Black or White

    When I was in elementary school, I got into an argument with a boy in my class. The teacher  1 to teach us a very important lesson.

    She brought us up to the front of the 2 and placed him on one side of her desk and 3 on the other. In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could 4 see that it was black. She asked the boy what color the object was. "White," he 5.

    I couldn't 6 he said the object was white, when it was clearly black! Another

    7 started between my classmate and me, this time about the 8 of the object.

    The teacher told me to go 9 where the boy was standing 10 told him to come stand where I had been. We changed 11, and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I 12 answer, "White."

    It was an object with two 13 colored sides, and from his viewpoint (视角) it was white. Only from my 14 it was black.

    I have never  15 the lesson I learned that day. Sometimes we need to look at the problem from the other person's viewpoint in order to truly understand his / her view.

    Yesterday is Father's Day. Many things happening between my father and me crowded my mind. But one thing made a deep impression on me.

    It was a Sunday morning, and I was in a 1mood．Two of my friends had gone to the movies the night before and hadn't invited me. I was in my room2ways to make them sorry when my father came in. “Want to go for a ride today, Beck? It's a beautiful day.”

    “No! Leave me alone!” Those were the 3words I said to him that morning.

    My friends called and4me to go to the mall with them a few hours later. I forgot to be 5with them and then went with them. When I came home, I found a6on the table. My mother put it where I would be sure to see it．“Dad has had an 7 ． Please meet us at Highland Park Hospital．”

    When I reached the hospital, my mother came out and told me a car hit my father and he was badly hurt．“Your father told the driver to leave8alone and just call 911，thank God! If he had moved Daddy, …”

    My mother may have said more，but I didn't hear. I didn't hear anything 9those terrible words: Leave me alone. My dad said them in order to10himself. He didn't want to be hurt more．How much had I hurt him 11I shouted out those words at him earlier in the day?

    It was several days later that he could12have a talk. I held his hand gently, afraid of hurting him．

    “Daddy … I am so sorry …”

    “It's okay, sweetheart. I'll be okay.”

    “No, ” I said, “I mean about 13I said to you that day. You know, that morning?”

    He looked at me and said, “Sweetheart, I remember 14about that day, not before, during or after the accident. I remember telling you goodnight the night before，though.” He managed a weak smile．

    My English teacher once told me that words have great power. They can hurt or they can heal(治愈). And we all have the power to15our words. I am going to do that very carefully from now on.

    Tom began to learn to cook when he was six years old. At that time,he was ill in hospital．During the first three days there,Tom1a lot of TV cartoons and felt bored with them．Then he visited the Internet for fun．He 2an interesting website(网站)．It taught people how to cook．Tom was very3the pictures on the website and fell in love with(爱上)cooking．4he got better,Tom went back home and tried to learn to cook by himself．Tom spent most of his free time learning5to cook．He tried a lot of recipes(食谱)．

    Now after five years of6 ． Tom is a famous cook in his town．He also uses his cooking to make money7poor children in his town．He's already given them more than 10,000 dollars．He8has his own book to teach people to cook food．The book is quite popular．"When you9to do something，try your best to do it．Then you will be10one day!"said Tom．

    An airplane pilot felt sorry for his hungry passengers, so he bought 1all pizzas. The pilot, Gerhard Bradner, works for Frontier Airlines. His 2 was from Washington D.C. to Denver, but it had to be 3 because of bad weather. He felt hungry and thought he would order a pizza from Domino's Pizza restaurant near the airport. Then he thought his 157 passengers would also be 4 , so he ordered 50 family-sized pizzas. He paid out of his own pocket, 5 the owner of the airline said he could give Mr. Bradner the money for the 6 . He announced on board, "Ladies and gentlemen, Frontier Airlines is known for being one of the 7 airlines in the US, but your captain is not cheap. I just 8 pizzas for the whole plane."

    Mr. Bradner said his airline is like a big 9 and his passengers were part of that family. That was why he wanted to buy everyone a pizza. He also 10 reporters that he knew other pilots who had 11 food for passengers. Frontier Airlines said in a report, "Yes, the pilot did buy pizzas for the 12 . It is important to note that this isn't the first time one of our pilots has gone above and beyond the call of duty to 13 care for our customers." Bradner even got off the plane and went to meet the pizza delivery kid at the security area and helped 14 the pizza back to the plane. The manager of the Domino's Pizza said he was 15 when he took the order and the caller told him that I need to feed my whole plane.