One day, when I 2 a mobile phone store, I saw an advertisement on its door. It was hiring(雇用，雇佣)new workers!
“Sir, are you hiring people?”I went 3the shop and asked. “Yes, but you should be the man who we need,” the manager answered. He looked at me for a few 4 from head to foot. “Do you have a high school diploma(文凭)?5he, “Or do you have any work experience?” I felt so ashamed and 6that I didn’t know what to say, so I just turned around and left. I could not fall asleep that night, and I thought a lot about my 7 . “I must go to school or I can’t do anything without a good education,” I 8 to myself silently. I never went back to the store again 9I finished my study and got a diploma.
10 looked the same when I returned to the store: the same people and the same design. However, compared with last time, I had more 11The manager told me they needed new12So it was a great chance for me. I13my diploma to the manager. He looked at it and said, “Great, you are in.”
Now I am still working in the same store. With this experience, I always14people to attend school. Education helps you have a bright future. Now I am not worried about my future because I’m still15 in my spare time.
When Zoe talks about her dog, Hatti, a big smile always appears on her face. Zoe is thirteen and she was born 1 a terrible illness (疾病). The illness stops her from 2 like other children. In 2006, Hatti came to her.
“I wanted a 3 of my own to help not just me but all my family. So I called Dogs for the Disabled, an organization which helps the disabled by 4dogs for them. Things became different after Hatti arrived. It's very 5. It can get many things for me, so my mom doesn't need to be around me all the time. If I need my mom, it can get my mom in a 6— even in the midnight,” said Zoe.
“Hatti is my best friend, and it is 7 to have it around. I think it makes me laugh every day. I used to be scared 8 I was alone, but now Hatti can always stay with me,” said Zoe.
Zoe's mom Helen 9, “The longer Zoe and Hatti are together, the happier Zoe becomes. She's becoming more independent (独立的). I'm 10glad and I thank Dogs for the Disabled very much.”
Mother Hare's two children were a month old. They lived with their parents in a deep hole (洞) . "Children," said Mother Hare, "It's time for you to live by yourself. Listen carefully to1Father says. Father Hare said, "When you leave, make yourself a deep hole like our hole. It will keep you safe2danger.
The first little hare did not want to3He thought, "I will make a house near the forest." He found some twigs (树枝) and put them all together to make a house. It4him a day to finish the work. After that, he was 5 so he went to the meadow (草地) to eat. Someone else was in the meadow: a hungry fox. "Come here," said the fox. "Let's have dinner together. You will be dinner!" The hare ran fast into his house.6the fox took the house down and ate the hare for dinner.
The second little hare said, I will make myself a house in the tree. He built a house in the tree from twigs. When he finished, he went to the meadow to7 food. The hungry fox waited in the meadow and tried to get8for dinner. The second hare wanted to run back to his house in the9.But unluckily, he was so afraid that he couldn't climb up the tree. Then the fox got him and ate him for dinner,10.
It's good to have your ideas and do the things you like. But sometimes you need to take your parents words into heart.
It may save you from the wrong way.
Tom and Linda were working in a big factory together. One day they were asked to go on a business trip. So they had to find a babysitter to take care of their two lovely babies.
A week later, as they drove into their home town they noticed some 1 and went to see what it was. A house was on fire! Linda said, “Well, the house isn't ours. Let's go.”
But Tom kept driving closer and said, “The house belongs to Fred. It has nothing to do with us, so let's go,” said Linda. Tom drove up and said nothing. A woman was 2 in the street. “My children! Help! Help!”
Tom asked her to show him 3 her children were. “In the bathroom.” cried the woman. 4Linda didn't agree. Tom hurried to the bathroom which is full of smoke. He soon found two children. As he left, he could 5 some other sound like crying. He quickly sent the two children to a 6place. But he was told two more children were 7 inside. Linda shouted 8, “Don't go back! That house will fall down at any moment.”
Tom went back by feeling his way down into the room. It seemed a century had passed before he find both the children and the way back. When they 9, Tom was so excited to find that he just saved his own children!
The babysitter 10 them at this house while she did some shopping.
There was once a rich and kind store owner. He1to leave all his money to an honest young mall when he was old.
A good friend of his bad an idea and2him. "The next time you are giving the customers their change, make sure you give them too much. He who returns the3 money to you is honest. "The rich man thought it was a good idea, so he decided to try it.
However, a neighbor happened to hear the 4. He paid a witch(女巫)to cast spell(咒语)on the rich old man's coins. Anyone who saw the coins5by the old man wouldn't see them as coins, but as something that they wanted most in the world. The neighbor believed that6customer would return the old man's money.
Indeed, everything went according to the neighbor's7. When the old man had almost8trying, the greedy neighbor sent his nephew to the old man's store. He had told the boy to return the old man's money. 9when the boy received the coins, he saw in them all the money of his uncle. He didn't want to return the money and10with the coins.
Finally, the rich old man was dying. He decided to give his servants some money so that they could live freely when he was 11with them. Among these servants was a young man, who12and respected the old man. He saw in the money a powerful medicine, which was13what he most wanted in the world. On seeing this, the young man14the money back, saying. "Take this, sir. It's15you. It will make you feel better. "
The old man felt happy that he finally found an honest person. He gave all his money to him.
I was living in a house with a long history in Halifax, Nova Scotia five years ago. One day one of my friends from the West Coast came out to visit me. He was1for 3 weeks so he brought a lot of bags and suitcases, and other things like a2. I told him he could sleep on the bed in the front living room.
One morning after a late night of drinking, my friend ran into my room shouting" Fire, Fire". Without3, I jumped out of bed. The floor was4against my feet as I ran into the hallway, right behind my friend. I couldn't see the fire anywhere, 5as we ran towards the front door, I could hear the6making a loud noise all around me. It was inside the7. We ran out into the front yard and looked8at the house, seeing black smoke coming out of the9house.
We were standing there watching the house when I looked down and10all of my friend's bags and suitcases11lined up on the front grassland, including his basketball. 12he noticed the house was on fire, he took all of them out to the grassland before coming back to13me about it. That fire had started in the basement（地下室）, and it spread up into the walls and was burning the14we were standing on. The floor and much of the house fell down not long after we came out. The firemen said we were very15.
Of course，we are not friends anymore.
It was 3:43. Thunder was crashing and the rain was pouring. Suddenly my father rushed into my room." Adam! Adam! Get up! We're flooding!" he shouted and shook me by the shoulders. That woke 1 up! I ran downstairs to the basement. It was like a swimming pool. My mother and I immediately started to pick up things and take them upstairs. I had no 2 on, so my feet were quite freezing.
Things got worse every minute. Within the next hour, we had moved everything that we could to the first floor. The computer, big-screen television and heavy boxes 3 with our most valuable things were taken to safety. 4 , our piano, sofa, washing machine and water heater were all still down there—being 5 .There was nothing we could do.
That was the hardest part. Knowing that your home is being destroyed is bad enough, but 6 that you can't do anything to stop it feels even worse.
Water had come in our front door. Rescue 8 were floating in our streets. Mother told me to pack an overnight bag of clothes and valuables and get ready to leave.
When it was 9 safe to walk outside, all the people in the neighborhood 10 at the street corner. People became friends, and friends became like family. People 11 each other. We learned later that the National Weather Service had declared the storm a flash flood.
I really have 12 something from this flood. I've learned what destruction is. I have learned what 13 means. I know in the future, when I watch people's lives affected by natural disasters, I can understand them. I will show great pity on them and I will do what I can to help them.
My father was a self-taught mandolin(曼陀林琴) player. He was one of the best players in our town. He could not 1 music. but if he heard a tune(曲子) a few times, he could play it, When he was young, he was a 2 of a small country music band. They played at local dances and the radio station.
At home Dad often took out his mandolin and played for the family. We three children sang along.3 played the mandolin like my father. He could 4 your heart with the music that came out of that old mandolin, He seemed to shine when he was playing. You could see his 5 in his ability to play so well for his family.
But Dad had to find another 6 in a factory later because the money he made at the band wasn't enough to 7 the family. Unluckily, he had an 8 one day and lost one finger, He couldn't play as 9 as before. From then on, every time we asked him to play, he would make up reasons to 10 down our request. However, we missed his performance so much. 11, he agreed and said, "Okay, but remember, 1 can't hold down on the strings(琴弦) the way I 12 to."
When he played the old mandolin, it carried us back to a 13 ， happy time in our lives. Dad was that kind of man. 14 was what he was doing all his life. If he could give to 15 others, he would, especially his family. He was always there. sacrificing(牺牲) his time to see that his family had enough in their lives.
During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a1student. I breezed through(轻松地做完) the2, until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the3who cleans the school?" Surely, this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her fifties, but how would I know her name? I4my paper, leaving the last question5. Just before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade. "Of course," said the professor." In your careers, you will6many people. All are significant(重要的). They deserve(值得) your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say' hello'. "I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.
Years ago, I celebrated my 40th birthday with my friends. I arrived at the restaurant ahead of time,1I waited outside the restaurant. Then a homeless man came up to me and asked for 2. I had been given strict orders by my friends not to bring my wallet in case(以防) I paid for the3. So I told the man that I had 4money. He quietly smiled at me, and then left.
Just then a friend who 5arrived called out "Happy birthday!"6this, the man turned and asked, "Hey man, it's your birthday today?" "Yes, it is", I said. He 7, smiling and said loudly, "Happy birthday, man!" But I could 8imagine what happened next. The man reached into his pocket, pulled out a dollar bill and said "Here man, take this."
Though I was 9his action, I didn't want to accept money from a homeless man. I said, "Thanks. That's really 10of you, but that's OK." The man looked directly into my eyes and said, "Please take this." I still hesitated(犹豫)to accept this11, but I heard a voice within me shouting, "TAKE THE MONEY!" I hesitantly reached out and said, "Thank you". Excitedly, he caught my 12, gave me the dollar and said, "No, thank you brother!"
That experience made me feel like I had got far more than13!This was one of my greatest life 14: No matter how poor we may be, we always have something valuable to15with others.
At first I didn't know what was happening to me. I started feeling sad,1and empty. My mum advised me to start 2others. I was confused (困惑的). But I decided to have a try. The next day, I went to a house.
The house was for young girls. They were left behind by their 3. When I arrived, I felt 4. I didn't know how to talk to them. So I started helping them to do their homework. And I started going there very often and 5enjoying it.
One day, I met a little girl in the house. She started asking me about my 6. She was interested while asking me questions about my family. I was really surprised because she seemed to 7 each of my answers. When I asked her if she knew her parents, she said no. This really broke my 8.
When I left that day, the girl 9 me if I could visit her more often. I smiled and said yes. I was really happy to help this 10 girl. But in fact, this little girl helped me and taught me more.
My stutter(口吃) had always been much of a problem. I'd had so many specialists(专家) for my speech over the years. It hurt me until I met a new one in the hall.
"Hello! I'm Mrs. Claussen. I hear you're from Texas!"
"Ye-Ye-Ye-Yes m-m-m-m-m-m-aam I am..."My heart felt like it was pounding (剧烈跳动)through my chest and my hands were dripping wet.
"Well," she said with a 1smile. "I've always like Texas."
She turned out to be the best speech specialist I've ever had, not like 2who told me to clap my hands while speaking. She was different from others. She spent the first several weeks just talking to me — asking me all kinds of questions about myself, 3my feelings. And she listened. She then began to teach me about the speech. Not just about my speech, but about everybody's.
I 4in my old school and was a pretty good tenor(男高音), but I learned that the new school's singing group was all 5. It was such bad news, for I thought that was the one thing I could really do well- and I could do it .However, Mrs. Claussen finally got me in the group. I felt like she really cared about me as a person, not just a 6student.
During the next two years, my speech didn't get much better - except with her. When I was in college(大学), things got worse. I once even wanted to know 7I would ever be able to communicate! It was a very sad time, and I often felt alone. When I was feeling really sorry for myself, I remembered Mrs. Claussen had told me whether I could change my speech was all up to me. She had told me to fight for perfect speech, just 8speech. She was right about that. I finally improved my speech greatly.
Many years have passed, but I think of her from time to time, wondering (想知道)if she had as much 9on her other students as she had on me. I like to think that she did. Her name was Mrs. Claussen... and she 10me. I'll never forget her.
Mike is an Englishman. He lives in a 1 building in the 2 of London. There are eighteen floors in the building and he lives on the fifteenth floor. He 3 a lift to go up and down. He works very Hard. He 4to work early. Every day he leaves his5 and walks to the lift. He gets into the lift. It 6‘him down to the first floor. He gets out of the lift. Then he walks to a bus stop. The bus stop is in front of a station.
It is about two hundred meters from 7 home. Usually, he catches the No. 11 bus to work, but Sometimes he goes 8. He works in a factory about ten9away from his home. His work starts at half past eight, and 10at a quarter to five. He gets back home at half past five.
Farley worked for the Canadian government. One day, he was1to learn more about wolves. Do wolves kill lots of caribou (北美驯鹿)? Do they kill people?
They gave him lots of food and clothes and guns. Then they put him on a plane and took him to 2. The plane put him down and went away. There were no houses or people in this place.
But there were lots of animals and lots of wolves. People tell terrible stories about wolves. They say wolves like to kill and eat people. Farley remembered these stories, and he was 3. He had his gun with him4.
Then one day, he saw a group of wolves. There was a mother wolf with four baby wolves. A father wolf and another young wolf lived with them.
Farley watched these wolves every day. The mother was a very 5mother. She gave milk to her babies. She gave them lessons about life. They learned how to 6 food. The father wolf got food for the mother. The young wolf 7the children. They were a nice, happy family- wolf family! Farley did not need his 8 any more. In a short time, he got on well with the family. Farley watched them for five months. He learned that many stories about the wolves were 9. Wolves do not eat people, and they do not eat many large animals. And he also learned bad things about men. It was men who killed many caribou and wolves.
Later, Farley wrote a book about wolves. He wanted people to10them and not to kill them.
The teacher sent me home with a note for my mother that said I needed to visit the eye doctor because I failed the vision test. The trip home that day was very slow.
My mother said it would all be just fine. "It wouldn't hurt a bit," she said. But I wasn't worried about pain-I was worried about looking 1.
The next day, my mother pulled me to the eye doctor's office. I 2 a set of frames (镜框) and tried to believe my mother when she said they looked really 3 on me. The doctor said the glasses would be ready soon. But I wasn't ready at all, and I didn't think I ever would be.
When the glasses arrived, the eye doctor put them on my face and walked me out onto the sidewalk in front of his office. When I looked 4 from my shoes, I found myself in a whole new world – a world filled with 5 pictures, bright colours, and fine detail everywhere I looked. Suddenly I 6 the beautiful outline of red leaves on trees. I could see the details of people's faces long before they were standing in front of me. I could see my mother 7 as she watched me see the world in a whole new way.
"Glasses aren't so bad, are they? " Mom asked.
"Not at all, " I thought to myself. On that first day, they were a 8.
The Monday morning came, and I had to 9 the kids in my classroom. And it happened, just like I feared it would be. A mean kid pointed at me in the middle of the maths class and shouted, "Four 10!" But at the same moment, looking through my new glasses, I could see all the way across the room that the kid who had said it had an awfully big nose.
