After lunch, without permission from parents, the two boys set off to explore the part of the beach which lay beyond the headland(陆岬). They had persuaded their young sister to 1 saying that the long walk would be too 2 for her. Once they had got in the headland, the beach reached away endlessly before them. It was like 3 a new world. There were damp, dark caves to 4 there were many 5 among the rocks, full of sea lives. Here and there along the beach were those 6objects, washed up and 7by the tide.(潮汐)

    The afternoon passed 8The sun was already 9 when the boys reluctantly (恋恋不舍)10to make their 11 homewards. But long before they reached the headland, they could see that tide had come in so sudden that they were now 12from either end of the beach. Their only chance of 13was to find a way up the cliff(悬崖) nearby.

    They soon find a narrow path 14the cliff top. But half way up their path was15by a large rock which they could not climb 16. The two boys had to17at the top of their voices,18 that someone might19over the top of the rock. Finally came their father and two policemen.20 of them climbed down a rope which was lowered over the rock. The boys were then pulled to safety, and thus saved from spending a terrible night on the cliff.

    A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not 1 them. She said, "I don't think I know you, but you must be 2. Please come in and have something to eat." "Is the man of the house home?" they asked. "No," she said, "he's out." "Then we cannot come in," they 3.

    In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what 4. "Go to tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited them in. "We do not go into the house 5," they replied. "Why is that?" she wanted to know. One of the old men explained, "His name is 6,"pointing to one of his friends ,and then pointed to another one and said, "He is Success ,and I am Love. " Then he added, "Now go in and 7 with your husband which one of us you want in your home."

    The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!" he said, "8 that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him 9 and fill our home with wealth!" His wife 10. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?" Their daughter was 11 from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion, "Wouldn't it not be 12 to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"

    "Let us hear our daughter's 13," said the husband to his wife . "Go out and invite Love to be our guest." The woman went out and asked the 14 old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our 15." Love got up and started walking 16 the house. The other two also got up and 17 him.

    18, the lady asked Wealth and Success, "I only invited Love, why are you coming in?" The old men replied together, "If you had invited Wealth 19 Success, the other two of us would have stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever he goes, we go with him. 20 there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!"

    This year I decided to do something to regain my good name as a kindly uncle. My 1 , Tony, had never forgiven me for the dictionary I had bought him as a birthday present last year. His 2 had no reason to be thankful to me either, because the year before, I had 3 their dear son with a pot of paste(浆糊) and some funny pictures. Instead of 4 them into a book, Tony had naturally covered every wall in the house with them. This year, 5, I decided to let him 6 for himself.

We went into a big shop, but Tony was very particular about 7 . Although I tried to show him toy after toy, he was not to be 8 . Then I saw he suddenly became 9 , he had discovered something he really liked: a large tin drum. I was quite happy too— 10 I thought what Tony's mother would say when she saw it. Nobody would get any 11 for weeks! I led Tony away 12 , saying that the drum was too expensive.

    Tony asked for permission to go off 13 and I made the most of my chance to sit down and 14 my aching feet. Fifteen minutes passed but there was still no sign of Tony. I began to get 15 and got up to look for him. I asked a young lady if she had seen a little boy in a grey suit. She looked 16 her helplessly and pointed out that there were so many 17 in grey suits. I was just going to call the police for help, when I saw a strange 18 dressed in strange orange clothes. He was wearing a false beard and had a caveman's axe(斧子) in one hand, and a space gun in the other. It was, of course, Tony, who informed me 19 that he was the first 20 to fly into space.

    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."

The parents who adopted (收养) Bruce Hollywood encouraged him to find his Japanese birth mother. But he never became 1 until he had a heart attack, when he realized that he regretted never 2 with his birth mother.

No sooner had he recovered than he began 3 his birth mother. He called the Japanese Embassy (大使馆), but there was no 4 information, which made him really unhappy. Luckily, he met an army man on the plane 5. They had a casual 6. When Bruce mentioned his 7 search, the man 8 Bruce to give him all the information he had 9 and told him he would help him. 10 Bruce had a low expectation, he followed what the man said. Ten days later, he got an unexpected call.

The spokesperson said, "Bruce, we're happy to tell you that, we have found your mother. Because she doesn't speak English, you'd better find a 11." Finally, Bruce got to communicate with his birth mother, who was crying with 12. He learned that it was she who had given him the name Bruce. And he later 13 the restaurant his birth mother had owned for decades in Shizuoka, Japan and found out she had named it "Bruce".

Bruce couldn't 14 the moving words he heard when seeing his birth mother for the first time in 45 years. He learned that love could always stand the test of 15 and distance.

A few notable moments from my most recent volunteering at the Children's Hospital never escape me.

After we had 1 with the nurses, Dr. Tiny and I went to our first room, inside which were a mother and a two-year-old boy. This young boy was 2 on the bed, jumping up and down. Mom looked at us with a sense of expectation and curiosity. She was trying to calm her son, but she couldn't. Dr. Tiny 3 his tool and waved it through the air creating bubbles (肥皂泡) in front of the child. I had a 4 with me. I started to play gentle, 5 music. As we did this, the young boy watched the bubbles with his eyes, and began to rock 6 gently to the music. He slowly reached out his hand to 7 the bubbles. We glanced over at the mom and noticed that she, too, had become 8 .

Later, we walked into another room at the Emergency Department. The patient was a teenage boy who had met with a terrible 9 , leaving him unable to sit up. 10 , he could raise his head with 11 to see us as we entered the room. He saw our guitar. "Play me a song," he said, "The Red Nose Reindeer."

I quickly adjusted my guitar, 12 my throat, and began to sing, "Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Jingle all the way…" The patient looked up with a look of 13 . With a smile, he said, "Play The Red Nose Reindeer, please!" Dr. Tiny looked at me and said, "You are starting to embarrass us." I glanced at Dr. Tiny and the patient, 14 for getting it wrong I began to sing again. As Dr. Tiny and I sang the song, the patient sang along and laughed. "That was a good one!" he shouted 15 .