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   Two months ago there was a serious earthquake in my country. Many people were hurt and1their homes. In my school, we decided to organize a 5-kilometer run to collect money for the people.2 signed up for the run and asked their relatives and neighbors to support them. These people agreed to 3 some money—50 cents or a dollar, for example, for every kilometer that the students completed.

    Joe was my classmate. He was the 4student in my class because he seldom did any exercise and he ate plenty of junk food. He never walked to school. He always took a bus. When he was asked5he was going to take part in the run, he said he would think about it. A few students laughed and I think Joe felt embarrassed. I felt a bit sorry for 6.

    The next day, as I was riding to school, I saw Joe walking in the street. I stopped and asked him why he was7.He said he was training to take part in the run. “Good for you, Joe!” I said.8, I told my friends about Joe. Most of them just laughed and said that they didn't think he would 9 the run. I wasn't sure, but I decided that I would10 Joe. So, for the two weeks before the run, I was his trainer. He walked to school for a few11. Then he started to run slowly.

    On the day of the run, Joe lined up with the other students. The 12 began and soon Joe was left behind. Well, it took him hours to finish and he didn't expect to13 the other students, but he tried to do his best. And 14 he completed the 5-kilometer run. Everyone was very15and said, “Well done, Joe!” What is more, Joe collected more money than any other student!

     It was a long hard fight, but by now it was  1    and this helped us very much. We ran here and there in the trees, calling and   2   .  The enemies could not see us and did not know how many of us they were  3  . In the end the first officer shouted to them：                                                  

  “Put down your  4  and stop fighting! The captain has fifty island people to help him. We can kill you 5!”

 So the enemies   6   fighting and we took their guns. Three of the enemies7 to come to join us, but the others refused. So we   8  them in my cave. I stayed to  9 the prisoners(犯人), while the captain and his men went back to fight for the ship.

 All night we listened to the   10   of guns and shouting, but in the morning, when the sun    11 , the captain was master of his ship again. I went down the shore(海岸) to meet him.

  “My dear friend” he cried, “There's your  12  ! I'll take you to the ends of the 13    in it!" I put my    14   round him, and we laughed and cried together. How  15   I was to leave the island.

      Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One early morning, I   1 a call for a taxi. When I arrived at the building, it was 2:30 a.m. and I found the building was dark except for the only light in a first floor window.

Many drivers would just shout once or twice and then drove away, but I thought this 2 might need my help. So I walked to the door and knocked, “Just a minute,” answered a 3 , elderly voice. After a long time, the door opened. A small old man showed up before me, 4 a small bag. He kept thanking me for my 5 . “It's nothing,” I told him.

“Oh, you're such a good man.” He said. When we got into the taxi, he gave me a (an) 6, and then asked, “Could you drive through the city center?”

“But it wasn't the 7 way.” I answered quickly. “Oh, I'm in no hurry.” He said. “I'm on my way to a hospital. I don't have any family left. The 8 says I don't have much time left.”

      I   9   started the taxi and shut off the meter(计程器). For the next two hours, we drove  10   the city center. He showed me the building where he once worked. We drove past the church where he got married. He would never forget that happy moment. Sometimes he'd ask me to slow down in front of a building and would sit   11  the darkness for a long time, saying nothing. When the sun began to rise, we drove in silence to the address he had given me. When we arrived,   12 without thinking, I gave him a big hug. “You gave an old man a little moment of  13  . Thank you!” He said with tears in his eyes.

      I was completely lost in thought for the rest of the day. What would happen if I had refused to do   14  I did? We always think that there are no   15  moments in our lives, but great moments are just in what others may think small and unimportant ones.

    My uncle lives in a village. He has eighty 1 ninety apple trees on his farm. But my uncle's2 can't pick all the apples in autumn. They usually 3 my parents and me to go to4them every year. It's going to be the weekend tomorrow. My 5 aren't going to work and I'm not going to 6. So we're going to see my uncle by bus tomorrow. We're going to get up 7 in the morning. Mother is going to wear her 8 clothes to work on the farm. Father is going to buy some mooncakes for my uncle's 9 in a shop. The boy likes them very much. I know my uncle and aunt are going to10 us a lot of apples before we come back. I like working in the village.

    Ma Yun became one of 1 men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock market last year with a value of around 140 billion — the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him 2 to success.

Ma made his 3 trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After 4 "beer", he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for "China" and still saw no results. He decided 5. A Chinese website — the seed for Alibaba was sown (播种)。

    Ma said he 6 many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and 7 companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.

    8 was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager 9 limited resources. 10, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it 11 nine years. Ma said 12 new world for him because everything they said and did was so different for what he had been taught at school and by his parents.

    Ma's hero is Forest Gump 13 never gives up. When he made a speech about his 14. At Davos (达沃斯论坛) in 2015, Ma said, "Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you 15."