Mary, a 22-year-old young woman, stands in the kitchen of Edsa Shangri-La Hotel in Manila，preparing a cake. It would seem to be1for a cook, but Mary is not normal. She has no hands.

    Her disability(残疾), however, only slows her down while working. Using other parts of her body, Mary can cut grapes and strawberries into pieces. "When I first saw Mary, I was worried she might hurt herself when using a knife, but that has never been a2,"says the boss of the hotel. "She does not get special treatment and works just as hard as the rest of the cooks."

    Mary has come a long way since the day in September 2002 when she and her uncle were attacked by two men, who were trying to force her family off their land. The 11-year-old girl passed out(晕倒) as she tried to3herself from the attack. After she came to her sense, she found her uncle dead and saw her arms broken. Later, the doctors did an operation. They saved her life but could not save her hands.

    In 2006, with the help of the family, Mary went to live at House with No Steps, a Manila rehabilitation(康复) and training centre for disabled people. She learned how to write and do housework there. And more4, she became used to her disability. She believed she could live a normal life although she was disabled. She thought she had something important to do in life because she was5alive after the terrible attack. After she finished high school, she took a two-year Hotel and Restaurant Management course because she had enjoyed cooking since she was a little girl.

    Mary didn't shy away from the attention when she was reported on television. "I wanted others living with disabilities to believe it's6to live a normal life," Mary says. "It is difficult to make a living, but I don't lose hope. I believe nothing is impossible if you dream and work hard."

    "Doctor Johnson, I don't want to eat now, that's because nothing has a taste for me. It's been like this for long. In fact, I didn't have a delicious meal after I caught a terrible cold last month, What can I do?"

    "Here are some medicine, Mrs. Harris. Take three pills three times a day for seven days and come back and see me. But remember, don't eat anything during the week, or you can just drink some water."

    Next week an upset Mrs. Harris came into Dr. Johnson's office. "Doctor! I'm doing it just as you told me, but delicious food is still tasteless for me. I don't know what was in those pills, but the problem is worse! What do you have to say for yourself?"

    "But when and how do you take these pills?" asked the doctor.

    "At first, I took these pills three times a day, just before dinner," continued the woman, "but these pills are too bitter (苦). So I had to take these pills after three meals."

    "Calm down, Mrs. Harris," said the doctor soothingly. "Now that we've fixed your taste problem, It's OK now, we'll work on your hearing!"

Mr. Evans lived in a city. He was a maths teacher three years ago. His students liked him. He decided to work in the middle school all his life. But a terrible accident 1 his life. 

One spring he took his class to visit an interesting place. The children saw a lot of 2 things. But on their way to school, a truck hit their bus because the young driver was drunk. Five students

3 and more than half of the students were hurt in the accident. He didn't know how it happened and was very sad about it. After he came out of hospital, he left school and became a         4 . He tried his best to stop the drivers from breaking the traffic rules. He worked hard and was strict with the drivers. So they were afraid of him. 

One afternoon it was very hot. Mr. Evans was 5 . He was standing at the crossing. Suddenly he saw a car rushing towards the crossing. It ran so fast that it almost hit a man on a bike. He stopped it at once and saw a girl in it. 

" 6 your license to me, Madam," said Mr. Evans. 

The girl gave her bag to him and said, "Please look for it in the bag yourself. I can't see anything without glasses. "

With the help of the Internet, shopping is not a difficult job. Just click your mouse to choose the article (物品) you like, and you can finish shopping. You don't need to walk out of the room. It seems easy and quick. But there's a trap(陷阱) online sometimes. If you are careless, it will bring your some trouble. You may find the colour of the article is different from what you want, or the size is too small or too big. If you want to be different, you'd better not buy clathes online. Once you put on the clothes you buy online and go out, you will find many people wear the same clothes in the street.

A daughter graduated from college. Her father planned to teach her a 1 . He said to her," My darling, you have grown up. Now I'm considering 2 my car, and can you help me get a good price for it?" The daughter agreed. Then the father asked her to take the car to 3 places and then choose the best 4 .

The daughter knew that her father's car was a good one. She was 5 that the car was worth a good price although it looked pretty old. She went to the first place—a used car market, and they offered her $1,000. Then in a pawn(典当) shop, she was told the car was worth just $200, which really 6 the daughter. Finally, she went to a car club. The workers there told the daughter 7 that the car was very hard to 8 in the market because it had been no longer in production and that they wanted to buy the car any time at $50,000 and even more.

The daughter told these 9 to her father. The father said," Don't be surprised. The value of the car is different in different places. Only the right place can give you the right value. Therefore, if you are not appreciated(赏识) by someone, do not be angry. It just means you are in the 10 place. You should move on and go to a better place where you can certainly go far."

 Hello, everyone. I'm Nick. I like reading very much, 1 my parents buy a reading robot(机器人) for me. 2 name is Luka. It looks like an owl(猫头鹰). Owls are clever, and Luka is clever, too. It can do 3 things well. It can read all the 4 books, such as storybooks, picture books, cartoon books, and so on. If (如果) you put 5 interesting storybook in front of it, it can read the story to you. If you put a picture in front of it, it can tell you what is in it. Luka 6 like my good friend. It is really helpful. It is always there when I want to talk. "Hi, Luka!" I say. "Hi, Nick! 7 I help you?" Luka says.

 Luka can 8 Chinese, English and German. And it is also a great singer. After reading, I often ask it to sing a song for me. Some Chinese engineers made Luka. They hope to let Luka read 9 kids from all over the world. Do you want 10 Luka home?

I'm sure you will love it.