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    In February last year,my wife lost her job.Just as suddenly,the owner of the Green House,where I worked as a manager,1a heart attack.His family announced that they were going to2the business because no one in the family wanted to run it.Things looked pretty3.My wife and I read the4in the newspaper each day.

    Then one morning,as I was5a going-out-of-business sign at the Green House,the door opened and6 walked a customer.She was an office manager7company had just moved into the8office park on the edge of the town.She was9some potted flowers to place in the reception areas in offices."I don't know anything about 10,"she said,"I am sure in a few weeks,they'll all be11."While I was helping her12her goods,my mind was racing and an idea13me.Perhaps as many as a dozen firms had recently opened offices in the new office park and there were several hundred more acres with construction（建造）work14.

    I drove up to the office park15the woman left.By 6 o'clock that evening,I had signed agreements with seven companies,which would16plants at the Green House and17me a fee to look after them.

Within a week,I worked out an agreement to buy the Green House from the owner's family.18,business increased rapidly19our efforts.

    Now we are proud to be the20of the Green House.

    Years ago I was hiking (徒步旅行) in the Himalayas and had made the mistake of changing a large amount of money into the local currency(货币). As I walked through the villages of the Annapurnas, it soon became 1that the people were too poor to 2 even the simplest 3. They had nothing. This meant that it was no use carrying the wad(捆) of 4 in my pack and I was a virtual(虚拟的) walking 5 compared to the local people. I grew to 6 the money and it was 7 to have it in my bag. This led to a remarkable experience that 8 me deeply and its 9 has never left me.

    On this particular day I was left behind by my fellow hikers and found myself in a valley. As I made myself down, I noticed a young girl of around 13 10 some sheep. Like so many of the children of the amazing Nepalese people, she was very beautiful. I couldn't 11 looking at her and she looked at me. As I approached her she suddenly rushed 12 to me, and without a 13, handed me a flower. She 14 at me for a tiny moment and then she ran away. The spirit in this lovely child had responded to something she saw in me and her first 15 was to find something to 16 . Due to her 17 , there was nothing she had 18 a single flower. The 19 of my bag was never heavier than at this moment and I had just received one of the most valuable 20 I have ever had in my life.

    A group of people were in search of a home. After 1 some time walking around, they finally found a place to 2 down.

    They needed some3, and the chief (首领)sent out three groups of people to 4 the surrounding areas. After a short discussion, the three groups went out in 5directions.

    The first group explored the north. There, they saw large fields with 6 crops, vegetables and fruits. They went back to report their 7. "We saw lots of vegetation (植物). We can be 8."

    The second group went southwest. There, they saw lots of 9. As they went back, they said, "We saw hundreds of animals. We can 10 for our food, and rely 11 on meat to sustain (维持) us."

    The last group went southeast. There, they reached the sea and saw hundreds of fish swimming. They returned and said, "We saw plenty of fish. We can go12 for our food."

    "We can eat meat alone!" shouted the second group.

    "No! 13! We did not see any animals at all!" said the first group.

    The third group joined in, "Are you 14? We did not see anything like you have 15. There was only water. We need to become fishermen!"

    Each group got so 16 with the others that they each went to the place they had explored. They were 17 that they alone had the answer and that the others must have been wrong.

    18, each group of people only chose to believe themselves. 19 they had chosen to learn from one another and20 them, they could have had the best of everything.

    Several months ago, Greece suffered from the refugee (难民) disaster. I hadn't been 1 of the Scale (规模) of it until I actually got to Greece. I2as manager of the Oinofyta Camp. This work is like being a 3, And I realized that I had met my 4, which was to take care of them and show them that they were loved and cared about, not5.

    All of the Greek islands are 6. I have a camp that within three or four days could 7500 people.

    When your life is spent getting handouts (救济的) from everyone all day, you lose your 8. I had this 9 idea that it would be great to start a business, sewing bags from leftover 10 material. Those people were the 11 people in the camp because they had a purpose. We have 12 in America who want to buy these bags now.

    Learning to say 13 has been one of the harder things here at the camp; the constant 14of residents. I was so happy for them when they got their family 15, and so sad because I knew that the16 of me being able to 17 see them again was pretty slim.

    My 18 kids are all asking me the same question now: “Mom, when are you coming home?” I don't know. I hope that my legacy (遗赠) here is that the refugees will always remember that I cared about them, that they were special and 19, and that they were worthy of that 20.

    Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with 1  problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog (博客). In many ways, a diary and a blog are very 2. But what makes blogging different from writing in a(n) 3 diary?

    The biggest difference is that a blog is much more 4 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of 5 that he does not want to 6 with others.

    It's interesting that someone who writes in a blog 7 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

    I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her 8. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. 9 I was her age, I wrote about the same thing, but 10 in my dairy. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 11 that my sister might read it.

    The biggest 12 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something 13 about him in my diary, he would never know. 14, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might 15 her blog and get angry.

    There are also 16 to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, "Nobody cares about me…" Because no one would 17 about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friend would quickly 18 and tell her how much they 19 her. Blog help people 20 in contact with their friend and know what the people around them are doing.

The Chess Competition

    I had signed up to play in the School Chess Competition two months before. I'd been counting the days, filling my afternoons with practice games and begging everyone I knew to play 1 with me.

    Soon the competition was about to begin. I would be competing against twenty 2, and all of us would be battling for just a few trophies. Glancing up at the prizes, I could just 3 one of them sitting on my bookcase.

    My daydream was interrupted by the announcement of the 4 round. "Shake hands and start playing" said the judge. I 5 across the board and saw that my first opponent (对手) was almost too small to see over the top of the table. "Aha" I thought. "This will be a(n) 6 win."

    One unexpected game later, I 7 my overconfidence. My opponent, the nine-year-old girl, had beaten me in only 10 minutes! I hid my disappointment and 8 her. "Good game! You're a fantastic player," I said with a sincere smile.

    The next three rounds went by very quickly, with each game proving more 9 than the one before. By evening I had one win and three losses. After the second game, I was ready to go home and give up, 10 I stayed anyway, smiling and sincerely congratulating each of my opponents.

    As the trophies were being awarded, I listened 11, applauding each winner as his or her name was called.

    It was hard to hide my disappointment, but I tried. 12, I heard the announcer say my name. "For excellent chess etiquette (礼仪), a friendly 13, and great determination, the Good Sport Award 14 to Dustin Hodges," the judge declared. It was amazing and I smiled broadly as I walked up to accept the prize. Although it wasn't the trophy that I had hoped for, the gold cup looks pretty good on my bookcase. I think it won't stay there forever, and I plan to 15 it with the championship trophy next year.

The novelist's medium is the written word. One might almost say the1word. Typically the novel is 2by a silent individual reader, who may be anywhere at the time. The paperback novel is still the cheapest, most portable and adaptable form of 3entertainment. It is limited to a single channel of information—4. The narrative can go, 5, anywhere, into space, people's head, palaces, prisons and pyramids without any consideration of cost or practical possibility. In determining the shape and content of his narrative, the writer is restricted by nothing except purely artistic criteria (标准).The novelist keeps absolute control over his text until it is published and received by the audience. He may be advised by his editor to revise his 6, but if the writer 7 to meet this condition, no one would be 8. It is not unknown for a famous novelist to deliver his or her manuscript and expect the publisher to print it9as written.

    However, not even the most famous playwright would submit a script (剧本)and expect it to be 10 without any rewriting. This is because plays and motion pictures are cooperative forms of narrative, using more than one channel of 11.

    The production of a stage play involves, as well as the12of the author, the physical 13 of the actors, their voices and gestures, the "set" and possibly music. Although the script is the essential part of both play and film, it is a 14 for following revision negotiated between the writer and other creative people involved. They're given "approval" of the choice of a director and actors and have the right to attend rehearsals(排练), during which period they may undertake more15 work. In the case of screenplay, the writer may have little or no control over the final form of his work. So in this respect contracts for the production of plays protect the rights of16.

    In film or television work, on the other hand, the screenplay has no contractual rights to this degree of consultation. While the script is going through its various17, the writer is in the driver's seat, although sometimes receiving criticism from the producer and the director. But once the production is under way, artistic control over the project tends to pass to the 18. This is a fact 19 by most journalistic critics of television drama, who tend to give all the20 or blame for success or failure of a production to the writer and actors, ignoring the contribution, for good and ill, of the director.

    From the time I was little until I turned 15, my mother would bring me to the houses she cleaned and I'd help her. I clearly1the summer before first grade, when I was2the furniture in Mrs. Belinda's living room. That's3I told my mom I wanted to grow up to be a(n)4like her.

    I think I was just a little kid who5her mom, but she took me6. She sat down next to me, saying that she had to clean houses in the United States because she didn't have the educational7that I had. That's when I really8why my parents had left Mexico when I was two years old to9their only child a better life. After they10in 1996, my dad did odd jobs and my mom cleaned houses.

    When I started11going to college in middle school, I told my mother I wanted to be a doctor to12more so she wouldn't have to clean houses. My mom told me I should do something I love and not count on money to13happiness.

    When I was14a four-year scholarship to go to any public university in Texas, I knew I wanted to go to the University of Texas at Austin. Given my great experience before, I really wanted to major in15. It's true my parents got16thinking I might one day be on television. But really, they told me they were 17 to have a daughter18a high school diploma and on her way to go to college. I was the first in my family to get19in the United States,20I was on my way to become the first to go to college.

    Michael Evans was standing in line at a Treasurer's Office in Detroit last August, waiting for his business. At that moment, he heard a 1sound ahead of him. The elderly woman at the window was 2because she couldn't pay $5,000 in back taxes owed(欠交税款). The cashier 3the woman that her house was soon to be auctioned(拍卖) and she would be left 4

    Evans, a successful businessman who happened to hear their dialogue couldn't 5the idea of this woman losing her home. He 6the window. “I don't mean to 7,”he said to the cashier, “but8you can get her house back, I'll pay for her taxes.”

    The woman in tears and the cashier looked at him 9in disbelief. Then, the cashier left for a moment to check the 10and that it was all right for Evans to pay it. Evans 11 to go straight to the bank and come right back with the money. And he did so.

    But when he 12,he asked someone else waiting in line to hand the $5,000 check to the cashier. Quietly and secretly, Evans was trying to leave 13.”I don't want this attention,” he explained. 14paying the elderly woman's taxes, he did it” for no other15but to make sure the lady was in her house.”

    A few weeks after the tax 16, Evans received the Spirit of Detroit Award for his lifetime of generosity. “It was good to see my dad finally get the recognition he deserves. I 17my life after him. When I have kids, I want them to look at me the way I look at my dad and to be18to those in need.” his son says.

    Martin Luther King put it best, “Everybody can be great because anybody can 19.” When one of us can 20someone's pain and can do something to improve the lives of others, we should. It is in giving of ourselves that we enrich our communities and make a better world.

    How can I forget the day? On 14 July 1974 I travelled in an overcrowded bus to an unheard town called Shendurni. The next day, I was to join the faculty of a junior college there.1about my new job, but anxious and fearful too, I was out of my2zone. Around 7 p.m. it started pouring with rain. Wondering about my new career in an unknown land, I had3in my seat. I woke up with a(n)4to the sound of the conductor announcing the name of my bus stop. I looked out. It was pitch-dark. Ah, a power cut.5 unusual during heavy rains. "Conductor Sahab, can I get a 6 for myself here? I'm new to the place," I heard myself ask 7. "Are bhai, get off my bus and let us go. We8to reach the next station on time. Where will you get a place to stay in this goddamned town?" he shouted back. Amid mounting panic, I felt a 9 tap on my shoulder. As I looked back, a warm smile 9me. "I'm Sawant, from the next town. The bus11there for the night and returns tomorrow morning. Why don't you buy a ticket for the next stop? You can spend the night at my place, and join work tomorrow." I thanked him from my heart and accepted his12. By the time the bus reached the final stop, it was 8:30 p.m. The kind soul led me to his house. He and his wife took great13to make my stay comfortable. I was 14 with warm water for a bath, followed by a hot15 and a comfortable bed. All this took place in semi-darkness. No lights yet. I was up early the next morning and my benefactor (恩人) came to16me off. I could not see his face clearly, as it was 17dark. I made it18the college in time and taught there for almost 11 years. All this while I19him, even asking my new friends and students to help find the kind soul. But Mr Sawant remained20. Perhaps I had got his name wrong. My only regret: I could not thank him again.

    Fujian puppetry(木偶戏) has a thousand-year history. It is one of the1of Chinese performing art to the world's culture and has2a set of characteristic techniques of performance and puppet making, as well as a repertoire (全部剧目) of plays and music.

    No3has yet been reached on the4and development of Chinese puppetry. 5the Shang dynasty (16th-11th century B.C.), pottery figurines (陶俑) used as burial objects (随葬品) have been discovered at the Yin Ruins. Wooden figurines6during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods (770-221 B.C.). In a Western Han tomb at Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan province, an army of wooden figurines of singers, dancers and musicians have been discovered. These were a great7on those from previous dynasties 8craftsmanship, variety and modeling, which represent the9_Chinese puppets. Over time, figurines as burial objects10into puppets for entertainment during holiday11. 12, just like many other traditional forms of art, Fujian puppetry has fallen out of favour with the younger generations. The number of young people learning puppetry has 13due to socioeconomic changes 14their lifestyles and the long period of training15to master the sophisticated (复杂的) performing techniques.

    In response,16communities, groups and bearers (传授者) worked out the 2008-2020 Strategy for the Training of Coming Generations of Fujian Puppetry Practitioners. The key 17are to safeguard the spread of Fujian Puppetry and provide professional 18to raise a new generation of puppetry practitioners.

    In 2012, the strategy was selected by the UNESCO to be part of the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. With the wide 19of practitioners, local people and education institutions, Fujian Puppetry can20a brighter future.

    It was a hot day in Bangkok. I was walking out of the busy Grand Palace. Some Thai teens were 1 and started asking me questions. Noticing that I was 2, they were interested and wanted to know more.

    "Oh, so lonely!" they said to me when they learned I was, indeed, 3 by myself for the long journey. I just smiled. They didn't know I've hardly been alone.

    I'm surprised by how much more 4 I've become. Instead of putting my 5 down and taking no notice of the person who may be 6 me on the sidewalk, now I smile and say hello. The only bad thing is the fleeting (短暂的) nature of the relationship one builds on the 7. I've felt sad more than a couple of times over 8 a fellow traveler. But there are always 9 friends and possibilities just in the next town.

    Part of the 10 of taking this trip was the knowledge that I'd be doing this alone. At first, I tried to get friends to 11 with me for the journey. I asked close friends, then even not-so-close friends, then 12 realized that I might never travel if I 13 around for a time when a friend of mine would be free to 14 me. If I was really going to do this, it would have to be alone.

    As it turns out, traveling alone is the best 15 I could have made. You always have to make special 16 for others when you travel with others. Sometimes, you have to do things you don't feel like doing.

    Traveling alone is 17. And really, unless I want and seek out 18, I am never alone. I always have a group. I never feel 19. Sometimes, being alone forces you to get along with people you might not otherwise have ever 20.

    So don't fear traveling alone. It's the best thing.

When my mom was in kindergarten, she rode the school bus home every day. She was really1then. Her normal bus driver was really nice, but one day the driver2 to come and there was a substitute driver who was not kind enough.

When the bus got to my mom's house, it didn't3. This4my mom. She kept as quiet as possible, huddled (缩成一团) in her seat. The bus driver drove back to school, got off and came back to5the bus. He swept from seat to seat, checking for6. When reaching the last seat, he saw my7 . Like any bus driver did when seeing a kid 8on the bus, the bus driver screamed. Then my mom started crying! The driver then calmed himself down, asking my mom in a9voice, ''Why are you still on the bus?" My mom said nervously, ''You10my house.''

The driver felt11and then took my mom to the school office and called my grandma. but my grandma didn't12the phone because she was waiting for the bus and she had a poor hearing. My mom tried hard not to cry. Nobody wants to cry in front of13 , unless they're their parents.

Just then Mr. Mueller went in. His kid was in the same class as my mom. He said, "Let's14 your mom one more time, and if she doesn't answer, then I will take you home in my truck." They called my grandma, and15 she didn't answer. My mom then went home with Mr. Mueller unhappily.

My mom16to her mom immediately she got home, told her the17, and burst into tears. My grandma expressed her18to Mr Mueller before he left. When my mom stopped19 hard after quite a long time, my grandma20my mom to write down this incident. And thanks to that, I can know her story today.

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had 1 a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom. The man 2 his father could well 3 it, so he told his father that was all he wanted.

On the morning of his graduation day, his father called him into his own study and told him how 4 he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. 5 but slightly disappointed, the young man 6 the box and found a lovely book. 7, he raised his voice at his father and said, " 8 all your money you give me a book?" and rushed out of the house, 9 the book in the study.

He did not contact (联系) his father for a whole year 10 one day he saw in the street an old man who looked like his father. He 11 he had to go back home and see his father.

When he arrived at his father's house, he was told that his father had been in hospital for a week. The moment he was about to 12 the hospital, he saw on the desk the 13 new book, just as he had left it one 14 ago. He opened it and began to 15 the pages. Suddenly, a car key 16 from an envelope taped behind the book. It had a tag (标签) with the dealer's name, the 17 dealer who had the sports car he had 18. On the tag was the 19 of his graduation, and the 20 PAID IN FULL.

In the past twenty-four hours, I have been given two amazing opportunities for kindness. The first 1yesterday. On my way home, I 2 a small dog running across the busy street. He ran into the neighbour, so I went off in 3of him with the hope that I could 4him with his owner. After a bit of a cat and mouse game, he 5decided I was worthy of his 6 and came across close enough for me to grab him.

From the microchip inside him, I learned he had 7eight months ago from his owner who lived half an hour away. 8I had some free time, I drove him back to his 9. He and his human mommy were so glad to see one another. It gave me a good 10to end the year with.

This morning my 11and I went to a friend's home to help her get things back in 12. she was one of the unfortunate people whose home was recently destroyed by the tornado. She was 13  than some of her neighbors, thankfully. Her interior walls weren't badly14, though one side of her house fell off and the roof was gone. Our 15today was to help her sort through the debris (碎片) and find anything possible 16valuable. My wife and I help move furniture and other things to storage while our children helped 17up the yard. We 18systematically and carefully, and soon we got almost everything restored.

What a wonderful and deeply19way to begin the year! I'm hoping this sets the tone for even 20things to come!

Over 3,000 people aged 50+ applied to university in 2019. But why are so many older adults 1 to the classroom? Maybe we can get some clues from Christina's  2 of undergraduate life.

Having quit the publishing industry in her fifties, Christina chose Nottingham Trent University to follow her 3 for animal biology.

"My background is in the arts, so I wanted to see if I could 4 science degree. I am definitely a mum figure to some of my course mates, but that's fine —5 grows in different ways. I have been invited to all the club nights and such which I haven't really 6, but I have done lots of volunteering, so there have been plenty of 7 to extend my knowledge and experience.

"My family have been so 8 too — my husband has taken on lots of the housework so that I can 9. My daughter has been very helpful when I am 10 with the workload.

"I would 11 adult study to anyone, so they can feel connection and support. That is what I missed—going in 12 and having a bunch of people to talk to. It is really giving me the confidence to speak up again, to join in and be a 13 of society. I was shrinking inside the 14 world of my house. I feel a lot more 3D now. "

It is never too late to 15 something new, as Christina demonstrates.

When I settled in Chicago, my new city seemed so big and unfriendly. Then I had a problem and had to go to hospital for a 1examination.

It seemed a small thorough examination compared to the one I was about to face, but things started to go2right from the beginning. Not having a car or 3the city, I was depending on a couple of buses to get me from A to B. 4 I'd left myself plenty of time, soon it was 5that I was going to be late, because I had mistakenly get on a bus that was taking me in the 6 direction.

I 7the bus and stood on the pavement not knowing what to do. I looked into the eyes of a8, who was trying to get past me. 9, instead of moving on, she stopped to ask if I was OK. After I explained my 10to her, she pointed to a bus stop across the street, where a bus would take me back into the city to my appointment. Sitting there waiting, I felt 11 that someone had been willing to help. Then, hearing a horn nearby, I looked up to see a car with my new friend 12at me to get in. She had returned to offer me a 13 to the hospital.

Such unexpected 14from a passer-by was a lovely gift to receive. As I climbed out of the car at the hospital and turned to thank her, she smiled and told me not to lose 15, for all things are possible.

One afternoon, Jose Rodriguez Jr. went home early after school. He 1 that his little brother Joel was searching for his fidget toy (解压玩具). It is 2 for Joel, who has autism (自闭症) and likes to play with it to 3. That was when a(n) 4 struck Rodriguez: What if he could find a better way for Joel and others with autism to 5 their fidget toys?

Soon, Rodriguez founded Tasium, a company that makes 6 T-shirts. There is a fidget toy tied to the bottom corner of each shirt, which 7 that the toy is never far from the person wearing it. "For those with autism, fidget toys have proven to be 8," Rodriguez says. "Many people think that fidget toys are a distraction (使人分心的事物). 9, they are really there to help."

Rodriguez took a 10 by NFTE, a nonprofit that provides training for young people. In the end, NFTE ran a 11. From classes held around the world, NFTE 12 three students per class and nominated (提名) their ideas for an international contest. To his 13, Rodriguez won the contest last year. The win came with $12, 000 and 14 Rodriguez to start Tasium. Rodriguez used the 15 to set up a website, and the money also gave him the 16 to make the first batches (批次) of shirts available for sale.

 17, Rodriguez made shirts at his school with a heat press, but now he's switched to screen-printing  18 the design on the shirts doesn't wash off easily. Rodriguez says he plans to continue the 19 from college and expand Tasium into jackets, hats, dresses, and more, with every piece of clothing having some kind of fidget toy 20 . "I just wanted to help the world in some way, " Rodriguez says.

I usually find myself saying that with age comes wisdom. It makes perfect1 when you consider all of the life experiences we have to learn from. 2 , that saying was just blown away by a five-year-old!

Robert and I took a road trip to 3  a friend. Our visit was filled with 4  activities like a trip to the zoo, botanical(植物学的)garden，playing on play grounds and 5 in coloring books.

Helen, Robert's five-year-old son, was my coloring partner. We 6  at the kitchen table each having our own coloring book. The book. I had was on7 On the front inside cover were the 8 of completed colored illustrations(插画)of each page of butterflies in the book. When I saw this I 9  told Helen Look, they have the pictures of the butterflies and how they are10  to look. You can look at the picture and then color the butterfly to 11  what they show. "

Helen's 12  to me was, "Oh, no. You don't have to color the butterflies like the picture. You can color them any way you13 "

What a 14  and powerful nugget(有用的想法)of wisdom. I colored my butterfly any color. I wanted and then created a butterfly15 . If I had copied the picture from the front of the book, it still would have been 16  but it wouldn't have been uniquely mine.

Perhaps we can 17  from our auto pilot way of thinking and look at some18  in our lives differently. Helen opened my eyes to new19in creativity. So, with age can come wisdom, but let's 20  the wisdom of children.

Three years ago, I participated in Model United Nations(MUN)held by the Education Department, which was a mock(模拟的) UN activity. During the two days, students are separated in different groups which1different countries to debate and try to solve problems. MUN has2 awards:best delegates(代表), honorary mentions, and verbal mentions.

Each time I participate in MUN, I made good3and undoubtedly got a few awards. But I often felt as if I'd4because I had never won the best delegate award. I5those who didn't deserve to win the award but won it various times, and I was just filled with6at their success. But later I realized that it was also7not to get the award because I could actually8something, and that I shouldn't9the best delegate award until I was the best delegate I could be.

Failures are completely subjective — we can look at a result as a failure or a10. Any failure can be regarded as a(n)11because you can always learn something from it and do12next time. This is supported by John Locke's theory that we are born with blank views: knowledge and ability are learned from our13. That's true. If I make a mistake in the life practice, then I probably won't14that next time. I believe this is15the best way to become better.