When I was in the third grade, Mother's day came around much too quickly; I found myself empty-handed with nothing to give my mom on her special day. So I was1when an announcement over the loudspeaker said that one of the older grades would be2pins(胸针)that said “Number-One Mom”. It may not sound like much, but to an 8-year-old it's3.

    So each day I4myself that the following day I would bring the money to buy the pin, but I always forgot. And I was5when the principal(校长)and a few of the older kids selling pins came into my6and announced that it was the last day to buy them.

    I always7my principal. She could be sweet, but sometimes she could be 8. If you break9, she was quick to set you straight, so I remained as disciplined as a 10before her.

    On this day, however, my principal was in a good11. And she must have heard me tell my classmates I'd12my money again. I wasn't crying, but she knew I really wanted to buy a13.

After she left, I got called to her office. I'd never been there. So I was terrified. When I arrived14, she told me to come to her desk, and she pulled out the pin I'd had my eye15for days.

    “The kids gave me this to give to my16,” she began. “But my mom passed away, so I want you to17it.”

    Taking the pin, I looked at it in my this hands. I didn't know what to say. I probably18her and walked back to class, and proudly presented this19gift to my mother.

    I don't know if my mom still has the pin, and I don't know20the principal remembers giving it to me. But I will never forget that act of kindness from someone I'd never expected it from.

    There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. And he was given a slingshot(弹弓)to play with. He1in the woods, but he could never hit the2. Getting a little discouraged, he3back for dinner.

    As he was walking back he saw Grandma's pet duck. Just out of impulse (冲动), he let fly, hit the duck in the head, and killed it. He was shocked and upset. In 4, he hid the dead duck in the woodpile, only to see his sister5. Sally had seen it all, but she said nothing.

    6lunch that day Grandma said, "Sally, it is your turn to wash the dishes." But Sally said, "Grandma, Johnny told me he wanted to help in the kitchen today, didn't you, Johnny?" And then she spoke 7to him, "Remember the duck?"

    So Johnny 8the dishes. Later Grandpa asked if 9wanted to go fishing, but Grandma said, " I'm sorry, but I need Sally to help make supper." But Sally10and said, "Well, that's all right11Johnny told me he wanted to help." Remembering the duck, Johnny had to stay at home and Sally went fishing.

    After several days of Johnny's doing12his various small tasks and Sally's, he finally couldn't13it any longer. He came to Grandma and 14that he killed the duck. She 15down, gave him a hug, and said, "Sweetheart, I know. You see, I was standing at the window and I  16the whole thing. But because I love you, I 17you. However, I was just 18how long you would let Sally make a slave of you."

    "Whenever we do something 19, Jesus Christ sees it. He loves us and doesn't say it. My honey, do take responsibility 20 your errors and don't keep your mind suffering." Grandma added.

    While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job1at a school about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of2and wanting to do something3I applied (申请), 4as I did so, that without a degree and with no5of teaching my chances of getting the job were6.

    However, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Croydon for a meeting with the headmaster. It proved to be a 7journey: a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at8a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. It was clearly the9 himself that10the door. He was short and round.

    "The school," he said, "is made up of one11of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen." I should have to teach all the subjects except art, 12 he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into13groups and teach them in turn at three different14, and I was15at the thought of teaching maths—a subject at which I wasn't very16at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of17 to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be18 themselves at that time.

    Before I had time to ask about my salary, he got up to his19 . "Now" he said, you'd better meet my wife. She is the one who really20this school.

A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air to the right woman. But 1 apply. You must be named Elizabeth Gallagher and have a Canadian 2 .

Jordan Axani, 28, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their 3  ended and he did not want her ticket to  4 . The ticket had a strict no-transfer(不可转让) 5  , but since passport information was not required when 6 , any Canadian Elizabeth Gallagher can 7 it.

"I just want to see the ticket go to good use and for someone to 8  a lot of joy," said Axani. He posted his 9 on a social networking website, and received thousands of e-mails, including thirty from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with the 10 passports, "More  11 , there are hundreds of Canadians who are interested in  12  their name to Elizabeth Gallagher," Axani said. "It was absolutely out of  13 , thousands of e-mails, people around the world 14 their stories of travel."

Axani wrote in his post that he is not 15 anything in return and that the woman who uses the  16ticket can choose to either travel with him or  17 the ticket and travel on her own.

The 18 is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before 19 in Toronto on January 8. He said the 20 woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.

Despite extreme cold, cruel ice and being brushed off as mad, Slovenian Davo kamicar became the first person to ski non-stop down Mount Everest. After a dramatic fall over almost sheer cliffs of snow, stones and ice, 38-year-old Kamicar returned to his base camp after five hours of skiing. "I feel only absolute happiness and absolute tiredness," he said. 

Due to the severe weather conditions, Kamicar flung himself back down the mountain as soon as he reached the top rather than have a rest as planned At one point, he had to speed overstretches of ice that collapsed and broke underneath him and could have sent him falling into the deep crevasses(裂缝) that dot the mountain.

The descent (下落) had been widely regarded as extremely dangerous. The Darwin Awards website, known for documenting foolhardy deaths, urged people to log on to their website and "keep your eyes peeled for a live Darwin Award". However, the only body to make the news was the corpse (尸体)of an unknown mountaineer which Kamicar zipped past as he descended one of an estimated 120 corpses, thought to litter the slopes." This mountain is always full of surprises. Seeing a dead man out there was still a shocking experience," he said. 

Thanks to strategically placed cameras on the mountain and one attached to his safety helmet hundreds of thousands of people witnessed the process online, which was one of the record highs ever of more than 650,000 hits. The website was once jammed as people tried to access the site.

A previous failed attempt had already cost Kamicar two fingers when he got frostbite as a fierce storm hit the peak. Coming from a skiing family and had his first Himalayan skiing expedition in 1989, he has been ever since tireless in raising funds and sponsorship for more expeditions, with Everest as the permanent goal.

Juleus Ghunta is an award-winning children's author, but growing up, he could barely 1 . Raised by a single mother, who often had to make 2 choices about how to use their limited resources－including a decision to send his oldest sister to school, he had been kept home and had no 3 to books as a child.

When Ghunta finally got the opportunity to attend school, he couldn't 4 words, spell, or read with understanding. The situation was made worse by a series of teachers who made him feel 5 . "They were not very patient, not very kind," he said, "I suffered from a deep sense of loss and shame."

Fortunately, a young teacher decided to start a reading program for 6 students. Ghunta was the first to sign up. "The teacher was 7 kind to me." he said, "She had left me with the gift of literacy, and a deeper appreciation of my value as a human being." Under her patient 8 , Ghunta's reading skills gradually improved, and his sense of inadequacy (不足) began to 9 .

After interacting with the young teacher, Ghunta's life took a new 10 . He graduated from high school with a number of academic awards, and went on to college successfully. Nowadays, he is the author of two children's books about 11 difficult experiences in childhood.

In 2010, Ghunta went back to his old school to 12 his old teacher's name, but in vain. However, he still hopes to 13 her one day, so that he can thank her for seeing his 14 . "I would love for her to see the significant impact she has made on my life, and the ways in which I have carried this 15 of her－the hope, the light, with me－and how it continues to be a source of joy."