One of my fondest {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(memory) as a child is going to the river and sitting on the bank. There I would watch the bamboo trees bend{#blank#}2{#/blank#} the pressure from the wind and then watch them return {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(elegant) to their original position when the wind{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(die) down.

    When I think about the bamboo trees' ability {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(return) to its original position, the word “resilience (适应力)'' comes to mind. Have you ever felt like you were at your breaking point? Life is {#blank#}6{#/blank#} mixture of good times and bad times, and happy moments and unhappy moments. Always keep{#blank#}7{#/blank#} in mind that a measure of hope will take you through the unpleasant situation. With hope for a better tomorrow, things may not be as bad as they seem to be. The unpleasant situation may be much {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(easy) to deal with if the result is worth{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(have).

    The next time you are experiencing one of bad times or unhappy moments,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} take you close to your breaking point, bend but don't break!

My trip to Tibet is so wonderful that I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} you of it.

    Johann Strauss was born in Vienna in 1825. Although his father did not want him to become a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(music), Strauss Junior studied the violin {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(secret) as a child. When his father discovered his son practising on a violin one day, he gave him a beating,{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(say) that he was going to beat the music out of the boy. But that didn't prevent the boy from becoming one of the {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(great) composers of all time.

    He wrote his first waltz(华尔兹）at the age of six. At nineteen, he decided to devote {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(he) to music. He formed his own orchestra and made a successful tour of Europe and soon became known {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the Waltz King. The emperor of Austria was so {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(please) with his music that he appointed him the conductor at the court balls of Vienna. It was for these occasions {#blank#}8{#/blank#}he wrote some of his most popular waltzes, among {#blank#}9{#/blank#}was the well-known favorite The Blue Danube（蓝色多瑙河）in all, the talented Johann Strauss {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(write) more than 500 masterpieces.

    If you've ever heard of someone being in the right place at the right time, you've likely never heard it fit a story as well as this one. In 2014, a 17-year-old volunteer firefighter {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(call) Joseph Chambers heard {#blank#}2{#/blank#} loud crash outside of his sister's home. Joseph found two cars {#blank#}3{#/blank#}what appeared to be a fatal collision, one of {#blank#}4{#/blank#}was a police patrol car. He{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(immediate) ran up to the car of Officer Mark Kimsey{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(see)if he was okay. Officer Kimsey {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(trap), but Joseph sprung into {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(act), pulling Kimsey out through the window with another bystander as his patrol car burst into{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(flame). Maybe it was Joseph's firefighter training that allowed him to think, and act, so quickly, but it's certain that he saved a man's life that day without once{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(think)about his own well-being.