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    Fraser is four years old. He has autism(自闭症). He lives in his own world. Everything is very difficult to him. He doesn't want to play with other children. He doesn't want to say any words to others. His parents are worried about him.

    Then Billy, a cat, comes. It helps Fraser go out of his world.

When Billy sees Fraser, it runs to him quickly. It sits beside Fraser with its paws on Fraser's legs. They seem to be old friends. Fraser says, "This is our cat. He can come to live with us." "I know our life changes," says Fraser's mother.

    Billy stays with Fraser all the time. They play together, listen to the story together and sleep together. When Fraser walks in the garden, Billy is never far away. When Fraser is unhappy, it always lies beside him.

    It seems crazy. But Billy is like Fraser's angel. Fraser changes a lot. The doctor says he is getting better. He doesn't have to see the doctor now.

    It's 14：00. The house is quiet (安静的). "Tom？" Mom says. No one answers. Mom comes to Tom's room. He is not on the bed. But his model plane is on the desk. "He is not in his room, and he is not in the yard (院子)，" Mom thinks. Then Mom comes to his grandparents' room. Tom likes to play with Grandpa's tape player. But he is not there.

    Mom looks for (寻找) him everywhere. But where is Tom? Mom is worried. She wants to call Dad. She comes to the living room to get the phone.

    "What's that？" Mom sees something black under the sofa. Oh, it's Paul, Tom's dog. It loves sleeping (睡觉) there. But what is next to Paul? It's Tom!

Stand Straight and Stand Tall!

    High school was wonderful, but I had always felt uncomfortable as one of the taller members of my class, standing a head above the other girls and bowing at the back of the line to avoid sticking out.

    I especially hated being around large groups of people, like during the social hour after the church services.

    My grandfather watched me grow increasingly uncomfortable, but he didn't laugh at me or try to comfort me. Instead, he would warn me. "Stand straight and stand tall, " he would say, as I tried to shrink（退缩）.

    And each time, I would obey him. Even at age 15, I understood that his advice was about more than just feet and inches. My grandfather grew up in war-torn（饱受战争摧残的） Europe. When German soldiers took his hometown, the beautiful and exciting city of Tarnow, Poland, he joined the Soviet army for his country's freedom. "Stand straight, stand tall" meant something else since then. I trusted my grandfather more than anyone else in my childhood. And whenever I was afraid of something, he would tell me stories of his life.

    After the war, he took a boat for America on January 27, 1947. All alone in a new country, he was frightened about his future. Soon he met other European immigrants（移民）, each of whom tried to find his or her own way.

    If they could do it, why couldn't he? "Stand straight, stand tall," he would tell himself. At first my grandfather refused to enter an American church. He was angry with God for the loss of his whole family in Europe. But soon he felt his self-confidence returning. When he walked into the church the first time, he walked in proudly.

    How nice to meet you all! Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

    My name is Li Ming. I am from Shenzhen. There are three people in my family. My father is a Maths teacher and my mother is an English teacher. We all love playing sports very much. My favorite sport is football. My parents are crazy about badminton.

    From now on we study together and live together. I think we should love and help each other. And we must love our school and teachers! Let's be good friends. Let's get to know each other better. Let's become a real family here at school.

    It's time for us to depend on(依靠) ourselves. Never let our parents down! The future belongs to us.

Billy lives in a quiet street in a big city. His mother sometimes takes him to the park to play, but when she is busy, he plays in the street by himself. One evening Billy's father gave him a beautiful new ball, and the next morning Billy went out into the street to play with it. He played happily for a few minutes, but then a big came along. When the dog saw the ball, he wanted to play with it, too. 

Billy picked the ball up and held it above his head. He did not want the big dog to take it and to run away with it, but the dog jumped up and knocked him over. 

Billy's mother came out of the house and ran to him at once. " Did he bite(咬) you?" she asked. "No, he didn't bite me. But he tasted me, Mum. "

I have forgotten the name of the old lady, who was a customer on my newspaper route(送报路线)when I was twelve. Yet she taught me a 1 that I shall never forget.

On a winter afternoon a friend and I were 2 stones onto the roof(屋顶)of the old lady's house near her garden. I found myself a 3 and threw it. The stone was too smooth, however, so it slipped(滑) from my hand as I let it go and headed straight for a small window on the lady's door. At the sound of 4 glass, we knew we were 5 . We ran faster than any of our stones 6 off her roof.

I was too afraid about getting 7 that night and worried about the old lady with the broken window in winter. However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn't been discovered, I stated to feel it a great shame 8 making her so much trouble. She still greeted me with a smile each day 9 I gave her the newspaper, but I was no longer able to act comfortably when seeing her.

I decided that I would 10 my paper deliver(送) money, and in three weeks I had seven dollars. I put the 11 in an envelope with a note saying that I was 12 for breaking her window and hoped that the seven dollars would cover the cost of repairing it.

The next day, I handed the old lady her paper. She thanked me for the paper and gave me a bag of biscuits she had made herself. I thanked her and ate the biscuits as I 13 my newspaper route. After several biscuits, I felt an envelope and 14 it out of the bag. When I opened the envelope, I was 15 . Inside were the seven dollars and a short note that said, "I'm proud of you."