Jack Baines is a self-made millionaire, but his beginnings were very lowly. He was the youngest of eight children. His father had a1in a cotton mill (纱厂), but he was often 2to work because of poor health. The family couldn't 3to pay the rent or bills, and the children often went4. After leaving school at the age of 14, Jack was 5what to do when Mr Walker, his old teacher, offered to lend him ￡100 to start his own6.

    It was just after the war. Raw materials were not enough, and Jack saw a7in scrap metal(废弃金属). He bought bits of metal and stored it in an old garage. When he had built up a large amount, he sold it and8plenty of money.

    Jack9working hard. After one year he succeeded in10 the ￡100.

    By the time Jack was 30 years old he had11 his first million, and he wanted to12this achievement by doing something “13”. With all his money it was14to build a beautiful home for himself and his parents. In 1959, “Baines Castle” was built in the 15of the Lancashire countryside. It was one of the finest buildings in the country.

    Jack has recently sold “Baines Castle” for ￡500 million,16Jack still can't get used to 17the good life. He can 18be found drinking with the locals at the local pub(酒吧).

    “I remember being very19as a child, but never 20as a child,” says Jack, “and I will never forget where I came from and who I am.”

    While traveling from New Zealand to Newcastle in the UK, I arrived in London to have my plane transfer(转机）. But unfortunately, the flight to Newcastle had been1 due to weather conditions.

    The airline was2—offering me a choice between a night in a hotel or a six-hour bus ride to my destination. With no3as to whether a flight to New Zealand would happen in the next two days, I 4the bus ride.

    I5all my baggage in the luggage compartment (行李箱）of the bus ,6 I would need nothing on the way. A young lady sitting beside me could see how7I was and asked me if anyone would be meeting me on my 8.

    I realized that I had left my cell phone in my bag and had no9to get in touch with my relatives. They would be 10me at the airport about five hour before the11got to Newcastle, not12what had happened. Without hesitation, the young lady13me the use of her cell- phone.

    When the bus made a rest stop, she asked me if I was getting out. I 14that I couldn't as I still had sandals(凉鞋）on, and15feet weren't ideal for the cold weather. When, she got back on, with a —16she'd bought me some tea and  a packet of sweets to eat.

    When we 17arrived in Newcastle, the lady18that someone was there to meet me. I asked her to wait a moment while I got my19to repay her, but when I looked up she had20 I was unable to even say thanks to her.

    When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more1 than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him 2much in repairs that he decided that he had better3it.

    He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly4 to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so5of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was 6 when they met one evening, and said, "What's 7, Dave?"

    Dave told him, and Sam answered, "Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may8more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!" Thinking that Sam's9was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read "For sale: small car, 10 very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50."

    For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no 11.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to12 him about the car. "All right," Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be13or not. "Fine," the man said, "and I'll 14my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to 15it."

    The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, 16to wait there for the people who had17 his advertisement. Even Dave had to18that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean19 it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, "Have you reported this 20 to us yet, sir?"

    Since I introduced animals into my child psychotherapy(心理治疗) practice, my life as a doctor has been full of wonders. One Friday afternoon Diane, a dark-haired five-year-old, who had 1 said a word to anyone outside her home environment, came to me for 2 help.

    When Diane and her parents were 3 in the waiting room, my dog, Puppy, and I walked out to 4 them. I noticed immediately Diane sat with her head down, her eyes directed toward the floor in front of her, making no move to 5.

    Puppy, walking ahead of me, made a beeline for Diane. Because Diane's head was 6, Puppy was just three feet from her when the girl finally 7 sight of him. Startled by the 8 sight, the girl's eyes became huge and then her mouth curved slowly into a smile. Puppy stopped 9 in front of Diane and laid his head in her lap.

    I greeted Diane, but she didn't 10. Instead, she began to silently pet Puppy's head, running her 11 softly over Puppy's ears and nose. Obviously she was still 12, but she was smiling and seemed to be enjoying her 13 with Puppy.

    Then I gave Puppy a hand 14 to go back into the inner office. As Puppy walked away, I watched Diane's face fall and her eyes take on a 15 look. I said, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't 16 you wanted Puppy to stay. All you have to do for him to come back is say, 'Puppy, come.'"

    After struggling inside, Diane called in a soft 17, "Puppy, come; please come." As Diane's parents watched in tears, I gave Puppy another signal and he ran over to the girl who 18 her chair and hugged Puppy tightly around the neck. Seeing this, I was 19, for Diane had taken the first step in her journey toward being able to interact(互动) with the world outside her home and Puppy had20his magic again.

You can't imagine how crazy I was about football when I was young. For years my life followed a(n) 1: I slipped out of the house, played football until dark and instantly I was infected with malaria. Football was so appealing that I was willing to 2 anything —injuries, punishment, and even sickness—to play it. Soon enough, my mother would rush me to the Sijuwade Hospital. There, the doctor said I needed to be 3 .

My dad often spent the night with me in the hospital while my mother 4 my sister at home. Then came the happiest 5 when my father told me wonderful stories.

My father was a(n) 6 storyteller. In the hospital, he would tell me a story or two, or, sometimes, if he was not too tired, many in response to my request. He 7 bicycle sounds and the howl of the wind so vividly that the pictures would never 8 from my mind. So happy were these moments that I sometimes wished to   9 my hospital stay.

Because of my mom's strict supervision, it became 10 difficult to steal out. No longer sick, no more stories. 11, I broke into my father's room one evening.

"Dad, you tell me stories only when I'm sick."

My father laughed, "You are already eight and can read by yourself!"

He 12 me a book and said, "Go and read that. It'll tell you stories."

I remember that night clearly. I opened the book and read what turned out to be the most 13 story that I had ever read.

What I discovered that night 14 my life. I became thirsty for books and became a voracious（求知欲强的）15 . I read in the mornings, at nights and in between. Through reading, I felt as though I were on the magical journey to the endless.

Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics. She is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity (对称) is not conserved. This discovery resulted in her colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang winning the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, while Wu herself was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978. Her expertise in experimental physics aroused comparisons to Marie Curie.

Chien-Shiung Wu was born in a town of Jiangsu province, China, in 1912. Wu and her father were extremely close, and he encouraged her interests passionately, creating an environment where she was surrounded by books, magazines, and newspapers. Wu received her elementary school education at Mingde Women's Vocational School founded by her father.

Wu left her hometown in 1923 to go to the Suzhou Women's Normal School No 2, which was fifty miles from her home. In an era when "getting married" was considered the best destiny for women, she carved out a new path for herself through her diligent and earnest approach to learning and her thirst for knowledge.

In 1936, Chien-Shiung Wu went to the United States to pursue further studies in atomic physics. It was during this period of her education that she came to know Oppenheimer, who was teaching in the Physics Department. Under the guidance of renowned physicists such as Oppenheimer, Lawrence, and Segre, Chien-Shiung, Wu successfully completed her studies and her doctoral research. Due to the highly sensitive nature of her work, the details of her research were not revealed until the end of World War II.

In 1984, Chien-Shiung Wu returned to China from the United States. At the age of 72, she made a substantial donation of $250,000 to her hometown to support its development. Later, she also became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 1997, Chien-Shiung Wu passed away. Before her death, she requested to be buried in her hometown of Suzhou. Today, her tombstone in Taicang, Suzhou, bears the inscription: "She was an outstanding global citizen and a forever Chinese."