Tambun Gediu, now badly hurt and staying in hospital, says it was his wife that saved his life from the mouth of a tiger.

    "I was 1 a rabbit in the forest not far from my home and was ready to catch it when I saw the 2. That's when I realized that I was being followed," said Mr. Gediu. The tiger jumped at Mr Gediu at once.  He stood there with great 3 so that he did not know what to do for a moment, and then he tried 4 a tree to keep away from the animal, 5 he was pulled down by the tiger.

    His wife, 55-year-old Han Besau, who was in the kitchen, heard the noise, realizing it was coming from the 6 where her husband was looking for rabbits and she 7 the nearest "weapon (武器)" -a wooden ladle(长柄勺)-rushed out of the 8 and into the nearby forest. Seeing her husband 9 hard to stop the tiger tearing（撕裂）him into pieces, she ran 10 to the animal, shouting at the top of her voice and hitting its head with the ladle until it ran off.

    Tambun had to wait more than 3 hours before he could be taken to hospital in the nearest town, Gerik, because his village was very far.

    It was the first time that a tiger had attacked someone in the village.

     Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet (西藏). Our legs were so heavy and cold that 1 felt like big pieces of ice. Have you 2 seen snowmen ride bicycles? That's what we looked like! Along the way children who were 3 long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late4 we found it was so cold that our water bottles froze (结冰).However, the lakes   5 like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful.

    Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She was in high spirit and I knew I didn't need to

    6 her. To climb the mountains was hard work but as we7 us, we were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for miles, and we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. After a while, we began going 8 the mountains. It was great fun especially as it slowly became much 9. At the foot of the mountains, colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many sheep eating green grass. Then we had to 10 our caps, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.

    In the early evening we stopped to make camps. We 11 our tent（帐篷）and then we ate. After supper Wang Wei went to sleep but I stayed 12.  13 midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter. As I 14 below the stars I thought about how far we had already travelled.

    We will reach Dali in Yunan Province soon, where our cousins will join us. We 15 hardly wait to see them!

    Whitney didn't have many friends. She was shy and 1. She never wanted to be popular, but she did want to have someone to share 2 and laugh with.

    Then it was time for her to go to college in another town. And she had to 3 with someone she didn't know. She had no idea whether she could make friends in that new environment.

    But something happened during the first class. And it 4Whitney's life. The teacher asked everyone to 5 a little about themselves. Whitney told everyone where she came from and some simple information. The last 6 for each student was "What is your goal for this term?" 7 of the students said it was to get good grades, pass the tests or something similar. But Whitney said something 8 . She said that her goal was to make just one good friend.

    When most of the students sat quietly, one student came to Whitney. She reached out her hand and introduced herself. She asked 9 she could be Whitney's friend. Whitney was surprised and happy. She 10 and reached her hand out, too.

    Their friendship lasted all through the college.

    Susan had long blonde hair and big blue eyes.So did most of the other1in her school class，which troubled her a lot.“I look like everyone else！I'm not special！I'm bored！”Susan2to her mother.

    She decided to try to make herself look3She painted big pink spots on her neck and when she didn't get attention，she stuck a long plastic nose on top of her real nose.Nobody noticed that，4.She took ink(墨水)and poured it all over her5.She wore clown(小丑)clothes to school and stuck leaves in her ears.6no matter what she did，she still didn't get any7and nobody thought she was special.

    One morning her8went to wake her up and told her to get ready for school.She made Susan9the ink out of her hair and clean her neck.“I'm not going to school10！I'm bored！”She buried(埋葬)her head11the quilt and cried.

    “Susan，”her mother said，“you are different.You are unique(独一无二)and special.12in the world looks just like you.Some people have blonde hair like you and some have blue eyes like you，but none of them has your smile or the twinkle in your eyes or your pink face.Nobody laughs like you，either.Now13and get ready for school.”

    Susan went to school that day and looked at all the other kids in her class.“Mom was14.Nobody looks just like me.”Susan said.“I am special.I am unique and I am not15！”

    A boy named Jack was well-down in his hometown because he couldn't hear anything. He was born deaf. Although people 1 him a lot, they also treated him much differently than other people. The other children worried they might 2 him while playing together. Adults acted like he was unable to understand them, as if he was a baby.

    However, this year, people got to understand Jack a little better. On Jack's birthday, everyone in town would 3 earplugs (耳塞) so that they couldn't hear anything either. This day came to be known as the Day of Silence. People became aware of how difficult life could be when you can't hear anything. They also 4 that Jack had many skills.

    On that day, no one thought of Jack as just a deaf person People saw a whole 5 side of him. They paid more attention to what he said. They were also surprised by his smartness and ability to find a solution to nearly any 6 that he faced. They realized that he had always been like that, and that he simply needed to communicate with others in a different way. In the end, he was 7 just like any other little boy.

    On the Day of Silence, people came to know Jack's true 8. They learned that although most of us are different from each other-sometimes in big ways—we are still mostly the same in our hearts and minds.