I arrived at my mother's home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt(被子) after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. 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 is this?" I asked.

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

    I spread the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together; irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right.

    "Grandmother made this?" I said, surprised. 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," she 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 straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched(缝) 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. It occurred to me(突然想起) that by completing my grandmother's quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, 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.

    Mrs. Liu lives in the countryside, and she doesn't know Guangzhou very well. One day, she goes to Guangzhou, but she can't find her way. Just then, she sees a man near the bus stop. "I can ask him the way." She says to herself. Then she goes over to the man and asks, "Excuse me, will you please tell me the way to Zhongshan Road?" The man smiles with no words. He doesn't know Chinese. He is Japanese. Then he puts his hand into his pocket (衣袋) and takes out a piece of paper and lets Mrs. Liu look at it. On the paper are these words, "Sorry, I can't speak Chinese."

    Kate and Ann are new students. Kate is twelve. She is from America. Ann is eleven. She is from England. They arc in Class 5 Grade 7. They can speak English very well and Kate can speak a little Chinese, but Ann can't. They live m Shanghai with their parents. Ann's mother is a teacher. Kate's father is a teacher too. Kate and Ann are studying in the same school. On Sundays, they often play table tennis with their Chinese friends. They love China and their Chinese friends.

My mother is 82 years old. Each week I take my mother out to do shopping and visit the doctor，because she has difficulty in1 . She is unable to express herself clearly. 

Last week she walked to a nearby store to buy some small things by herself，because I was busy. When she went to2 for her things，she found that she was short of three dollars. The only way to pay for the goods was to3 a cup. By dropping it，she was able to buy the new total with the cash she had. 

At this store，people looked around and chose their own goods. My mother was putting her things into shopping bags4 without talking to others. Suddenly a5 came up to her and said， "Here is the cup that you put back. " Then she6 my mother the cup. My mother asked for the woman's name and7 so that she could repay her by post （邮寄）. But the woman told her the cup was her gift. 

My mother was8 . The next day，she decided to go back to the store and give the worker a five﹣dollar bill to keep on hand. When the9 thing happened to someone else unexpectedly，the worker could use the bill. 

Whoever you are，you should thank for the act of10 . That not only help others，but may help yourself one day. 

No one likes thieves (小偷), but for most people in a town in California, they just laugh when they find that something small is lost. That's because the thief is a cat. 

Jean Chu and her family adopted (收养) Dusty as their pet cat a few years ago. Not long after Dusty moved in, the family started finding new things around. One day, they would find a shoe. The next day, there would be a sock. At first, no one knew where these things came from. Soon they found that the things always showed up in the mornings. And who went out every night? That might be Dusty. However, it was difficult to catch Dusty in the act (当场). Soon workers of the TV show Must Love Cats heard about Dusty's story and they decided to make a film about Dusty. They used an infrared camera (红外摄像机). Sure enough, the camera caught Dusty in the act when he brought home a toy. 

Soon the film of Dusty became popular on the Internet. The cat is a celebrity (名人) now. People come to Chu's house to get back their things every day. They have become good friends with Chu and Dusty.