The Benefits(益处)of Doing More than You Are Paid for

One rainy afternoon an old lady walked into a Philadelphia department store.Most of the clerks ignored(忽略)her,1only one young man asked if he could help her.She replied that she was just 2for the rain to stop.He told her he wouldn't try to3her anything she didn't want.Instead he brought her4.

When the rain stopped,the lady5the young man and asked for his card.A few months passed,the owner of the store received6inviting this young man to Scotland to get orders for providing goods for a large company!The letter was7the old lady for whom the clerk had provided a chair.She happened to be owner's mother of the large company,8

When the young clerk had his bags packed for Scotland,he had already been one of the9in that department store,all because he had shown a little10to a stranger when no one else would.

Dear Miss Wang,   

    We would like to recommend Andy as 1 new monitor（班长）. We think he is good enough to be suitable（合适的） for the position(职位).

    Let me 2 you a story about Andy. It is a secret in our class. So 3 else knows about it. The following is the story.

    It was Sunday that day. Andy was 4 the way home. But he forgot to 5 his homework home. He went back to 6. At the 7 crossing, he met an old man. The old man wanted to go to the hospital because his son was ill. But he didn't know the way. Andy went to the man and 8 the man. After Andy knew 9 the man would go, he decided 10 him. Andy asked the man to follow him. They came to the second crossing, the third crossing, and then they turned right. They 11 along the street. When they got to Suguo Supermarket, they went across the street. The People's Hospital was opposite（在……的对面） the supermarket. The man's son was very 12 when he saw his father. The man's son was a 13 in Andy's school. He taught Chinese. He thanked Andy for his help. The old man and his son looked forward to 14 Andy again. Andy was very happy and went to the school for his homework. After that, he went back home. Andy got home late, so he told his parents about the thing he did. His parents were happy that Andy did so.

    Andy is good at all his lessons and he can plan everything well. He can make our class better. I am sure he can be a good 15. Please write back soon.

                                                        Yours,

                                                     Wang Hua

    A kindergarten teacher decided to have her class play a game. The teacher told each student to bring a plastic bag with a few potatoes in it to school. Each student would "name" their potatoes after people they did not like.1 the number of potatoes would be2depending on how many people each student hated.

    The next day, with their potatoes, all the students went to school 3 the game. Some kids had just one or two potatoes, while others had as many as five or six. The teacher then told the children that they would have to carry their potatoes with 4wherever they went for one week.

    Several days 5. Some of the students started to complain(抱怨), as their potatoes began to rot(腐烂)and6bad. The students who carried 7potatoes began to get unsatisfied with the heavy bags.

    One week later, the game 8. The teacher asked, "How did you9carrying around your potatoes for a week?"

    The students complained once again. The teacher simply smiled and said, "This is what it's like to carry hatred(仇恨 )in your heart. You have to carry it with you wherever you go. If you can′t tolerate (容忍) carrying rotten potatoes for one week, how can you imagine having 10in your heart for a whole lifetime? Forgive others and move on with your life."

    One afternoon, A boy carefully took his father who can't see anything to a seat in a noodle restaurant. He called 1 for two bowls of beef noodles. When the restaurant owner was about to 2 the food, the boy suddenly stop him with his eyes and said in a low voice, "Only one bowl with beef, 3 without—just plain noodles."

    In fact, the boy didn't have much money and couldn't afford two bowls of beef noodles. He called loudly just to let his 4 know.

    When the noodles were sent to them, the father wasn't in a hurry. He 5 his chopsticks（筷子）to search in his bowl, trying to a piece of beef. 6 he found one, he picked it up and put it into his son's bowl,.

    The boy didn't 7 his father. He accepted silently(默默地)and then quietly put the beef 8 to his father's bowl.

    The restaurant owner saw this, he was moved（感动的） 9 what they had done, then he asked a waiter to bring them a dish of sliced beef from the 10. The boy thought it was sent to a 11 table. The boss of the restaurant camp up explaining（解释） with a smile, "Today is 12 restaurant's anniversary(周年庆). The dish is 13. So you needn't pay for it."

    After the father and son left, the waiter cleared the bowls. He was 14 to find under the bowl of the boy were some money. They were just the 15 of the sliced beef dish.