I shopped today. While I was1at the grocery store, a woman followed behind me. She was standing by one of those shopping carts with the2in front. The basket held just a few3: some apples, corn, a loaf of bread, some canned goods, and a bunch of beautiful coral colored roses. Several times I4her looking at those lovely roses and5. I told her that they were, indeed, very lovely roses. She said, "I really do love them, and they're my6color."

    Well, just as I was 7, I heard her say to the 8, "You can put those roses back. I really couldn't 9 them." I turned around and asked her if she would allow me to get them for her. She10her head and said, "Why would you want to do that? You 11 don't have to." I replied that I just wanted to especially since she12them so much. She still seemed hesitant so I told her that she would be doing me a great kindness if she would13me to gift them to her.

    With tears in her eyes, she14and said, "I really do love them. Thank you."

    On the way home I was reminded of a 15I had heard decades ago and I've loved it ever since. The song is Bread and Roses. It's a 16 song on many levels and reminds us that we all need food, but we all also need 17.

    A line from this song fits this18 perfectly, I thought. It reads: "19starve as well as bodies. Give us20, but give us roses, too."

    When Thomas Moore, 11, stepped up to the plate (棒球比赛中的本垒板) at Oriole Park at Camden Yard in Baltimore, the crowd went wild. It was the biggest applause（掌声） the park had ever heard for a 1 baseball player.

    "I was very 2. I didn't know that was going to happen," says Moore.

    What happened was that the Baltimore Orioles (金莺队) and their fans were recognizing Moore 3 a hero for something he did that nobody in the city ever 4. After seeing a picture of a young cancer 5 on social media, Moore let his hair grow for two and a half years. Then he donated his hair and helped provide wigs (假发) for three kids 6 cancer through having chemotherapy.

    This7boy had no idea what was waiting to happen to him 8 he decided on his act of kindness. "I just thought I got 9 to an Orioles game," he says.

    Moore is one of just 50 heroes recognized by the team-and the one 10has so far inspired the biggest reaction. He waved and smiled when he was 11 on the big screen, and he enjoyed being 12by strangers. Just as exciting: before the game, he had the 13 to talk to Orioles star Adam Jones.

    "We talked about my hair 14," Moore says. "I felt even more proud of myself. And I was already proud."

    Jones said that Moore was a role 15 for other kids.

    Besides meeting one of his heroes, Moore got to meet someone who 16 him as a hero, Mo Gaba, an 11-year-old who is fighting cancer and 17 from one of Moore's wigs. Baltimore's radio listening community has helped 18 more than US$33,000 on the Internet to help with Gaba's medical care. His cancer 19haven't broken his spirit or affected his 20 for the game.

    Oxford and Cambridge have decided to remove the words CAN”T and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionaries. Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside a(n) 1. Although she was born without arms, that has 2 stopped her from doing one thing: using the 3“can't”.

    Cox got the Sport Pilot certificate recently and became the first pilot licensed to 4 using only her feet. She made what's seemingly 5 become a reality. Her certificate6 her to fly a light sport aircraft of 10,000 feet.

    “She's a good pilot and she's strong,” said Parrish, the flying 7 at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport. Parrish 8 a company of PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didn't come close to Cox's 9 “When she came up here driving a car,” Parrish recalled, “I knew she'd have no 10 flying a plane…”

    Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she 11 early on that she didn't want to use prosthetic（假体的）12.

    Not only did Cox 13 a license to fly airplanes on October 10, 2008, but she also has a college degree in psychology, and a successful 14 as a motivational speaker. What doesn't Cox have? Arms. From 15 on, her feet became her hands. She can drive a car and fly an airplane using her feet, without any 16 adaptations.

    “I highly encourage people with 17 were confident enough to consider flying,” Cox said, “It helps 18 the traditional idea that people with disabilities are powerless into the belief that they are19and capable of setting high 20 and achieving them.”

    Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these failures as a 1 part of the learning process. But all too often as parents and teachers we 2 this same right to our children. When I see a child 3 from this kind of pressure, I think of Donnie.

    Donnie was my youngest third-grader. His 4 of failure kept him from classroom games that other children enjoyed. He 5 answered questions — he was afraid he might be wrong. I tried my best to build his 6. But nothing changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned to our classroom. She was young and pretty, and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie included, all 7 her very much.

    One morning, we were working on math problems at the chalkboard. Donnie had 8 the problems with pains-taking tidiness. Pleased with his progress, I 9 the children with Mary Anne and went for art materials. When I returned, Donnie was in 10. He'd missed the third problem.

    My student teacher looked at me in despair.  Suddenly her face 11. From the desk we shared, she got a container filled with pencils.

    "Look, Donnie," she said, kneeling beside him and gently 12 the tear-stained (弄脏的) face from his arms. "I've got something to 13 you." She removed the pencils, one at a time, and placed them on his desk.

    "See these 14, Donnie," she continued. "They belong to Mrs. Lindstrom and me. See how the erasers are 15? That's because we make mistakes too. But we erase the mistakes and try again. That's what you 16 learn to do, too."

    She kissed him and stood up. "Here," she said, "I'll leave one of these pencils on 17 desk so you'll remember that everybody makes mistakes, 18 teachers." Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and a smile.

    The 19 became Donnie's prized possession. That, together with Mary Anne's frequent encouragement, gradually 20 him that it's all right to make mistakes — as long as you erase them and try again.

    Lori was suspended (暂停)from school for having cigarettes in her locker. She told her dad, "I don't know how they got there! I was just putting them in my pocket to take them to the principal when a teacher 1 and sent me to the office." Dad had a hard time 2 that Lori didn't know how the cigarettes got into her locker, 3 only she had the key. He also found it hard to believe that she was putting them in her pocket to take them to the principal. He felt disappointed that Lori would 4 to him because they had always been such a close and loving 5. He was also worried that she was beginning to 6 her life by getting involved in smoking, drinking, and drugs.

    Dad felt like 7 and punishing and letting her know how disappointed he was.

    8 , he decided to look for the positive. It is never difficult to find, if you are willing to look for it. As he got into Lori's 9 he could understand that she was probably having a tough time deciding how to 10 with family values and still be part of the crowd. He also realized that the only reason Lori would lie to him would be because she loved him so much that she wouldn't want to disappoint him.

    With this 11 , Dad approached Lori. Instead of scolding and punishing, he kindly said, "Lori, I'll bet it is really difficult trying to 12 how to stick up for what you believe and yet not be called a 13 by your friends.

    Lori felt such 14 as she said, "Yes, it is."

    Dad went on, "And I'll bet that if you would ever lie to us, it would be because you love us so much that you wouldn't want to disappoint us." Lori got tears in her eyes and could only nod in 15. Dad added, "Lori, we would be disappointed if you did something that would 16 you. But if you don't know that you can always tell us anything, then we aren't doing a good enough job in letting you know how much we love you — 17Lori gave her dad a big 18 , and they just held each other for a while.

    They never did directly discuss the problem of smoking and lying. Over a year has gone by, and Lori seems to delight in letting her mom and dad know every time she 19 the temptation(诱惑)to do something contrary to her 20. She also feels proud that she is influencing her friends to stick up for their belief.

    Think of the ways you use your eyes every day. Imagine your life  1sight. Cover your ears, and  2being deaf and blind for the rest of your life. Think about the songs, the voices, the music you will never  3again.

    For the first 19 months of her life, Helen Keller was  4to see and hear. But then a sickness struck her. She became  5blind and deaf. For the rest of her life, she was never to see or hear. She didn't have memories of sight or 6. And the sickness struck her when she was a baby 7she learned to talk. But Helen Keller became a teacher and writer. She was in the hearts of millions of people.

    8did this miracle (奇迹) happen? For the first seven years of her life she was almost like a 9animal. Her mother and father did not know how to  10her. She screamed, kicked and cried. She wanted very much to have others understand her, but there was no way she could do. 11her parents decided to send for a family 12to treat her. Some went away shortly after they spent a few days with her, until the 13one — Annie Sullivan came, who seemed to be sent here by  14, for during the rest of Helen's life, she stayed with Helen to overcome (克服) a lot of unthinkable 15.

    Sullivan was a lovely young woman with great patience and imagination. She was a born teacher, 16of turning a deaf-blind creature into a useful human being. It was this teacher that did not let Helen's world be  17. Through the teacher's hands and fingers, Helen heard the sounds 18one can hear on a farm, the noises made by cows, horses, chickens and pigs.

    19back on those years, Helen once said, she was greatly struck by her teacher's wisdom and she was very grateful 20 her teacher.