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    Rose was telling her granddaughter Lily stories about how she had written a best-selling 1 in her early 30's.

"Did you always know you wanted to be a2, Grandma?" asked Lily. Rose smiled at her granddaughter. " I 3 knew it on my first day of primary school."

"I felt like that on my first day of primary school too! It was singing, I used to be sure that I would be a singer," said Lily. "Why 'used to' ,Lily?" Rose asked.

"Well," began Lily,"4 be the best singer in the class. But there was a new girl coming to my class, and she was better at singing than I was. What was the point(意义) of 5 as she was much better than me?"

"You know, Lily," Rose said," Although I was the best at writing in primary and middle school, when I got into high school, I met a girl in my English class. She was always the best writer. I used to 6 because of it, thinking that I was no longer the best writer, I was 7."

"So what did you do?" Lily asked. "I did what any person would do." said Rose." I did everything to be better than her."

"Did you ever write better than her in your class?" Lily asked." No. But I realized that it wasn't about being the best out of everyone, it was about being the very best that I could be.

So I 8my love for writing, and look where I am now…" Rose 9.

"Wow!" said Lily in surprise. "But what's that girl doing now?" "Who knows, but there's one thing I am 10:she hasn't written a best-selling book yet."

    When personal trainer James O'Driscall arrives at his gym each morning, he does not just help others to lose weight or build muscles(肌肉). There is something1.

    “I've been working with a man for several years who said that 2 really helped build up his confidence(自信).”

    James understands the importance of developing confidence 3 than most. At 26, he suddenly lost his sight. He was not able to work and his life was 4 because he didn't see anything.

    James' life 5 when a guide dig came into his life. “we build up trust and respect for each other. The dog 6 me to return to work and social life.”

    James started as an actor so he needed to get back in shape.

“I felt that if I could turn around my life through exercise, I could help 7 do the same,” he says.

    Through great 8. James became the UK's first blind trainer four years ago. “9, it is not about how heavy you are. People feel different when they played football without feeling out of breath(上气不接下气)10 they put a dress on for the first time in six years. That is what really matters. It's how you feel inside.”

James Dyson is a famous British inventor. One of his well - known inventions is the bagless vacuum cleaner（真空吸尘器）. It {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (invent ) in 1978. Today, Dyson still remembers that day. " I felt very {#blank#}2{#/blank#}( excite ) at that time because I was the only man in the world with a bagless vacuum cleaner, " he said. 

Dyson is over seventy years old now. At first, he wasn't {#blank#}3{#/blank#}inventor. Later, he {#blank#}4{#/blank#} ( discover ) his talent. When he studied art at the Royal College of Art in London, he did well{#blank#}5{#/blank#}making new things. In 1975, he invented his own {#blank#}6{#/blank#}( produce )- the Sea Truck. It was a boat for carrying things between islands. 

Then he set up a company with his partners to make and sell another invention, the Bllbarrow, a kind of vehicle. But later, Dyson left his company {#blank#}7{#/blank#}he didn't agree with his partners. After that, Dyson began to improve on the vacuum cleaner. In 1985, Dyson took his invention to Japan to{#blank#}8{#/blank#}( sell ) it. However, few people paid money for this. And he didn't mike much money. Several years later, Dyson decided to produce and sell the machine by {#blank#}9{#/blank#}( he ). By 2005, Dyson controlled both the European and American markets. Along the way, Dyson discovered the secret to success, "People{#blank#}10{#/blank#}( buy ) your products if they're better. " 

A group of boys gathered around a tree. "What a tall tree!"they said to each other. "It would be exciting to climb to the 1 !"To see who could climb to the top of the tree first, the group of boys then decided to play a 2 . Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking at their children as they played. 

One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group. Nobody thought he would 3 the competition. 

Then the game started. All of the boys 4 their best to climb as high as they could. Their faces lit up(露出喜色)with excitement as they began to climb. They all made it halfway up the tree before David did, 5 he reached the top of the tree fastest in the end. 

His mother was 6 to see this. She asked him, "David, how did you manage(成功)to reach the top of the tree so 7 ?"

"It was easy, "David said. "The other children kept looking 8 as they climbed. When they realized how high they were, they got 9 and were afraid of falling down. I, however, looked only up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top. "

It is true in life that if we just 10 going forward without looking back, we can reach our goals more easily. 

In 1988, a serious earthquake hit Armenia. It killed(杀死)about 25,000 people in less than four1 . A father rushed to the school where his son was,2 to find that the building was flattened(变平).

But he remembered the3 he had made to his kid, "No matter4 happens, I'll always be there for you!" Tears began to fill his eyes. He ran5 to the place where his kid's classroom had been and started digging(挖掘).

Other parents tried to pull him out of what was left of the6 . To each parent, he asked in a7 voice, "Are you going to help me?" Then he went back and8 his digging, stone by stone.

A firefighter(消防员)9 and tried to pull him away. The police came as well. To them, he asked the 10 question, "Are you going to help me?"

He dug11 eight hours...18 hours... 28 hours... And then, in the 38th hour, he pulled back a12 and heard his son. He called his son's name, "ARMAND!" He heard back, "Dad? It's me. Dad! I told the other kids not to worry,13 I'm sure that you would come to save us."

"What's going on in there?" the father asked.

"There are 14 of us left out of 33, Dad," his son answered.

"Come on out, Son!"

"Let the other kids out14 . I know you'll get15 ! No matter what happens, I know you'll always be there for me!"