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    Rose was telling her granddaughter Lily stories about how she had written a best-selling 1 in her early 30's.

"Did you always know you wanted to be a2, Grandma?" asked Lily. Rose smiled at her granddaughter. " I 3 knew it on my first day of primary school."

"I felt like that on my first day of primary school too! It was singing, I used to be sure that I would be a singer," said Lily. "Why 'used to' ,Lily?" Rose asked.

"Well," began Lily,"4 be the best singer in the class. But there was a new girl coming to my class, and she was better at singing than I was. What was the point(意义) of 5 as she was much better than me?"

"You know, Lily," Rose said," Although I was the best at writing in primary and middle school, when I got into high school, I met a girl in my English class. She was always the best writer. I used to 6 because of it, thinking that I was no longer the best writer, I was 7."

"So what did you do?" Lily asked. "I did what any person would do." said Rose." I did everything to be better than her."

"Did you ever write better than her in your class?" Lily asked." No. But I realized that it wasn't about being the best out of everyone, it was about being the very best that I could be.

So I 8my love for writing, and look where I am now…" Rose 9.

"Wow!" said Lily in surprise. "But what's that girl doing now?" "Who knows, but there's one thing I am 10:she hasn't written a best-selling book yet."

    A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn't know 1 she had to do and wanted to give up. She felt 2 of fighting and fighting. One problem had been finished but another came. Her father 3 was a cook took her into the kitchen. He poured water into the pan（锅）and boiled it. While the water 4, in the first pan he put carrots, in the second he put some eggs and in the last he put some coffee. He waited for them for 5 minutes without any words. The girl closed her mouth and waited 6. She didn't know why her father was doing that. After about 20 minutes, her father turned 7 the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took out the eggs and put them into another bowl. After that the coffee8 into a cup. Turning back to 9 daughter, he asked, “What do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she answered.

Her father told her to close her eyes and let her 10 the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were soft. After that he asked her to take eggs and break them. Then, she got boiled and hard eggs. At last, the father told her to smell the coffee. “What's the meaning, Father?” He explained that each one had 11 same unlucky experience—the boiled water,12each had a different reaction（反应）. The strong and hard carrots had become soft and weak after13in the boiling water?” The eggs became hard in the boiled water. The coffee was very special and it 14 change the water. “Who are you?” asked the father, “When calamity（厄运） 15 at your door, what's your reaction? Are you carrots, eggs or coffee?”

    One morning Mr. Green is driving around the county and1a small bookshop. When he sees an old man2the side of the road, he stops his car and says to the old man, "Excuse me. I want3to the Sun Bookshop. Do you know it? "

    "Yes," the old man answers, "I4you the way." He5Mr. Green's car, and they drive about twelve miles. 6they come to a small house, the old man says, "Stop here. "Mr. Green stops and7the house." But this isn't the8,"he says to the old man. "Right, "the old man answers, "this is my house, and now I'll show you the9to the bookshop. Turn around and go back nine miles. 10you'll see the bookshop. "

A British woman used an ancient Chinese invention to help her son deal with a modern problem. 

Dr. Rashmi Mantri grew up in India. She was taught how to use an abacus to solve math problems when she was a little girl. After noticing her son Dhruv had great difficulty with math，she started emploving the same ancient Chinese tool to help him after school. 

In just six days，Dhruv started to show rapid progress with the abacus. He enjoyed learning on it because it was like a game. He started to learn fast and would go on to become an excellent student in math. Surprised by the progress，teachers asked Dhruv to perform with the abacus at a school meeting，where some parents even came to ask for advice on using it to help their kids. 

Known as the Fifth Invention of Ancient China，the Chinese abacus helped people so lve all kinds of math problems in ancient China and is still used today. People find that using an abacus can also improve thinking and practical abilities. In 2013, the Chinese abacus was officially listed as an intangible cultural heritage of human beings(人类非物质文化遗产). "The abacus becomes a playing tool for younger children. It feels like a game. I think the success comes because children can touch and feel an abacus and picture it in their mind. "said Dr. Mantri. 

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