I went home one Saturday afternoon in the autumn of 1993 to get some work done in the garden. While sweeping leaves on the ground, my five-year-old son Nick came over and asked me to write something on a piece of paper to make a sign for him.

    "What for?" I asked.

    "I'm going to sell some of my stones," he answered.

    Nick was fascinated with stones and had collected many stones from all over. "I'm too busy to do that for you. Go and ask your mum for help," I said.

    A short time later, Nick, returned with a sign, reading, "Stones, One Dollar Each". He took the sign, a small chair and 4 of his best stones and walked to the road in front of our garden. There he put the stones in a line and sat down on the chair.

    After half an hour, nobody passed by. I walked to him and asked him to go back, but he didn't. Another half hour later, a small car came down the road. I watched as Nick stood up, holding his sign up. A woman rolled down a window and read the sign. I couldn't hear their talk, but I saw the woman turn to the driver and the man reach for his pocket.

    I sat in the yard, as Nick ran to me. Waving the dollar, he shouted, "I told you I could sell one stone for a dollar—if you believe in yourself, you can do anything."

    On October 17,2016 the Shenzhou-11 manned spaceship was sent into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu. Two days later the spaceship successfully connected with the space laboratory Tiangong-2. It meant China got closer to its plan of building a space station in 2020.

    The spaceship took two Chinese astronauts to space this time. Jing Haipeng was an experienced astronaut who flew on Shenzhou-7 in 2008 and Shenzhou-9 in 2012. But it was Chen Dong's first space flight.

    Jing and Chen were given a 30-day task on Tiangong-2. They tested new technology and did experiments to prepare for future space station tasks. The astronauts themselves were also the subject(对象) of those experiments. The life support devices(设备) they used and how they lived inside the space laboratory were studied. No Chinese astronaut had stayed in space for that long before.

    A month-long space task was not easy, so Chinese scientists and engineers had come up with lots of new technologies to allow astronauts to stay more safely and more comfortably in space.

One of the new technologies tested during this task was a device called "space hospital". The space hospital was two little silver boxes tied around the two astronauts' legs. Through the "space hospital", scientists and doctors on the Earth could watch the astronauts' heart rate and temperature. When the astronauts felt tired, the "space hospital" could even massage(为……按摩) them.

    After this task, China is expected to send an unmanned cargo spaceship(无人货运飞船) in mid-April next year. It will dock with Tiangong-2 and take new fuel to the space laboratory.

    One day. Many years ago, when I was working as a psychologist in England, David was brought into my office. His face was pale(苍白)and he looked at his own feet.

    David lost his father when he was two years old and lived with his mother and grandfather ever since. But the year before he turned 13, his grandfather died and his mother was killed in a car accident. His teacher told me that he refused to talk to others from then on.

    How could I help him?

    David didn't say a word. As he was leaving. I put my hand on his shoulder.

    "Come back next week if you like, "I said.

    He came and I suggested we played a game of chess. He agreed. After that we played chess every Wednesday afternoon in complete silence. Usually, he arrived earlier than he agreed. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why didn't he ever look at me?

    "Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with." I thought.

    Months later, when l was looking at his head, he suddenly looked up at me. "It's your turn, "he said. After that day, David started talking. He finally had friends in school and he even joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times. Now he had really started to live his life.

    Maybe I gave David something. But I learned a lot from him. I learned how time makes it possible to overcome(克服)what seems to be so painful. David showed me how one without a word—can reach out to another person. All it takes is a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch and an ear that listens.

Peter was shocked(震惊的)when their lost dog returned with a rosette(玫瑰花结) from a dog show.

He and his wife discovered their Bonnie1 on Sunday morning. " We fed the dogs as usual Bonnie was normally there first2 I was unable to see her there," Peter said. " I saw the gate had swung as I was making my3 to the kitchen and I thought 'Oh no' ."

The couple4 did a search around the house with their two daughters. And their neighbours even5 in too. Three hours later, she was6 nowhere to be seen. They began to7 . 

Bonnie was running along the side of the road while the humans were in panic(惊慌). Minutes after Bonnie ran off, John Wilmer noticed8 . He was driving his two dogs to a dog show. Running late for the show, Wilmer9 the lost dog and brought her to the event. He posted a photo of Bonnie online saying " Does10 know this dog?"

This was seen by Peter. After having got a touch11 Peter., he decided to help Bonnie12 the competition. It turned out this was a right13 . She came away from the show with a rosette for third place.

"Bonnie was fine when she got back," Peter said. "When she was missing, I had five14 in my head. The best was that she came back. This was even better than I 15 . She came back with a rosette.

Kaitlin Douglass is a middle school PE teacher at Big Rapids Middle School in Michigan, US. She started to 1 ways to introduce activities with wheelchairs（轮椅） into her classes. This idea was inspired 2 the parent of one of her students, who uses a wheelchair, reached out to her. 

Chase Fuller, an 11-year-old from Big Rapids, has used a wheelchair since an accident in 2019. Chase has developed a love for wheelchair basketball and wanted to know if there was a 3 to have wheelchair activities in his PE classes at school. 4 about the idea, Douglass, worked with Fuller's mother to make it happen. 

The class has also tried a few different activities. They 5 wheelchair pickleball（匹克球）, wheelchair volleyball and wheelchair football. According to Douglass, wheelchair volleyball and basketball have been the most popular sports the class has tried on wheels. 

"I can see how bringing in the wheelchair has given some of my 6 a better understanding of those who need to use a wheelchair day in and day out," Douglass told the media. For the able-bodied students in the class, they can 7 know where their weaknesses are while trying different sports. Then they can think about how they can turn them into strengths, according to Douglass. 

Douglass spent long hours researching these sports. She also hopes to make these kinds of sports more 8 in school. She believes this will give students challenges and chances to grow.