I worked in a restaurant. One night a woman came in with three small children. As a 1, I could usually tell who is going to tip well and who isn't going to tip at all I 2 got the latter vibe (气息) from her. She asked about the 3 of everything on the menu, but she ordered 4 water to drink. She wasn't 5 appetizers (开胃饮料). At one point her daughter asked her very politely: “Mom, can I have 6?” The woman pulled out her coin purse and 7 her change before saying yes. Then I was 8 that I wouldn't get a tip, but they were very nice and pleasant to 9so I didn't even think twice about it.

    At the end of the meal, she paid 10 in coins.

    When I went back to clear the table, to my 11, there were a lot of quarters left for me. They amounted to $ 8, or about 25% of the 12. Here was a woman who had to count her money before 13 her daughter a milk because she wanted to 14 she still had enough to tip me.

    Was it the largest tip I ever got? No, but it's the only one I 15 after all these years.

    This story is a 16 that the very best aspects of human nature can shine through in even the most 17 of everyday situations. The first 18 may be powerful, but it's important to let others show their true nature rather than making a snap (仓促的)19 about them. As a matter of fact, generosity is a valuable virtue, whether you 20 to be rich, poor, or somewhere in between.

    Sarah Hott had fought against weight all her life, and when she had trouble walking down the school aisle（过道）for her ride to work, she knew she had to 1.

    “I was 2 Reader's Digest, and the people in an article seemed so 3.” said the 43-year-old teaching assistant. She decided to try the 21-day 4. She first 5 healthy food and good habits, and then went on to 6 18 pounds in three weeks, then 73 pounds in eight months. Then chores（工作）aren't 7 anymore for her.

    “Last year, my 8 hurt so bad that I couldn't climb on a chair to change a light bulb,” Sarah said. “Now I feel 9.” “Best of all.” she 10. “my three daughters love to play Frisbee（弗里斯比飞盘）and swim, and I can 11 them now.”

    Recently, the students in Sarah's class brought “Ms Sarah” a special 12 for her birthday. But the kids didn't provide her with cakes 13 rich calories and much sugar. 14, they brought her favorite parfait（冻糕）.

    Sarah's success has 15 her friends to start the diet. “A few weeks ago, I took a friend to go food shopping for the plan.” Her 16 was fell at home, too. She called her husband “a potato chip connoisseur（行家）”, 17 almonds（杏仁）in front of the television.

    Sarah makes some changes for her own 18. She changes the master19 by using Haifa banana and half a cup of apple juice. “I 20 the diet food in the fridge and cat them with a spoon.” she said. Now Sarah is trying to change her diet plan in many different ways and encouraging more and more people around her to join her plan.

    5- year- old Lucy Green is from California. She didn't 1 to become a(n) hero when she went for a walk with her mom recently. But when some strangers called out for 2, Lucy and her mom ran to their side.

    It turns out that some ducklings(小鸭子) had gotten stuck and the people who found them were unable to 3 them. But luckily for the ducklings, Lucy had just what it took to bring them to 4. Now the 5-year-old's 5 act is being talked about.

    It all 6 when a family found a mother duck 7 with only one duckling. The father duck was nearby, but strangely, there were no 8 ducklings following them. 9 the family knew that ducks often travel in flocks (群), they 10 that something was probably wrong.

    Then suddenly, there were strange sounds coming from a drainage pipe (排水管). They were the 11 of ducklings. It turned out that the other ducklings had 12 into the pipe and gotten stuck. Unluckily, no one in the family had 13 enough arms to reach down and pull out the ducklings but 14, there was a hero nearby.

    The family 15Lucy and her mom, who rushed to them in a hurry. The family filled Lucy and her mom in on what had happened, and Lucy decided to take 16immediately and try to bring the ducklings out.

    Lucy put her arm down into the 17 and carefully 18out the first duckling. And the next…until she had brought all eight ducklings out.

    After Lucy saved the little creatures from 19, the 20mother duck went off with her beloved ducklings.

    Most teens I meet these days lack basic social courtesy(礼仪) when dealing with people.

    My own son, who basically grew up with his grandmother, the original 1 guru(专家), has perfect table manners. This is partly because he was 2to manners at a very young age. However, when we eat at home, he would not  3manners. So I asked him why. He said," I behave the way I am supposed to 4 when I'm out, but when I am at home I want to be  5"

    That's when I realized that most parents, myself included, do6 their children the proper way to behave outside the home, but they are also 7to believe that at home, anything goes.

    My 8to him was "good behavior has nothing to do with where you are or whom you are with".

    Then he answered, "But I behave 9when I'm with others so that they think better of me." And that is when I realized that I was doing things all 10. I explained to him that it had nothing to do with what people think. This 11him even more.

    So I went on to explain that behavior, whether in your everyday  12with people or at the dining table at home, is an 13of who you are. Well, at the age of 13, he got it.

    So basically, what I am saying is that teaching your children 14comes with the underlying lesson that it is not about 15to do or not to do, but rather, who they are. This way it is not 16; it comes from within.

    Teach your teens or children the 17courtesy of greeting their friends' parents and 18themselves when they go to someone's home. Teach teenage boys to open the door of a car, or any door 19 anyone who matters, for any girl, whether they are their girlfriends or not. This includes holding elevator doors or letting women step out of the elevator first.

    Just 20that teenage boys who practice good manners' and courtesy grow up to become men who respect people in general.

Go for the Gold

    Diana Golden was 12 years old when she found she had bone cancer. Doctors recommended 1 her right leg above the knee.

    2 Diana heard the news, she asked the first question that came into her mind, "Will I still be able to 3?"

    "When the doctors said yes," she later said, "I thought it wouldn't be too 4."

    That was Diana's 5 to life. Losing a leg would cause most children to lose 6, but Diana refused to think about the 7 side. "Losing a leg?" she'd say. "It's nothing. A body part."

    Most of all, Diana didn't want to let cancer stop her from doing what she loved—skiing. She had been on ski since five. After the operation, Diana worked hard to get back to the 8. "I always skied, and I intended to keep on skiing. There was never any question in my mind about that," she 9. Seven months after losing her leg, Diana met her 10. She was back out on the slopes (斜坡).

    Skiing wasn't quite the same with just one leg, but Diana made the best of it. She 11 to go faster on one leg than most people could go on two. When she was just 17, she became a member of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team.

    After high school, Diana went on to Dartmouth College. There she saw how top two-legged skiers trained. 12 not to be left behind, Diana began training with the Dartmouth team. When they ran up and down the steps of the football stadium, she went up and down the steps too—by 13. "I had to 14," she later explained. "I was an athlete. I had one leg, which meant I had to do it 15."

    Her constant efforts finally paid off. In 1987, Diana placed 10th in a race 16 some of the best nondisabled skiers in the country. And in 1988, the magazine Ski Racing selected her "Skier of the Year", breaking the 17 of electing able-bodied World Cup athletes.

    As a result of her 18 and determination, Diana has changed the way the world looks at19 athletes. People have begun to see them as strong and competent. "Everyone has some kind of 'disability'," Diana says, "It's what we do with our abilities that 20."

    What is intelligence anyway? When I was in the army I1 an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against2 of 100, scored 160.

    I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not3 have scored more than 80. 4, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him and he always 5it.

    Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man6 questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I'd prove myself a7. In a world where I have to work with my8. I'd do poorly.

    Consider my auto-repair man9. He had a habit of telling10. One time he said, "Doc, a deaf-and-dumb man11some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made 12 movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He13 his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk14 him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the15 man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors (剪刀). 16 do you suppose he asked for them?" I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, "Why, you fool, he used his 17 and asked for them. I've been18 that on all my customers today, but I knew 19 I'd catch you." "Why is that?" I asked. "Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn't be very 20."

    And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.