Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Italy. He is best known as an artist today. One of his famous paintings is called Mona Lisa. However, Leonardo had many other natural abilities. He was also a great inventor. Many of his inventions have become important in modern daily life.

Although Leonardo hated war, he invented many different machines used for war. His most special invention was the machine gun, which was produced and used in war many years later.

    By watching the way birds fly, Leonardo tried to find out the secret of flying. Among his sketch (素描) we can see several objects. We consider them as modern flying machines.

    Leonardo spent many hours thinking about how to make good use of time. He developed ideas for labor-saving machines like cutting machines.

Leonardo was a strange man. He didn't eat any meat, which was very unusual in those times. He never published(发表) his ideas and scientific discoveries. He usually used mirror writing, which looks like writing in a mirror, starting from the right side of the page and moving to the left.

    We have very little of his work today. Leonardo finished only a few of his paintings. He left many unfinished because he thought they were not perfect. No one in his life time knew how great Leonardo was. We now believe, however, that he was one of the cleverest men the world has ever known.

    Mr. King goes to a dinner party. He is wearing old clothes. He comes into the room. But people in the room do not look at him. They don't ask him to sit at the table.

    Mr. King goes home and puts on his good clothes. He goes back to the party. Everyone in the room stands up and smiles at him. They give him the very good food to eat. Mr. King takes off his coat, and puts it in the food and says, "Eat, coat!"

    The other people ask, "What are you doing?" He answers, "I'm asking my coat to eat the food. I am wearing my old clothes. You do not look at me. You do not ask me to sit down. Now, I am in these clothes. And you give me very good food. Now I see, you give the food for my clothes not for me!"

It was early morning. I got dressed quickly. It was still autumn but colder than usual. It snowed for {#blank#}1{#/blank#} days. I forgot {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the weather report today, so went out in jacket.

It was still dark, cold and {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. At that time, I knew I made a mistake. I shook a little bit. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, a car stopped and one of my {#blank#}5{#/blank#} got out of it. We greeted each other and talked about the bad weather. To my {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, he took off his coat and handed it to me. He smiled and said. "It's too cold. Put it on." Looking at the warm coat in my hands, I was touched and thanked {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. After that, he drove away. When I looked up at the sky, I noticed the sky was beautiful and {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} warm inside me and I didn't shake any more.

The world is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of kindness. Love is always there.

Shailyn Ryan is a 9- year- old girl from Massachusetts. That day, during lunch in the school dining hall, she noticed 1 unexpected happening. Her friend Keira held a hand to her own throw without a word. Her face rapidly turned red, then blue. Though Keira was unable to 2 , Shailyn knew she was choking(噎住).

 Immediately, Shailyn jumped from her seat and stood behind Keira. She pushed Keira a bit forward, put her arms 3 Keira's waist (腰部), then pressed as hard as she could.

 It wasn't long before a hot dog piece popped (突然弹出) up from Keira's throat. Thanks to her 4 action, Keira was free to breathe again.

"I didn't really think about it—I just did it," said Shailyn."I wasn't 5 at all, and I knew that I had to do something fast, so I did." And she did it just right.

 The most 6 part of the story is that Shailyn knew the Heimlich maneuver  (海姆立克操作法) just for less than 24 hours. Only the night before, she attended a" Home Alone" kids 7 class. At the class, she and several other children learnt basic first aid and practised 8 to do the Heimlich maneuver on each other. Clearly, Shailyn was a really fast 9 ! She was able to take what she'd learnt the night before and 10 it in real life.

A few days later, Shailyn was given an award by the school master Jill Barnhardt.  " We' re sure to 11 Shailyn for her actions in such situation," Barnhardt said." Shailyn took actions 12 . Her response to her friend's suffering was effective. She is simply a 13 ."

 Shailyn was also excited to get a personal tour of a hospital 14 she dreamed of becoming a doctor.‘I want to 15 more people,'' she said." That would be cool to work in a hospital."