There was a woman in Detroit, who has two sons. She was worried 1 them, especially the younger one, Ben, 2 he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class 3 fun of him because he seemed so 4.

    The mother 5 that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She 6 them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a 7 a week and do a report about it for her.

    One day, in Ben's  8, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben 9 up his hand and the teacher let him 10. “Why did Ben raise his hand?” They wondered. He 11 said anything; what could he possibly want to say?

    Well, Ben not only 12 the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew 13 the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were 14. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book 15.

    Ben later went on to the 16 of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University 17 at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.

    After Ben had grown up, he 18 something about his mother that he did not know as a 19.

    She, herself, had never learned how to  20.

    Love Is Blind: The Magic of Tabby

    In October, 2003, 1 started my work at my local animal shelter's Adoption Department. Over the years, more than 50,000 animals have1the doors of the shelter. Most of them, I do not remember. But occasionally there are2animals, who touch me so deeply that I could never possibly3them. Tabby was one such animal.

    Tabby was an ancient Cocker Spaniel, probably 14 years old. What's more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby's chances at adoption seemed4at best. After all, we didn't have many adopters coming in5, “Can you show me all of your really old dogs who are also6?'' We had all thought that Tabby would live out the rest of her life at the7.

    One day a woman named Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, had8Tabby's picture and stories on the shelter's website at home. They were interested in meeting her! It was the only9we ever received about Tabby. What could a young child possibly see in a 14-year-oid dog who was both blind and deaf? Most boys would want a dog who could grow with them and10through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would11be able to do that. But after meeting her, Loretta and Gary decided that she was the right dog for their family. They adopted Tabby!

    If Tabby's story had simply ended with her12adoption, it would still have been something very special indeed.13  it was what happened after her adoption that people might regard as “magic”. Gary14from seizures(癫痫). Since Gary and Tabby met they became15They did everything together. They became so “in tune” with one another that Tabby began to telegraph Gary's seizures16they occurred, giving his family a(n)17that one was about to strike. What's more, Gary seemed to be having fewer and fewer seizures since Tabby's18 .

    How could it be? Nobody could explain19Tabby did it. But those of us who were fortunate enough to know her and her family had20the magic, the kind that has its roots in love.

    Being a sports reporter for more than a decade, I see “Olympic” as a1word to me. I found the word is also a(an)2for everyone to shine. This feeling3me when I was holding the Olympic torch for the4time on Monday in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea.

    I felt such a great5to be invited by the International Olympic Committee to be a torchbearer for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games 6Chinese sports reporters. Ten years ago, I was invited by IOC to be a7for the 2008 Beijing Summer Games. I have now carried the torch in two different countries. I have 8how the Olympic flame 9everybody around it.

    When I arrived at the 10point for the torchbearers, all the staff and even passers-by cheered because they knew I would be joining the11. I could feel their heartfelt12 toward the Olympics. When a group of torchbearers left to join in the relay, all the people13 shouting “Fighting!” While I14my turn, many people came to take photos with me and the torch. In 101 days, the route15nine provinces and eight major cities across the country. With less than a month to go before the Games1 opening ceremonies in Pyeongchang, Seoul had been16 into an Olympic city as well.

    “Let everyone shine' is not just a slogan for the torch relay but 17the fact that ordinary people from every walk of life—students, bakers, teachers, farmer —are18.The Olympic spirit is a lot more than the19 of 'swifter, higher, and stronger.' 'Olympic, has the magic to bring everyone together to20their dreams.

    On some special occasions in your life,you may find yourself faced with various choices.You've probably been asked what you would do if you found a leather1full of cash.Would you keep it,turn it in to the police or ask for a 2?Woralop,a tramp from Thailand,only had 9 baht（铢）to his name when he found it with 20,000 baht and several credit3in it.

    It was more than4to buy him food and even a place to stay for weeks.5he didn't think about keeping it. He ran after the owner to6it,after seeing him7it by mistake.He wasn't able to run fast enough to8the man, so he went straight to the nearest police station to9it over.

    The owner,Nity,hadn't even10he had lost things of his own when the police called to tell him they had it. When he learned that a11man had turned it in and saw that all the money and the cards were still inside,he was more than12The owner admitted that if he had no money he probably would have kept it.What a(n)13person Woralop was!

    Although he14gave Woralop a 2,000 baht,Nity later decided to also15the man a job at his factory in Bangkok.As a matter of fact,Woralop was more than happy to16it.It comes with a 11,000 baht17and good accommodation.

    The social media has already started posting18of Woralop at his new job.Woralop is such a good example that being friendly really does19When you're20to others,others have the same way that you treat them.

We lived in an old building on a farm years ago. It was a wonderful house for children. Also on the farm was the old 1building for the wood company my grandfather had 2. It was a few hundred feet of the house. There was a big sign across the front 3"office." Later it was no longer 4as an office, so it became my playhouse.

    In the room was a safe that my grandfather used for his 5.It was locked. We didn't know what was inside, 6none of the family ever tried to open it. I used it for a 7. I had my dishes and little things on it.

    One night there was a terrible 8. I was always afraid of it, so when I heard the thunder, I 9out of bed and ran downstairs to my parents. They comforted me and 10me the storm was about over.

    The next day when I went back to my 11, I opened the door and discovered papers spread all over the floor. The front of the safe was 12and my little dishes were all around the room. It was a 13!

    I ran to tell my parents what I'd seen. Soon it was 14all over the neighborhood. Of course, that's an extraordinary 15, and everyone wanted to see the damaged safe. Maybe someone thought there was 16in it.

The loud "thunder" I heard during the night had almost 17the safe, so it was 18for some men to blew it apart. But we just saw some papers and several books. Everybody calmed down and left 19.

    Later I still used the damaged safe as a table, but years later, the picture of that old safe and the people's expression 20me.

    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 and 2 thought of leaving university and going home.

    The 3 me 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. 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 18life. 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.