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     David Rockefeller died in his sleep at his New York home on March 20, 2017. According to Forbes, he was 101, the 1 billionaire on 2017 world's richest list.

     The Rockefeller family is an American industrial and banking family. It was one of the world's largest fortunes in the oil business during the early 20th century. They are one of the most 2 families in the history of the United States.

     David Rockefeller, the grandson of America's first billionaire John D. Rockefeller, was born in New York City on June 12, 1915. He  3his studies of Science from Harvard University in 1936, and then furthered his education in the University of Chicago, where he received a Ph.D. in economics in 1940.

     He 4 in North Africa and France in military intelligence during World War II. After returning to the United States, Rockefeller began a great 5 in banking. During the 1970s Rockefeller was chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank and helped solve New York City's financial problems in the middle of the 1970s.

     By the time he retired in 1981, David Rockefeller was 6 as 'RULER OF THE WORLD' in banking, education, foreign relations and public service. He developed good 7 with world leaders, 8 South African President Nelson Mandela and China's Deng Xiaoping.

     David Rockefeller, along with The Rockefeller family, developed close generational ties with China over the past 100 years. His life witnessed (见证) the century-long connection with China. The Rockefeller foundation (基金会) put money in China's science, medicine, and higher education. They bought the Union Medical School and renamed it the "Peking Union Medical College." The foundation 9 a first-class school of medicine in China. They also introduced the US Johns Hopkins model to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital (北京协和医院) which remains one of the 10 hospitals in China today.

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    Perhaps the only test score that I remembered is the 55 when I was in high school.

    The test was the final for a course. I remembered waiting anxiously as my teacher Mr. Right handed out our papers one by one. It was a rather 1 test. I heard my classmates groaning(叹息), and I could tell by the groans that the scores weren't looking2 .

    Mr. Right put my paper on my desk. There in big red numbers, circled to draw attention, was my score, 55!

    I lowered my head, and 3 the score up quickly. A 55 is not something that you wanted your classmates to see.

    “The scores were not very good, none of you 4” Mr. Right said. “The highest score in the class was a 55.”A 55. That's me!5 my sad look didn't look so bad. I had the highest score. I felt a lot better.

    I walked home alone that day with the low but high score. My father knew that I had a big 6 that day and asked me as soon as I got home, “7 did you do in your test?”

    “I made a 55,” I said.

    A frown(皱眉) now stood on my father's face. I knew I had to8 at once. “But Dad, I had the highest score in the class, ” I 9  said. I thought that explanation would make a difference.

    “You 10 !” my father replied.

    “But it's the highest!” I 11.

    “I don't12 what scores others had, but you failed. What 13is what you do!” my father firmly said.

    For years, my father was 14 that way. It didn't matter what others did, it only mattered what I did and that I did it excellently.

    We often don't understand the 15 of good parents until we ourselves stand in the parents' shoes. My father's words have carried me throughout life.

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    Rose was telling her granddaughter Lily stories about how she had written a best-selling 1 in her early 30's.

"Did you always know you wanted to be a2, Grandma?" asked Lily. Rose smiled at her granddaughter. " I 3 knew it on my first day of primary school."

"I felt like that on my first day of primary school too! It was singing, I used to be sure that I would be a singer," said Lily. "Why 'used to' ,Lily?" Rose asked.

"Well," began Lily,"4 be the best singer in the class. But there was a new girl coming to my class, and she was better at singing than I was. What was the point(意义) of 5 as she was much better than me?"

"You know, Lily," Rose said," Although I was the best at writing in primary and middle school, when I got into high school, I met a girl in my English class. She was always the best writer. I used to 6 because of it, thinking that I was no longer the best writer, I was 7."

"So what did you do?" Lily asked. "I did what any person would do." said Rose." I did everything to be better than her."

"Did you ever write better than her in your class?" Lily asked." No. But I realized that it wasn't about being the best out of everyone, it was about being the very best that I could be.

So I 8my love for writing, and look where I am now…" Rose 9.

"Wow!" said Lily in surprise. "But what's that girl doing now?" "Who knows, but there's one thing I am 10:she hasn't written a best-selling book yet."

    Sophie was a ten-year-old girl. She loved 1. She drew before breakfast. She drew after breakfast. Sometimes she even drew on her way to 2.

    One day Sophie arrived 3 at school. "Why are you late, Sophie?" asked her teacher. "I'm sorry, Miss. I was drawing a big house on the way to school. I forgot about the class.

    "Oh, Sophie," said her teacher. "You must think 4 about your drawing and more about school. Can you give me your 5 now please?"

    "I'm sorry, Miss, I don't have it finished."

    "6 , Sophie?"

    "Yesterday I was in town. I saw a 7 running down the road. He had a handsome face so I drew him." The teacher gave Sophie a strange look. "But Sophie, there was a 8 robbery (抢劫案) in town yesterday..."

    "Maybe that was the man I 9," said Sophie. "Maybe I have drawn a picture of the robber!"

    After school, Sophie went to the police station. She 10 her picture to a policeman. "Where did you 11 this picture?" asked the policeman.

    "I drew it," said Sophie. "I drew it yesterday in 12."

    "This is a picture of Ronnie, the Robber," said the policeman. "So Ronnie robbed the bank! Thank you, Sophie. Now we can 13 him."

    A week later, the policeman 14 a letter to Sophie's school. "Sophie's drawing helped us catch Ronnie the Robber," he said. "She is a very clever girl."

    Now her teachers were very 15 of Sophie, the girl who loves to draw

    Billy's favorite color was orange. But he couldn't see what orange looked like.

    A month after he was born, his mother noticed that his1weren't as big as a normal baby's. "Billy would2be able to see. He is blind. "The doctor said. Even so, with the hope to help Billy learn about the world around him, his mother kept 3everything she saw for him.

    Not just through his mother's4, Billy saw with his ears and hands, too. He had perfect hearing. In fact, he could5many things that normal people didn't notice.

    6Billy lived in the dark, he always believed a dream would light up his life. He found that he was7in computer science. So he began to learn it at seven years old. As a young boy, he8going to Sanford University some day. And for years of efforts, he finally achieved his dream.

    Many people wanted to find out the secret of his9. Billy explained, "Just move forward! Don't let any difficulty 10 your dream from coming true."

    You cannot choose what you are given, but you can choose how you make use of it.

    Two years ago, Matthew Nonnemacher's teacher asked her students to think of one wish. Matthew didn't have to think too 1. He drew a picture of himself giving money to a 2 person.

    Drawing a picture is easy, of course. But Matthew did much more than that. He 3 to start to collect pennies (便士)."I think almost everyone has extra (额外的) 4," said Matthew. He knew that if most people liked to give away a penny, the pennies could 5 up. He wished that he could collect $10,000.

Matthew started his work 6. He put penny boxes in schools and supermarkets. He also went on TV to 7 people to give away their pennies. When Matthew finished the work, he collected more than $18,000 in pennies.

Matthew gave away his 8 to the United Way. The United Way gives a lot of 9 to people in need. Matthew made his 10 come true with his own hard work.