One weekend, my kids and I were heading into the supermarket. On the way, we 1 a man holding a piece of paper that said, “Lost my job. Family to Feed.”

    At this store, a 2 like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed him and made a 3 on how bad it must be to have to stand 4 in the cold wind.

    In the store, I asked each of my kids to pick something they thought our “friend” there would 5. They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a6. I thought about it. We were low on cash ourselves, but… well, sometimes giving from our need 7 our abundance (充裕；丰富) is just what we need to do! All the kids declared something they could do away with for the week.

    When we handed him the bag of 8, he lit up and thanked us with 9 eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for 10  his family might need, he burst into tears.

    This has been a wonderful 11 for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can 12 ! Things would have played out so 13 if I had simply said, “No, we really don't have 14 to give more.” Stepping out not only helped a brother in need, it also gave my kids the 15 taste of helping others. It'll go a long way with them.

    Since my childhood, I always dreamed of becoming a full - time writer. Two years after my graduation, I 1my job and made up my mind to realize my 2.

    No one could tell me 3I would succeed or not. I rented a cold storage room in a building, set up a used desk and4 to write. I had too many things to write and I had to write because the5was full of my heart.

    After a year or so, however, I began to doubt myself. I found it6to earn my living by selling what I wrote. I can't remember how many times my novels were7during that year. But I8to put my dream to the test—even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of9I believed anyone with a dream must learn to struggle for the10 .

    During the most difficult period of my life, one of my classmates came to see me and tried to 11me, “Yun, come to our company, and we will 12you 2,000 yuan a month.” 2,000 yuan was really a big13at that time. It would enable me to live14As the money were dancing in my 15, something cleared my senses. Hadn't I dreamed of being a writer A full - time writer.

    “Thanks, but no,” I said16 , “I'm going to stick to writing.”

    Again and again, I said to myself, “I will be17. People will love my novels.”

    Finally my first novel was 18 in 1991. I had the kind of fame and success that few writers ever 19.

    Twenty years have passed, but the effect it had on my life has lasted. Now I often20the time working in that cold storage room. I will say, “Anyone with a dream, courage and persistence will be successful.”

    Draper, the owner of a secondhand bookstore, was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelope fell from one. Inside was an undated 1 and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was 2 it, it meant the author had died.

    Tears were welling up in Draper's eyes. These were a 3 woman's last words to her child. He had to 4 Bethany. “Whoever it is will 5 this,” he thought. “You wouldn't 6 a letter like that.”

    He supposed if the 7 ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he 8 recognized the little girl's face. Even if she'd since left the area, there might be someone in town who would recognize the 9.

    He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the 10 letter.

    11, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a(n) 12 herself, was on Facebook about 10 miles away when a close friend messaged her to check out the 13. As she read her mother's 14, words she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be 15.

    Gash was only 4 when her mother 16. Five years later, her family moved to a new home and the letter, put away in the pages of a book for safe keeping, was unintentionally 17.

    She remembers unpacking and looking for the letter, and then 18 searching through everything in hopes that it was there. “That's when I realized it was 19 gone by now and I'd never see it again,” she said.

    Draper 20 the letter in person. He also brought her a children's book for her son. Gash was greatly moved to have the letter back, and also touched by the stranger's kindness.

    Bob Weiser had been driving for Uber for more than six months 1 a conversation with an old friend sparked the idea. Everyone that rode in his car had a story to tell, a 2 life experience or some wisdom they'd picked up along the way. What if he could collect "a slice of life" from each of the hundreds of people 3 in his car , whose only known 4was that they ordered an Uber in Chicago and had Bob Weiser 5them up in his car?

    Bob Weiser, aged 66, is a 6 pilot who started driving for Uber last year as a way to keep7. "You never really retire, and you always have to do something," he said. He8a black notebook. On the inside cover, he wrote " It belongs to all that read it with a(n) 9heart and mind."

    Now, when passengers get in his car, he'll pass them the 10 and ask if they'd take a moment to write something in it. He has11 more than 800 entries(条目) from passengers from all over the world.

    Weiser 12 one woman who wrote Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's " Be the change you want to see in the world." Then she flipped back and 13 someone else had used the same quote. She told him she was 14 and he said to her, " No, that's okay. That's the type of energy that has been in this 15, nothing but good energy." After his passengers write something , they'll flip through the pages, 16all the advice and opinions shared by the passengers who came before them.

    He flips through it himself sometimes; it always17him that people have so much warmth and positivity to 18. No one has written anything 19, and only a handful have turned him down, 20because they have carsickness.

    On March 25, 2010, Kate and David heard the words every parent dreads: Their newborn wasn't going to make it. Their twins- a girl and a boy- were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds each. Doctors had 1 to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no 2. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he'd stopped breathing. The baby had just moments to live.

    "I saw him gasp(喘息), but the doctor said it was no 3 ," Kate told the Daily Mail. "I know it sounds 4 , but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of 5 . I wasn't going to give up easily."  6 , the couple knew this was likely goodbye. In an effort to 7 her last minute with the 8 boy, Kate asked to hold him.

    Kate 9 the boy from his hospital blanket and ordered David to 10 his shirt and join them in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as 11 as possible and hoped the skin-to-skin contact would   12 his condition. "We were trying to make him 13 ." Kate said. "We explained his name and that he had a 14 that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to help him."

    A 15 showed itself eventually, Jamie gasped again-and then he started 16 . "We were the 17 people in the world," David told today.

    Now, the twins are happy and healthy. The Oggs only recently told the kids the story of their 18 . "Emily burst into 19." Kate said. "She was really upset, and she kept 20 Jamie. This whole experience makes you cherish them more."

    A lawyer and a woman were sitting next to each other during a long flight. The lawyer asked her if she would like to play a fun game. The woman was1and just wanted to take a nap(小睡), so she politely refused.2, the lawyer continued to explain how the game3, "Now I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you4me..."

    Again, she politely refused and tried to get some5. The lawyer thought he would easily win the game, so he made another6, "If you don't know the answer you7pay me ＄5, but if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $50."

    This8the woman's attention. Figuring that there would be no9unless she played, she finally10to play the game. The lawyer asked the first question, "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?"

    The woman didn't say a word, reached into her purse, pulled out a five-dollar bill and11it to the lawyer. Now it was the woman's12. She asked the lawyer, "What13a hill with three legs and comes down with four?"

    The lawyer looked at her with a(n)14look. He took out his laptop computer and began15. Disappointed, he sent e-mails to everyone he knew, with no16. After one hour, he17at last. He woke the woman and handed her $50. The woman took the $50 and turned away to get back to sleep.

    The lawyer18the woman again and asked, "So what is the19?"

    Again without a(n)20, the woman reached into her purse for a bill. She handed the lawyer $5, and went back to sleep.