One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of building with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, "I am blind, please help me."

    There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.

    Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?" The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way." What he had written was, "Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it." Do you think the first sign and second sign were saying the same thing?

    Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

    The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.

    There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story. The first is: Treasure what you have. Someone else has less, Try your best to help those who need your help. The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.

    My father is tall and has short, gray(灰白的) hair. He wears glasses with heavy, black frames（框架）. But I just see a picture of him from 1968. What a surprise! In the picture, he's 15 years old. He's short and he has glasses with small, round frames. He has long, yellow hair and it's really straight. He's wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt with the word "Love". I'm 15 years old now. I'm medium height and I have short hair. My hair isn't yellow, it's blue. My dad thinks it's strange(奇怪的), but my friends think it's great. I wear glasses, but my glasses have bright red frames. They're so cool! I have an earring(耳环) in one ear, too. Dad really can't understand(明白) that, I never wear blue jeans. I like big, baggy(松的) pants and long T-shirts. Most of my T-shirts have pictures of my favorite rock bands(摇滚乐队) on them.

Anna wants to become a top guitarist (吉他演奏家) in the future (将来). She began to play the guitar two years ago when she saw her father play it at home. "I love the guitar, so I always play it at home. When I found she was also interested in it, I began to teach her," said her father. Soon Anna was good at playing it. Then she began to take guitar lessons in Band School every Saturday to learn more from musicians there.

Anna studied hard at Band School, and soon she could take part in (参加) the school's concert. Anna was the youngest player. Most students felt nervous when they took part in the concert for the first time, but Anna didn't. She was very relaxed, and she gave a really fantastic performance (表演).

Many people see her performance online, and Anna is becoming famous in her town now. "Boys usually like playing the guitar, but very few girls choose it. I hope more girls can play it in the future," said Anna. Anna's father bought her a new guitar last month and she plans to start a band herself later this year.

Many people draw on the paper, but few paint on stones. Mo Wuying, an artist from Chongqing, has been doing this for more than eight years. And the animals on stones are {#blank#}1{#/blank#}( true) lifelike.

The poses of animals she creates {#blank#}2{#/blank#} ( decide) by the shapes of the stones. Mo says it is{#blank#}3{#/blank#} art form that requires creative {#blank#}4{#/blank#} ( idea).

According to Mo, the first step is to draw the outline of an animal on a stone. Then she colors it {#blank#}5{#/blank#}( make) it lively. After that, she adds all the details.

Driven by her love of painting from a young age, Mo has been improving her stone painting skills for years. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} first, she tried her hand at sceneries and characters. In the past three years, she has focused on painting animals. Mo {#blank#}7{#/blank#}( finish) hundreds of stone paintings so far." The longer I work on it, the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} ( interesting) I find it," said Mo proudly. She sometimes even forgets to eat or sleep {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the painting takes up all her attention.

" It is a{#blank#}10{#/blank#}( please) to paint on stones and that makes me more patient," said Mo, adding that she would continue working on it.