Like most July days, it was hot. I 1into a coffee shop to drink a cup of black coffee, It was a nice and small store with little round tables and chairs.

    As I entered, I found a very old woman bent over a table near the door. Her back was so badly twisted (扭曲) by some sadness that her face nearly 2 the tabletop. I sat down facing her two 3 away.

    "Poor woman," I thought." Why does God let people live so long past their prime (盛年)?"

    As I thought, another aged lady entered the shop and sat down with her. 4the two of them were talking about childhood days. They talked of how little the shop had 5 in 70 years. In minutes, the two of them were shaking with laughter. I looked again at the first woman, then in the mirror on a nearby wall, 6 a picture of myself.

    I was wearing a7 shirt.

    She was well dressed in white, with gold rings on her fingers.

    I was in 8 spirits. She was laughing and smiling. I was making my 9 come true. She had millions of wonderful 10 to recall(回忆).

    She was 11 the day with a good friend. I was 12worried about getting old. She was old, but it wasn't hurting her.

    As I left the shop, I 13 my foolish questions about God letting people live past their prime. Why, that woman was more 14 and more sensitive(敏锐的). Age has not bent her spirit. But I am always filling my mind with something 15. Maybe one day, I won't.

    My friend, Robert, 1in a butchers shop. He helps the butcher(屠夫) to do some heavy work. He puts meat on the shelf every day. People come into the shop and buy the meat. But today there isn't any meat on the shelf. The butcher asks Robert2some meat onto the shelf.

    Robert runs to get some pieces of meat. They are in another room and they are on the3shelf. Robert is tall, but he still can't reach(达到) the meat. Robert thinks for a minute. He has a good idea. He takes two boxes and puts one on the top of4. Then he stands on them. Now he can reach the pieces of meat5.

    The butcher is very glad to see the meat. And then, people are also happy to get some meat from the butcher's.

Mr. and Mrs. White are not very rich, so they always spend their holidays in a small hotel at the foot of the mountains near their hometown. They can go climbing and enjoy the fresh air, and they are always very happy. One year, Mr. White got a lot of money in his business. They were so excited that they decided to go to a foreign country and stayed in a really good hotel.

 They flew to London and booked a 5-star hotel. They arrived there late in the evening. They thought they would have to go to bed hungrily, because it didn't serve meals in the former(以前的)hotel after seven in the evening. So they were surprised to know that this hotel served dinner until ten.

"Then what are the times of meals?"asked Mrs.White.

"Well, madam, we serve breakfast from seven to eleven. Lunch from twelve to three, tea from four to five, and dinner from six to ten."

"But that hardly leaves any time for us to see the city!" said Mrs. White.

On a cold winter morning, Mamothy, the lead elephant, set out with her family for breakfast. The cold weather made 1 difficult to find food in the wild. So Mamothy decided to take them to the village where humans lived. When they reached the village, they were 2 .

"Wow! Look! There are so many flowers in this place! How big and colorful they are!" the baby elephants said 3 .

"They don't look like real flowers. Let me find out 4 they are before we eat them," Mamothy told everyone. Suddenly, she saw 5 cow and went to ask her.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, but could you please tell me what 6 ? Mamothy asked when pointing to the colorful things. Is it safe7 them?"

"Oh no! Don't eat them! Humans call them plastic (塑料的) bags. They throw them in a dump nearby. But the wind spreads them all around. You may choke (窒息) to death 8 you eat them." answered the cow.

"How terrible! Thank you for 9 me this." Mamothy went back to her family and told everyone the news.

Then Mamothy said, "Humans' world is too dangerous now but it used to 10 SO safe! What a pity! Tomorrow, we shall all go to another place to look for food." All the elephants agreed and then they seldom set foot on the village.

 Eating a good lunch is key to being your best in the classroom. But a growing number of Australian children are coming to school with an empty lunch box.

 Food charity(慈善) Eat Up provides more than 20,000{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(免费) lunches to hungry students in more than 720 schools around Australia every week and has just sent out {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (它的)) three millionth sandwich.

 Eat Up started in Victorian town in 2013. The lunches are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (通常) a cheese sandwich, Chobani yoghurt and piece of fruit.

"I feel really {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(自豪) that we' ve been able to deliver three million sandwiches and have a good: {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (影响), but so sad that there are that many kids out there who need our support. "Elise Cook said. "At present, we are {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(期待)a 32 percent increase to meet the students' needs for the lunches over the next {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(八) months.

"It's a huge time of need"said Tim Browne from Chobani, which has given away about 90,000 bags of yoghurt for Eat Up lunches so far this year. "I think it's important to play a{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(角色) In this activity. It's about making a difference and using food as a force for good. "

 Dandenong Primary School headmaster Daniel Riley said Eat Up lunches, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(包括) the delivery of the three millionth sandwich on October 26, were having a big influence on students. "They come to school feeling safe, "Mr Riley said." And we know that you' re going to have the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(精力) to get through the school day and try your best to learn if you' re well fed. "

 Chip was in first grade when I arrived at his school as a counselor(辅导员). It was shocking to me that he was described as an angry, uncontrollable and evil(惹人厌的) boy. How could sucha little boy, after being in school only one year, be considered"evil"? Over the next several months, I came to know Chip well enough to see that he was neither evil nor uncontrollable.

 But, one day, Chip threw a chair at his teacher and was sent to my office. I asked him what made him do this. He replied that his teacher hated him. He felt there was no way to ever get her to like him. I asked him if he would tell his teacher this. He nodded, and we called her into my office.

 When the teacher came, ____ . He then said that he knew he was a very, very bad boy, and he didn't think anyone could ever like him. His teacher listened to him with heartfelt compassion. Then she gave him a big warm hug, telling him she didn't hate him at all and, actually, she cared very much about him. Only sometimes Chip's behavior really scared her. It was clear to both Chip and me that she really meant it.

I put my left arm on his shoulders and the right hand on his heart. I told him how wonderful and lovely I saw him to be. I praised how special and brave he was to express his hurt feelings.

As I was speaking to him, his whole body came to rest on my right hand next to his heart. It was a moment in time unlike anything I had experienced before. From then on, I'm pleased to see his behavior improved through the rest of school years.

A child's mind is clear and sensitive(敏感的). He receives whatever others say without protection. It is as easy to consider someone hopeless as it is to consider him able in his own special way.