When I was a little child, my mom sometimes liked to make breakfast food for dinner. And I remember one night she made breakfast after a long, hard day at work.

    That evening, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and burned cookies in front of my dad. I remembered waiting to see if anyone would say anything. Yet all my dad did was to reach for his cookie, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him eat every bite of that cookie!

    When I got up from the table that evening, I remembered hearing my mom say sorry to my dad for burning the cookies. And I'll never forget what he said, "Dear, I love burned cookies."

    Later that night, I went to kiss Dad goodnight, and I asked him if he did really like his burned cookies. He kissed me and said, "Your mom had a hard day at work today, and she's very tired.  Besides, a little burned cookie never hurt anyone!"

    Life is full of imperfect(完美)things and imperfect people. We need to learn to accept each other's faults and differences.

    Abdul Sadiq, an Afghanistan's only professional cyclist, began by training his daughter. And when she competed successfully abroad, he set up the team. It is the world's most unlikely sporting team, because the sport breaks taboos in a country where in many traditional communities, women are not allowed out of the house.

    The head coach faces frequent threats and the girls' families do not always approve "If it's not their fathers trying to stop them, it's a brother or uncle."

    Two members of the team, Massouma, 18, and Zarab, 17, are sisters. Their father and their brothers approve, but they know that their uncles complain to their father. "They will never come in front of us to say ‘Why are you cycling?', but they say bad words to our father," she said. His team have, however, competed and won regionally against Bangladesh and Pakistan.

    "We want to go cycling because we want to be heroes one day," said 16-year-old Jella, one of the latest riders. In one of the mildest and driest winters for many years, training has gone on without stopping. And next spring, the girls will go up into the mountains. "We say that women should not sit at home, they need to come out and do sports," said Abdul Sadiq, And 18- year-old Zainab said she wished that she could just go cycling alone on the street one day. "It's my ambition, and I hope that one day girls will be allowed to go cycling on the streets, not having a coach, or anyone with them, and they will not have problems," she said.

①You may not know it, but there are vampires (吸血鬼) in your house right now. Luckily, they do not drink the blood of living people. Instead, these vampires quietly drain the electricity right out of your home. They come in the form of common electrical devices (家用电器), such as TVs, washing machines, computers and cell phone chargers(充电器). They all turn into energy vampires when you stop using them.

②We all know it wastes energy to leave lights or air conditioners on when we leave a room. However, we don't think about the devices that are always on, even when they appear to be powered down. Many are designed to stay on for convenience. Our TVs are always ready to receive a signal from the remote control, and our computers are ready to wake up at the touch of a button(按钮). But this convenience comes at the cost of higher electricity bills. These increased power bills are especially unwelcome when you consider the sharp rise in energy prices over recent years. Therefore, it is certainly worth looking at ways to reduce your electricity bills.

③Thankfully, there is a way to fight these vampires so that they no longer feed on your wallet. The easiest method is to simply unplug (拔掉插头) your devices when you're not using them. However, this may cause a little trouble if you want to use things like washing machines, fridges or TVs.

④Another way to fix the problem is by connecting your devices to a power strip. This works well for things like cell phone chargers and computers. When you're not using them, just cut off the whole power strip.

⑤In fact, the best way to kill energy vampires is to avoid as many of them as you can. Many devices have a level that shows how energy-efficient they are. Throw away your old devices, use newer ones that have a higher level and then you will watch your electricity bills drop.

⑥Stopping energy vampires makes a difference to more than just your bills, though. It reduces everyone's total electricity use, which is better for the environment. If you want to     ▲    , start hunting those energy vampires in your house today!

 "Have you ever heard that it's impossible to fold a piece of paper more than seven times? Actually, it is just a popular myth. 

The myth refers to folding a piece of paper in half many times in any direction. The paper is folded in half. Try it for yourself with a piece of notebook paper. ____ But when you make the fifth and sixth folds, you'll notice that it's increasingly hard to fold the paper. Why does it happen? Because the number of the layers (层) of paper doubles with each fold. For example, after the sixth fold, you're left with 64 layers of paper. If you have strong hands, you may be able to make that seventh fold. If you start with a piece of paper that is 0.01 centimeters thick, it'll be as thick as a notebook after seven folds. And it would seem impossible to make more folds. At this point, you may be thinking that the paper-folding myth doesn't sound much like a myth.

However, in 2002, a high school student named Britney Gallivan proved the idea wrong. Britney successfully folded a 1.20-meter-long roll of toilet paper 12 times (note that she used single-direction folding). She also developed a math rule. This is convenient. It allows you to find out the maximum (最大的) number of possible folds based on paper thickness, paper length, and direction of folding.

Since Britney's success, many people have managed to fold a single piece of paper more than 7 times. Students even folded a piece of toilet paper a total of thirteen times. The toilet paper they used was about 4,000 meters long!

 Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

 During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

 He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.

 Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband's name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶) that had been left out on the footpath.

 My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

 That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

I received a phone call from my friend the night before yesterday.  We talked for more than 40 1 .  But I spent 30 minutes listening to her.  Her 2 were full of complaints (抱怨) about the work, the society and other things.  Later I stopped her and 3 her, "Firstly, what are you trying to tell me after repeating all that? Secondly, how do you feel after 4 these complaints.  I think 5 can be changed unless you make up your mind to change it. " In the following communication, we talked much better.  We talked about the progress she had made on her6 , and I also gave her some advice on her work. 

We all have problems with our work, our friends, our families, or within ourselves.  We should do something to 7 the problem instead of complaining all the time.  What is the use of complaining? No use at all.  The goal of changing the world is too 8 .  We cannot achieve that big goal in one go.  Try to start with yourself, face to life actively and change your world.  Changing your world is an important part of changing the world.  And remember to be9 to others.  Be thankful, so you don't complain.  Then everything will change, 10 get better and better!

Change yourself, start by stopping complaining, and the world will really start to change.