A lady and her husband in usual clothes walkedinto the president of Harvard's outer office. "We want to see thepresident," the lady said softly.Looking at the usual couple, the secretary said, "He'll be busy all day."" We'll wait," the lady replied.

   For hours, the secretary did nothing for them,hoping that they would finally go away. They didn't. "Maybe if they justsee you for a few minutes, they'll leave," the secretary finallytold the president.

   The presidentlooked down at the couple.The lady told him, "We had a son that hadstudied in Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. But he was accidentally killed.And my husband and I would like to build something for him in Harvard. "Madam," the president saidangrily, "we can't put up a statue forevery person who attended Harvard and died."

   "Oh, no," the lady explainedquickly, "we mean we would givea building to Harvard." The president lookedat their usual clothes, and then said, "A building! Do youknow how much a building costs? It took us over seven and a half million dollarsto build Harvard."

   The lady turned to her husband and said quietly,"Is that all it coststo start a university?" Her husband nodded.Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California wherethey built a university with their name—a memorial（纪念）to a son that Harvardno longer cared about.

   You can easily judge the character of others byhow they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.

My mother is a teacher in a middle school. She {#blank#}1{#/blank#} for a long time every day. She gets up, early in the morning. After she brushes her {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, it's about thirty {#blank#}3{#/blank#}running. Then she has breakfast and goes to work.My mother is very busy, so she has lunch at school. After work, she goes home and we have dinner together. Sometimes we eat out. She likes{#blank#}4{#/blank#}a walk or listening to music after dinner. On Saturday evenings, she often goes to the movies with me. It's{#blank#}5{#/blank#}for us. On Sundays, she likes making all kinds of delicious food for the family.

Damon tossed(扔) the tennis ball high in the air and watched. Prince ran and caught it in his mouth.

"Good boy, Prince!" Damon said.

Prince dropped the ball at Damon's feet just as a bark came from the next door. Damon looked up to see a little puppy(幼犬) run out of the house.

"Come on, Prince," Damon said. "Scott got a new puppy. Let's go to say hi."

Damon ran over to Scott. "Hey," Damon said.

Damon bent down and laughed, "What's his name?"

"Duke. My dad brought him home for me last night."

"Hi, Duke," Damon said.

Prince barked and nudged the tennis ball towards Damon.

"Not now," Damon said. "I'm playing with Duke."

Duke tried to pick up the tennis ball, but his mouth was too small.

"Sorry, little guy. You need to grow a little before you can play with the ball," Damon said.

"Hey," Scott said, "show Duke how well Prince can catch the ball."

Damon wanted to keep playing with Duke. But Scott said to him, "Come on, show him."

Damon got up. He tossed the ball high in the air, and Prince jumped up to catch it.

"Wow!" Scott said. "I can't wait for Duke to be big enough to do that."

"But the puppy is so cute and fun," Damon said.

"Yeah, but Duke is too little to play with a ball. Prince is like having a friend around all the time," Scott said.

Damon looked at Prince and smiled. He was happy to have a dog who was also a friend.

假设你叫李明，你校英语俱乐部将举行以"我班上最受欢迎的学生"为题的演讲比赛。请你根据以下思维导图内容提示用英文写一篇演讲稿参赛。

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The Most Popular Student in My Class

Hi, everyone!

That's all. Thank you for listening. 

From my second grade on, there was one thing I was afraid of every year: the piano recital(音乐演奏会). A recital 1  I had to practise a boring piece of music and play before strangers. Each year I 2  ask my father if I could run away from the recital" just once". And each year he would shake his head, saying 3  about building self-confidence and working towards a goal. 

So it was really great when I stood in church one recent Sunday with a camera in hand, and 4  my 68-year-old father sweating(流汗) in his shirt before rising to play the piano in 5  very first recital. 

My father had expected to play music since childhood but his family was poor and couldn't 6  lessons. He could have been regretting it, 7  too many of us do. But even if he was always thinking about his past, he wasn't stuck there. When he retired three years ago, he 8  his church music teacher to take him as a student. 

For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he just looked down at his 9 . Has he forgotten the notes? I worried, remembering those special seconds many years ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would become 10 . But then came the beautiful melody(旋律), from the 11  fingers that once repaired my fishing lines. And I learned he had been doing what his 12  teacher always told him: Only 13  the music and imagine the others aren't there. 

"I'm 14  of him for starting something new at his age, "I said to my son Jeff excitedly. 

"Yeah, and doing it so 15 , " Jeff added. We all smiled.