music. Experts find that because of the way our brains process music, learning to play an instrument or just listening to music can have a wide range of benefits.  

Music education has received a lot of attention. Learning to play an instrument can help children improve math, science, and language skills. One study in Canada tracked children's IQ scores for nine months, discovering that children who studied music had the biggest test score improvements. The secret may lie in the way reading music and playing notes use several areas of the brain, increasing our ability to learn school subjects. For example, reading notes improves spatial (空间的) reasoning skills, which are helpful in solving math problems like fractions (分数).

Music is also used for medical purposes, such as the treatment of diseases which affect memories. The secret lies in the way the brain processes music. One area near the forehead, the medial prefrontal cortex(脑前额叶外皮), connects music with memories stored in two other areas: the amygdale(杏仁核) and hippocampus(海马体). That's why an old song can remind you of something that happened years ago. For patients suffering from diseases like Alzheimer's, listening to music can help unlock buried memories by strengthening musical pathways to memories. 

With the evidence of music's benefits, it's no wonder some countries make music study a part of their education systems. People are recognizing that more than just a form of entertainment, music is also great for the brain.

In need of some encouragement, kind words or smile? Try calling "Peptoc", a free hotline created by students at West Side Elementary in Healdsburg, California, to offer advice and uplifting messages to those going through a difficult time.

Martin, together with other teachers at West Side Elementary, is behind the program. "There are depressing periods when we really needed to hear from the children- their extraordinary advice and their continual joy," Martin told NPR.

They spoke to their students, aged 6 to 11, about the idea and asked them to think of how they've stayed positive throughout the pandemic. They also asked them to recall moments when they received helpful advice. "So all of the responses are really coming from the kids and their own life experiences, and the advice they've gleaned (搜集) over their short years on this planet," Martin told The Guardian. The teachers and their students also hung posters and fliers (传单) throughout town spreading positive messages,

The hotline, launched in less than a week, went viral, receiving 500 calls per hour in just two days. It currently receives up to 9,000 calls per hour. After dialing, you'll be prompted(提示) with a menu of options, such as words for encouragement and life advice, inspiring talks from kindergartners, kids' laughing with delight. "The world is a better place with you in it", "If you're frustrated, you can always go to your bedroom, punch (拳打) a pillow or cry on it and just go to scream outside" are such uplifting tips, voiced by excited, optimistic children,

According to Martin, the children's creativity and resourcefulness is something that is amazing, because that level of joy and love and imagination is what's going to warm and save us in the end.

Amy McWilliams, who has suffered from cancer, says she's called the hotline several times for encouragement and has even shared it with fellow cancer patients. "It's joy straight from the literal mouths of babies," she told CNN. "We adults forget that spreading kindness and positive thinking can really be that simple.

    Father's Day is celebrated today in 75 countries around the world. In my personal world, it's a day I like to think of my father's father.

    I learned a lot in my later life from my dad. But I learned something else, as a kid not even yet in school, from my grandfather. I learned to be curious. Little things fathers and grandfathers do can change the life of a child forever. In my case, this change came from necessity: My mom needed someone to look after little Allen, barely 4 years old, during the school day. My grandmother volunteered, and my grandfather came up with a way I could be watched while he worked in his clockmaker's shop.

    He seated me on a chair every day while I was there, right in front of his big workbench. He told me stories. He had a great sense of humor and a funny way of making a "buh-buh-buh" sound when he sensed my attention was weakening, and he encouraged me to ask questions about anything he was doing.

    Naturally, I was usually asking questions about clocks--what made the hands move, what the pendulum(钟摆) did, why you had to stop winding just before the weight hit the stop. Sometimes I just asked about which shiny parts went where.

    Most of all, he showed me how clocks worked. He treated me as if I were a sort of small grown-up. He never talked down to me, never told me I was "too young to understand".

    And so my grandfather granted me two things: A love of clocks, and an everlasting curiosity.

    As a journalist, I turned that fascination into explanations of why computers and software do what they do——and, perhaps even more importantly, why they fail at that task. I haven't been afraid of opening up the innards and looking for what is wrong with the computer.