A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn't know 1 she had to do and wanted to give up. She felt 2 of fighting and fighting. One problem had been finished but another came. Her father 3 was a cook took her into the kitchen. He poured water into the pan（锅）and boiled it. While the water 4, in the first pan he put carrots, in the second he put some eggs and in the last he put some coffee. He waited for them for 5 minutes without any words. The girl closed her mouth and waited 6. She didn't know why her father was doing that. After about 20 minutes, her father turned 7 the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took out the eggs and put them into another bowl. After that the coffee8 into a cup. Turning back to 9 daughter, he asked, “What do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she answered.

Her father told her to close her eyes and let her 10 the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were soft. After that he asked her to take eggs and break them. Then, she got boiled and hard eggs. At last, the father told her to smell the coffee. “What's the meaning, Father?” He explained that each one had 11 same unlucky experience—the boiled water,12each had a different reaction（反应）. The strong and hard carrots had become soft and weak after13in the boiling water?” The eggs became hard in the boiled water. The coffee was very special and it 14 change the water. “Who are you?” asked the father, “When calamity（厄运） 15 at your door, what's your reaction? Are you carrots, eggs or coffee?”

    Tom, eleven years old, was in bed in hospital. Several days ago, while he was playing baseball, he 1 and his head hit the ground. The doctors believed that he might never get well.

    "He seems to have given up 2. So medicine won't work. Perhaps he needs something else," said one of the doctors. "When I visit Tom, all he 3 says is that he would like to meet Babe Ruth." To meet Babe Ruth, of course, was almost 4 Babe Ruth was the most famous baseball player in the United States and he was very busy.

    The next day Tom's father managed to tell Babe Ruth about the 5 of Tom on the phone. Twenty-four hours later, as Tom was lying in his hospital room, Babe Ruth walked in. Young Tom couldn't 6 it really was Babe.

    Babe Ruth sat down at Tom's bed and said, "Now listen, kid, you've got to get 7 I've brought you a new American League baseball. You must start throwing it."

    Tom's father just stayed there, saying nothing. His eyes were full of 8the great man.

    For Tom, this was the 9 of a new life. Once he thought he would never be saved. To the surprise of his doctors, young Tom walked out of the hospital on his own feet a few weeks later. He was able to live a healthy life all 10 the help of Babe Ruth.

    Hello, my name is Li Ming. I 1 1.5 years old. I go to Ximen School. This is my 2 photo. They are my 3. He is my father and she is my mother. My father is 40 years old and my 4 is 38 years old. My father is a doctor in a 5. My mother is an English 6 in my school. This 7 is my sister. She is 11 years old. She likes English and she 8 to be an English teacher in the future(未来). It's a 9 family. I 10 my family.

    I saw my first butterfly of the spring today. I was 1 some food and other things into my house when suddenly the little lady 2 right down in front of my face.

    3 stayed there for a long time, gently dancing in the air. She was so beautiful that my eyes became filled with tears and my heart 4 with love. Then she left for some delicious flowers growing in my garden. I smiled, wiped my 5 and felt thankful for the wonder of life.

    Butterflies have held a 6 place in my heart since I lost my mother to cancer when she was 7 fifty-five years old. She used to love it when the butterflies would land near her while she worked in the 8. She would even speak to them 9 her musical voice. After she died l would 10 her whenever I saw one of those gentle angels(天使)flying by. I even told my young children that every time they saw a 11 dancing in the gentle wind, it was their grandmother saying "Hello" from 12.

    When today's butterfly dropped in to say "Hello", I once again felt joy beyond words. I felt like l was dancing on the clouds with my mother 13 a thousand angels were singing. Someone 14 say I'm cheating myself, but I know this isn't so. Cheating doesn't fill your heart with 15.The next time you get your own" Hello" from heaven ,just welcome it into your heart and let it help you to be a loving person.