My little daughter, you are teaching me how selfless(无私) real love is!

    My wife called ,“How long will you be with that1?Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?” I threw the paper away and 2to the place .My daughter Sindu,sat there, tears welling up in her eyes .In front of her was a big bowl of rice.

    I 3the bowl and persuaded:“Sindu, why not take a few mouthfuls of the rice?”

    “OK, Dad .I will eat — not just a few mouthfuls,4 the whole lot of this. But...” Sindu hesitated .“Dad ,if I eat the whole rice ,will you give me 5I ask for?”

    “Promise.” I 6.

    After eating the rice painfully ,Sindu came to me ,her eyes wide with 7Now I became a bit 8“Dear, you shouldn't insist on9a computer or any such 10things. Dad does not have that kind of money right now.”11 “I want to have my head shaved off(剃掉),this Sunday!” was her requirement ,which was far 12my belief.

    On Monday morning ,I 13Sindu at her school and watched her walking towards her classroom. She turned around and 14.I waved back with a smile. Just then ,a boy, who just got out of a car,shouted,“Sindu, please wait for me!” What 15me was the hairless head of that boy.

    “Sir, your daughter is16indeed!” Without introducing herself, a lady standing beside me continued, “That boy is my son, who lost all his 17because of a disease .He 18to come back to school for fearing the unintentional(无意的)but 19teasing(取笑)of the schoolmates. Sindu visited him last week, and promised him that she would take care of the teasing problem. But I 20imagined she would cut her lovely hair for my son!”

I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I used to give a lot of money to the homeless, feeling 1 for them. But as time passed, I became a mom with no home, a huge 2, and hardly any income. As a result, I 3 giving money to the people on the side of the road and became very 4. Things started to change for me 5. I had a home, a backyard for my daughter, and plenty of food, and I started to 6 myself out of debt. One day we saw a homeless person with the 7, "Will work for food." I 8. My daughter commented. "Mommy, you used to always give money to those people in 9." I replied, "Honey, they just use that money for 10, or other bad things." She didn't respond. 11 when I said that, I didn't feel right. Three days later, I was driving to 12 my daughter from school. A man was standing on the corner, and something deep 13 me said, "Just help the guy." So I 14 down my window, and he ran over excitedly. He said, "God bless you, I only need 77 cents." I 15 into my ashtray（烟灰缸）and strangely enough, there 16 three quarters and two pennies. I picked them up and gave them to him. He 17 with joy and tears in his eyes. "Wow, you just made it 18 for me to see my mom for Christmas! Thank you so much; the 19 that had this great sale is leaving in 20 minutes!" It was a moment I'll 20 forever. I think that man won't forget it either, but I was the one who got the best gift in life—GIVING.

    In the 1950s, I was an only child of a single mother, living in a modest cottage in New Zealand. There was no TV and very little1to spend on entertainment.2we had our books and enjoyed3better than reading aloud to each other. My mother read me The Faraway Tree Stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island and poetry as well.4I turned seven, I was able to take my 5at the reading role, and we spent many pleasant evenings laughing over6characters.

    In 1964, I was 18 and moved to Auckland, but we still phoned each other and talked about books. Years later, Mum's eyesight began to7. She found it8difficult to read the small print of her beloved books. She enjoyed looking at magazines but missed9up with the latest books by her favourite10.

    Later, I became a Special Needs library assistant and my11was to select books for12impaired（损伤的）people. In time, I introduced my mother to large-print novels and audio-books, which gave her a great deal of13as her eyesight grew more dim(模糊的).

    In her 70s, Mum's choice of reading seemed to14to mainly murder mystery stories. I was15to see that, so I bought her a more “worthy” audio-book. The next day, I asked, “How are you getting on with that latest book?” “Oh, not so well,” she replied16. I didn't try to “improve” my mother's literary17after that.

    A few years ago Mum18away. There are still so many thing I'd like to tell her. I'd like to19her for her early guidance in the20world of books. And I'm happy to say that I'm also into audio-books now.

    Ten years ago, my mom gave me a fancy blood pressure monitor. I had high blood pressure and she wanted to make sure I was always 1 it. Being in my early twenties, this situation should have 2 me, but it didn't; I had long been 3 from nameless anxiety and stress. After a decade long 4, my blood pressure could finally be controlled. Through lots of meditation(冥想), exercise, and diets, I've slowly 5 from it in the last few years.

    I'm happy that I no longer 6 my blood pressure monitor. My mom is 7 and doesn't need it, but I know she 8 a large amount of money on it when her 9 was not the best. I decided to put it up for 10 online, and a woman 11, saying she wanted to buy it shortly after I posted it. I went to a coffee shop and 12 her, along with her mother. Neither of them were in the best of health.

    She carefully took out some 13 from her wallet to pay me, and it 14 me that I could not let her pay me. I had a smile card 15 in my wallet; I slipped it in the bag and told her “Here, just take it.” She was 16 and tried to hand me the money again. I again insisted that she take it. She was 17 and thanked me. I wished them good health and a happy life.

    Although I didn't repay my mom is cash. I am more than 18 that I repaid her by passing on her 19 to someone who may be a stranger but 20 needed it.

    It was an extraordinarily busy time of year. I felt some 1 to head straight home after a long meeting. So I headed to the 2 nearby for some therapeutic (治疗性的)hiking. As I reached the top and admired the view, my unclear mind 3. Re-energized, I knew that I could deal with the     4 that waited for me upon my 5. When I arrived back in the office the next day, I was full of energy, and finished my work 6.

    It was almost 20 years ago that I learned how 7 it is for me to carve out time to escape to the wild. I had finished my Ph.D.8 soil and water conservation in Honduras, but I wasn't sure what 9 I wanted to have. So, I decided to act on a dream I had been nursing for a few years,10 my mom showed me a magazine article about a man who had 11 around America. I figured that I could 12 cycling with research for a book on American agriculture while I worked out my next career step.

    So I did it. During the cycling 13, I found the clearness I needed to 14 my next career move. Talking with farmers I met along the way, I learned that their biggest 15 was selling their produce. I decided to broaden my 16 from land management to improving farmers' access to markets. My 17 interest led to working for a nongovernmental organization and I did eventually 18 a book on. American agriculture.

    The 19 is to find your source of inspiration and make good use of it. For me, I always get nourishment(营养)from being 20 in the outdoors.

The famous composer, Rob Stewart, didn't have a good start in this career. However, he achieved a great deal of success as a result of a1. Stewart's parents died when he was eight and he went to live with his2. As a little boy, he fell in love with music and3himself about it by reading through the family collection that his mother kept,4which there were a lot of related books.

Three years later, Stewart's grandfather died, and his mother's sister decided to5him. Her husband was a kind man and6for young Stewart's music lessons. One summer vacation at a Belgian seaside added a second7to his life——the sea. Then he studied to be a naval cadet, but still took time to study8.

In the French Navy, he and two friends found time to9a band, playing the works of Beethoven and other10. Stewart also began composing. On Christmas Day 1892, he had his first chance to11as a composer, which turned out to be a success.

That success12Stewart to write a wedding march, and one of his navy friends13to show it to the famous conductor, Edouard Colonne. When Stewart's friend14with the manuscript, he reported that Colonne had advised Stewart to15his naval career and devote his life to music.

Not long16he was 25, Stewart decided to17Edouard Colonne's advice. He gave his heart and soul to his composing and18a major force in the twentieth century's French music. Because of Edouard Colonne's inspiring19, Stewart devoted his life to music, but Stewart's20friend later admitted that he had made it up. He said he had never ever shown Stewart's manuscript to the famous conductor.