When I was in Grade 6, I knew a girl. She 1 to point out my shortcomings and always said I was very thin, I wasn't a good student, and so on. I tried not to care what she said. 2 , I became very 3 in the end. I cried and ran to Daddy.

    Daddy asked, “Are the things she says true or not? Lisa, didn't you ever 4 what you're really like? Well, you now have that girl's 5 . Go and make a 6 of everything she said and 7 the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”

    To my 8 , I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn't 9 (like being very thin), 10 a good number I could and suddenly I11to change. For the first time I got a clear 12 of myself.

    I brought the list back to Daddy. He 13 to take it. “That's just for you,” he said. “You know better than anyone else the 14  about yourself. But you have to learn to 15 . Don't just close your ears in anger, feeling 16 . When something said about you is true, you'll find it will be 17 to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don't 18 your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you think is 19 .”

    In my life, this is the best 20 that Daddy has given me.

    My father often works very hard. And he has1to see a movies. Here I'll tell you2about him.

    One afternoon, when he finished his work and3go home, he found a film ticket under the4on his desk. He thought he5to have not much work to do that day and6was quite wonderful to pass the7at the cinema. So he came back home and8finished his supper. Then he said9to us and left.But to our10, he came back about half an hour later, I11him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about12funny thing that had happened at the cinema.When my father was sitting in his seat, a 13came to my father's and said that the seat was14. My father was surprised. He took out the ticket15looked at it carefully. It was Row17,16. And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her17her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3. 

    18? What's the matter with all this? While they were wondering(想知道), suddenly the woman said, “The19of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh,20, I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

    After the earthquake hit northeast Japan on March 11, 2011, many touching stories that I saw with my own eyes happened around me.

    I had to walk home since all the 1 had stopped after the quake. On my way home I 2 an old Japanese lady at the bakery shop who was giving out free bread, which made my heart 3. A middle-aged Japanese man was holding a sign that said, "Please use our 4." He was 5 his house for people to go to the restroom.

    My friend wanted to 6 others. He stood in the cold with a sign "If you are okay with a motorcycle, I will 7 you to your house." And then I saw him take one gentleman home, all the way to faraway place!

    Then the next day I drove to 8 my car with gas. There was a 9 gas now and many gasoline stations were either closed or had very 10 lines. I got 11, since I was behind 15 cars. Finally, when it was my 12, the man smiled and said, "13 this situation, we are only giving $30 worth gas per person. Is that alright?" "Of course, I'm just glad that we are all able to 14," I said. His smile gave me so much 15.

    I saw a man at the evacuation(疏散) center 16 when people brought food to him, It was the first time in three days that food has been brought to their center. However, after he wiped the tears, his next 17 surprised me. "I am very 18 that we are provided with food. But people in the city next to us haven't 19 any food at all. Please go to that centre as well." And when hearing that, I realized there is a bright future on the other side of this 20.

The Little Angel

    Sally jumped up the moment she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She asked, "How is my little boy?"

    The surgeon said, "I'm 1. We did all we could, but your boy didn't2 it."

    Sally 3 into the chair. The surgeon asked, "Would you like some time with your son before he was transported to the 4?" Sally nodded. While saying goodbye, she ran her fingers 5 through his thick curly hair. "Would you like a lock of his hair?" the surgeon asked. Sally nodded yes. The surgeon cut a few hairs, and handed them to Sally. The mother said, "It was Jimmy's idea to 6 his body to the university for study. He said it might 7 somebody else. "I said no at first, 8 Jimmy said, 'Mom, I won't be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.'"

    "My Jimmy had a heart of 9, always thinking of someone else, always wanting to help others if he could." she went on.

    Sally walked out of the hospital. She put the bag with Jimmy's 10 on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was 11. It was even harder to enter the 12 house. She carried Jimmy's belongings, and the lock of his hair to her son's room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room 13 where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, 14 herself to sleep.

    It was around midnight when Sally 15. Lying beside her on the bed was a letter. The letter said,

"Dear Mom,

    I know you're going to 16 me, and me too. I will always love you, Mom, even more 17 each passing day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to 18a little boy so you won't be so lonely, that's OK with me. He can have my room and old toys to play with.

    Don't be sad thinking about me. I don't hurt any more. The cancer is all19. I don't have to stand that 20 any more. The angels in Heaven are so tender. They say I'm a Special Angel! I love you, Mom."

    I'm a seventeen-year-old, counting down the days till graduation, just like every other senior in the world. I've1a lot in my short seventeen years of life, but I have also made mistakes. I'm not2. I'm on the path of self-discovery, which as I've come to realize is not3.

    After many years, I still4remember the last time I had to5. At that moment, starting a new6wasn't really that big of a deal. I spent the next four and a half years in Mountain Home. I made four7friends anyone could ever ask for. When I had to8them, I was depressed.

    I soon9that starting a new high school was different from being the “10girl” in elementary or even middle school. It wasn't as easy to gain the “approval(认可)” of my11now as it had been back then. Back in elementary or middle school,12I was a freshman, I had my friends and people I knew. I could very easily13well over ninety percent of my class.14, at this new school, I15no one.

    I've been told over and over by my mom that I'll16have to enter the “real” world and that the17I have over all of these things will soon disappear. What adults18to realize is that every day in a teenager's life is a battle. We're no longer children, but not quite adults. We struggle to19who we are.

    Although I still have about a year and a half left, I honestly believe that being a teenager has been the hardest20in my life, something I'm sure I'll carry with me for the rest of my existence.

    Mr. West wanted to buy his wife a Christmas present, but he was always very 1, so he was never able to find time to go to the shops. At last, when it was the week 2Christmas, and the shops were very crowded, he decided that he could not 3 any longer. He worked in an office, and 4 had lunch in a restaurant, but one day he bought some sandwiches, ate them 5 and went out to a big shop near his 6during his lunch hour.

    The shop was full of women, who were also buying 7during their lunch hour. Mr. West stood 8at the edge of a crowd of 9 who were pushing forward to try to get to the people who were 10necklaces and earrings. He tried to move forwards slowly, taking his turn with the others, but more and more women were 11into the shop the whole time and pushing selfishly 12him. After half an hour, he was just as 13 from the people who were selling the necklaces as he had been when he came in, and his lunch hour was coming to 14, so he decided to change his 15of doing things: he put his head down, gave a sudden loud shout and started to 16 his way towards the 17 of the crowd as hard as he could. The women around him became very 18 when they saw what he was doing,  and began to scold(责备)him. "Why can't you behave like a 19?" they shouted.

    "Ladies," he answered them, "I have been behaving like a gentleman for the past half hour, and it has got me 20, so now I am starting to behave like a lady!"