A jobless man wanted to apply(求职)for the position of “office boy” at Microsoft. The staff manager interviewed him and then gave him a   1 : clean the floor. The man pass it: he cleaned the floor very well.

      “You are hired(雇佣),” the manager told the man. “Give me your email address, and I'll send you the form to    2  . I shall also send you the   3    you should report for the work. ”The man replied, “I don't have a   4   , or email!”

      “I'm sorry ,” said the manager. “if you don't have an email, that means you do not exist(存在). And we can not  5   person who do not exist. ”

      The man was very  6 . He didn't know what to do. He only had 10 dollars with him. Once that was   7   , he wouldn't have any money to buy even food. He went to the supermarket and bought a box of tomatoes with his 10 dollars. He went from door to door and   8     the tomatoes in small bags. He doubled his money.

      He  9 this three times, and return home with 60 dollars. He realized that he could continue to live this way. He started to go earlier every day, and return later. He doubled or made even three times his money every day. Soon, he  10  a cart, then a truck. In a very short time, he had his many delivery trucks.

      Five years later, the man became one of the biggest  11   sellers in the country. He started to plan his family's future. He called an insurance(保险) broker, a man who sells insurance. At the end of the  12  , the broker asked him for his email address. The man replied, “I don't have an email.”

      Hearing that, the broker felt very   13 . “You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded in becoming so  14 . Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?” he said aloud. The man thought for a while, and replied, “an office  15 at Microsoft! ”

      If you just lost your job or just failed an interview, don't worry, think of the positive…Good days are on the way and something better will happen to you.

    Long long ago in a village, a farmer owned land near the sea. He always needed workers 1 him, but most people did not want to work on farms near the sea. They were afraid of the terrible storms 2often hit and destroyed buildings and plants.

    Finally, a short man came to the farmer. "Are you 3 good worker?" the farmer asked him. "Well, I can sleep when the wind blows," answered the little man. Although 4 by this answer, the farmer gave him the job, 5 he really needed help. The little man worked very 6 on the farm, and the farmer felt pleased 7 his work.

    Then one night the wind blew loudly in from the sea. Jumping out of bed, the farmer 8 to the short man's room. The farmer shouted, "Get up! A storm is coming! 9things down before they are blown away!" But the little man10 in bed lazily and said, "No sir. I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows."

    When 11 the words, the farmer hurried outside to prepare for the storm on his own. 12 his surprise, he found that 13 was tied down and nothing could 14 away. The farmer then understood 15 the short man meant, so he returned to his bed to sleep while the wind blew.

    When you're prepared, you have nothing to worry about. Can you sleep when the wind blows through your life?

    Everyone in our school knows Jerry, the Bike Boy. He is a lovely and warm-hearted guy. He often collects broken bikes that people don't use any more1and then gives them to people who need them.

    Last week he was down because he spent all his money buying old bikes. We really wanted to cheer up Jerry. 2Monday we told a radio interviewer that Jerry3money to buy old bikes. We also put up signs4old bikes and called up all our friends and told them5the problem. We even6advertisements at a local supermarket. Then we informed（告知） the teachers at school about his problem7they set up a call-in center for parents. The strategies that we came up with8fine. He now has sixteen bikes to fix up and9to children10don't have bikes.

    "Can I see my baby?" asked the happy new mother. Unluckily, she found her baby had been1without ears when it was in her arms.

    Time proved that the baby's2was perfect. He got on well with his classmates. But one day, he rushed home and said to his mother3tears in his eyes, "A boy, a big boy4me a freak(怪胎)."

    As the boy5, he developed a talent for art and music.

The boy's father had a meeting with the family doctor. "Could anything6done?" He asked the doctor.

    "I believe I could graft(移植) a pair of outer ears7you could get them," the doctor said.

    However, two years8, nobody wanted to offer the young man ears. Then one day the father said, "Son,9will offer his ears to you. But it's a secret. The operation was a great10.

    Time kept the secret, but the day did come. The young man stood with his father11his mother's body. Slowly, the father held out a hand and raised the thick, brown hair.12, the son found his mother had no outer ears.

    "Mother said she was glad that she13let her long hair cut," the father said gently," and nobody ever thought Mother14beautiful, did they?"

    Real15lies not in what is done and known, but in what is done but not known.