Last month I 4precious watch, which was an 18-year-old birthday gift from my father. I could not fall asleep for a couple of nights because I felt5about the loss.

There have been many 6like these in my life. I could never figure out how to deal with such tough things7I read "If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade" by American writer Dale Carnegie.

"When the wise man is handed a lemon, he says, ‘What8 can I get from this? How can I9my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?" he wrote. I suddenly10that life is full of ups and downs, so I need to stay 11 all the time.

    Now when I think of my past, I wish I could have handled things 12. When my mother was fighting for 13, I should have held her hands in mine, telling her things would get better instead of 14and crying.

    Several weeks ago, I took part in a campus singing competition. I didn't 15 a prize. If I had not 16this article, I would definitely have felt 17again. But instead, I smiled after the competition. I was happy that at least I had got some stage18.

    Life is not just a bed of roses. There are thorns（刺）as well, but these thorns help us become19 and strong. When life 20us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.

    From the first week of high school,my best friend,Trisha,was always going out with the popular girls.1I thought,“It's okay;she's just making new friends.”But soon I realized that Trisha wasn't interested in me anymore.I'd 2my best friend.It really hurt.

    One day,I told Trisha that we should3pretending（假装）to be friends when we really weren't anymore.I wasn't trying to make her mad,4she was.After that,Trisha started talking about me behind my back,telling people that I was5.Some of our friends6with her.I felt like she was taking them away from me.

    The more I thought about it,the7I got.Finally,I8a picture of Trisha and drew lines on her face.I wrote,“I 9this person”across the bottom.And then I did something I'll always10: I put it on a website I thought was11. I thought people would see it,and it felt good to vent（发泄）.

    A week later,Trisha's mom saw the12.She called my mom,who made me take it off the website right away. However,it was already too13.Lots of people had seen it,and I was in a lot of14.

    That whole day,I felt15.I had to say sorry to Trisha face to face.She said she accepted my apology（道歉）,but I felt she was16angry with me.

    Posting that picture was one of the worst17I've ever made.I realize now I could have found a much better way to deal with my18.If I'd just told Trisha how much I19her,maybe things would have turned out20.It's too late for me to change things,but I hope you'll learn from my mistake.

    When I heard the news, tears ran down my face. Some years ago on a hot summer day, a little boy decided to go for a 1 in the lake behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the 2 water, he ran out of the back door. He flew into the water, not 3 that an alligator（鳄鱼）was swimming toward the 4. His mother in the house was 5 of the window and saw the alligator 6 it got closer and closer. In fear, she ran toward the water, yelling to her sin as 7as she could.

    Hearing her voice, the little boy became 8 and made a return to swim to his mother. It was to 9. Just as he reached her, the alligator 10 him. From the shore, the mother grasped her little boy by the arms just as the alligator grasped his legs. The alligator was much 11 than the mother, but the mother was much too struggling to let the boy go. A farmer happened to drive by, heard her 12, raced from his truck, took aim and 13 the alligator.

    14, after weeks in the hospital, the little boy 15. His legs were scarred by the animal and, on his arms, were 16 scratches where his mother's fingernails scratched. A newspaper reporter, who 17 the boy, asked if he would show him his 18. The boy lifted his pant legs. And then, with obvious 19, he said to the reporter, “But look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my mom wouldn't let me go. They are my mother's 20 for me.”

    Once a boy really had everything he wanted, so he was 1 interested in the rarest (最稀有的) objects. One day he 2 a mysterious（神秘的） mirror and took it home. When he looked into the mirror, he found that his 3 looked very sad. He tried 4 ， but it remained the same.

    Surprised, the boy went off to buy some sweets. He went home and looked into the mirror as happily as possible, 5 he still looked sad. He bought all kinds of toys, but he looked forever6 in that mirror. So the boy put the mirror away in a 7.

    “What a(n) 8 mirror! I've never seen a mirror that didn't 9 properly！”

    That same afternoon he went out to play, but on his10 to the park he saw a little girl crying loudly. So he went over to see what was happening. The little girl told him that she had 11her parents.

    Together, they 12 in search of them. As the little girl continued crying, the boy 13 his money in buying sweets to cheer her up. 14 ， after walking for a long time, they found her parents, who looked very worried.

    The boy said goodbye, and walked off towards the park. However,15the time, he decided to turn around and head16 home, as he had no time to 17.At home, he went to his room and noticed a shining 18 in the corner where he had left the mirror. Seeing this, he went over to the mirror and 19 that the light was coming from his own body, because he was so happy about having helped that little girl.

    So he understood the mystery of that mirror, the only mirror reflecting（反映） faithfully（诚心诚意地） the 20 joy of its owner.

    Two brothers, Ruby and Harry lived in Spain. They 1 for years to buy their mom a very special Christmas present this year: a BWM 3 Series.

    “Showing 2 to our beautiful Mum who's worked so hard to 3 us everything in life,” Ruby, 30, told the media. “Compared to the 4 she has made for us over the years, this is nothing.” He said the 5 had been in the works for years.

    “My mother wanted a BMW ten years ago, which we never 6,” he said. “We said that one day we would get her one and we 7 a little each week knowing one day we would be able to get her 8 car.”

    Ruby and his brother Harry saved for about five years 9 they bought the car. Their mother appears 10, saying “no” over and over again as the two brothers 11 her to the garage to have a look at a silver BMW.

    “She was just very surprised and couldn't 12it,” he said. “We were sure she 13 loved it.”

    They gave her the car as an early Christmas gift, but also as a 14 to say thank you. It will 15 their mom's current one.

    “She 16us two brothers and worked two jobs for most of her life to 17 us in school and give us everything we 18,” Ruby said. “We watched her go from her 19 job on Friday, get changed and 20 the weekend at a restaurant.”

    He added, “Maternal love is the most selfless love under the sun and we just thought it would be nice to show how grateful we are for everything and remind ourselves that thankfulness is a virtue.”

"Oswa kitonga?" – "Did you get the vaccine (疫苗) yet?"

My 1 of Lingala-the language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)-is still very poor, but the most important 2 I have already learned. The children proudly 3 me their fingernails, which have been painted black to 4 them as already vaccinated. 5 I move on, they are still calling for me: "Mundele, mundele!" This is the way I am 6 everywhere these days. "Mundele" means "white" in Lingala and after all, it doesn't happen very often that a mundele arrives in this 7 of the deep Congolese forest.

A severe measles(麻疹) epidemic has been8 in the DRC since early 2019. And, as of early March 2020, 334,578 people have been sick and 6,338 have died. The number of unreported 9 is probably much higher though. In10 , MSF(无国界医生组织) is working in various regions of the country to fight back against measles-a disease so easily 11 with vaccines. Our 12 is to vaccinate all children between six months and 14 years old, living in the areas still being badly 13 by measles-that is approximately 23,000 people!

I've been on my feet since 5 a. m. and on my motorcycle for almost seven hours-after we first14 the Tshuapa River in a boat in the early morning. It is a swampy forest, full of small streams. The path is narrow and uneven, branches and plants stretch far, scratching my arms, 15 my knee and helmet. From time to time, there is even a whole tree trunk that 16 the way. Or, just like here, a bridge made of tree trunks 17 which each "moto" has to pass individually. While waiting for the last motos to18 , a woman from the next village comes by. When she hears about our vaccination campaign, she bursts into tears, telling us about her five children she already lost to measles. She begs us to vaccinate the19 ones. I am deeply moved and 20 her that we will vaccinate all of her children, each of them!