I arrived at my mother's home for our Saturday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. I knew they were all made herself. She was preparing for a quilt show on TV. When we began to fold and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box.

    I pulled it out. "What's this?" I asked.

    "Oh?" Mom said, "That's Mama's quilt."

    I spread the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had made the pieces together.

    "Grandmother made this?" I asked in surprise. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly didn't look like any of the quilts she had made.

    "Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes,"

Mom said, "I'm still working on it. See, this is what I've done so far."

    I looked at it more closely. She had made a line straight(直的). At the center of the quilt, she had stitched a piece of cloth with these words: "My mother made many quilts. She didn't get all lines straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt."

    "Oh, this is so nice, Mom." I said. I was sure now that by completing my grandmother's quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.

    I'm going to have a great weekend. I'll go across Canada with my parents by car. We'll drive seven or eight hours a day.

    In Toronto, we'll stay in a big hotel. The food is very delicious. There's a big swimming pool and a lot of game rooms. I think I'll play there happily. But there will be lots of people in the hotel, so I think we'll sleep in one room. And it's expensive.

    Then we are going to stay in a small cabin(小木屋) in the mountains. I really love it. The cabin is clean and quiet. We'll have two rooms, so I can get up late in the morning. But we have to get up early because we want to go swimming. There is a beautiful lake near the cabin. We can go fishing and cook food outside.

Emily Bhatnagar has always loved reading and regarded books as her best friends.  About three years ago, 16-year-old Emily's1 was diagnosed(被诊断) with cancer. The news was difficult for the family. Books became an even bigger comfort, and she started thinking about families in similar2 . When her father became well. she 3 a plan to help others. Emily started a book drive in her hometown. The purpose was to4 books and give them to kids who are treated for cancer in local hospitals.

Emily5 by putting information on social media to ask people in her area to donate(捐赠). "I was expecting maybe two or three replies from6 , " she said, "But it ended up unexpectedly. I have collected more than 10 000 books7 since the start of the book drive. "

Emily continues to8 the book drive with a little help of her parents. She hopes to develop the project one day to9 more kids. She still remembers the first time she visited children. The surprise and10  on their faces stay in her mind. She said, "It was the best day of my life, and I realized I would do this type of work forever. "

He was the only gray cub(幼崽) of the she-wolf. The other cubs had red in their hair. He was gray like his father. He was the strongest cub. He showed more anger than his brothers and sisters.He made more noises.

He was a carnivorous animal. He came of a breed of meat-killers and meat-eaters. His father and mother lived wholly upon meat. In his first months of life, he lived on mother's milk, which was transformed directly from meat. And now, at a month old, when his eyes had been open for but a week, he was beginning himself to eat meat.

There came a time when there was no meat. For many days the cubs did not eat. They were too weak and tired to play. One-Eye, the cub's father, was killed in the fight over food. Even the she-wolf left the cave to find meat, but there was nothing. One by one, the cubs died. Only the she-wolf and the gray cub were left.

One day the gray c ub ran out of the cave to hunt for his own food. He met a weasel (黄鼠狼)of his size. The rat-like animal ran at him and bit his throat. He was nearly dead when the she-wolf arrived just in time to kill and eat it.

The gray cub was not good at hunting yet, and still needed food from his mother. One day,the she-wolf brought him a lynx (猞猁) kitten. While eating, he heard great noise. The kitten's mother had followed the she-wolf here. The she-wolf and the she-lynx started to fight, and they would fight to the death. ____ The bite was enough to give the she-wolf the chance she needed.The lynx was dead, but the she-wolf was bad ly hurt. For a week, she did not move. The gray cub had to find food for both of them.

Without his mother to take care of him, he learnt what life was about. Without meat there was no life. Animals had to eat other animals to survive. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN.

 Zebra, Deer and Fox were good friends. One day, Zebra and Deer found a lot of fruit. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

 On the way, they met Fox. Fox saw they were happy, so he asked them why. They told him they couldn't say because it was a secret(秘密). Fox asked them to trust him, so they told him about the fruit. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} He told the secret to everyone. So other animals ate all the fruit before Zebra and Deer knew.

 The next day, Zebra and Deer found another place full of food. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Zebra and Deer were very angry. They decided to tea ch Fox a lesson. They told Fox that they found a lake full of fish.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} They ran to the lake, but found there was no fish at all. They thought Fox was a liar(骗子) and gave him a beating.

 Fox learned that keeping others' trust was very important. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} And they became friends again.

How do people find their inner(内在的)talent?British author and speaker Sir Kenneth Robinson talked about this at TED. He told a story about Gillian Lynne, a great dancer and choreographer(编舞者). 

Gillian Lynne never did well in school as a child. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Her mother was quite worried about her. She took Lynne to see a doctor. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Then, the doctor said to Lynne, "I need to talk to your mother now. Please wait here. "As they left the room, the doctor turned on the radio. He then said to Lynne's mother, "Just stand and watch her. "

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}The doctor then turned to Lynne's mother and said, "Mrs. Lynne, your daughter isn't sick. She's a dancer. Take her to a dance school. "

So she did. Lynne's new dance school was full of people just like her —people who had to move in order to think. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

Lypne later went to the Royal Ballet School, one of the world's greatest dance schools, and became a great dancer, After leaving the school, she worked on some of the most successful musicals in history. 

Those who never do well in school don't need to worry. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}