Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While  1 her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(an) 2in medicine. At 18 she married and3 a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a 4. Her husband supported her decision.5 , Canadian medical schools did not 6women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study 7  at the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to8 her medical degree.

    Upon graduation, Charlotte  9  to Montreal and set up a private 10. Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a 11 doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte12  herself operating on damaged limbs and setting 13 bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.

    But Charlotte had been practicing without a license. She had 14 a doctor's license in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was15. The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to16 her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to 17  her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to 18a license to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte19 to practice without a license until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.

    In 1993, 77 years after her 20, a medical license was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”

    My mother asked me to call my grandmother. What could we possibly have a1about? Nothing! I just did what she told me and2called my grandmother.

    When she3the phone, I planned. to have a small,10-minute exchange.4, she invited me to lunch at her house so we could5together. Hesitantly, I agreed.

    After hanging up the phone I immediately6agreeing to the lunch date on Saturday.

    Surprisingly, my Saturday morning wasn't7.I found it was nice to see her. I forgot the time8her stories about her recent trip to Europe and her sewing class. I wasn't9that 60-year-old people had a social life. It turned out that he r10wasn't as mundane（平凡的）as I thought. I was happy to have spent time with her. We planned to meet11at her house. My mom didn't have to12me any more.

    This time I didn't feel the gloom（忧郁）.13 I wanted to ask were building up in my mind: What was my grandfather like? What did you do at my age?

    As we looked through pictures, I was14.I had never seen, nor imagined, my grandmother as a young girl. She reminded me of myself. I learned that as humans, we15human experiences, no matter what age.

    She told me about the time she and her friends went swimming in the lake late at night and the first time she met my16."You would have adored him. He was the funniest man I'd ever met." We sorted through three shoeboxes of photographs, each with a17story.

    Ever since that18phone call to my grandmother, we have talked at least once a week. I regret not calling her earlier. She has19me what can't be learned in a textbook: being open to new things, enjoying the simple things, and appreciating what life has given me. I have20a new perspective（视角）on life.

    Paen Long has had a dream ever since he saw a plane for the first time at the age of six. His dream was to 1 a plane. Last year, the 30-year-old man started building his plain 2. “I was afraid that people would 3 me, so sometimes I worked at night,” he said. It was a long time 4 he put his dream into practice. Finally, Paen Long decided to try to build his own plane, using the money he had 5 from running his own garage. He has spent three years 6 YouTube videos in order to 7 how to make a plane.

    It took him a year to build his plane, using mostly recycled materials. The plane's first 8 came at 3pm on 8^th, March. Local villages gathered excitedly to watch the plane fly. 9, the plane only got 50m in the air before crashing (撞击) to the 10. “When all people were looking at me, I felt very 11,” he said.

    Although the first try 12, Paen Long remains 13. His next project is to build a seaplane. Paen Long thinks the plane will cost over $10,000. “I never feel 14 for spending all my money building a plane,” he said.

    His wife, Hing Muoyheng, 15 about her husband, especially as they have two young sons. However, she has no 16. “I don't know how planes work and he doesn't have any 17 to help him. He can only search for information himself,” she said. “I tried to ask him to 18 a few times because I was afraid, but he said he wouldn't 19, so I have to support his 20.”

    There was a woman in Detroit, who has two sons. She was 1 about them, especially the younger one, Ben, 2 he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class 3 him because he seemed so 4.

    The mother 5 that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school.

    She6 them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a 7 a week and do a report about it for her.

    One day, in Ben's 8, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben 9up his hand and the teacher let him 10. "Why did Ben raise his hand?" they wondered. He 11 said anything; what could he possibly want to say？

    Well, Ben not only 12 the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew 13 the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were 14. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book 15.

    Ben later went on to the 16 of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University 17 at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.

    After Ben had grown up, he 18 something about his mother that he did not know as a19. She, herself, had never learned how to 20.

    My son has been in hospital again, this time with an emergency admission. He was 1 in an ambulance from our local health centre to the children's hospital.

    In this country, all ambulances are 2 and manned by firemen and it was no 3 this time. While one fireman drove, the other was in the 4 with me and my son. He started 5 my son as soon as he was carried in, 6 him whether he'd prefer English or Portuguese.

    When my son 7 either of them, the fireman requested speaking English so that my son could 8 it with him. Of course, that gave him plenty of 9 to draw my son's attention to offering “tuition (学费)”—It was just a joke. The 10 of them chatted for the full hour. 11, he had been assigned the task of keeping my boy 12. He did so so skillfully that our son didn't 13 that I was tearing along with lights flashing.

    Actually, the back of an ambulance is a 14 place for me, and then I got sick and had to 15 the window a little. It was cold, so this absolutely wonderful guy took his own jacket off and 16 it around our son's head and neck

    These excellent guys 17 with us during check-in procedure, and finally 18 when I made sure that my husband was on his way in the car.

    I can't be 19 enough to the firemen. They're our firemen, and they are all 20, of course.

    Since I was young, my parents have encouraged me to watch the news every day to learn about major events in the world. And at school, my teacher urges us to study 1 so that we can one day become "global citizens".

    2, does simply having the skill of commenting on world affairs in fluent English make one a citizen of the 3? My experience in this summer school inspired me to 4 the answer, which would have been "Yes" if you had asked me this question earlier.

    In July, I 5 the PLE—Political science, Law and Economics—a session at the Yale Young Global Scholar Program. We had about 230 students 6 and about 45 percent of us were 7 students.

    We enjoyed lectures 8 by Yale professors and students. I was 9 with how the speakers stood on the stage. But more importantly, it was their 10 that impressed me most and made my experience in Yale especially 11.

    I talked to students from all over the world: a Palestinian girl told me the real living 12 of refugees (难民) in her country; a Greek guy 13 me to his country's government and people's attitude toward the debt crisis; a Mexican boy 14 the story behind his national flag, and how his country gained independence with me.

    By talking to them, I found myself opening a gate to a whole new world. I suddenly realized even if we're able to 15 different media and discuss world affairs in English, we're still 16. What really makes us think "internationally" is how we engage in 17 with people from different backgrounds and how we 18 their identities and opinions.

    If you were to ask me the question again, my answer would 19 be "No". To really 20 yourself a global citizen, open-mindedness and empathy are the real key.