Michael Greenberg is a very popular New Yorker .He is not famous in sports or the arts. But people in the streets1him, especially those who are 2.

    For those people, he is“Gloves”Greenberg. How did he get that3?He looks like any other businessman, wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase(公文箱).But he's4.His briefcase always has some gloves.

    In winter , Mr. Greenberg does not5like other New Yorkers, who look at the sidewalk and6the street. He looks around at  7.He stops when he8someone with no gloves. He gives them a pair and then he9,looking for more people with cold10.

    On winter days, Mr. Greenberg11gloves .During the rest of the year, he12gloves. People who have heard about him13him gloves, and he has many in his apartment.

    Mr. Greenberg14doing this 21 years ago. Now, many poor New Yorkers know him and  15 his behavior. But people who don't know him are sometimes16 him. They don't realize that he just wants to make them17.

    It runs in the18.Michael's father always helped the poor as he believed it made everyone happier. Michael Greenberg feels the19.A pair of gloves may be a20thing, but it can make a big difference in winter.

Worth the pain in the end

    I used to hate running. It seemed too hard and pushing outside my comfort zone was not something I was raised to do.

    In fact, I wouldn't have become a1if it weren't for my husband Charles. He had been a serious competitive runner for many years. After our marriage, he wouldn't stop talking about how much he missed it.

    "So start running again, why don't you?" I was getting 2 of hearing about it.

    So he picked it up again, and after about a year, I started to join him at the track (跑道). Just a few weeks later, Charles signed us both up for a five-kilometer race. I 3about doing it. It was too soon.

    But on 4 day, there I was.

    The gun went  5. Thousands of runners pushed forward.

    The first kilometer was 6.

    "I don't think I'm going to make it." I was already breathing heavily and painfully aware of the group of runners  7 past me.

    "No, you're doing 8", said Charles. He was trying to encourage me, to get me focused on something other than my  9.

    "I can't, " I said, 10 audibly (听得见地).

    He tried a different way to 11 me. "Just make it to that house and let's see how you feel."

    After another minute I saw the three-kilometer  12. All I could think of was that I was dying and that my husband was torturing (折磨) me.

    Miserable doesn't even begin to describe  13 I felt. And there was so much 14.

    "You'll be fine. You've got less than a kilometer to go."

    I rounded a corner and saw both sides of the street thick with people watching the race, all cheering the runners on. I 15 my legs to keep going.

    Then I looked up and saw the clock. The seconds ticking away (一分一秒地过去) gave me an incentive (助力). I knew that if I finished this race, I would have achieved something. So, I straightened up, and kicked it.

    I had my arms held higher when I passed 16the finish line. A volunteer put a 17 around my neck.

    "You did great! I'm so 18 of you!" Charles was thrilled that I'd 19 it.

    "That was AMAZING! I want to do another race. This running stuff is amazing!" I proudly hugged my medal as we started to walk to the post-race festivities.

    My lungs and my comfort zone both 20.

    Every morning, little Kate makes the day of bus driver John Reed.

    The Milwaukee kid is known to wave and jump up and down as Reed's bus1 to her stop. So when Reed's2 changed, he knew he had to3 a proper goodbye to the 4-year-old girl, for all the sweet 4 from the angel.

    "Good morning, sweetie!" he greeted the child and her mom, Tracy. "I got you a 5, I got you a book and there's something else in there for you," he told Kate as he handed her a shining bag. The sweet moment was recorded by the security6 inside the bus.

    "My daughter is very happy," Tracy told InsideEdition.com on Friday. "That's just her7. In the morning, when she sees him coming, she gets very8. They just9 a friendship."

    Inside Kate's card, Reed wrote: "I can10 say that over the past months you have been my favorite bus passenger. Your happy smile and 11 everyday Good Mornings have 12 my every day. I want to thank you for being a GREAT EXAMPLE for others to13."

    Tracy was so 14 with Reed's kindness that she visited her Facebook account to 15 her daughter's special connection to the bus driver. "Every morning Kate and I take the city bus to school and work," she wrote. "We try to always take the16 bus because we made friends with the driver Reed."

    "She is 17 excited to see him, she always 18 him a good morning, and tells him the latest news in her 4-year-old life. She19 him a Valentine, and he gave her one too. They are best friends."

    Tracy 20 seeing Reed on her morning commute(通勤). "Though my new driver is perfectly nice, he's no John Reed, "she said.

    Today I went on an outing with my best friend. However, I1her in a very large mall for some four hours. I went2searching all over from one end to the other. Finally, I had to3to my pride and ask for help. I spoke with the kindest4! He promised me that everything would be5, and walked with me one more time all around the mall but6again. I thought it was so strange and wondered how a(n)7woman could lose her best friend in the mall.

    I drove home in8and thought of what a great trouble I had made. Nobody around could9me for such a mistake. I thought about how special my best friend is to me and those who know her.

    When I arrived home, I was10to find my best friend was just there: my Mother! My mother was fine. She11said, "I looked all over for you and for an hour of12, without any luck. Therefore, I13to take the bus home myself, I did not have my cell phone. Why are you crying? " Needless to say, I was so overjoyed to see my mother was in one14.

    Nothing in this world happens without a(n)15. What happened that day lets me realize how much my mother16to me. At the same time, the 17of the security guard, a complete stranger, also18me deeply. This19is a great reminder for me to show kindness to people I see daily. Never20the presence and friendship of them for granted, Value what we have today.

Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to 1. Now she was Portia, a strong­willed 2 in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.  The theater was filled with people. She was speaking with a power she had never before experienced, the words flowing 3 from her.

4, Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选拔试演). She 5 being in front of other people. She was very 6 at school. She had never thought she was good enough at anything to 7 much attention. She stayed mostly to herself, making 8 friends. She had excellent grades, 9 she always thought that something was missing.

Two weeks before the audition, Robertsa's mother had heard about it and 10 her to join in.

"I can't think of anyone else better suited to 11 the part. Remember all the plays you used to act out for us?"

Her mother wouldn't let the 12 drop. "You're just a little scared. Everyone gets scared. You know you 13 do it. The trick is to look past the 14 to find the love of what you're doing. "

So Roberta had made an appointment with the head of the Drama Club. She had read the play and found herself excited by the 15 of speaking such rich words. In secret she practiced Portia's part, 16 the lines by repeating them over and over. It wasn't hard; she 17 every minute of it. Every time she spoke the words, she had a new 18 of the lines, as if Shakespeare had written Portia on many levels.

On the day of the audition, she 19 two of Portia's famous speeches for the auditors. When she had finished, the head of the Drama Club announced the 20 was hers.

Year-12 student Noah Little has already sat his first Chinese-speaking exam and said it was "the easiest exam I've ever done". That view is not surprising given that the Wagga Wagga High School student loves language—so much that he has built a Chinese translation app.

Noah said his love of language was encouraged by his community. "Wagga Wagga is a place full of people from different cultures, and sometimes when I meet new people who have trouble speaking English, I like to talk to them in their own language," he said. "I also have a few Chinese friends so I think it will be cool to talk to them in their language."

The 17-year-old started teaching himself Chinese around five years ago, before taking distance education courses at the start of Year 11. His language ability was also useful in his part-time job at a local Chinese restaurant, where he translated orders for the cooks and customers.

Noah said he also had a basic knowledge of seven other languages. It was while teaching himself the languages that Noah got the idea of the translation tool. "I decided to make my own app because there weren't many around—all the other apps were full of advertisements (广告) and the translation feature (专题节目) wasn't powerful enough," he said.

His app also includes a word of the day feature, lessons on how to write Chinese characters (汉字) and a news feed of important Chinese news.

He said learning computer programming to build the app had been like studying another language. With the end of school around the corner, Noah said he would like to pursue (追求) both his interest in computer programming and languages. "I'm planning to work for a year and save so I can go on to university as I really want to make a career (事业) out of one of these two topics."