It used to be our custom to take handmade baskets to friends on May Day. We would1baskets on a doorstep, knock on the door, and then run away as2as possible. It was funny to hide in a bush（灌木丛）and watch our friends open the doors and pick up the colorful gift, 3who had left it out for them.

    I clearly4the May Day of the year when I turned ten. I had a dearest friend, Pam. We had studied and5together nearly every day. However, things6after a new family moved into our small town. Pam was spending more and more time at their house and I felt7and left out.

    When my mother asked me8 I was going to take a May Day basket to Pam's house, I replied9, "Certainly not! I hate Pam. "And then I began to cry.

Mom wiped（抹去） away my tears and told me that things and people change. She explained, "One of the greatest things friends can do is to give each other a10to grow, to change and to develop. It's acceptable for 11 friends to spend time with other people."

    I finally decided to give Pam a basket as a sign of forgiveness（原谅）, and asked my sister to help me do it.12we watched from our hiding place, Pam picked up the basket and said loudly enough for us to hear, "Thank you, Susie, I hoped you wouldn't13me!"

    That day, I made a14that changed my life：I decided to hold my friends tightly in my heart, allowing them 15 to grow and to change-with or without me.

    In an interview with media, Stephen Hawking's three children 1 their father as follows: He was curious. He encouraged questions because they are the start of exploration (探索). He was aggressive (进取的). He 2 stopped searching for subjects that he liked. He was 3. From his mouth, difficult physics turned easy and interesting.

From the school reports in Hawking's childhood, we know that he was just a(n) 4 boy, or even worse. Once, his mother asked him, "Are you really weak in your studies?" He answered, "Em… the others are the same." He was not from a rich family. However, his parents, who graduated from Oxford, 5 books a great teacher to their children. For the reason, 6 was common in Hawking's family.

    In his early days in Oxford, Hawking wasn't so excellent. It is said that he liked to bet (打赌) with others on strange topics and ended up losing every time. When he was going to graduate soon, his body went wrong. 7 his mind and spirit were free. He 8 became more interested in scientific research than before.

    There are many great scientists in the world. However, few of 9 are like Hawking, who never got tired of playing roles in films and TV plays and travelling around the world to 10 lectures. Now, the great man has gone, but we will remember him forever.

Over the past 6 years, Zhang Chaofan has given away 1.35 million yuan and raised 5.2 million yuan from the public to help more than 400 people with health problems—including teachers with cancer (癌症) and disabled children in poor families—learn traditional Chinese culture.

Zhang, 29, was born without a left arm in Changchun, Jilin, but her hard work to become stronger has encouraged many people. She was chosen along with 67 other honorees (领奖人) to receive the Eighth National Ethical Role Model award (第八届全国道德模范提名奖) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 5th, 2021.

In 2015, Zhang set up a handwriting and painting school in Changchun. When she found that some parents were unable to pay for their children's education, she made the lessons free and began providing 300, 000yuan every year to help them.

In early 2020, her school was made to suspend all courses because of COVID-19 (新冠肺炎) but it didn't stop her from helping the poor families. She raised more than 8.9 millionyuan and gave them away to Hubei hospitals.

"Women in the new times should have the courage to create value and also have a sense of social duty," she said. "It is my great honor to be chosen as a model. This will become a driving force for me to move ahead and keep helping the poor and the disabled."

In 2004, Zhang Guimei saw a girl sitting silently on the side of a road on a cold morning, with a broken basket at her side.

Zhang, a local high school teacher, asked what was wrong. The girl told Zhang that she wanted to go to school, but her family was too poor to afford it. Zhang went to the 14-year-old girl's home and advised her parents to allow their daughter to continue schooling. However, they finally refused her. Unable to help, Zhang left. With the teenager always on her mind, Zhang was trying to work out how to help the local girls.

She came up with the idea of building a girls-only high school where students wouldn't have to pay anything. In 2007, Zhang attended an important meeting. She spoke, through media, to the public about her long-hidden dream. With the support from the local government and warm-hearted people, Huaping Girls' High School was opened in 2008. On the first day of the new school year, 100 students entered the school, most of whom were from mountainous areas. Since she started the school, Zhang Guimei has visited more than 1,600 families, traveled more than110,000 kilometers, and walked to many places to encourage parents to send their daughters to school for more than 15 years, so the girls could improve their education to change their lives.

Thanks to Zhang's efforts to help the students improve their studies, many of them were able to get offers from universities. Zhang Guimei worked silently for years, helping more than 1,800 girls in poor mountainous areas realize their dreams.