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My mother's loving hands

      Night after night, she came to help me sleep, even long after my childhood years.

      I don't remember1it first started making me a little angry 一 my mom's hands pushing my hair that way. But it really made me uncomfortable, for they2rough（粗糙的）against my young skin. Finally, one night, I 3 her, "Don't do that any more. Your hands are too rough!" She didn't say anything,4 she never did it again.

      Years later I missed my mother's5and her goodnight kiss on my face. I'm not a little girl any more. My mom is6 her mid-seventies, and her rough hands are still doing things for my family and me.

      Now my own children have7. It was late on Thanksgiving Eve. As I slept in my bedroom, a familiar hand ran across my8to push the hair from my head. Then a kiss, ever so softly, touched my brow（额头).

      Taking my mom's hand, I told her how9 I was for that night I shouted at her. But my mom didn't know what I was talking about. She had forgotten it long ago.

      That night, I10with a new appreciation（感激）for my mother's caring hands. And the guilt（内疚）that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.

    I had a summer camp with my classmates last year.

    Early in the morning. We met at the station. After saying goodbye to our parents, we got on the buses. It took us more than two hours to arrive at the campground. We got off the buses cheerfully. Laughing and shouting. We jumped and ran all over the place. It was the first time for us to be away from the parents .Some of us started to feel homesick(想家). However, when the night party and dances began, the homesickness was gone. The next day, everybody rushed to the boating class, hoping to be at the head of the others. At first, my friends and I worked hard, but the boat wouldn't listen to us and kept going round and round. Then the teacher taught us how to work together. After many tries, we did much better. Swimming class was my favorite. It was about the hottest time of a day and the best time to stay in the cool water. The swimming teacher was a funny man, and during the class he made us laugh happily. During the week I learned a lot of new things and made many new friends. I also learned how to take care of myself.

    There was a farmer named Hafiz in Africa who was happy. He was happy because he was satisfied with his life.

    One day a wise man came to him and told him about 1of diamonds and the power that goes along them .

    The wise man said" if you had a diamond the size of your finger, you could have your own city.If you had a diamond of the size of your fist, you could2own your own country." And then he went3.That night the farmer couldn't sleep .He was 4and he was discontent .The next morning he made arrangements to sell off his farm and went in search of diamonds. He looked all over Africa and Europe but couldn't5any.When he got to Spain, he was emotionally, physically and financially broke. He got so6 that threw himself into the Barcelona River and died.

    Back home, the person who had bought his 7 was watering the sheep at a stream. Across the stream, the light of the morning sun hit a stone and make it sparkle like a rainbow.He picked up the store and put it in the living room.

    That afternoon the wise man came and saw the stone sparkling. He asked," Is Hafiz 8？" The new owner said, "No, why do you ask so？"The wise man said，"Because that is a diamond. I recognize one when I see one." The man said, "No, that's just a stone I9 .Come ,I'll show you there are many more."They went and picked some samples  and send them for analysis . Sure enough, the stones were diamonds. They found that the farm was10mountains of diamonds .

    It does not always come easy to discover oneself. From a young age, I had already got a strong sense of who I would like to become. 1 an accident made me redefine(重审) myself.

    To me, skating was the most important. There was 2 in this world that filled my heart with such joy. I spent twenty-four hours a week practising my 3 . Having no social life or interests but skating, my devotion(挚爱) brought me first place medals in nearly every  4 .

    Unfortunately, in one show, I fell down and hurt myself 5 . After several X-rays and MRI(磁共振) scans, the 6 told me that I couldn't return to my sport any more. The pain in my back was so hard to stand that even the 7 daily tasks became difficult.

    As my passion(激情) was 8 , I had little sense of who I was to become. However, after eight months of suffering, something had to 9. Instead of wasting my days sitting around painfully, I began to put my 10 into local public service projects. By volunteering  11 a swimming teacher and summer reading teacher for kids, I got an idea of who I 12 to become. After a few months, I put all my heart into developing my interest in the arts. Little by little, I 13 out of the shadow(阴影) and rebuilt my confidence.

    Sometimes, some 14 rocks get in our way. We can choose to stay behind or try to climb over. My accident was a rock that 15 to stop me from reaching success. Today I'm a very confident and positive person.

It was so close to noon on December, 21 1943, in the Tanana River Valley of Alaska, not far from the Arctic Circle, when Crane on the Iceberg Inez was preparing to jump out of 1 plane. Wind cried and he was in the fall. Before Crane realized 2 was happening, he found himself 3 on a frozen stream. The plane that he had to 4 was burning, two miles away, which would be good 5 a rescue. However, the fire also meant the supplies—-food, sleeping bags, signal flames, a gun-were lost. Still he shouted out for any sign of life. 6 there was nobody else. Crane tried to take 7steps, but the thick snow made his walking hard. And to make things 8 a broken foot made 9 nearly impossible to reach the crash site before nightfall. He knew he mustn't lose his 10 and began to think of the things he could do.

    It was minus-60degrees Fahrenheit. Crane knew he needed to start a fire and get it going,11 he might not last the night. His fingers were dead, but he managed to light a match. The little flame wasn't enough to catch. He tried another three matches but they did nothing except burn his fingertips. At that moment, he remembered hearing from his father days ago. So with the help of the 12, a fire rose up. The 13 match worked. The journey back was unexpectedly difficult. One of his feet became so large that he could 14 put on his shoe. He walked at the best speed that he could manage although he was in great pain. Luckily, the 23-year-old 15 who had a strong will succeeded in keeping himself away from varied kinds of danger until help arrived 81 days later.

    When I was a junior high school student in 1980, God gave me a gift. It was happiness.

    One weekend, I went to visit my grandparents in the countryside. On my way home, a car ran over me and cut off my arms because of its high speed.

    Several days later when I woke up at the hospital, I realized I had to spend the rest of my life 1arms. How sad I felt at that time! Even I was full of fears, but slowly I knew I had to face the fact and got over it. 1 couldn't get my arms back even though I 2 every day.

    However, it's easier 3 than done. It took me nearly half a year to get out of the sadness 4. I got so much from my past story. From then on, I could treat my life with a usual mind. But in our daily life, I often see my classmates 5 about little things: They get a bad grade on a test; their bus comes 6 ; they don't have a mobile phone but 7 have, and so on. But I only 8 life. I was lucky to realize from an accident: It is a waste of our life to pay attention to what you have 9 . We should always think of what we have. So why are so many people unhappy? Someone may say, "My whole life would improve if I have a new car." But when you get the car and what  10? For a whole week you are walking on air. Then you go right back to being unhappy.

    Happiness depends on what we have! It's in our heart. Happiness comes from knowing the art of appreciating(感激) and taking pleasure in what you really have.