A couple of weeks ago, I made a trip to Toronto with my granddaughter who just turned three years old. The two of us were on our way to  1   her parents, and my wife—her  2    who had been gone for over a week. We were all anxious to  3    again and as I pulled out of Mamere and Papere's driveway in Chelmsford, Hailee and I were both  4    about the trip and couldn't wait to arrive at our   5.

When we completed the “SEVEN”-hour trip to Toronto later that day, the reunion was absolutely  6 and I can sincerely say I enjoyed every single minute of that   7     journey.

      Hailee is at that “I want to  8  it myself” stage of her life. And if you can just get over the “hurry-up syndrome” we acquire as  9, it is wonderful to witness. Who knew that putting a straw into the  10  in a juice box for the very first time could be such an earth-shattering (惊天动地的) event? Or being  11  enough to actually open the fridge door for the first time? Or putting on your own  12  on the right feet would be so  13?

      I'll never forget the look on her face the day she was able to  14 into my truck by herself. She finally  15 on my seat, holding onto the steering wheel (方向盘) and declared 16, “I did it!” And when she could actually put her own seat belt on—what a(n)  17!

    Have you ever watched a three-year-old 18 to sip a McDonald's milkshake through a straw? It is hard enough for an adult, too. And 19 every time the icy solution (溶液) touched her lips, you could see the 20 in her eyes. I learned that you can't hurry a child through a milkshake.

    Arthur Ashe, an African American, was a great tennis player. In his autobiography (自传) Days of Grace, Arthur Ashe 1 an incident that occurred when he was 17 years old. He was playing in a match in West Virginia. As was often the case, he was the only 2 of color in the match.

    One night, some of the kids broke a gate. They completely 3 it and then decided to say that Authur was 4. The incident was reported in the newspapers; Arthur 5 his involvement, but the boys would not change their story. The 6 part for Arthur was worrying about what his father would say and do. He 7 made a phone call.

As he imagined, his father had already learned of the 8. His father's tone was severe. He asked Arthur only one question. “Arthur Junior,” he asked, “all I want to 9 is— were you mixed up in that 10?”

    Author a nswered, “No, Daddy, I wasn't.” his father 11 asked about it again. Arthur learned on that day why he had always been encouraged to tell the 12. There would come a time when he must be 13, and this was such a time. Because he had already earned his trust and  14, he knew his father believed him. From that day on he was 15, above all else, to live a life of honesty.

16, we find examples of modern leaders in every field who have less honesty. 17 we do not need saints(圣人)—we need people like you; people who will be known for their 18; people who earn the trust and respect of others, 19 their age or status in life; people who 20 the importance of character. Our world does not need another saint. But it needs you.

    While I was waiting in line at a coffee shop earlier, a woman drove alongside the queue in a mobility scooter (踏板车). There was only a1 space between the line of people and the tables, which she2to drive along. She drove over my foot and didn't 3saying nothing at all.

    I got annoyed and expected she would have 4, but then I just decided to5 it and got down to selecting which pastry (点心) to go with my coffee. The lady and I ended up sitting at adjacent (邻近的) tables. She was on the end of a row so that she could park her6. After about half an hour, when she had7 her coffee, she got up and back onto her scooter. It8 start. She tried to turn the key several times9 she telephoned the place she purchased it from.

    An engineer 10 within 5 minutes. The place must have been local. I couldn't11 overhearing their conversation, and it turned out she had just12 the scooter that morning. This was her very first outing in it. She felt really13 about driving it14 , she wasn't used to its speed, nor its 15, and this combination made it quite16 to drive it through narrow gaps.

    Suddenly, I felt 17 for the lady. It really didn't18 me at all that she'd driven over my foot. I had made an assumption, 19, that a person doing that should apologize.

    Next time you're about to 20 someone, pause for a second and remind yourself that people have judged you without knowing what was going on in your mind or your life.

    It was a bright sunny day, and the terrible experience happened when I was studying in Bangalore. One day, I got a call from my mom that my brother's 1 was fixed and they were arranging the wedding ceremony in the next few days. My 2 was pretty far. So the next thing I was 3 to do was to book my 4 ticket as there was no direct flight to my hometown. The 5 was done by an agent in my neighborhood. I paid the whole amount 6But when the day approached the 7 disappeared，leaving me without the train ticket, and thus 8 all my travel plan.

    But as it is said, once you face such 9 situations, you realize your inner strength. I 10 decided I would complete my whole journey by bus. Without further 11, I took a bus to the first city stop. The next bus was again not 12 —it was 8 hours to a city near my hometown, where my aunt lived. They were also going to 13 my brother's wedding ceremony. So I called them and 14 them to accommodate me. They15. Half the battle was won.

    Then next day, I was just a few hours from my hometown. When my aunts family and I were boarding our car, my 16 asked me to switch places with her.

    The journey continued. We were trying to overtake(超越) another car when 17 a truck appeared in front of us and we went directly head on in front of it. We 18with the truck. In this accident, almost everyone in our car was 19. Fortunately, I didn't have any injury, 20 my cousin who switched places with me was seriously injured!

    Without warning, my father would knock on the door in the middle of night, drunken and begging my mother to open it. Later on, they lived their 1 lives and my mother was 2my family independently.

    My father was always claiming he had been planning to do something for us, but he had no  3. The man who was 4 to love us, in fact, lacked the 5 of what it truly meant to love a child.

    Maybe it was his complicated relationship to his father that made him 6. Maybe it was the pain 7 with a life of misfortune. Who knows? Whatever it was, it stole him from us, and 8 from me. Not understanding me, he simply 9 me—not just emotionally, but 10 as well. Never once did he hug me.

    My best memories of him were from his 11 at participation. Once every month or two, he would 12 and drive us to Trucker's Paradise. To me, the games were fun but easily forgotten. It was the 13 of my father that was most treasured.

    It wasn't until I was much older that I would find evidence of my father's love.

    When my favorite personal computer came onto the market, I convinced myself that I had to have it even though its price was far 14 my mother's reach. I mowed （割草）every yard I could find that summer, 15 it still wasn't enough. Then my dad agreed to help me 16the rest of the money by selling watermelons. This was the first time that I had ever spent time alone with him. He laughed and repeatedly 17 me as “my boy”, a phrase he relayed with a sense of 18.

    It just goes to show that however distant the father and however broken the 19, there is still a need for even the smallest bit of 20 of a father's love. Although he had never told me that he loved me, I would regard that day as the greatest evidence of that fact.

    When 10 girls from Gardiner High School in Montana received a sum of money to develop an invention to solve a real-world problem, they decided to create a solar-powered shelter to help the homeless.

For over a year, the girls have been using all their free time to complete the 1.

    “They have this amazing internal(内心的) 2 that I've never seen in any individual,” Violet Mardiro, a teacher at Gardiner High who is 3 with the team on the project, told The Huffington Post. “I thought 4 that maybe some of them would give up, say 'I didn't 5 this much work,' but they haven't. They're just working hard and they're not giving up and they're super 6.”

    Living in a low-income community, the girls have seen the 7 of homelessness first-hand. Many of them are from immigrant families and hoped the 8, which is powered by rechargeable solar panels(电子板), would help the 9.

    Seventeen-year-old Maggie Mejia told the Huffington Post that 10 she had no previous 11 experience, the girls figured out as a team how to 12 the shelter using how-to videos and books that taught them how to code. But the most important 13 she's learned during the project isn't technical.

    "I've learned a lot about 14 others, working for the community and being selfless and showing a better world to other people and 15 someone else's life," she said. The project was carried out with DIY Girls, a nonprofit that helps fund STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – projects for 16.

Mardirosian said all the participating students have 17 their interest in STEM through this project.

    “Many of them didn't think about engineering before. They thought maybe they're not 18 out to be an engineer. But working together, now they 19 their skill – whether a writing skill or a drawing skill or a speaking skill, they're all 20 in this field. Everyone has found their importance in this picture,” she said.