A large cat arrived at a farm where many mice lived. None of them dared go outside for fear of being 1by the cat.

    The mice decided to hold a 2to find a way of stopping themselves from being in3.One day, when the cat was out, mice of all ages4into the meeting room.

    “Let's build a big trap,” one mouse5.When this idea was6,another said, “What about poisoning(毒死）her?” But7knew where to buy the poison. One young mouse, whose mother had become the cat's food,8said, “Let's cut her teeth, so she can do no more harm,” But the meeting did not accept his9. At last, one mouse,10than the rest, jumped onto a table. Waving a bell, he called for11. “Be quiet!” we'll tie this bell to cat's tail, so we'll always know12 she is! We'll have13to escape, and the slower and weaker mice will hear her coming and he able to14!”Hearing the words, everyone got15and they congratulated him on his good idea.

    We'll tie it so tightly(紧紧地）that it will never16!”

    “she'll never be able to walk17again! Why, the other day, she suddenly appeared right in front of me! Just imagine....”

    However, the wise mouse said, “We must18who is going to tie it on her tail.” There was not a sound in the room. Nobody was19enough to put the plan into action. The meeting ended without any decision being made.

    It's often very20to have bright ideas, but putting them into practice is a more difficult matter.

    I worked about thirty to forty hours a week as a nurse at a local hospital during the summer. Most of the time I spent there 1.with Mr. Gillespie, who never had any visitors and nobody seemed to 2.his state. I spent many days there helping with 3.needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, 4.he answered me only by holding my hand. Mr. Gillespie still couldn't wake up.

    I left for a week and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was 5.I didn't 6.to ask any of the nurses where he was, 7.they might tell me he had died. So 8.many questions unanswered, I continued to work there.

    Several years later, I was at the gas station 9.I noticed a 10.face. When I 11.who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was alive! I got up the nerve to ask him 12.his name was Mr. Gillespie. With a/an 13.look on his face, he replied yes. I 14.how I knew him, and how I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes were filled with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever 15.

    He told me he thought I was an angel who was there with him. He firmly believed that it was my voice and touch 16.had kept him alive.

    17.I haven't seen him since, he fills my heart with 18.every day. I know that I made a difference 19.his life and his death. 20., he has made a very great difference in my life: he made me an angel!

    In mid-January the weather stayed clear and cold for several days. Jess had to 1 a week of school to stay home and2 his father to manure（给……施肥） the fields. This was his bad3, for he would have to make up his lessons as best as he could. It wasn't4, though. All the boys and girls at Pumpkin Hollow School were often kept home when they were needed.

    Jess5 manuring, but he couldn't get out of it. Filling the wagon（马车） with heavy manure was a tiring 6. With a full load（装载）, his father drove over the fields; Jess stood in the back and spread the manure.

    After several days at this job, both Jess and his father grew7 and impatient. It seemed as though life was too8 to stand. They fell into bed at night worn out, with nothing to 9 but another day of the same hard work. Jess was even 10with it. "Why does brother Ben stay in a warm prison while I myself tried to do his work？ It's 11!" Jess thought.

    His mother watched him 12. "You're looking thin," she said. Then she turned to Jess's father and said," Joseph, couldn't we hire（雇）somebody to help13the manuring is done？"

    Mr. Wright didn't 14, and Jess guessed why. His father couldn't15 to hire a man. The hundred dollars he had paid for Ben's fine had wiped out the family's savings. Jess said, "No, Ma, we don't 16 to hire anybody. Pa and I can manage.17 I'm tired, and so is Pa. We'll18 it in a few days."

    The19 look his father gave him for understanding the problem was reward enough. When they went to the fields and were silently working together, Jess was 20 he'd spoken up.

    My least favorite part was participating in sport meets, for I loved running by myself. When faced with running against fellow athletes, I was 1. I had butterflies in my stomach and the sudden urge to go to the nearest 2. This year, 3, I was encouraged to join in a long distance running competition by my coach.

    The 800-meter event was approaching, meaning that I would 4 soon. I breathed deeply and tried to 5 my worries. I walked over to some of the 6 who would run with me and started to 7 with them. We were all loosening up and getting ready to run as 8as possible.

    I stepped up to the line for the event. The starter raised his cap gun and 9. About twenty-five runners 10. With these runners around me, I 11 my coach's words, “You may be small, but you have 12 power.” So, I kept up with athletes twice my 13. I picked up the runner in seventh place and based my steps on him, making it a little bit faster. One by one, I 14 to make it to the top four, bursting around the lap.

It was the last lap before the final straightaway. I 15 I had the possibility to win. So I widened my steps, speeding up my 16. I caught up with the runner in first place and we ran side-by-side down the last 100 meters — I 17 him by a hair at the finishing line.

    My coach gave me a 18 hug as I headed back to see him. He was 19 because I had shortened my original 20 by twelve seconds at least.

    One day last June, Clifford Luther served a burger and fries to a man passing through his restaurant, Old West Express, in Saskatchewan, Canada. Two  1 later, the man returned and wrote him a  2 for $500,000. "I thought, they were good burgers and fries,  3 they weren't that good," Luther told CTV News.

    The 4 man was Bob Erb of British Columbia, who won Canada's $25 million Max jackpot (累计赌注) in November 2018 and has been giving money to people  5. He's donated his6 to food banks, the old people, and some organizations, and he 7 20 people in Terrace, his hometown, to get necessary care they couldn't 8.

    While giving the burger that first afternoon, Luther 9 Erb that his 25-year-old daughter had just got cancer in Vancouver, about 1,000 miles away. "He and I had a 10 experience. One of my children had cancer, too. But he died four years ago. So, I know the 11 a parent has," says Erb. "I 12 on the way home I'd 13 him some money so he could go to see his 14."

    Two days later when Erb was on his way back to British Columbia, he 15 the restaurant for another burger, which Luther 16 to buy him because Erb had tipped him well just two days ago. Erb said "no way" and asked the restaurant owner for a 17, then wrote the check and left it on the table. "Luther looked at the check and couldn't 18 anything. He just held his arms out," Erb says.

    Erb, 60, 19 works on a building site part-time and hasn't 20 twice about the $7 million he's given to his family, friends, and society. "If you have enough to feed yourself, you help others out," he says.

 Lindsey Stallworth, a high school student from Alabama, is on her way to a promising career in paleontology (古生物学) due to an unexpected discovery on family property. For years, she had been collecting fossils on their land in Monroe County, unaware of significant scientific value. However, her teacher at the Alabama School of Math and Science, Dr. Andrew Gentry, a paleontologist himself, took an interest when she showed him her collection.

" Upon examining the fossil shark teeth Lindsey presented, I quickly identified one cr: became eager to learn about its origin," said Andrew.

Lindsey guided her teacher through the rural area where she had unearthed various relics, including shark teeth. Before long, they encountered an especially significant find on the. grounds:a large bone from a 34- million- year- old whale skeleton! This led the pair to launch the huge project of uncovering the rest of the bones. After two months of hard work, they' ve managed to find the animal's skull·(颅骨),

" Assuming the entire skeleton is present, it may require several years for us to have the entire animal back in the lab," Andrew explained.

 Lindsey secured a research scholarship to persist in her fossil- digging expeditions alongside her instructor. Her enthusiasm for the project was at an all- time high, though she had never imagined a childhood pastime would lead her down this road." We would go out and pick up shark teeth and fossil shells, but we never knew anyone that could tell us anything about them," she recalled." We just thought they were cool."

" The Research Fellows Program allows Lindsey to gain real- world experience in scientific research and even present that research at professional conferences," Andrew said." It's a once- in-a- lifetime opportunity for a high school student to stand out when applying to college and maybe even discover a new career path."