While I was in Ojai this past weekend, I came across a man {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (sit) at a bench by himself. I smiled and said hello to him. As I passed, he yelled to me {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (come) back. The man said that I was the only one of the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (passer-by) who had treated him in such a kind way. He said he was a reverend (牧市) and asked {#blank#}4{#/blank#} I was from; I said England. At that point, most people would say something like, near London. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, his response was Birmingham. As {#blank#}6{#/blank#} matter of fact, Birmingham is the largest city near my rural hometown. We carried on a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (friend) conversation and in the conversation, I {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (inform) that he needed some money to go back home. Not knowing how much money I had, I told him I'd give him whatever was in my purse. He said he prayed that I'd have $47. Then I opened the wallet in my purse and counted out the money. That was {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (exact) $47. I offered the man all of my money. I felt really good for giving help to someone, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} was in trouble.

    Today I share this story with you, because I want to spread as much kindness in the world as I can.

    If you go out to the fields at night in spring or summer, you can hear frogs singing{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(joy) here and there. It seems as if they were performing a field symphony（交响乐）.

    The frog is a good and useful creature that benefits human beings. They can catch fast-moving insects. Each frog eats a large number of pests that are {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(harm) to crops. This little creature is regarded {#blank#}3{#/blank#}“the natural enemy of pests”.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} now frogs are getting fewer and fewer. This is{#blank#}5{#/blank#}they are killed and put on the table as a delicious dish by their chief enemy, human beings. It is a shameless and cruel act, isn't it? Another reason responsible for the rapid reduction of frogs is {#blank#}6{#/blank#}farmers use insecticides (杀虫剂) to kill pests and frogs get {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(kill)as a result of drinking poisoned water or eating poison-killed insects.

    Something must be done without delay {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(save) frogs. If we don't punish those {#blank#}9{#/blank#}sell and kill frogs to make money, then one day all of us {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(punish) by nature for failing to keep the balance of nature.

    Of the three major drinks of the world—tea, coffee and cocoa—tea is consumed by the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(large) number of people.

    China is the homeland of tea. Human cultivation of tea plants dates back to two thousand years ago. Tea from China, along {#blank#}2{#/blank#} her silk and porcelain, began to be known to the world more than a thousand years ago and since then it {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) an important Chinese export.

    At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries，{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (produce) 90% of the world's total output. All tea trees in other countries have their origin directly or indirectly in China. The word for tea leaves or tea as {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  drink in many countries are derivatives(衍生物)from the Chinese character “cha”. The Russians call it “cha'i”, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} sounds like “chaye”(tea leaves) as it is pronounced in northern China, and the English word “tea” sounds similar to the pronunciation of {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(it) counterpart（对应物） in Xiamen. The Japanese character for tea is written {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(exact) the same as it is in Chinese, though {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (pronounce) with a slight difference. The habit of tea drinking spread to Japan in the 6th century, but it was not introduced to Europe and America till the 17th and 18th centuries. Now the number of tea {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  （drink） in the world is still on the increase.