I was said to be the worst student in my class, and my family thought I was hopeless. I had to 1 grade six. At that time a new teacher, Miss Sadia, came to our school.

    One day after class, she2 that I was staying alone during the lunch break. She came 3 to me and began to talk to me. It was just a normal conversation. After that day, she gave me particular4  and it made me feel special. I started to work hard because she gave me the feeling 5  someone believed me, and my6  started to improve in her subject.

    Months later, she moved into a house near my7 . We would walk home together after school. Her constant (不断的) support helped me, 8  in my studies, as I knew she would check my grades both in her subject 9  the other subjects. I finally 10 second in my class.

    Then, after grade six, she started to slowly drift away (疏远) 11 still kept a constant check on me. By the time I was in grade seven, we 12  spoke, but by then I had become the 13  in my class. When I left my school, I was 14 with her, as she never answered the15  when I called her.

    Then I graduated and went to a good university. One fine day, our paths 16  again. I met her at a wedding. I could not 17 asking her, "Why did you stop talking to me?"

    "You are a clever boy. I wanted you to be a tree 18  on your own roots, not depending on others. Now here you are and I feel 19  of you. You are your inspiration(灵感，鼓舞) and do not need to 20  a shoulder," she said. I could not say anything, but I smiled. I'll always thank her.

    I think that sleeping is perhaps the most comfortable thing in the world. While 1, I will do nothing but close my eyes, leaving all the trouble behind. However, I2 get up early almost every morning.

    My class begins at 8:00 am, but the teacher asks us to arrive at the school before 7:15 am, so we will have3time to prepare for the classes. If you are 4, then you will lose one point. And when you lose 105, your parents' visit to school will be a must. Though I think it's 6 to arrive so early, I still don't want to lose any points.

    One morning, my alarm clock7to work. I8with a start(吃惊) and found that it was already 7:00. I had lost two points that week, that is to say, I would lose three points in a9. My teacher said that he 10me to be late that morning. And my friends joked that my 11was coming soon. I finally  12to do something to change this. I bought a new alarm clock. It sings songs on time every morning 13 I turn it off.

    The new alarm clock is perfect for a lazy cat like me. The first time I 14it, I was able to get up at 6:00 the next morning. Proud of 15 I took a deep breath and found that the air in the early morning is surprisingly 16 I read some English books, 17that morning is really fit for reading English. I hadn't realized 18 that morning is so wonderful.

    “Life is 19a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get,” just as Forrest Gump said. Sometimes if you make a 20, you may find that things will end up with the better.

    As a child, I was very shy. I wanted to be 1, but lacked confidence. When I discovered 2, I found something I was good at. I began to be 3by my friends and this gave me the desire to climb harder and higher 4. I discovered that nothing was impossible if I could find the 5to try.

    Both individual determination and teamwork are 6to success when climbing. You need to rely on the 7of your team and share in the achievement. But personal focus and determination to keep 8despite any difficulty is an important 9to team success.

    My greatest achievement in climbing is being the first ever to 10the 5,000-foot Troll Wall in Norway, whose rock face is the 11and most vertical(垂直) in Europe. A stone which drops from the summit will touch nothing until it 12on the valley floor one mile below.

    13our climb, the experts in Europe had said it was 14to climb the Troll Wall. But with three companions, I decided to 15. It took ten days to make the climb and we slept on ledges(岩石架) no more than a foot wide. But I 16.

    Afterwards, I said to myself, “17I can do that, I can do anything.” Some years later, I succeeded in climbing Mount Everest-the highest mountain in the world.

    18to me is not hanging on a rope on the side of a mountain, but is just one field where adventurous people can constantly 19themselves. If we look at every day as an adventure, we can challenge ourselves and continue to grow throughout our 20. That is the final adventure.

    A little girl created the perfect Mother's Day gift. It was a drawing of a 1 on white paper with the words "For mom: love, love, love" decorated in hearts. She folded (折叠) her letter, 2 then she lost it.

    For most people, that would be the 3 of this story, but this story has a different result: James Carrell 4 the letter. He had just 5 his mother, wishing her a happy Mother's Day. After he got off the phone, Carrell saw the 6 on the ground outside of a hardware (五金器具) store in Manvel in Texas, United States. "I 7 it was a note" said Carrell. "I 8 it and saw the flower and hearts. It 9 moved me." Carrell thought the letter would 10 someone's day and maybe he could find the 11, so he posted it in the Talk of Alvin Facebook group. The message 12 a lot of people, especially one man.

    "I was sitting at my friend's house and saw a man 13," said Carrell.

    His Facebook comments (评论) included a message from Roberto Alvarado. He wrote, "I can't 14 you found my baby's letter." Carrell reached out to Alvarado to 15 the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally 16 on Thursday night, one day after Alvarado's daughter Natalie celebrated her seventh birthday.

    "17 the letter made it home," said Alvarado. "We are 18 for what James Carrell did."

    We often forget the power of 19 things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell's small act left a(n) 20 impression (影响).

    We first met Tom and Gee in the early days of our marriage. Jim and I worked full-time, and in the 1our garbage cans went out to the curb(路边), 2to wait the long, lonely 10 hours there until we returned to fetch them because we were busy. 3, we'd come home every garbage day to find them neatly4 in their spot next to our garage. We5who had done it for us, and then one day we6 him: an elderly man who lived across the street from us.

    I baked cookies and we left them on the bench outside the garage with a thank-you 7. When we got home from work that day, a typed letter had 8the gift. The letter was from Tom and 9how he had come to walk the10on garbage day, returning cans for people he 11knew. Back when he was 12in the army, his young wife Gee had to live by herself. In those 13days, neighbors had taken the time to 14her garbage cans so she didn't have to. He never15 it, and now he paid it forward by doing it for all of us.

    Over the next few years, we would 16Tom in their first-floor extra bedroom, where he spent his last days, still sharp and smiling.

    We told Gee how17Tom had been to us, how we grieved(感到悲伤的) for his death and how18 we were to have known him. She wrote us back and told us she still talked to Tom every day. Sharing that 19our bond with her.

    Tom and Gee, who opened up their hearts to us, made us realize that home doesn't20at a property line. It extends to all the people in the neighbourhood.