Tolstoy, the great Russian writer, liked to walk about in a railway station near his home. One day when he was walking up and down as usual, looking at people getting on and off the 1, he heard a lady 2 after him, “Hey, you old fellow, go and fetch my handbag in the 3  room which I left there.”

    Tolstoy 4 there. He 5 the bag up and walked quickly along the platform (站台）. At the same time the lady was waiting beside the carriage, looking  6. When at last the old man gave the bag back to her, she opened it to 7 sure nothing was missing. “Good, old man,” said the woman. “You are just as 8 as I hope. Here you are.” Tolstoy 9 the coin and put it into his pocket with a smile.

    But the woman was very 10 when she heard that he was Tolstoy, the author (作者）of the great novel WAR AND PEACE. How interesting it was!

    My six-year-old daughter, Cindy, and I stopped at a food shop for some bread. As we were going out of the door, a young teenage boy was coming in.

    The boy had a strange hairstyle. His nose was pierced, and a ring ran 1 the hole. He held a skateboard under one arm and a2 under the other.

    Cindy, who was walking ahead of me, suddenly 3 when she saw the boy. I thought he had frightened my daughter. But I was 4. My daughter backed up against the door and opened it as wide as it would go. Now I came face to face with the young man. I 5 aside (到一边) and let him pass. He replied vey 6, “Thank you very much.”

    On our way to the car, I praised Cindy for holding open the door for the boy. It seemed that she was not troubled by the boy's appearance,7 I still wanted to make sure. I wanted to be ready to talk about the young man 8 was so different from others.     I prepared to tell my little daughter what 9should be like.   

    But as it turned out, the person who needed the talk was 10!

    The only thing Cindy noticed about the boy was the fact that his arms were 11. “ He held a skateboard under one arm and a basketball under the other. He would have a 12 time to open the door,” said Cindy.

    I just 13  the hairstyle, the piercing and the ring, while she saw a person carrying something under arms and heading towards a(an)14 door.

    What my daughter said 15 me that I should change my ways of judging people and learn from my daughter to be open-minded and warm-hearted.

    One day, my lite daughter Annie came to me with a difficult problem. "Helen hates me!" she cried. "She wants me only to be her 1.You tell Helen that I want to be her friend, but I can have other friends, too!"

    Oh! I looked at her for a few 2wondering what to do, when suddenly an idea came to me.

    I picked up two 3from the living room. I put the small basket inside the big one and said. "When everyone is born, he or she has a little basket. The lite one is 4.The big one is mine. Your little basket is inside mine.5do you think that is?"

    She looked at me 6and said nothing

    I continued, "Your little basket is in mine because when you were born, there were too many things you couldn't do for yourself. I fed you, bathed you and I7 everything else you couldn't do on your own.8 I put your basket in mine. As you grew older, when you learnt to tie your shoes, that went in your basket You 9want me to tie your shoes now, right?"

    She said softly, "No, I can tie my own shoes."

    As you grow older, there will be 10things you must do by yourself." As I spoke, I took her basket out of mine and handed it to her." You will finally 11 your own basket with things only you can do, like deciding who you want to be friends with, what college you will go to, who you will marry."

    She 12it for a while and said," I understand. There are some things that I have to do for myself because they are in my basket."

    I hugged her and continued, "One day when I become 13, you will take things out of my basket and place them into your basket. Finally, you'll take my basket. Just like I do for my mom and grandmother now." I gently 14my basket with hers.

    Life is a 15. As she watched the little basket in my hand and smiled, she understood

    Einstein is a world-famous scientist. In 1899, he1at a famous university in Zurich.

    Once Einstein asked his teacher, Professor Minkevsky, "How2a person, like me, leave his clear footprints on the road of science and make a great success?" Minkevsky said that it was a "3" question and he would give him an answer later.

    These days later, Minkevsky told Einstein that the4was coming! He pulled Einstein to walk towards a building site and straight set5on a concrete(混凝土) road. It was a road that workers had6finished!

    All the workers7him, "Sir, don't you lead me the wrong way?" Einstein was confused (疑惑不解的) and asked Minkevsky8.

"Can't you see?" Minkevsky asked. "Only the9concrete road surface can leave footprints. The old road surface has been walked on and countless 10have been left by many people, 11you can hardly find your footprints," Hearing that, Einstein thought for a long time and nodded.

    After that, a very strong sense of 12begin to 13new things. He believed strongly that14could tell him what to do and no books could help him. He always said, "I never memorize what books carry because my brain was only 15 those things that are not in books," It has because of this that Einstein left his shining footprints in the history of science.

    Zhang Peng is a Chinese driver in Xi'an(西安). When he checked the online wallet of his Wechat app(微信应用软件), he saw that one of his passengers had paid 6, 500 yuan for a1pay. That meant the passenger paid about $ 950, but in fact, the passenger only needed to pay$ 9.50.

    Zhang Peng guessed that the payment was a 2. According to the time of the payment, he guessed that the four foreign travelers did it. He3the four travelers, from the train station and dropped them off at a nearby4.

    When he5to call the four foreign passengers, Zhang Peng directly went to the hotel again where he had dropped them off. Then in the hotel he6what had happened to the waiter at the front desk.

    Just at that time, the traveler7made the payment came downstairs. She was 8  to hear about her mistake. It was her first time to visit the Chinese city, and she said that it was also her first time9the app's online payment function(在线付费功能)to pay for the ride.

    She was10more surprised when Zhang Peng refused to get a reward(报酬)and 11 her all her extra(额外的)money.

    12is true that the traveler had a wonderful 13 of using Wechat. "I can't believe it," the woman traveler said."14some people, money is their only dream, and $ 950 is a lot of money. I felt very excited yesterday15the taxi driver came back to return the money in person. I am really grateful."

In a village near a desert lived a young and successful businessman named James. He often felt {#blank#}1{#/blank#} because of the endless challenges he faced.

One day, a wise old man came to the village with 100 camels(骆驼). James went to see him and said,"I always have business worries, family troubles and health problems. Please tell me how to make them {#blank#}2{#/blank#}."

The old man smiled and said,"I' ll give you an {#blank#}3{#/blank#} tomorrow morning. But first, can you do a small thing for me?" James agreed. The old man asked him to take care of the 100 camels for the night, making sure that they all {#blank#}4{#/blank#} and rested before he could go to sleep.

The next morning, the old man asked James how his night went. James said sadly,"I didn't sleep at all. No matter how {#blank#}5{#/blank#} I tried, I couldn't get all the camels to sit together. Even if I managed to get some camels to sit on one side, a few others would stand on the other side."" That's true. Some camels sat down on their own, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} others required some effort, and yet many camels did not sit even after quite a lot of effort," the old man said.

James nodded.

The old man continued," Your problems are just {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the camels. There are always some problems that cannot get solved even if you' ve tried your best. Leave such problems to time until one day they themselves come to an end."

James felt a sense of understanding. It completely changed the way he saw life's challenges.