Dear Steve,
I'm very happy in my new school. I hope you're enjoying it. The teachers and students here are friendly to me.
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Your,
Jane

    On Mother's Day, after my children arrived home from school, the doorbell 1 . I went to answer it, and there stood two clean-faced, tall, smiling2 . They held two of the most beautiful flowers I had ever seen. They said to me, “Do you 3 us? You often fed us cookies! They were so 4 . We wanted to come back and thank you and say “Happy Mother's Day” because you were like a mom to us!” I couldn't help crying, and thanked them.

    I remembered the old days. At that time I did not have a lot of money or a big house and l was a single mom with three young  5 of my own. The two boys were a bit older than my children. They always visited my yard, but they 6 cared about the fact that their faces were dirty. Every day they enjoyed themselves with my 7 girls and one small boy.

    I spent a lot of time 8 healthy cookies. The two boys played happily in my yard, and they were quite happy to share food, books, games and then, for a time, they didn't  9 us. I wanted to know what happened in their lives, and hoped for the best.

    But now they came back and thanked me. This is the 10 gift I have ever received from two young boys.

    One cold morning, an old woman had to 1 her doctor. When he came, she 2 him that her right leg hurt, and that sometimes she could  3 walk. She asked him what was  4  , as she had  5got such feeling.

    The doctor looked her over carefully, and then he said, "You are in a good 6  for a woman of your age. I think the trouble in your right leg is just a matter of old age catching up with you. We get all kinds of illness  7  we get older. The trouble will almost certainly 8  in spring." "I don't think so, doctor," she said. "My left leg is  9 , and it is 10  age as my right leg."

    Ma Yun became one of 1 men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock (股票) market last year with a value of around 140 billion—the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on2 way to success.

Ma made his3 trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After 4 "beer", he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for "China" and still saw no results. He decided 5 a Chinese website—the seed for Alibaba was sown. (播种)

    Ma said he 6 many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and 7 companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.

    8 was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager 9 limited resources. 10, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he11it for nine years. Ma said 12tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.

    Ma's hero is Forest Gump 13 never gives up. When he made a speech about his 14 at Davos (达沃斯论坛) in 2015, Ma said, "Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you15."

    David was a middle school student. His father, Mr. Hill, was a rich farmer and he had a very big 1. They lived in a small village for fifteen years. Later on Mr. Hill opened a shop in our town and 2 a house here last month. Then his family moved to the new house and David began to study in our class. But David was shy, so it was not easy for him to 3 friends.

    His neighbor Cathy was a 4 girl. She had many friends. When she found the boy 5 talked with others, she decided to help him. She talked a lot with him and sometimes played with him. So very soon 6 became good friends.

    One afternoon, Cathy said to David, "It′ll be my 7 birthday tomorrow. I′ll have a birthday party. Will you please come?"

    "Certainly. I′m glad to," the boy said 8.

    David got home and thought about 9 he could give to Cathy. He was sorry that he forgot to ask the girl what she liked. Then he asked his mother, "What would you like 10 it were your sixteenth birthday, Mommy?" "Nothing," the woman said, "I just wish I were 16."

    I stood in my grandmother's front yard with my son. He had a bottle of soapy water and a plastic loop (圈). You know the type. You dip (浸) the loop in the bottle, pull it 1 and blow it to make bubbles (气泡).

    My son dipped and dipped and blew and blew, but 2to blow bubbles. He handed me the bottle and loop and asked me, "Daddy, 3 you make bubbles?" I hadn't blown bubbles for years. I am a chemist by education. All my knowledge is 4 when it comes to trying to blow bubbles from a loop filled with soapy water. I had no more success than my son.

    After several tries 5the loop of soapy water, I gently (轻轻地)breathed on it. My son cried with joy as a big beautiful bubble 6 and moved slowly in the air. He grabbed (抓住)the loop, dipped and blew. No bubbles. I7 explained to him, "Son, you can't blow so hard; you must ever so gently breathe on the loop to make bubbles." He followed my8 and blew gently. This time he made a big beautiful bubble, then 9…

    There are some things that you can get with force, 10 there are other things that only come with the gentleness of a soft breath. The closer something is to higher spirit, the more it is like bubbles; it can't be forced.