Coming Across Aliens(外星人 )

    It was a fine night. Carl was on his way home from his friend's party.

    While Carl was walking along the path near his house, he saw a 1 in the sky. It landed on the road at once. Three aliens came out. Carl was 2, because he could understand their language. He learned that they had decided to take all the 3 out of the city.

    Carl was worried about this. He called his friends quickly. While he was 4 for them, he looked at the aliens. They pointed at a tree, and then the tree, like a bird, flew quickly 5 the UFO. One by one, many trees flew away. Soon Carl's friends arrived. They asked them to stop, but 6 didn't work. Then Mr. Bright, a police officer, came. He  7 at the aliens, but it still didn't work. One of the aliens pointed at Mr. Bright. Mr. Bright became very small. Everyone was 8 with the aliens. Carl's friend Bill ran to them. He shouted at them in a big 9. To their surprise, the aliens turned away in no time and ran into their UFO. Then the UFO flew away.

    The alarm clock rang. Carl realized that he was lying in his bed. It was just a funny  10.

    After thirty years in the classroom, I have come to realize that teacher's behavior can make a world of difference for a child. This is one such1.

    While I was attending a party being2at a high school one evening, I looked around and noticed a young girl who looks a little familiar. I thought she had been a 3of mine. I tried to remember her name but I couldn't. I didn't feel 4 with myself, as I have always been able to5 the students that I knew in the past.

    Her eyes met mine and she threw her 6 around me and said, “Mrs. G, it's me, Sarah, and I'm still writing!” The memories 7 . I felt something different in my heart. You see, Sarah was 8 a student in my classroom. Sarah's mother had gone to a big city and had remarried. And her father had 9 her. She was sent to live with her grandparents the year I met her. Sarah was 10, often in trouble and often in the office.

    It was during one of those office visits that I first met her. She was writing. I introduced myself to her and asked her 11 she was writing. Sarah shared her story with me. I knew it was a way for her to get away from her pain. So she always put her 12on paper. Every morning before school she would come into my classroom and we would work on her 13skills.

    Our conversation that evening was filled with hope. She expected to go to college. Driving home, I 14 the influence for both good and bad that teachers have put upon their students. Taking the time to 15 with a child has the power to change that child's life. That's why I teach.

    A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apples he grew. One day， his friend gave him a young apple tree and told him to take it home and 1 it.

    Seeing the gift， the farmer was very happy， and he thought he would also have a lot of wonderful apples， but when he got home， he felt 2 . He did not know where to plant it. He thought over and over and considered every place he could think of. 3 ， he decided to plant the tree in his woods. There were many high trees with thick leaves in the woods. With those trees around ，no one else could see the young apple tree. He even felt proud of himself for finding so secret a place for the apple tree. Every day he went to take care of the tree， watering it. To his surprise and 4 ， the apple tree didn't grow as well as he expected.  It died without sunlight and good soil.

    Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a 5place. "What's the difference?" the farmer said angrily. "If I had planted the tree near the6 ， passers-by(行人) would have stolen the fruit. If I had planted the tree in one of my fields， my neighbors would have come at night and 7 some of the apples! If I had planted it near my house， my own children would have taken the fruits. No matter where I plant the tree， I can't have8 to enjoy the apples： So there is no difference where I planted it."

    "Yes，" said the friend. "But sooner or later someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you not only have robbed(抢夺) everyone of the fruit， but also have 9 a good apple tree! You don't know the true meaning of 'share'!"

    We should learn to 10in our life. The more you want to own something all by yourself， the less you get at last.

    It was a lovely spring afternoon. My classmates and I were playing happily on the playground when I let out a cry, “Ow! Ow! Something in my shoe is biting me.”

    Everyone was shocked（震惊） by the cry. They took me into a classroom and were about to take off my1. “Which foot is it?” One asked “let us have a look.”

    Suddenly, I remembered the holes in2socks. My family was very poor during those years. I wore welfare （福利）socks, which cost only a little, but those3welfare socks didn't last long. They soon had 4at the bottom.

    I refused to take off my shoe. I5stand others seeing the holes in my sock. I tried to hold back my tears. Yet, each time the thing6my shoe bit me, tears raced down my face.

    My teacher, Miss Diane, hurried into the7, “What's wrong?” She asked.

    “Something is biting her right foot,8she doesn't let us take off her shoe,” One of my classmates answered.

    Miss Diane lived next door to me. She9everything about my family .She put both hands on my shaking shoulders and10into my painful and hopeless eyes.

    “Oh, yes, it must be a sock-eating ant,” She said, as if she had11seen the thing inside the shoe. “I had a bite from one of those ants. When I got my shoe off ,it 12almost the whole bottom off my sock.” My classmates nodded while they were listening to the teacher13, although they all looked a little surprised.

Miss Diane took off my right shoe and sock and shook them over the dustbin. Two red ants 14it.

    “Just what I thought it. The ants have eaten part of her sock.” When she stroked an alcohol （酒精）cotton ball on the bites, she added, “You are such a 15girl to take so many bites.”

    The alcohol felt cool on the bites and a little girl's pride was saved by the “sock-eating ant ” story.

    Two girls living next door to each other have two very different life stories. Chi Zhen, an 18-year-old preparatory (预科的) student in Seville, Spain, used his 1 to tell the story of two lives. From the photos, we could learn that they had encouraged many people to 2that the future is in their own hands.

    He took a series of photos of his friends Veronica and Anna Maria. They live completely 3life styles and are getting opposite results.

    In the photos, Anna Maria, a Spanish girl, can be seen 4a TV play. "She spends most of her time on the sofa." says Chi. Anna Maria 5goes out because she thinks she's not attractive and doesn't know 6to say in social situations. She blames her fate（命运）. "I' m not as 7as Veronica," she often says.

    But Veronica, the "lucky" girl next door, has 8herself four foreign languages and traveled to many places. She goes to the 9regularly. She takes part in any conversation and becomes the center of attention because of her 10knowledge and experience.

    Looking at Veronica, it's 11that she's taking control of her fate. In order to communicate with Chi Zhen better, she's studying Chinese. Her experience has 12Chi Zhen to communicate with students from all countries, and she's getting good results. " 13I learned about so many different ideas and attitudes, I still need some time to get used to them," she says.

    The influence of the photos has gone 14beyond what Chi Zhen expected. One of the users commented on his photos on renren.com, saying: "A wall separates two worlds, and the life we have 15what we do. I'd work harder rather than complain about my fate later."

    A zero-waste life is a lifestyle that hardly creates any rubbish. So, a zero-waste theme store is about 1 people with a number of everyday, practical and pleasant zero-waste products to help them start on a one-stop, zero-waste life journey.

    "Zero waste" or "danshari" was first 2 by a French woman Bea Johnson. "Live a life and try not to create any rubbish; use different methods to protect the earth." she said.

    Yu Yuan, 27, is 3 attracted by this idea.

    She and her boyfriend have lived in Beijing for many years. And earlier she used to be a customer without thinking a lot. 4 she saw a video about "zero waste"

    The 5 is about a family of four, and the rubbish they produce every year is placed in a jar.

    After watching the video, Yu wanted to 6 this zero-waste lifestyle with her boyfriend.

    Yu says that a zero-waste life 7 the 6R principle --Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle and Rot (腐烂）.

    Over August-October when Yu followed the principle of zero waste 6R, she and her boyfriend Joe Harvey both 8 only two cans of rubbish.

    Now, the couple have opened a small 9 called The Bulk House in Nanluoguxiang, Beijing, to support a zero-waste life.

    At the store they use environmentally friendly products. For example, they use wood products to replace 10 ones and prepare cloth bags printed with zero-waste logos for customers. Most of the products sold in the store can be reused, and a small number of 11which are not recyclable can degrade (分解). The store 12 has secondhand books and audio-visual CD/DVDs.

    For used toiletries things like soap and toothpaste that are used for cleaning yourself) there is a company which accepts them, and the couple regularly mails their waste to it.

    Yu says that those who were once not 13 in the zero-waste lifestyle have gradually changed because of curiosity. The zero-waste lifestyle, she adds, is for everyone.

    "It's 14 us at our fingertips." Yu expects some of her friends to 15 her on the road to zero waste. As the saying goes, many hands make light work.