Dad's Advice

    When I finished my school education, I began to find a job. I was very happy because it was time to make my dream come true.

    One evening, my father talked to me about what kind of 1I should look for. He wanted me to work for a big company and asked me to take his advice. But I really hoped to be a teacher. It was my dream. I didn't accept his 2. We shouted and didn't talk to each other. Even worse, I found it more and more difficult for us to say sorry as time went by.

A week later, I decided to break the 3 and make the first move. So I dialed (拨打) my father's number and began talking in a low voice, "Dad...I am 4. I shouldn't argue with you that day!"

There was a silence at the other end. After a while, he 5 in a low voice. "Well, that's all right, honey."

I was surprised, and raised my voice a little, "Dad, I understand why you don't want me to be a teacher, but to be a teacher is my dream job. I hope you can also 6 me."

From the other end of the line comes my father's answer, "Sorry, honey. I shouldn't force you to accept my idea. You have your own dream, I should 7 you."

    On hearing this, I was so 8 that my eyes were full of tears (眼泪). I realized that this special moment had taken our father-and-son relationship to a new level.

    A few weeks later, my mother told me that my father had been ill for half a year. He would get an operation (手术). The operation was successful. My father was saved and 9 escaped (逃离，逃脱) death.

    Many times I feel lucky that I 10 the first step to say sorry to my father. I can't imagine how I can live the rest of my life if my father didn't have a successful operation.

    In China, almost everyone knows Ma Yun. Ma Yun became one of1 men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock（股票)market last year with a value of around £140 billion—the largest public offering in history.2 amazing thing it is! Here are some stories about him on the way to 3.

    Ma made his 4 trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet 5 the first time. After6 for “beer”, he saw that no results7 up about China. Then he searched for “China” and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website—the seed for Alibaba was sown(播种).

    Ma said he8 many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and9 companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.

    Learning English was difficult when Ma was a teenager 10 limited resources. However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around 11 hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from12 he had been taught at school and by his parents.

    Ma's hero is Forrest Gump 13 never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(达沃斯论坛)in 2015,Ma said, “Life14 a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get.”15as Ma does, never give up and you will be successful one day.

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    A group of boys gathered around a tree. "What a tall tree!" they said to each other. "It would be 1to climb to the top!"

    The group of boys then decided to play a game to see who could climb to the top of the tree2. Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking on at their children as they 3.

    One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group. Nobody thought he would4 the competition.

    Then the game started. All of the boys tried their best to climb as5 as they could. Although they all made it halfway up the tree before David did, he reached the top of the tree fastest6.

    His mother was proud to see this. She asked him, "David, how did you 7to reach the top of the tree so quickly?"

    "It was easy," David said. "The other children kept looking down as they climbed. When they realized how high they were, they got scared(恐惧的) and were afraid of    8down. I, however, looked only 9. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top."

    It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without looking back, we are more likely to reach our goals(目标).

    Playing a musical instrument is a great hobby. I started playing the piano when I was five years old and I still 1 it now: it is a perfect way to relax and can cheer me up when I'm feeling 2. When 1 lived at home with my parents, we had a brown piano in the 3 and I had piano lessons every week. However, when I went to university, I had to 4 my family and my piano behind.

    I enjoyed playing the piano so much that I 5 all the money I got for my birthday on a new electric piano. It was quite 6 to get it from the music shop: I had to ask a friend to help 7 get the piano into a taxi and then move it to the door. I was able to play 8 I wanted, using earphones so that I wouldn't disturb (打扰) my roommates. When I got tired of studying or writing an essay, I would take a 9  by playing something energetic. It really helped me feel relaxed and happy! 10 I was feeling a bit homesick (想家的) , playing music that I learned on my old piano made me feel 11.

    Now I am studying abroad and I don't have a 12 with me. When I'm listening to a tune that I can 13 , I feel nostalgic (怀旧的) about the piano keyboard. I wish that pianos were as portable (轻便的) as guitars 14 I really want to spend time on my hobby. Luckily, there are other activities that I 15 do to relax, like drawing or writing stories.