I got out of the train station with my father. A woman came to him and said that her 1 had been stolen. She asked if he could 2 her some money to go back home. My father gave her what she asked for and told her not to 3 paying it back. I was shocked. How could my father be so 4? It was clear that she was telling a lie, staying at the station all day long 5 money.

    “She was lying!" I shouted. “ 6 did you give her the money?"

     My father looked at me. He was a bit 7."And what would you like me to do?" he said. “Should I tell 8 that I am a college professor and I can see through her scam(诡计)?" I did not understand him at all, and then he told me something that I have 9 forgotten. "First, she would not do this 10 she did not need the money. Second, I made her day, because now she thinks that she is 11 than me. It is more important to her than the money, but I do not 12 this."

     A week later, we were at the same 13, and the same woman came to my father with the same story. "Not this time," my father told her. “In your business, you 14 learn to recognize people. Try another story 15 me next week."

    A long time ago, there lived a wise man named Zun-Nun in Egypt. A young man came to visit him and asked, “Teacher, why do you dress in 1 a way? Nowadays it's necessary to dress neatly（整洁地）, isn't it? Or how will people know you're really a 2and wise man?”

    Zun-Nun smiled, took a ring from his finger and said, “Young friend, I'll answer your question, 3 first do one thing for me. Take this ring to the market. Can you sell it for one chip of gold?”

    When the young man looked at Zun-Nun's dirty ring, he thought to 4, “How will I sell it at that price?”

    He 5  the ring to the vegetable, meat and fish traders and others in the market. But 6 was willing to pay a chip of gold.

    He returned and told this to Zun-Nun. Zun-Nun said, “Now go to the gold shop and show the ring to the owner. Don't give a 7, just see how much he will pay.”

    One hour 8, the young man was back. “Teacher, people in the market really didn't know the value of this ring. The gold shop owner 9 me 1,000 chips of gold.”

    Zun-Nun smiled. “That's the answer to your question, my friend. Someone can't be valued only from his 10. The ring was a gift from the emperor,” he said.

    I planned to go on a vacation with my family. The idea had come me as I1 to a talk on my car radio.

    The speaker said, 'Love is an act of will. A person can choose to love."2myself, I had to say that I spent little time with 3wife Mary. Well, for two weeks that would change.

    After the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Mary suggested a walk on the beach. I started to refuse, 4 then I thought, 'Mary's been alone here with kid all week and now she wants to be alone with me." We walked

    On the beach5 the children flew their kites.

    Relaxed and 6, that is how the whole 7 passed. I made a new decision to keep on remembering to choose love.

    There was 8 wrong with my experiment. However, Mary and I still 9 about it today. On the last night, Mary looked at me with the 10 expression.

    'What's 11 matter?" I asked her.

    'Tom," she said in a voice 12 with sadness, 'do you know something 13 I don't?"

    'What do you mean?"

    'Our doctor…did he tell you something about me? Tom, you've been so good to me…am I dying?"

    It took a moment for it all to sink in. Then I couldn't help laughing 14 .

    'No, honey," I said, holding he in my arms. You're not dying; I 15 to live."

    This is my friend, Li Xue. She is 1girl. Blue and green are her favourite2. She doesn't 3 yellow. She is 4 a blue sweater. Sweaters are her favourite 5. She likes pants, 6. She has two 7 of pants. 8 brown. 9shirt is this? It's Li Ming's. Li Ming is 10 brother.

    Jonathan had broken my favorite azalea (杜鹃花)bush before I could stop him. He said nothing but gave me a back and 1 some flowers to school. He didn't see the tears in my eyes while I touched the broken bush 2. When I was left alone, I 3hours thinking how love had disappeared from my life.

    At 5:15, I hurriedly drove to the school. I was out of breath by the time I knocked on the teacher's door. She opened the door and took me aside. "I want to talk to you about Jonathan," she said. I prepared 4 for the worst. Nothing would 5me.

    "Did you know Jonathan brought flowers to school today?" she asked.

I nodded, 6my favorite bush and trying to hide the hurt in my eyes.

"Let me tell you about yesterday," the teacher said. "See that little girl? Well, yesterday she was almost 7. Her mother and father were going to divorce (离婚). She told me she didn't want to live, and that she wished she could die. I watched that little girl cover her face with her hands and say loudly enough for the class to hear,  8loves me.' I did all I could to make her happy, 9it only seemed to make matters worse."

    "I think you wanted to talk to me about Jonathan," I said.

    "I do," she said. "Today your son walked 10over to that girl. He handed her some pretty pink 11 and said quietly, 'I love you'."

    I felt my heart swell (膨胀)with pride for what my son had done. I 12 at the teacher. "Thank you," I said, reaching 13  Jonathan's hand, "you've made my day."

    Later that evening, I began pulling weeds from around my azalea bush. As I thought of the love Jonathan 14the little girl, a poem came to me, "…these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is 15." While my son had put love into practice, I had only felt angry. However, now I felt the seed of love that God planted in my family and it began to bloom once again in me.