Dad is a reserved man of few words but is always strict. What's more, he is quite different from others in ideas and 1: beating or bringing to account his son in the presence of neighbors as he strongly believes in such a2: a dutiful son is the 3 of the rod, which is deeply impressed in his mind from his father. So I was emotionally upset and 4 in spite of just a 10-year-old kid, who thought, “I was randomly beaten, so I would bring blows on other smaller kids”. And Dad would deal me a heavier 5the next time.

    It 6 that I completely lost control of this blow and found it impossible for me to 7 on my lessons as I came to blows with other kids all day long . Everything went from bad to worse for me so much 8 I couldn't write out the English alphabet, 9 could I do arithmetic (算术). 10, I was sent into a reformatory school(劳教所) where I stayed guilty for two and a half years. This time Dad shed bitter tears , saying, “Son, it is not that I don't love you but that I should not have been so angry at your failure to 11 my expectations!”

    Retiring from the army, he gave me 10,000 US dollars for a trip around the world. 12 getting back from this trip, he said to me, “Book knowledge is 13 valuable but he who travels far and wide should know better at the time of your life. I guess you are now fully prepared to get started for work.” At 26, I started up Runhua Machinery Co., Ltd., which was later poorly 14 and went bankrupt(破产); it was not long 15I started to engage in a dye-stuff plant which happened to be blown up. At all these, my father only gave me such words, “I will congratulate you on your god-given setbacks and failures, which will help you make 16 mistakes in life.”

    The Ph.D. graduation ceremony was grandly started and my parents were 17 invited to 18. Dad didn't say a single word 19 me but cried bitterly again this time, and at this very moment, my mind was in a state of 20 emotions and I stood on the stage with warm tears in my eyes.

    It was 1959. Life became hard after my husband got killed in a traffic accident. With five children aged from two to seven to take care of, I1thought of finding a job. But 2 was running out and Christmas was drawing near. Every child was talking about the present that Santa Claus would bring them. It occurred to me that I had to find a 3

    I went to almost all the places where I had 4 to get a job. But when the interviewers learned about my case, they 5 me politely. I felt sad and 6 saying to myself that I would try the last place.

    I went into a 24-hour chain restaurant with five children 7 patiently in the car. The manager was an elegant woman of about 40. As I explained my 8to her, she kept looking out of the window to see all those kids.

    Finally she told me she really needed someone but the time was from 11 at night until 7 in the morning and that the pay was one dollar an hour. I accepted the job without hesitation and 9to do it well. The problem was that I had to find a person to look after my children during my work time. At last I found a teenage girl. I would pay her one dollar for looking after my five children. She seemed 10with the work because there would be 11 that she needed to do as all my children would be sleeping during the time she “worked”.

    The other employees were very friendly and helpful. They knew my12situation and often brought some “old” toys from home to give me, of which some were new. It was obvious that they actually bought them for my kids but said they were old in order not to13me.

    Christmas was only three days away. Everyone was preparing presents 14their families. But I knew there would be no money for toys for the kids. So, I found some red paint and started repairing and painting some old toys. Then I hid them in the15 so there would be something for Santa Claus to16on Christmas morning.

    On the morning of Christmas, I 17to the car, hoping to get home and get the presents from the basement and place them under the tree before they 18 up. But when I opened the car door, I found my car was filled with boxes of presents for children aged from two to seven. Beside the presents was a 19saying ”Merry Christmas!”20and appreciation filled my heart.

    I lifted my wet woollen gloves to my face and wiped the snowflakes from my eyes. I could not feel my nose and my 1 formed a thick fog in the air. The biting wind was making me2. I was fed up! I didn't want to be here. I wanted to go home. But Mum and Dad had 3me to go for a Sunday afternoon walk in the park. I could see my 4 in the snowy path, like a trail of breadcrumbs (一串面包屑) in the forest showing me the way 5.

    I stopped and listened to my 6. I could 7 the wind crying like a homeless dog hungry for a delicious 8. The once-green tree 9, which used to wave gently in the breeze, had become bare, and the grass was covered with a 10 blanket of fresh snow. Then I saw a broken spider's web shining golden beneath a pale sun. My breath was like silky soft 11 floating up into the freezing cold air.

    Suddenly there was Mum, 12 handing me a big cup of hot chocolate. Her big smile immediately 13 my heart.

    "Here you are, Jo. This will keep you 14," she said as she placed a comforting arm around my shoulders and 15 her cheek against mine.

    I slowly took a mouthful of the hot 16 and felt it slowly dripping down my throat like lava (熔岩) 17 down a mountainside. My wet woollen gloves were now warm, not 18. My breath warmed, and I was 19 fed up or cold. I was happy and 20.

    Angela Fullmer already had enough to handle. She'd recently completed her bachelor's degree and she had given birth to her 1 baby Atreyu just three months before.

    So at 1:30 a.m. March 15, when her dog Capone was barking 2 in their home, she yelled, "Shut up! You're going to 3 the baby."

    He wouldn't 4.

    She called for Capone to come to her.

    He wouldn't come.

    The dog 5 comes, she said, ever since she and husband, Isaac, 6 the wandering animal from a busy highway 18 months ago.

    Capone just looked at her and ran back to the 7.

    Fullmer, 32 — who has a 8 about dogs — thought something wasn't 9. Tired as she was, she went to 10 what was going on in the kitchen.

    The plug for the microwave was on fire. The fire seemed 11 at first, but she knew she needed to get the 12 out fast. She scooped up her 13 baby Atreyu, and then grabbed her 20-month-old toddler Mondecai. She yelled for her oldest, Landon, 12, to help 14 the other children.

    By the time most of the children were heading out.15 shot up to the kitchen ceiling and the smoke alarm 16 went off. She called 911 and did a roll call. Her nine children were all 17 outside the house.

    Capone? He had barked and barked for two minutes before the fire alarm even 18. He had saved their lives.

    "He 19 his family," Fullmer said. "I'm glad we found him on the 20."

    There was a woman in Detroit, who has two sons. She was 1 about them, especially the younger one, Ben, 2 he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class 3 him because he seemed so 4.

    The mother 5 that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school.

    She6 them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a 7 a week and do a report about it for her.

    One day, in Ben's 8, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben 9up his hand and the teacher let him 10. "Why did Ben raise his hand?" they wondered. He 11 said anything; what could he possibly want to say？

    Well, Ben not only 12 the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew 13 the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were 14. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book 15.

    Ben later went on to the 16 of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University 17 at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.

    After Ben had grown up, he 18 something about his mother that he did not know as a19. She, herself, had never learned how to 20.

    When Alana brought Eva back to the hospital, doctors discovered that her kidneys (肾) were failing. After a long series of tests, doctors 1 that Eva was in need of a kidney transplant (移植). The only 2was finding a match. Even though all of her relatives were 3to donate, none were a match.

    After Eva's diagnosis, a YouCaring donation page was set up to help 4money to cover Eva's medical expenses. Also, one of Alana's friends posted on Facebook to see if anyone was willing to do a(n) 5deed. Many strangers responded, but one response from a woman named Tanya Thomas stood out from the 6.

    "Somehow Tanya got a hold of the post, and someone gave her my phone number, and we just started 7back and forth, along with the other people who had responded," says Alana."8 , one-by-one, everyone started fading out.But one person 9, and it was Tanya Thomas."

    Tanya went through all the necessary 10, and eventually learned that she was a 11!

    Alana was so 12for this stranger's act of13, but she soon realized that Tanya wasn't much of a14at all. It15that Tanya is a teacher at Slate Ridge Elementary, where Eva is a16. Alana had no17until she met Tanya at the school.

    "I 18started crying and wrapped my arms around her," explained Alana. Alana wants her daughter's incredible story to serve as inspiration for others to 19living donors.

    "Tanya wants to help bring awareness to others to be living donors," says Alana. "It's a message that she and Eva 20."