It was last June. I went into a supermarket to buy some vegetables, when a young man asked me, “Can you tell me where the  1 counter is?”

  “Well, the milk is in the lower right corner,” I replied. Picking up my things, I finally came to the milk counter where I met the same man. He was 2 almost 10 bottles of milk in his hand. I asked, “Do you need a 3?” “Sure, thank you.” he answered.

    I was 4 he was still picking more bottles and after a few minutes his trolley had 24 bottles of milk. I laughed and asked, “Why so many bottles?” He smiled and said, “These are 5 my street dogs. Today I want to be a Santa for them.”

    I said, “Well, it's too 6 for you to be a Santa. It is still June and Christmas comes in 7.” He 8 at me for a second, but he left the counter without 9 anything.

    10, we met again at the bread counter. “So these bread and cakes are also for the street dogs, Mr. Santa.”  He smiled and said, “Yes. These are also for the dogs and I love to be Mr. Santa in the month of June. Santa is a representation(象征) of surprises and 11. We always hope Santa comes before 12. But in real life there is a Santa in each one of us. He is always ready to help us at any time, no matter(不管) which month it is. Maybe when you offered a trolley to me, there was a Santa in you. When we 13 food to a poor man or a(n) 14 to someone who is caught in the rain, we are being Santa there. So when you offer help to others or get help from others, just think that Santa has come all the way for you.”

    He left and I was 15 that I met him. It was right to understand that Santa can come before Christmas. We just need to know that he is around us by giving happiness and love to others.

    Mr. Smith 1 from London. Now he is in China. He is 2. He teaches 3 a middle school. He works very hard. His students like 4 very much. He can 5 a little Chinese. His students often teaches him Chinese 6 Sundays. Mr. Smith likes playing football. He often plays football 7 his students.

    Mr. Smith 8 a son. His name is Jack. He is student. He studies in a middle school. He goes to school 9 bike every day. He gets back home at four in the afternoon. He likes 10 TV in the evening.

    One evening last summer, when I asked my 14- year- old son, Ray，for help with dinner, his response(回答)shocked me. "What's a colander(漏勺)?" he asked. I could only blame 1. In the family, nobody else went into the kitchen except me. But that night, as I2to him that a colander is the thing with holes in it，I wondered what else I hadn't3Ray for.

    As parents，while we focus on our sons' confidence and character，we perhaps don't always consider that we are4raising someone's future roommates，boyfriends，husbands，or fathers5I came up with a plan: I would offer Ray a private home economics course. I was 6to find that he didn't say no. For two hours, three days a week, Ray was all mine.

    I knew that he would rather have been playing basketball with friends than7to mend socks with his mother，but in fact he was learning, and more than just housekeeping. "I appreciate(感激)what you do8a mom," he told me one day. Ray now realizes there's9masculine(男子气概的)about being helpless.

    Now，not only can he make his own dinner, but also he can make a big meal for his family. That's 10I call a man. I'm glad that I prepared so great a present for my future daughter in-law.

Little George lived in a poor village. One summer day George's mother sent him to the field to pick up some dried wood for the fire.

George worked very hard. By the time the sun was high, he was very hot and wished for a cool place to rest and have some food. As he walked along, he found some shade, and by it were some fine, wild strawberries. "How good these will be with my bread and butter," thought George. He picked up all of the strawberries. As he was lifting the first strawberry to his mouth, he remembered his sick mother, alone in her dark, cold room in the village.

With this in mind, he put the strawberry back. "Shall I save them for her?" he asked himself.

He thought how refreshing they would be for her, yet was still looking at them with a longing eye.

"I will eat half, and take the other half to her," he said. He divided them into two heaps(堆), but each heap looked so small. He put them together again.

"I will only eat one," he thought.

But, as he again lifted it to his mouth, he saw that he had taken the finest, and he put it back.

When the sun was beginning to sink, George set out for home. How happy he felt that he had all his strawberries for his sick mother.

He heard his mother's faint voice calling him, "Is that you, George? I am glad you have come back. I am thirsty, and I want some water."

George ran to her and joyfully offered his wild strawberries.

"And you kept them for me, didn't you?" said she, laying her hand softly on his head, with tears in her eyes.

Could the eating of the strawberries have given George half the happiness he felt at this moment?

It is the 31st year that Zhang Yufei has worked and lived in Faxing Temple. Changzhi，Shanxi province. 

The 52﹣year﹣old man {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the cultural relics （遗产） in the temple very well. "These cultural relics are part of my life and I want {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the culture，art and stories behind them to a wider public，"Zhang says. 

After graduating from junior middle school，Zhang took several part﹣time{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. The turning point was in 1991 when Chongqing and Faxing temples wanted some guards. Zhang became one of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} . "There was no water and electricity in the temple and in winter it was {#blank#}5{#/blank#} cold，"Zhang says. 

Later he became a guide at Faxing Temple. In 1998，he met Shi Yanchun at Faxing Temple. Shi is an expert and helped to rebuild {#blank#}6{#/blank#} than 1，000 cultural artifacts. "That was when I started learning professional knowledge about painted clay statues（雕像）. We talked about the art form at night，"Zhang says. Since then，he {#blank#}7{#/blank#} reading books on the topic. He has also taken every chance to communicate with experts. 

One day，he {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a camera as a gift by an expert. With it，Zhang started to record the painted clay statues in the temples in Shanxi. In 2011，his first book introducing the art form came out. He also wrote over 100 articles telling the{#blank#}9{#/blank#} stories about Shanxi's cultural relics online. Zhang hopes that more people can take part in the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of cultural relics. In this way，they can truly keep alive. 

Kate and Jim are wife and husband. Like many New Age Travellers, they don't live in a house,1 in a truck. For about three years 2 moved around the country with other travellers. Now their daughter, Lucy, is four years old, and Kate wants to 3 their life and come back to the city. 

But Jim likes to 4 his life travelling around. They think they should live on the road. "We have a lot of good friends around us. We live in the open air. 5 fresh the air is! If we like a place, we stay 6 some time. If we don't like it, we move on. I don't like living in cities. There I must  7 in a small box and you should work hard all your time to get enough money to live. That's not life. We should 8 away from cities. Lucy is a nice girl. She can learn real things about life with us on the 9 ," Jim says. 

"Yes, I find this way of life 10 than city life. Travelling is interesting in spring and summer. But 11 is always difficult. It is so cold that Lucy gets ill every winter. The most 12 thing, I think, is that Lucy needs a good education (教育) in school. She also needs to have her own friends and a normal life like 13 kids. That 14 we must live in one place. Shall we move 15 to the city or not?" says Kate. Then Jim loses himself in thought …