One Friday morning, I booked an Uber car to the train station When the car arrived, I just saw the car number and got in. "Please be 1 I need to get to the train station in half an hour," I said.

    The driver said, "Yes, ma' am."

    I was surprised (惊讶的) when I heard a female(女性的) voice! The 2 was a young woman! I travelled in Uber cars for hundreds of times, 3 I never saw a female driver here in India. In India, many people may think that it's dangerous for women to drive Uber cars. So I 4 to know more about my driver.

    "If you don't 5 can I ask you some questions?" I asked

    "Yes, ma'am."

    "Are you well-educated (受过良好教育的)?"

    "Yes, ma' am. I have just got my MBA."

    "Wow! So why did you choose this 6 ?"

    She smiled and said, " 7 is may interest, ma'am. No job is too small. I  8 want a job from which I can get real happiness. I tried other jobs, but I like this one most ……"

    About 20 minutes later, I arrived. I said thank you to 9 I really enjoyed the ride and learned something 10 the young woman.

    Maxim Gorky(高尔基)was born in a carpenter's (木匠) family. When he was five, he1  his father.

    He 2 his childhood in his grandfather's home.3the age of ten, his mother 4of illness. His grandfather5 him look for a job by himself.  For ten years, young Gorky 6 about in the street. He did whatever kinds of jobs he 7 , and he lived such 8 life. The dog's life in the ten years made him deeply understand the hardship of the 9people and deeply hate the old system (制度).

    During that time he read all kinds of books which  10_him a lot of materials for works later on.

    One day, when Confucius(孔子) and his students were walking through a large forest, they 1 an old man standing under a tree, catching cicadas(蝉) with a bamboo stick. Confucius was 2and asked. "How could you catch the cicadas so easily? Do you have any special3 ？"

    "Yes." the old man answered. "There are many cicadas in this forest. But it is difficult to catch them. The cicada is a4little insect. If they hear the noise of the leaves in the wind, they will fly away5Therefore, people who want to catch cicadas must 6their hands to hold a bamboo stick without shaking. If you can7three pellets (弹珠) on the top of the bamboo stick without falling off, catching cicadas is as8as picking a ball up from the ground. At the same time, I have to say one can 9make it without practicing again and again. "

    He then added, "But that is not enough.  People must be good at 10 themselves. Right now, I am standing under a tree like half of a tree stump(树桩), with my 11reaching out like part of a withered twig（枯萎的树枝). Last, one must be attentive(专注).12 I am catching cicadas, I only see the cicada's wings. No matter what happens, 13 will distract(使…分心) me."

    Hearing this, Confucius 14 his students and said, "No matter what you do, you can only succeed if you love what you're doing and 15 it. This is what this old man has taught us. "

    One morning Mr Green is driving around the country and 1a small bookshop. When he sees an old man2 the other side of the road, he stops his car and says to the old man. "Excuse me. I want3to the Sun Bookshop. Do you know it?"

    "Yes," the old man answers, "I 4you the way." He5Mr Green's car, and they drive about twelve miles.  6they come to a small house, the old man says, "Stop here." Mr Green stops and7 the house. "But this isn't the8." he says to the old man. "Right," the old man answers, "This is my house. And now I'll show you the9to the bookshop. Turn around and go back nine miles. 10you'll see the bookshop. ''

    The teacher sent me home with a note for my mother that said I needed to visit the eye doctor because I failed the vision test. The trip home that day was very slow.

    My mother said it would all be just fine. "It wouldn't hurt a bit," she said. But I wasn't worried about pain-I was worried about looking 1.

    The next day, my mother pulled me to the eye doctor's office. I 2 a set of frames (镜框) and tried to believe my mother when she said they looked really 3 on me. The doctor said the glasses would be ready soon. But I wasn't ready at all, and I didn't think I ever would be.

    When the glasses arrived, the eye doctor put them on my face and walked me out onto the sidewalk in front of his office. When I looked 4 from my shoes, I found myself in a whole new world – a world filled with 5 pictures, bright colours, and fine detail everywhere I looked. Suddenly I 6 the beautiful outline of red leaves on trees. I could see the details of people's faces long before they were standing in front of me. I could see my mother 7 as she watched me see the world in a whole new way.

    "Glasses aren't so bad, are they?" Mom asked.

    "Not at all," I thought to myself. On that first day, they were a 8.

    The Monday morning came, and I had to 9 the kids in my classroom. And it happened, just like I feared it would be. A mean kid pointed at me in the middle of the maths class and shouted, "Four 10!" But at the same moment, looking through my new glasses, I could see all the way across the room that the kid who had said it had an awfully big nose.

    A photographer called Rienermann spent half a year with her head in the clouds—taking pictures of every letter of the alphabet in the spaces among1.

    In her spare time the talented2often walks in the streets of Barcelona, looking up at the sky.

    One day, she3the letter "q" in the city. The letter had been formed by the curve of a pretty square and the narrow4that leads people into it. She quickly took it in her5. She thought maybe she could find the other letters in the alphabet, so she6.

    It took her six months from "q" to all the letters. Her strange7have been put into a book called Type the Sky. She said, "Barcelona is beautiful anyway- especially the old part of the town with the8streets.

    Every time you9you can only see a small part of the sky and nothing else because there are houses on each side.

    She added, "I tried it in Berlin, but it didn't10because the houses and streets are too far apart."

    Her work is receiving more and more attention now.