More than 700 years ago，Scotland （苏格兰） was fighting with England．The king of England wanted to 1 Scotland．He had a strong army so it was2for the Scots to fight．They lost many times，King Robert of Scotland had to run from the English army．

    One rainy day，King Robert lay in an old house．He thought that he was not good enough to be king．He was so3that he didn't even see a spider（蜘蛛）near him．He 4when he saw the spider climbing．It was trying to climb up its web at the top of the house but it fell down．

    "How sad"thought King Robert．"The spider is like me．It's not 5enough．"He watched while the spider climbed up again．It fell down a second time．

    "Be careful，little spider，or you might die，"he said．"Life is so hard．You'll never get back to your web．"But the spider 6again and again．King Robert watched while it 7climbed back to its web．After an hour，the spider got do the web．

    "You are such a great 8 ， "he said．"If you can keep trying．I can too．I must keep on fighting．I won't let the English win．"His 9grew strong and they 10the English army．Scotland was free．

    Nobody knows if this is a true story．Many parents tell it to their children because they want them to keep trying．

    I have run a restaurant in a small town near Manchester for seven  years.The restaurant is not very big but the people in the neighborhood usually have meals and chat here.

    One day.a strange man came1my restaurant.He did look like a2 ， with a camera around his neck and a white cap hanging out of his big bag.He ordered some potatoes and3 and sat at the table near the door.He drank his lemonade，pretending to 4a colorful guidebook.

    His sunglasses covered his eyes.but I knew he wasn't：he hadn't turned a5for the last ten minutes.

    As I brought him his fish,he said "thank you" and had a quick look at me.I6not to look at the tiny scar*across his left eyebrow.I walked back inside with me7tray，shaking my head.He looked familiar.8I couldn't quite think of him.

    Then it hit me：The car accident seven years ago.This was the mysterious stranger9helped me out of my car，just before it exploded.I10 back to his table.He was gone.I moved his plate and found his tip，along with a card：

    I am deeply11to you.The night of your car accident, I was on my way to steal money from a store.Saving your life brought things back to the right way.I now live a／an12life, thanks to you.God bless you!

    The night of my car accident，I was13an interview in a dance club which I disliked at all.Seeing human kindness through his heroic action turned my life around and brought faith back into my life.14was more important than this in my life.

    I put the card and the tip he left into my pocket15Then I got back to work，smiling with a silent "good luck" for him.

    Shirley Temple, the greatest American child star, died on February 10^th, 2014 at the age of 86. She was a lovely little girl 1 blonde curly hair. And also she was a good 2.

    When she was three, Shirley began to make movies and soon became a great movie star. When she was six years old, she 3 some popular movies. In 1936, she made $500,000 that year. People called 4—Little Miss Miracle. From 1930 to 1939, life was 5 in the USA. Many people didn't have jobs, 6 lots of poor people paid money to go to the cinema to 7 Shirley Temple. People felt happy 8 she sang and danced. Mothers wanted their 9 to have curly hair like Shirley Temple. Little girls played with Shirley Temple dolls (玩偶).

    Everybody loved little Shirley. People sent her presents. On her eighth birthday, she got 1000 cakes. She got 5000 letters from her fans a week. Even now, people are 10 watching her movies.

    I once knew an old man named John Smith. His bad1made him famous. John Smith was so forgetful that he sometimes 2what he was talking about in the middle of a sentence. His wife had to constantly (不断地)remind him about his meetings, his classes3his meals. Once he forgot he had eaten breakfast4, at home and at school.

    Since Smith was a professor at a well—known university, his forgetfulness was often an embarrassment (尴尬).It wasn't that he was not5, as some people say, just very, very absent-minded (走神的). One hot summer day, Professor Smith decided to take his6to a seaside town about a three-hour train ride away. To make the trip more7for his students, he kept the name of the town a secret. However, by the time they arrived at the station, Smith forgot the 8of the town he was planning to visit. Luckily, a friend of his happened to be in the 9. He offered to take care of the students while Smith hurried back home to find out where he was 10.

    A father and his daughter were flying a kite in the park. The young daughter was a little bit tired, so they took a1 on the beach when the daughter saw an old man selling apples, she asked her father to buy her an apple. Her father didn't bring much money with him but it was enough to buy two apples. So he did, and gave2of them to his daughter, smiling. His daughter held one apple in her left hand and the other in the right hand. Then the father asked her if she could 3one of the apples with him. When the girl heard this, she quickly took a bite from one apple. And before her father could speak she also took a bite from the 4 apple. The father was5.He wondered what mistake he made so that his daughter acted in such a greedy way. He was lost in thought. Perhaps he was just thinking too much. His daughter was too6 to understand about sharing and giving. A smile disappeared from his face. Suddenly, his daughter with an apple in her left hand said, "Daddy have this one! It is much juicer and7. "Her father was speechless. He felt8 about making the judgment so quickly about a small child. But his smile9 knowing why his daughter quickly took a bite from each apple. Don't judge anything or draw a conclusion too quickly.10 spare some more time to understand things better.