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.

    One evening a young woman walked on the beach. She 1 to see the footsteps（足迹） she had left in the sand, but they had already been washed away by the water. When she turned to continue her walk, She was surprised to see an old woman 2 by a fire.

    She walked up to the old woman and asked,”Where did you come from? I didn't see you here a minute ago.

    3answering her question, the old woman said, ”Sit with me, my child. I have something to show you.”

    As the young woman sat down beside the fire, the old woman handed her a book. She turned the pages of the book one by one and was 4 to discover they told the story of her whole life, from the early days of 5to the present. But when she turned to the next page, she found it empty. And the rest of the pages in the book were all empty.

    “Does this mean my life ends tonight?” she asked.

    “No, my child. It means tonight your life 6 .”

    At that time the old woman took the book into her hands and began to tear(撕掉)each of the pages that had words out of the book. She then threw 7 into the fire until all left were empty pages. She handed the book of empty pages to the young woman.

    “You see,” she said, “just as the water washed away your footsteps in the sand, your past is forever gone. What you 8 have is here and now. Each moment is the beginning of the rest of your life and you should live it to the fullest, because you won't live that moment a(an) 9 time. For your future, you are free to shape it as you wish, 10 it has not yet been written.”

    London is such a wonderful city. It is very large. The Thames River runs 1the city from west to east. So the city has 2 parts: the South and the North. In the North, there are important buildings, shops, big parks and interesting places. The3in London is good. In winter it is not very cold and in summer it is not very hot 4 the city is near the sea. People say London is a foggy city and it often rains. It is true. Last year, when I 5 in London, I met one of the thickest fogs in years. You could hardly see your hand in front of your face. Cars and buses moved 6 with their lights on. When evening fell, the weather got even 7. The fog was as thick as milk.8 the buses and cars stopped. I happened 9 an important meeting on the other side of the town, but it was impossible to find a car. I had to get there 10.

    There was once a lonely（孤独的） girl 1 wanted love very much. One day while she was walking in the forests, she found two 2birds. She took them home and put them in a small3. She was happy to have two "friends". She4them with love and the birds grew strong. One day the girl5to leave the door of the cage open. The larger and the 6of the two flew out of the cage. The girl was afraid that it 7 away. She caught it quickly. She felt glad that she caught the bird before it could fly away. Suddenly she couldn't8 a sound from the bird. When she opened her hand, the bird was already dead. Her9 killed the bird! Then she noticed 10bird jumping up and down11 the cage. She could feel its great need for freedom（自由）. It wanted to fly into the clear, blue12. So she lifted it from the cage and let it fly away highly. The bird circled once, twice, and three times. The girl 13 as the bird flew. She didn't care about14the bird any more. She wanted it to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the15 song she had ever heard.

    The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tightly, and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

    Tom is a student in No. 5 Middle School. He likes nice shoes. But his parents don't have much money to 1 them for him. So he always goes to the 2 and look at them for hours.

    3 a Sunday afternoon, Tom comes to the shoe store again. Looking down at his 4 shoes, Tom feels unhappy. He really wants to have a new pair of shoes for his birthday, 5 he knows that his parents can't buy them for him.

    Tom doesn't go home because he doesn't want his 6 to see his sad face. He goes to the park to relax himself. There he 7 a girl sitting in a wheelchair(轮椅). Tom wants to know 8 the girl is like that. He comes to the girl and finds that 9 has no feet! He looks down at his feet and says to himself, “It's much better to be without(没有)shoes than without feet.” Tom goes home happily, thinking he is happier than many children.

    Being 10 is the first thing for everyone. Nothing is more important than that.