When I spent the summer with my Grandpa in Warwick, he sent me to Miss Bee's store. 1 the counter was Miss Bee. A pair of glasses teetered(摇摇欲坠) on the 2 of her nose, gray hair was 3 on her head.

    “Excuse me. I need to get these.” I said. “So?” She pushed her glasses 4 her nose. “There's no one here except you and me and I'm not your 5. Go get them. If you're lucky you'll finish shopping by sundown.” Sundown was five hours 6. I wasn't sure l would 7 it.

    How could I hope to find anything on the packed, jumbled(乱堆的) shelves around me?

    I visited Miss Bee several times a week. Sometimes she short-charged me. Other times she overcharged. 8 she sold me a/an 9 newspaper instead of one that was current. Going to the store was more like going into battle.

    “That bread is only twenty-nine cents!” I corrected her one afternoon. I had watched the numbers change on the cash register(收款机) closely, and Miss Bee had added 35 cents. She didn't seem 10 that I had caught her 11. She just looked at me and 12 the price.

    All summer I learned the hard way to 13 my list. But she still found ways to 14. me into making mistakes. No sooner had I memorized the items' location on the shelf than Miss Bee 15 the shelves and made me hunt for 16 all over again. The morning I was to 17 to Brooklyn, I stopped in to get a packet of gum.

    “All right,” she said. “What did you learn this summer?” She was mean! I pressed my lips together. To my 18, Miss Bee laughed. “I know what you think of me,” she said. “ but when you get older you'll be glad our paths 19!” Glad I met Miss Bee? The idea was 20.

    Now I grow up and I finally understand I really learned a lot from Miss Bee.

    Eddie has lots of hobbies, but he loves baseball best. So it is his 1sport. Eddie plays baseball on a team every year in the spring. He loves to go to baseball2.

    Every day when it is3 Eddie's father throws a baseball to Eddie in the backyard. This is the time of day that Eddie 4best. He enjoys spending time with his father and he loves practicing baseball.

    Eddie 5baseball cards throughout the year. He and his father visit the 6and buy cards for Eddie's collection. Eddie spends hours with his baseball cards. He arranges them in different 7and trades them with other baseball 8

    One day, Eddie's father came home with two tickets to 9the Atlanta Braves play the next Saturday. Eddie was so10He counted down the days on the calendar.

    Finally it was the day of the game. Eddie and his father 11 to Atlanta early in the morning. Before they watched the match, they 12 the Braves' museum at the stadium and saw a short movie 13the history of the Atlanta Braves. Eddie enjoyed seeing the museum.

    They ate14at the stadium, and soon it was time for the game.

The game was exciting. Eddie tried to 15every move the players made16he watched carefully and practiced a lot, he might just be on one of those baseball cards some day!

    17the game, Eddie and his father drove home. They talked about the game. They talked about which 18were the best, and which 19 were the most exciting. Eddie went to sleep that night still 20of baseball. His dreams were filled with images from his very special day.

    My kids and I were heading into the supermarket over the weekend. On the way ,we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, “ 1 my job. Family to Feed.”

    At this store, a 2 like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed him and make a 3 on how bad it must be to have to stand 4 in the cold wind.

    In the store, I asked each of my kids to 5 something they thought our “friend” there would 6. They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a 7 I thought about it. We were 8 on cash ourselves, but… well, sometimes 9 from our need instead of our abundance is 10 what we need to do! All the kids 11 something they could do away with for the week.

    When we handed him the bag of12 he lit up and thanked us with 13 eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for 14his family might need, he burst into tears.

    This has been a wonderful 15 for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can 16! Things would have played out so 17 if I had simply said, “No, we really don't have 18 to give more.” Stepping out not only helped a brother in19 it also gave my kids the 20 taste of helping others. It'll go a long way with them.

    Last summer, my parents sold our minivan and bought a Dodge Dart. They thought it was “necessary” to 1 a smaller vehicle.

    This decision affected me greatly because the new car had a manual transmission（手动变速）2I only knew how to drive automatic.

    But this summer was supposed to be3 seeing as it was my first summer with my G2 driver's4 In Ontario, having a G2 means you are able to drive without the supervision（监督）of a 9an)5.

    After the long hours I'd spent learning to drive the car, it felt even 6 to drive it around on my own. I felt a new-found sense of maturity and 7 that I really enjoyed. I would drive everywhere8 when I probably didn't need to.

    So9 when my mom asked me to 10some groceries from the local store I decided to11 instead of walk. While turning into the open spot in the store's parking lot, I somehow scratched the car beside me. When I got out to 12 the damage, a bystander ran up warning me to contact the owner of the car I had scratched, or she would tell her husband, who was “a cop”.

    Shocked and at a loss for words, I managed to find a piece of paper to write my13 number on and put it on the 14 car's window.

    I was really 15when I got home, because not only had I managed to 16 our own new car, I'd also damaged another person's car.

    When the owner called me, she was very aggressive and 17 .Though I hadn't hit her car on purpose, I finally said it would probably be better if she 18back and talked to my parents. When it was all settled, the total19were around $2,000.

    From this matter, I learned that as I got older I would get many new 20 but they will also come with more responsibility.

    When I was a college student, I did a lot of traveling abroad. That was because a professor1me to do so. She said, "Now it is the time for you to travel around the world,2your knowledge through actual experiences and have fun?" I3her.

    Since I started to work for a4company, however, I have done most of my traveling through the Internet. By using the Internet, I have seen the5of many cities on my computer screen. And I have really made business6, too. With the help of the Internet, I have also got7about food in different countries.

    Therefore, I was beginning to feel that actual trips were8necessary when I happened to read a famous chef's (厨师) comment on the Internet. He said, "It is very difficult to have real Italian food in a foreign country, because we enjoy food and the9around us at the same time. So why don't you fly over to Italy and enjoy real Italian 10? "Those words reminded me of my11advice. As information technology12, you might be able to do without making some real trips. But this also means that you will miss the various13 you can get from traveling.

    Today there are people who14 direct communication with others and spend much of their time on the Internet. It is not surprising to see a group of people15not with each other but into their micro phones. It seems as if such people are16by an invisible wall. They seem to be losing out on a good chance to17and talk with other people. I do not think that they are taking good advantage of information technology. We should use information technology as a tool to make our daily18 more fruitful. However, we should never let it 19our time for face to -face communication. Let's make use of information technology more20, and have great fun in experiencing the actual world.

    "What an excellent thing is knowledge," said a sharp-looking, talkative man to one who was 1 older than himself. "Knowledge is an 2 thing, as everyone can see,"3  he. "My boys know more at six and seven years old than I did at twelve. They can read all sorts of books, and 4 on all sorts of subjects. The world is a great deal wiser than it used to be. Everybody knows 5 of everything now. Do you not think, sir, that knowledge is an excellent thing?" " 6  , sir," replied the old man in surprise, looking 7 in manner, "that depends 8 upon the use it is applied. It may be a blessing or a curse(诅咒）. Knowledge is only an 9 of power, and power may be bad, 10 a good thing" "That is what I can't understand," said the 11 little man. "How can power be a bad thing?"

    "I will tell you" calmly replied the old man and thus he went on: "When the power of a horse is under control, the animal is 12in bearing burden, drawing loads, and carrying his master, but 13 that power is out of control, the horse 14 his bridle (缰绳），dashes to pieces the carriage that he draws, or throws his 15. " "I see!" said the little man.

    "When the ship is operated alright, the sail that she 16 enables her sooner to get into port, but if operated 17 ,the more sails she carries, the further she will go out of her course" "I see!" said the little man, " I clearly see! "

    "Well then，"18the old man, "if you see these things clearly, I hope you can see, too, that knowledge, to be good thing, must be rightly applied. God's grace in the heart will make the knowledge of the head a blessing but 19 this, it may 20 to us no better than a curse." "I see! I see! " said the little man, "I see! "