I still remember that the year when I started university. It was a very 1 time for me. Like many other new students I missed my mother's cooking and my friends, got quite homesick想家的 and 2 thought of leaving university and going home.

    The 3 time for many students was getting letters from home, and at first my mailbox was full. But 4 the letters gradually became fewer and finally the day came when I found my mailbox was 5. It made me feel quite miserable痛苦的. Then one day while I was waiting for the postman I saw that I had a postcard in my box. Happily I sat down to read it, 6 that it was from one of my friends. 7 it was 8 of a young woman called Annie and her new baby. I took the card back to my room, put it into my desk drawer and 9 all about it.

    Several days later, I 10 another postcard. This time it was about Antonio, Annie's cousin. Soon later, another card came and then another, 11 full of interesting information about people I had 12 met. I began to really look forward to them, 13 to see what the writer would 14 next. They made me feel 15 unhappy with my own life and I even began to smile. 16 while the cards 17 coming, I joined some societies and made some new friends. At last I was beginning to enjoy 18 life. The postcards had made me feel happy and helped me begin a new life so I 19 all the cards and even now bring them out 20 I feel miserable.

    At thirteen, I was diagnosed with kind of attention disorder. It made school1for me. When everyone else in the class was2on tasks, I could not.

    In my first literature class, Mrs. Smith3us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I4my hand right away and said,“Mrs. Smith, you see, the doctor said I have5problems. I might not be able to do it. ”

    She glanced down at me6her glasses, “you are no different from your classmates, young man. ”

    I tried,7 I didn't finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it8.

    In the quietness of my bedroom, the story9all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time10the blind couldn't get much education. But Louis didn't give up.11, he invented a reading system of raised dots （n. 点）, which12a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.

    Wasn't I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “13” .students? My thoughts14out and my pen started to dance. I15the task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I was no different from others; I just needed a16place. If Louis could find his way out of his17, why should I ever give up?

    I didn't18anything when I handled in my paper to Mrs. Smith, so it was quite a (an)19when it came back to me the next day- with an “A” on it. At the bottom of the paper were these20: “See what you can do when you keep trying.”

As a primary school student in New York City, Robert Lee would stare in 1 at his classmates throwing away half-eaten sandwiches after lunch, because his parents had 2 him and his elder brother not to 3 food. They said it was bad karma(作孽).

    While studying at New York University, Robert remembered this4 and joined Two Birds One Stone, a food-rescue club on campus that5, five days a week, uneaten pasta, vegetables, and other leftovers from the school 6to nearby homeless shelters.

When Robert and fellow club member Louisa Chen entered a college contest, they 7 a slightly8 idea for a food-rescue nonprofit group: Their program wouldn't have a 9minimum, would 10seven days a week, and its staff would 11volunteers.

Their idea12the competition. With the＄1,000 prize, they13Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC) in July, 2013. In just the first few weeks, Robert's team delivered a donation of enough spaghetti and meatballs to14 20 people in line at a New Yorker City homeless shelter that had 15food.

Robert, who had taken a job as an analyst at J. P. Morgan, devoted his spare time to creating a network of New Yorker City restaurants that were16to donate food, and he enlisted(征募) volunteers to make food deliveries to homeless shelters. After RLC received national press17, homeless shelters and soup kitchens in many places reached out to Robert for18. Two years after being founded, RLC had already distributed more than 250,000 pounds of food.

    Only a year into his finance job, Robert gave up his six-figure salary to19RLC. “I compared work at J. P. Morgan with that at RLC, and the difference was great,” he says.

    “One shelter told us that our donations allow them to provide entire dinners for more than 300 people, three nights a week,” Robert says. “Things like that make me feel20that I quit my job.”

    A kind－hearted stranger donates kidney to save a mum's life after seeing Facebook plea(请求). Stacey Hewitt, from Redcar, received the kidney from donor Louise Drewer, of Scunthorpe, who became the first British woman to donate a kidney to a 1 as a result of Facebook. A mum suffering kidney failure has received a transplant 2 her dad's making a plea onFacebook. Stacey Hewitt, 26, was facing a bleak(暗淡的) 3 so her father Darren 4 the SOS in the search for a donor.

    Louise Drewery, 37, was so 5 by the message that she decided to go under the knife—becoming the first British woman to donate a kidney to a stranger as a result of a Facebookplea. The transplant was a(n) 6 and Stacey could feel the 7 immediately. She said: "It's amazing and I can't 8 Louise enough.

    Before the operation, Stacey was 9 tired and could only walk short distances as her kidneys failed. Without a transplant she would have become very sick and 10 lifelong dialysis(透析).

    Darren's Facebook message said: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, is there anyone out there that would like to donate a kidney to help my daughter？" He added: "She has kidney disease and needs a transplant as soon as possible. She is the mother of our three－year－old grandson and finds it hard to 11 properly because of the illness."

    The message soon spread. 12 the reaction, Darren said: "Within seconds my inbox went mad." Mum－of－two Louise said one of the reasons why she 13 to help her was that she was worried about Stacey's son Alfie. "When I saw the message, I knew that 14 I could help, I would."

    After 13 months of 15, it was concluded that Louise, of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, could donate a kidney to Stacey, who lives 70 miles north in Redcar.

    Stacey's 16 parents visited Louise before the transplant, with Darren calling her "an absolute 17". The operation was 18 at the Institute of Transplantation at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.

    Professor Derek Manas, director of the institute, said: "A lot of people just want to give to humanity and it has opened my 19. It's amazing that people are20 to do this."

    A video show has become a hot topic on the Internet around China these days. The 35-second video shows that a man driver took a woman out of her red car, threw her to the ground and 1 her several times.

    Later, the man driver told the police that was because the woman driver changed lanes (变道) 2 and scared his child in the car. That made this man driver very 3. And his anger changed into this fight. The man was blamed (责备) a lot from Internet users, who regarded him as " Crazy or Mad".

    However, public attitude (态度) soon took a u-turn when the video from the dashboard camera (行车记录仪) on the man driver's car was put on the Internet on Tuesday. The 4 video shows the woman driver suddenly crossed lanes in front of Zhang's car twice and the two said angry words to each other 5 both cars came to a stop under an overhead bridge. And there the fight happened. The latest online poll (民调) shows that 78% Internet users believe that the woman driver should be blamed for 6 she had done. However, the woman driver 7 to realize her own mistake and refused to say sorry at first. The discussion further grew when some people started a cyber hunt (人肉搜索) against the woman. Some of her personal 8 was put on the Internet, including her ID number, address, phone number and so on.

    9 the morning of May 11, the woman driver finally wrote a letter to say sorry to the public, and put it on the Internet, saying that she felt sorry for what she had done and what her family had 10 about this accident. Both of the two have paid for what they had done! So when we drive on the road, try to be calm enough to avoid such happenings again.

    Even though it was only October, my students were already whispering about Christmas plans. With each passing day everyone became more 1, waiting for the final school bell. Upon its2  everyone would run for their coats and go home, everyone except David.

    David was a small boy in ragged clothes. I had often 3 what kind of home life David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so 4for the cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves. But something made David 5. I can still remember he was always6 a smile and willing to help. He always 7after school to straighten (使变直)chairs and mop the floor. We never talked much. He 8just simply smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and slowly9home.

    Weeks passed and the 10over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness(骚动) until the last day of 11 before the holiday break. I smiled in 12as the last of them hurried out the door. Turning around I saw David 13standing by my desk.

    "I have something for you" he said and 14from behind his back a small box.15it to me, he said anxiously, "Open it" I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped it. I lifted the lid (盖子)and to my 16saw nothing. I looked at David's smiling face and back into the box and said, "The box is nice, David, but it's 17."

    "Oh, no, it isn't" said David. "It's full of love. My mum told me before she died that love was something you couldn't see or touch unless you know it's there."

    Tears filled my eyes 18I looked at the proud dirty face that I had rarely given19to. After that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning 20the little empty box set on my desk.