Shi Li and Cui Jiping are husband and wife. They are disabled. They completed the first Chinese encyclopedic(百科知识的) dictionary for deaf people and people with hearing problems.

    After breakfast Mrs. Beckman started packing（打包）the bags. She bought the tickets to London. Her husband works there. She and her children are going to fly there to see him. Thomas and Katy can't help her and she told them to play outside.

    "It often rains in London in autumn," the woman said to herself, " I'd better take the umbrellas. So I won't buy any when it rains there."

Suddenly(突然), she heard Thomas crying and ran out at once. She asked, " What's the matter?"

    "Katy pulled(揪)my hair," the boy said in tears(眼泪汪汪地).

    "Don't be angry," said the woman. "She's too young. She doesn't know pulling hair hurts(疼痛)"

    And then she went to the house again. After a short time there was more crying. She had to come out to see what the matter was.

This time Thomas said, "Now she knows."

    Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between the ticket office and us. This family made a big impression on me.

    There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they didn't have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean. The children talked excitedly about the clowns. It was clearly a very important day out for them. The father and mother seemed happy as they could be.

    The tickets lady asked how many tickets the father wanted, he proudly answered," Please let me buy eight children's tickets and two adults' tickets, so I can take my family to the circus."

    The ticket lady told him the price.

    The man's wife lowered her head. There was no longer a smile on the man's face. He quietly asked," How much did you say?"

    The ticket lady again told him the price.

    The man obviously didn't have enough money. But how could he tell his kids the bad news?

    Seeing what was happening, my dad took a $20 note from his pocket and dropped in on the ground. (We were not rich ourselves at all!) He then tapped the man on the shoulder and said," Excuse me, sir, you dropped this."

    The man understood my father was helping him. He picked up the money, looked straight into my dad's eyes, and in tears replied." Thank you. This really means a lot to me and my family."

    Although we did not go to the circus that night, we didn't go without.

Time is very important in our lives. But it never had any importance in my life until I 1 a watch from my father that made me responsible. It 2 me the importance of time in my life. 

I got this gift on a gray-sky day. I had to go to the 3 at 9: 00 a. m. to pick up my uncle Ali and take him to my father's house. However, I forgot it 4 I was playing with my friends. Later on that day, around 11: 00 a. m. , I remembered my uncle, but I was late for him. He had got out of the plane and 5 a taxi to my father's house. 

I got to my father's house at 2: 00 p. m. My father looked at me angrily. I said "hi" to him and my 6 uncle. My father asked me to sit 7 him and handed me this watch. It weighed 8 oz (盎司) and all of it was made of silver. Then he said, "Essa, did you have fun with your friends today? What you did was not very nice and you should be sorry for your actions. " I felt sorry and told my father that I wouldn't do it again. Then he said, "This watch will be a reminder for you. I hope today you have learned something 8 . "

I learned a lesson from my father: to respect (尊重) time and 9 be late. The watch is important to me, not because of its 10 , but because of the lesson that I learned from it. 

Jenna loves running. She joined the school running team as a reserve player(预备队员 ). At first, she was not doing well in practice. She felt like she was falling{#blank#}1{#/blank#} behind her teammates. 

But one day, a(n) {#blank#}2{#/blank#} happened. She{#blank#}3{#/blank#} her knee during a training. To help her catch up, her coach gave her {#blank#}4{#/blank#} of extra(额外的) training. Jenna worked so hard that she finally became a real player of the team to run for the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Sports Game of the City.