There was a wall between my father and me. But I really needed my father's love. Nobody knew how jealous（妒忌的）I was when I saw other1and their girls walking hand in hand. 2, for me, it was only a dream.

    With years going by, I couldn't3it any more. So I decided to pull down this wall. But I needed to be brave.

    Everything began to4after I wrote a letter to my father. I can imagine the5look on my father's face when he read the letter，which was really a shock（震惊）to him.

    "I'm sorry，my daughter. It's my fault（错误）that I haven't noticed your6. But I promise，from now on，I'll try my best to be a good father. "My father told me this later. At that moment，tears ran down my face.

    He paid little attention to my feelings before, but now he really7the importance of love and has changed a lot. Now, 8I come home from school, my father will talk with me. He will ask me if I get along well with my teachers and classmates and if 9is going well in school.

    Finally. I have10my father's world. I opened the door to his heart. My dream has come true.

    I have succeeded in getting happiness by my own effort and I'll value it forever. He is my father, the only one I have.

    It was the middle of July. I had spent two days exploring a bat cave in the desert in southern New Mexico. The cave was part of an ancient flow of lava（熔岩流），now hardened into rock. I had left the cave and was driving my pickup truck on a rough（高低不平的）track across the  1surface of the lava flow.

    Suddenly, the truck came to a stop, caught on a black lava rock.

    A quick check of the underside 2the worst: the truck's axle（车轴）was bent，nearly broken in two. I couldn't 3 help in such faraway country. I put the food and cans of water into my backpack and set off on foot, going north, the direction of the main highway. I was low on water. Too little food did not matter much, but hiking across the desert in July without water could be dangerous. As I set out, unreasonable 4 came over my mind. I was afraid of everything around me. Each creature made my heart jump. In my mind, every movement was a scary animal about to strike and kill me.

    I walked for hours and cried until I 5that nobody was around to hear me. Complaining was useless. A change came over me. I began to feel less afraid. Fear was replaced by curiosity. I went on, and slowly but surely began to see the desert world differently, through 6 eyes, not frightened ones.

    That night I lay on the warm sand, using my backpack as a pillow. The sky went dark. The stars began to shine in the hugeness of the heavens. With a smile I thought how little there was to fear, after all. By noon the following day I 7north. I began to think how lucky I was to see the wild desert world. A wrecked truck and a forced hike across the desert gave me an/a 8 to see what few others ever saw

    Late in the day, I came to a farmhouse. I drank all the lemonade that the farmer and his wife had in their refrigerator. "I liked it out there," I told them when we got to talking. "I just wish I had been less frightened. I would have noticed more that way "I know what you mean," the man said thoughtfully.

"It's a rare sight, that desert wilderness, a rare sight'

    Stevie Wonder is an American musician, singer, song writer and record producer. As a child prodigy(神童), he became one of the most creative and popular 1 performers of the late 20th century. He became blind shortly 2 his birth.

    American golfer(高尔夫球手) Tiger Woods is a 14-time major champion. He was born in Cypress, California. He is 3 as one of the most successful 4 in history.

    One day, Stevie Wonder and Tiger Woods were in a bar. Stevie Wonder said, "5 is the golf?"

    Woods replied, "Not too bad. I used to have some problems with my swing(挥杆动作), 6 now I've got what is right."

    Stevie Wonder said, "I 7  find that when my swing goes wrong, I need to stop playing for a while and not 8 it. 9, the next time I play, it seems to be all right."

    Tiger Woods said, "You also play 10?"

    Stevie Wonder said, "Oh, yes. I've been playing it 11 many years." Woods asked, "But you're
12! How 13 you play golf?"

   Wonder replied. "I 14 my caddie(球童) to stand in the middle of the fairway(球道) and shout to me. I hear his voice and play towards him. Then, when I get to where the ball lands, the caddie moves to the green and again I play the ball towards his voice."

    Woods asked, "What' 15 handicap(障碍)?"

    Stevie said, "Well, I have no handicap. Let' play around sometime."

    Woods said, "OK, that's a good idea. When would you like to play?"

    Stevie Wonder said, "Pick a night!"

    Grandma Sally is eighty-six years old. She has no sons1daughters. Her husband died ten years ago. But she didn't move into a nursing home. She would like to 2herself every day.

    Every night she spends two hours3kids with math. All kids living on her street can get her help without payment(报酬). She was a famous math 4before she retired(退休) from a middle school.

    She gets up early in the morning, then does sports, goes shopping or helps cleaners5the street. And she does these happily.

    When the kids come for help, she is always6and tries her best. People asked her 7. She said," I love it. It makes me happy to help them. "

    She is always happy every day and always says hello to people around her8a smile.

    "I 9to love everything around me. So I'm happy to do something. I'm thankful for those kids who come to me for help. Each kid is my 10. I love each day to help them," she said.