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.

    Edison began to make a talking machine in 1877. At first he 1 paper with holes to make a sound. He worked for months on this 2, at last he 3 how to record a person's voice. But the first machine was very4 and the voice was only one type and not clear enough. Then he 5 another long time on it. He 6some parts and he put some new 7 on the talking machine. This time the voice could be played（被播放) and the voice was also very 8. After the Second World War others used his 9 to record music and songs. Then came the tape recorder. it is much easier to record voice. How 10 Edison was!

    Two brothers worked together on a farm. One was married and had five children. He had a large 1. The other had no wife yet. Although they lived in different houses. They shared 2 they got from their farm.

    One day, the single(单身的)brother said to himself, "It's not 3 that we share all the rice. I'm 4 and I need less than my brother." So, every night he took a bag of rice from his store-room and 5 the field between their houses, putting it into his brother's store-room. At the same time, the married brother thought, "It's not fair to share all the rice. I'm married and I have my wife and children to look 6 me when I am old. However, my brother has no one to take care of his 7in the future." So, each night he also took a bag of rice and put it into his brother's store-room.

    Several months passed by. They found 8 strange that their rice never became less. Then, one dark night the two brothers ran into each other. Slowly they began to understand 9 was happening. Their 10 fell onto the ground and tears (眼泪) filled their eyes at once.

    We were going to play a match with a team from a country school. They didn't come 1the match nearly began. They looked 2than we thought. They wore dirty T-shirts and blue jeans and looked like farm boys. We thought they 3saw a basketball before. We felt that we didn't 4any practice to play with such a team. It was very late so they couldn't have any time to practice. The match began, one of our boys5the ball and he tried to give it to another one. But from out of nowhere a boy in a T-shirt6the ball and he quickly and beautifully got the ball into our basket and had two points. They7us. They had another two points in a minute. Soon it was all over. The country team8the match. Of course we knew that there was still another team9than any good team. But the important lesson we learn this time was: One can't tell a man or a team by the10.