A woman was lucky. One day, she had a chance to visit 1 the hell(地狱) and the heaven(天堂).

    An angel(天使) took her to the hell first. The woman 2 a table in the hell. There was lots of food on the table. Many people sat around the table, but they felt 3^. They were hungry." Why are they still hungry with so much food here?" she asked the angel.

    "Look at their 4," the angel said. The people held 5 chopsticks(筷子) in their hands. They used the chopsticks to 6 the food. But the chopsticks were so long that they couldn't 7 the food to their mouths.

    Then the angel took her to the heaven. There was a table and there was food on it, too. They 8 used long chopsticks. People there felt happy. They weren't hungry 9 they learned to feed each other.

    That's the 10 between the hell and the heaven. Can you understand it?

    Mrs. Yuan is a writer. She's 1 and often helps the poor person. It was very cold one snowy morning. On the way to her office, she saw an old man 2 on the ground. She came to him and help him to 3 and bought some porridge and bread for him. The old man ate up the food quickly and  4 her very much. Then she asked. “Where do you live, Grandpa?”

     “I have no  5  madam,” said the old man. “ I have to sleep outside 6.”

     “How old are you?” “Ninety-two.” Mrs Yuan became 7 and went on asking, “Why not live in the old people's house?”  8 I have a son,” said the old man. “they've 9 admitted(接纳) a person who has children.”

     “Do you have any children?”

     “Yes,” answered the old man. “I have a son.”

     “Where is your son, then?”

     “He has no children, 10 the old people's house admitted him.”

     “It's unfair!” said Mrs. Yuan. She overcame several difficulties and at last helped him to live in the old people's house.

    One day a professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. Now the professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk. After he 1 the test to all students, he asked —them to turn the test pages and begin.

    Students were 2 to see that there was not a question but just a black dot(小圆点）in the center of the page. The professor 3 the students' face expressions and told them," I want you to write about what you see there."

    The students were 4 surprised but got started with the test. At the end of the class, the professor took all answer papers and started reading each 5 from each paper. All of them 6 about the black dot and tried to explain its position(位置). After the professor finished reading, the whole class was 7 .

    8 , the professor explained, "Don't worry. I'm not going to give you 9 for this test, but I just want you to think about something. Here everyone paid attention to the black dot and wrote about it 10 no one wrote about the white paper, the same is with our lives. The white paper represents our whole life and the black spot represents 11 in our life.

    Our life is a gift given to us 12 God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate-our friends around us, the joy 13 provides us our livelihood, the happiness in our families. Still we only care about problems like health problems, study problems, problems in relationships, but we 14 see that these problems are very small compared everything we have in our lives”

    So we should try to take eyes off our problems and enjoy each nice moment that life gives 15. Just smile, and life will smile to us!

    Once there was a rich woman. She lived in a large and beautiful house but she felt bored about her life. One day, she asked her helper, "What is the most 1 thing?" The helper told her," The beautiful thing you are looking for is not here. You must look for it by 2. What about a tour?

    The woman thought it was such a 3 idea that she started the next day. When she was top of the hill 4 her house. She looked down and suddenly something cried in her heart." 5 did I never find my house so beautiful?"

    The woman 6 one year traveling. She saw beauty on the farm, in the forest and 7 in the stars twinkling(闪烁)at night. But what was the most beautiful thing? She 8. The question. Suddenly, the woman understood beauty was 9. She didn't find it because she didn't enjoy it.

    She found the most beautiful thing 10. It was the world!

    Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was 75, he gave ￡12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children's playground.

As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was 75 and expected to live to be 100, and the newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at 75. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. "I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening", he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was 75 and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week, Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.