What do you think of that? One man donated(捐赠) his stem cells (干细胞)to a(n) 1 living on the other side of the world.

    A man working as a taxi driver in Shanghai 2 an activity about stem cell donation. Shortly after, he received the 3 that his stem cells had been matched to a boy in England. The receiver is just seven years old. The driver, Jiang Yongfeng, 4 to donate his stem cells at once. “I did not expect it to happen so 5. I was so excited to get a match so soon.” He says. “6 I learned the boy was only born in 2008, I was silent. And I 7 I made the right decision. I must help him.”

    Some people 8 stem cell transplants to treat cancer. They must 9 a donor with nearly the same genes(基因). It means the matched 10 must have the very similar gene. The possibility of the long-distance match between Jiang Yongfeng and the little boy is 11. It sounds like a 12miracle（奇迹）. “ The little boy receiving Jiang's donation is very 13, ” doctors said.

    Some donors were 14 to donate stem cells in out-dated ways because of poor health care systems years ago. It was a(n) 15 experience that many people couldn't stand. 16, Mr. Jiang was able to use a simpler and safer method.

    Usually donors and receivers do not meet, nor do they know each other's 17. Does Jiang Yongfeng mind that he doesn't even know the little boy's name? “ No,” he shakes his 18. “ I just want the operation to be done as soon as possible so that they can send my 19 to the UK and help the little kid 20 as soon as possible. I hope he can be brave and strong and that he can live a good life.

    The famous composer, Albert Roussel, didn't have a good start in this career. However, he achieved a great deal of success as a result of a 1.

    Roussel's parents died when he was eight and he went to live with his 2. As a little boy, he fell in love with music and3himself about it by reading through the family collection that his mother kept, 4 which there were a lot of related books. Three years later, Roussel's grandfather died, and his mother's sister decided to 5 him. Her husband was a kind man and6for young Roussel's music lessons. One summer vacation at a Belgian seaside added a second 7to his life—the sea. Then he studied to be a naval cadet（海军学员）, but still took time to study 8.

    In the French Navy, he and two friends found the time to 9a band, playing the works of Beethoven and other10. Roussel also began composing. On Christmas day 1892, he had his first chance to 11as a composer, which turned out to be a success.

    That success 12 Roussel to write a wedding march（婚礼进行曲）, and one of his navy friends 13to show it to a famous conductor, Edouard Colonne. When Roussel's friend 14with the manuscript（手稿）, he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to 15his naval career and devote his life to music.

    Not long,16, at the age of 25, Roussel decided to 17Edouard Colonne's advice. He gave his heart and soul to his composing and 18 a major force in twentieth century French music. Because of Eduoard Colonne's inspiring 19, Roussel devoted his life to music, but Rousssel's20friend later admitted that he had made it up. He said he had never even shown Roussel's manuscript to the famous conductor.

    A lot happened to me while I lived on Thirteenth Street. I 1 school at Miss Marie Purkins' School for Little Folks kindergarten which I loved until I broke my leg one day 2  rope. And it wasn't3  a moving rope. One of the rope ends in the playground was tied to a tree, the other end to a swing set. The kids would  4  on one side and take turns running and jumping over it. All the other kids5 the rope.

    But I had no6I was a little short and fat anyway, and I was so slow that I was once the only kid at an Easter egg hunt who didn't get a7egg, not because I couldn't find them but because I couldn't get to them 8enough. On the day I tried to jump rope but I was wearing cowboy boots to school. Like a fool I didn't9the boots to jump. My heel 10  on the rope, so I turned, fell and hurt my leg. I lay in11on the ground for several minutes while Daddy12over from his company to get me.

    I had broken my leg above the knee, and13I was growing so fast, the doctor was 14to put me in a cast up to my hip.  15  he made a hole through my ankle, pushed a stainless steel bar through it. And then he 16 it to a stainless steel horseshoe, and 17 my leg up in the air over my hospital bed. For two months, I had been lying on my 18 feeling both foolish, waiting to return to my19 . I missed my playmates so much.

    After I got out of the hospital, my folks bought me a bicycle,20I never lost my fear of riding without the training wheels. No wonder people say, "Once bitten, twice shy."

A Deed a Day

    It was a busy day as usual. I was making sandwiches and balancing the phone between my shoulder and chin. The washing machine sounded as my husband walked in with our daughters. We had only about twenty minutes to eat 1 we had to take the girls to their next activity. My husband seemed a bit 2 that dinner was not on the table.

    That night, I had a heavy 3, thinking we were becoming taskmasters on an assembly line（流水线）. We had become too 4 in our own tasks and not very considerate towards those around us. We needed to do something to bring back some meaning into our lives. It needed to be something that would 5 our own matters and energize us toward the common good.

    I bought a notebook, named it “Our Deed Diary” and held a family meeting. I told my family I wanted us all to think about doing a 6 for others every day. It could be for each other or for people outside our 7. And we all needed to write it down in the notebook.

    I thought one deed a day was too easy. However, it was actually 8 than it seemed because it had to be something 9 what we had already done. Sending birthday cards to people we already sent cards to every year would not 10.

    We had a rough 11. On some days, someone would forget to 12 a good deed, while on other days, we would forget to write our good deeds in the diary. After a few weeks though, I found myself waking up in the morning trying to 13 what good deed I could do for someone that day. My daughters began to rush to me after school to 14me the good deed they had done.

    Now, after a year, I am happy to say that it is making a(n) 15 in our lives. Instead of always 16 what the day will bring for us, we think about what we can do for someone else.

    Who would have thought that trying to do a simple kindness a day would be so 17? I feel my daughters have felt inner joy that you can only 18 by giving to someone else from your heart. The best thing is that you feel so great about doing something for someone else; you don't even look for a expect anything in 19. So, when someone does return the favor, it is an enormous and 20 bonus.

    One day all the employees of a very famous company reached their office and all saw a big sign on the main door which said this:

    "Yesterday, the 1 who has been stopping your progress in this company 2. We invite you to join the funeral（葬礼）in the room that has been 3 in the gym."

    In the beginning, they all got 4for the death of one of their colleagues（同事）, but after a while they started to 5who was that person that stopped the 6 of their colleagues and the company itself?

    The7 in the gym was such that security agents were ordered to control the crowd 8the room. The more people 9the coffin（棺材），the more the excitement heated up. Everyone thought,"10is it that was holding me back?"

    One by one the intrigued（引起好奇心的）employees（雇员）got closer to the coffin, and when they looked inside it, they 11 became speechless.

    They all got to stand near the coffin, and felt shocked and 12, as if someone had touched the deepest part of their 13.There was a mirror inside the coffin: everyone who looked 14 it could see themselves! There was also a sign next to the mirror that15

    "There is only one person who is able to set 16 to your growth and IT IS YOU!" Your life does not 17when your boss changes, when your friends change, when your parents change, when your husband or wife changes…

    No, your life changes when YOU change, when you go 18 your limiting beliefs inside.

Examine yourself; watch yourself. Don't be afraid of 19, impossibilities and losses. Be a winner, build yourself and your reality.20, it's the way you face life itself that makes a difference.

    I shopped today. While I was1at the grocery store, a woman followed behind me. She was standing by one of those shopping carts with the2in front. The basket held just a few3: some apples, corn, a loaf of bread, some canned goods, and a bunch of beautiful coral colored roses. Several times I4her looking at those lovely roses and5. I told her that they were, indeed, very lovely roses. She said, "I really do love them, and they're my6color."

    Well, just as I was 7, I heard her say to the 8, "You can put those roses back. I really couldn't 9 them." I turned around and asked her if she would allow me to get them for her. She10her head and said, "Why would you want to do that? You 11 don't have to." I replied that I just wanted to especially since she12them so much. She still seemed hesitant so I told her that she would be doing me a great kindness if she would13me to gift them to her.

    With tears in her eyes, she14and said, "I really do love them. Thank you."

    On the way home I was reminded of a 15I had heard decades ago and I've loved it ever since. The song is Bread and Roses. It's a 16 song on many levels and reminds us that we all need food, but we all also need 17.

    A line from this song fits this18 perfectly, I thought. It reads: "19starve as well as bodies. Give us20, but give us roses, too."