An artist went to a beautiful part of the country on holiday and stayed with a farmer. Every day he went 1with his paints(颜料)and brush and painted till evening. When it got2 . He went back to the farm and had a good dinner3he went to bed.

    At the end of his4he wanted to pay the farmer, 5the farmer said, "No, I don't want money. But give me6of your pictures. What's money? In a week it will all be finished, but your picture will still be here. "

    The artist was very7and thanked the farmer for saying such good things about his pictures. The farmer smiled and answered, "It's not that. I have a8in London. He wants to be9. When he comes home10month, I'll show him your picture, and he will not want to be an artist any more. I think."

    It is 1 Saturday morning. Helen and 2 brother, Tom, are taking a walk in the zoo. There are 3 of public signs in the park. They mean different things. Helen knows a lot 4 them. But Tom5.

    Suddenly Helen 6 a boy climb the tree. She shouts at that boy,"7 climb the tree.8 you see the sign over there？"The boy jumps off the tree soon. Tom points 9the sign in the garden and says to Helen," So the sign over there10 we shouldn't climb trees, right?"

    NO matter what happens,I'll always be there for you!

    In 1989, an8.2earthquake almost destroyed America, killing over 30,000 people in less thanfour minutes. In the midst of utter devastation and chaos, a father left hiswife safely at home and rushed to the school where his son was supposed to be,only to discover that the building was as flat as a pancake.

    After the unforgettablyscare, he remembered the promise he had made to his son: "No matter what,I'll always be there for you!" And tears began to fill his eyes. As helooked at the badly damaged building that once was the school, it lookedhopeless, but he kept remembering his promise to his son

    He began to direct hisattention to where he walked his son to class at school each morning.Remembering his son's classroom would be in the back right comer of thebuilding, he rushed there and started digging through the ruins, As he wasdigging, other helpless parents tried to pull him off what was left of theschool, saying," It's too late! They're all dead! You can't help! Co home!Come on! Face reality. Here's nothing you can do!

    To each parent hereplied with one line, "Are you going to help me now?" And then hecontinued to dig for his son, stone by stone. The firefighter leader showed upand tried to pull him off the school's ruins saying, "Fires are breakingout. Explosions are happening everywhere. You are in danger. We'll take care ofit. Go home." To which this loving, caring American father asked,"Are you going to help me now?" The police came and said, "You'reangry, worried and it's over. You're making others in danger. Go home. We'llhandle it!" To which he replied, "Are you going to help me now?"No one replied.

    He went on alone becausehe needed to know for himself "is my boy alive or is he dead?" He dugfor eight hours … 12 hours ... 24 hours … 36 hours … then, in the 38th hour, hepulled back a large stone and heard his son's voice. He screamed his son'sname, "Armand!" He heard back, "Dad? It's me, Dad! I told theother kids not to worry. I told them that if you were alive, you would save meand when you saved me, they'd be saved. You promised, no matter what happens,you'll always be there for me. You did it, Dad!" "What's going on inthere? How is it?" the father asked, "There are 14 of us left out of33, Dad. We're scared, hungry, thirsty and thankful you're here. When thebuilding fell down, it made a triangle, and it saved us."

    "Come out,boy!" "No, Dad! Let the other kids out first because I know you'llget me! No matter what happens, I know you'll always be there for me!"

My aunt Nancy is a truck driver. When she left school, she didn't know what she wanted to do, so she went to work in a supermarket. One day, she was talking to one of the truck drivers at the supermarket, and she got the idea to drive a truck herself. She went home and told her parents (my grandparents！), and they thought it was a good idea.

Nancy's journeys are different every day, and she goes to every part of the country. She enjoys the driving, but she says that one day, she would like to get a job with a different company(公司) so that she can drive to more places.

Nancy says she likes being out on the road, seeing new towns all the time, but the best thing about driving trucks for her is talking to everyone she sees during her working day. She also says the trucks are comfortable, so she doesn't mind sleeping in them. For her, they are her home on wheels!

I asked my grandparents what they thought about Nancy's job. They are happy that Nancy is happy, so they don't want her to change jobs. But they worry about her because it's sometimes a dangerous job and she spends a lot of time away from home.

One day，a student asked his teacher，"What is greed（贪婪）1 ，but asked the student to walk through the chocolate2 next to their school and pick out（选出）the3 chocolate bar he could find. But there was a rule：as he passed through the factory，he could not turn back. 

The student went to the chocolate factory. 4 he walked，he saw a large chocolate bar. He liked it but thought he might be able to find an even bigger one if he kept going. He kept walking and saw5 chocolate bar. This one was a little bigger. But again，he thought he could find an even bigger one if he kept going. As he neared the end of the factory，he saw fewer chocolate bars6 of them were as large as the earlier ones. He started to7 his decision to keep going. Finally，he gave up. He went back to his teacher empty—handed and8 what had happened. The teacher told him，"You liked the9 chocolate bar，but you kept looking for a bigger one. And later，you realized that you had given up the best chocolate bar because you thought you could do better. That is called10 . "

Sometimes，we let go of（舍弃）good things in our life because we think we can find something even better. We should learn to make our choices wisely. 

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