At the age of 16，Julia left school and worked at a restaurant. For many years, she was only interested in making money. Then one day she had a serious car accident which changed her life.“I had a terrible car accident in August 1996.It took me 10 months to recover （康复) from the accident. During that time，I realized I wanted to find a more meaningful reason for being here in this world，”said Julia.

    As soon as she recovered，Julia gave up working at the restaurant and traveled to California. One day she found a big company wanted to cut down part of a forest. In the forest there were lots of redwood trees. One of the trees was more than 1,000 years old.

Then Julia learned a group called Our Earth was trying to save the redwood forest from the company. They decided to find someone to live in a redwood tree and hoped this would stop the company from cutting the trees down. Julia volunteered.

    Julia lived in the tree for over two years without ever going down. It was cold and wet in a redwood tree. There were even very serious winter storms while Julia was in the tree.

Finally the company decided to protect the tree Julia lived in. They agreed never to cut down the big redwood tree or the trees around it. When Julia put her feet on the earth，she began to cry. But she continued to do other things to protect the environment.

    Who is the greatest teacher in Chinese history? Many people would say: Confucius(孔子). September 28is his birthday. He was born over 2, 000 years ago, but people still remember him on this day. Confucius lived in the Kingdom of Lu, part of today's Shandong Province. He lived during the Spring and Autumn Period. His childhood was sad. His father died when he was only 3 and he had to work to help his mother. But young Confucius didn't give up studying. He visited many famous teachers and learned music, history, poetry and sports.

    Later, he became a teacher and started the first public school in Chinese history. At that time only children from rich families could go to school, but Confucius believed everyone should go to school if they wanted to learn. He had about 3, 000 students in his lifetime.

    Today, people still follow Confucius' lessons. He told us that everyone has something worthy to be learned. "When I am with three people, one of them must be better than me in some areas. I select their good qualities and follow them. I take their bad qualities and change them in myself. "He also taught us, "All study but no thinking makes people puzzled(困惑的). All thinking but no study makes people lazy."

    Confucius is not only a great teacher, but also a famous thinker with wise thoughts about the world and society. His most important teachings are about kindness and good manners. "A kind person should care for others. Be strict with yourself, but he kind to others," he said.

    One day, a man saw an old lady sitting inside her car at the side of the road. Though it was dark, he could sec she needed help. So he stopped his car and walked towards her .The old lady was worried, even though she noticed the smile on his face. Was he going to hurt her? "I'll help you start your car, madam, By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson," he said.

    While Anderson was fitting a spare tired(备胎) to her car, the lady began to talk to him. She thanked him much for coming to help.

    Anderson just smiled as he put his tools away. The lady asked how much she should pay him. He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give them the help they needed. He waited until she started her car and drove off.

    A few miles down the road, the lady saw a small restaurant. She went in and a waitress came over with a sweet smile. The old lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant(怀孕), but she never let the pains and aches change her smile when she served her..

    The lady finished her meal and paid with a hundred dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to pay me back, here is what you do- not let this chain(链子) of love end with you."

    Under the napkin were four more $100 bills.

A group of students have helped their classmate Cheng Dongdong for seven years in Anhui. Cheng, 16, was unable to walk after he got a terrible {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (ill) at the age of seven. "It was in Grade 2 that I introduced Dongdong' ssituation to the students. Then I asked {#blank#}2{#/blank#}someone would like to help him," said Wang Mi, the teacher of Cheng's class. To Wang's surprise, many students raised their {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (hand). And she chose eight boys {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (form) a special group to help Cheng. The group would take him to school{#blank#}5{#/blank#}bring him back every day, help him at lunch and play {#blank#}6{#/blank#}him during the breaks. After several years, Xie Chenxu, Liu Wei and Liao Jiangtao of the group are still in{#blank#}7{#/blank#}same class with Cheng. Xie is responsible for {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(carry) Cheng in and out of the wheelchair (轮椅）as he is {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (strong) than others. Cheng'sparents took him to lots of hospitals. A Canadian doctor {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (begin) treating him early this year and his situation started to become better. Let's wish him a very nice future.

Charlotte's Web is a book popular with readers of all ages.  It is a story about two 1 : a little pig called Wilbur and a spider (蜘蛛) with the name of Charlotte. 

One day, the pig Wilbur is sent to a farmer.  At first, he has no 2 there.  Other animals 3 him.  He is unhappy and sad.  But his 4 turns around when he meets the spider Charlotte.  Later, Charlotte becomes a great friend to him. 

When Christmas comes, there is 5 news for Wilbur.  He is going to be killed (杀).  Wilbur thinks there is no 6 for him, but Charlotte thinks of a 7 plan to help him.  She uses her web to write 8 of praise(赞美) about Wilbur.  People in this town never 9 messages in a spider's web.  So they think that the messages must come from God! Wilbur becomes 10 enough to go to a big game.  He doesn't 11 the game, but the famous web makes sure that he will never be killed. 

The 12 of the story is the spider Charlotte herself.  Helping Wilbur makes her very 13.  And after giving birth to her babies, she dies (死).  14 Wilbur thinks he will have no friends again, three young and small baby 15 come and become his new friend. 

Tom's family was poor. His father did a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(专职的) job with a little money. They couldn't afford electric {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (电灯) because they were so expensive. So they used some {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (蜡烛) instead. In Tom's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (空余) time, he cleaned shoes for others in the street. 

One day, a {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(富有的) man called Miser appeared in front of Tom. He watched his shoes for a while, and then looked at Tom. Tom knew this kind of people well. They love money but hate to spend even a{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(极小的) amount of it. 

 Tom said, "Let me clean your shoes, sir. Only two pence, sir. " Mr Miser 1 {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(摇晃) his head and walked away. Tom thought for a second and then called out, "I'd like to clean it for nothing. " This time Mr Miser agreed. And soon one of his shoes was{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(照耀) brightly. 

 When Mr Miser put the other shoe on the stool, Tom said he wouldn't clean it unless (除非) he was {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(支付) two pence for his work. Mr Miser was very unhappy. He{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(拒绝) and went away. But the well- cleaned shoe was so bright that it made the other one look even dirtier. Mr Miser looked round. Finally he returned and gave Tom two pence.