Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois while he lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri.

    Since young, Walt showed great 1 in art. He would often sell drawings to neighbors to make 2 money. Though his father could be quite 3, and often there was little money in the family, Walt was 4 by his mother, and older brother to 5 his attention on what he loved deeply.

    In 1918, Disney 6 to enter the army. However, he was 7 because he was under age, only 16 at the time. 8, Walt joined the Red Cross and was 9 to France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance(救护车).His ambulance was 10 not with army camouflage(伪装),but with Disney cartoons.

    Once Walt 11 from France to America, he started a small company which finally 12 to be a failure. With twenty dollars, Walt  13 for Hollywood to try his luck. After making a  14 of his “Alice Comedies”, Walt became a(an) 15 Hollywood figure. In 1932, Flowers and Trees(the first color cartoon) 16 Walt the first of his studio's Academy Awards. His dream of a clean, and organized amusement park  17 as Disneyland Park opened in 1955.

    Walt Disney is a hero of the 20th century. His worldwide popularity was 18 on the ideals(标准): imagination, creation and self-made success in the American 19. He brought us closer to the future 20 telling us of the past. It is certain that Walt Disney is a great man.

    A young British woman had shortly arrived in Hong kong and had not yet 1 anything about the Chinese 2. One day she went to the home of a Chinese friend and was 3given a cup of Chinese tea. She was not 4 and she also found this type of tea rather 5 . However, since she had been given the tea, she felt she should drink it. Hoping to finish it 6 so that she would not feel about having to drink this tea which she did not 7 , she started to drink as much of it as she could. But as soon as her cup became half-full, the host8giving her more. Several times she told the host that she had had 9, but it seemed to have no10 . Her cup kept being 11 , and she kept on drinking. During the time of he 12 , she drank about twelve cups of tea. Later she found out that she should have just 13 the tea, and that this would have meant that she had had enough. Influenced by her 14culture, she felt it too 15 to leave the tea and could not understand why the host took no notice of her protests(抗议) that she had had enough!

    I remember the first day when I saw Sally playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she struggled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. She seemed so1but she managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her2nobody could.

    I began to notice Sally at other times, basketball in hand, playing3She practiced dribbling and4over and over.

    One day I asked Sally why she5so much. Without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a6 I'm going to play college basketball and I want to be the best one. I believe that if I am7enough, I will get one. My father has told me that if the dream is big enough, the facts don't8"

    I9her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her team to10 One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting on the grass, her head11in her arms. Slowly and quietly, I12and sat down beside her. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Oh, nothing, "came a soft reply , “I am just too short." The13told her that at 165cm she would probably never play for a top team-still less she would be14a scholarship-so she should stop dreaming about college.

    I felt she was extremely15I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were16. They didn't understand the17of a dream.

    The next year, Sally was seen by a college basketball coach after a big game. She was18offered a scholarship and19to the college team. She was going to get the college education that she had20and worked toward for all those years.

    It's true: if the dream is big enough, the facts don' t count.

    Sanford Greenberg was once a lucky guy. A poor kid from Buffalo, New York, he was 1 into Columbia University on a full scholarship and had a great 2, Arthur Garfunkel. But in his third year of college, Greenberg's 3changed—he was going blind. He was so 4 that he refused to see anyone from college. But Garfunkel went up to Buffalo, 5 Greenberg to go back to Columbia and offered to be his 6.

    Greenberg returned to campus. Garfunkel and two other roommates read textbooks to him, taking time out form their own studies, and Greenberg 7 scoring straight A's. 8, he was afraid of getting around alone and relied on his friends to help him.

    Then, one afternoon, Greenberg and Garfunkel went to Midtown Manhattan. When it was time for Greenberg to 9, Garfunkel said he had an appointment and couldn't 10 him. Greenberg panicked. They argued, and Garfunkel walked off, leaving Greenberg 11in Grand Central Terminal. Greenberg stumbled (跌跌撞撞地走)through the rush-hour crowd. He 12 a shuttle train west to Times Square, then changed to an uptown train. Four miles later, he 13at the Columbia University stop. At the university's gate, someone 14him.

    “Oops, excuse me, sir” Greenberg 15the voice. It was Garfunkel's. Greenberg's first 16was anger, but in the next second, he realized what he had just 17 -- and realized, too, who had made it possible. “It was one of the most brilliant 18” Greenberg says. “Arthur had been with me the whole way.”

    After graduation, Greenberg got his doctor's degree from Harvard and became a successful inventor and businessman. 19blind, Greenberg sees everything. “You are talking,” he always says, “to the20 man in the world.”

    Once a little boy found a caterpillar （蝴蝶幼虫）. After he was allowed to 1 it at home, the little boy got a large box from his mother and put plants to eat, and a stick to climb on. One day the caterpillar climbed up the stick and started acting 2. The boy worriedly called his mother who came and understood that the caterpillar was creating a cocoon （茧）. The mother explained how the caterpillar was going to go through a(n) 3 and become a butterfly.

    The little boy watched every day, waiting for the coming out of the butterfly. One day it happened, a small hole 4 in the cocoon and the butterfly started to struggle （挣扎） to come out. At first the boy was 5, but soon he became concerned. The butterfly was struggling so hard. But it looked like it was making no 6. Longing to see it out, the boy decided to help. He cut the cocoon with scissors to make the hole 7 and the butterfly quickly flew out!

    To his surprise, the butterfly had an unexpectedly large body and small wings. He 8 to watch the butterfly, hoping that the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the huge body. 9 nothing happened! It never was able to 10.

    The boy tried to 11 what had gone wrong. To help him, his mother took him to talk to a scientist. He 12 that the butterfly was supposed to struggle. Without the struggle, the butterfly would never fly. The boy's good wish 13 the butterfly.

    As you go through school, and life, keep in mind that struggling is an important part of any experience for 14. It is the struggle that 15 us to develop our ability to fly.

    There was once a bridge which crossed a large river. During most of the1the bridge sat with its length running up and down the river paralleled with the banks, allowing ships to2through freely on both sides of the bridge. But at certain times each day, a train would come along and the bridge would be turned sideways across the river, allowing a train to cross it.

    A switchman sat in a small house on one side of the river where he3the controls to turn the bridge and lock it into place as the train crossed. One evening4the switchman was waiting for the last train of the day to come, he looked off into the distance and5sight of the trainlights. He stepped to the control and6until the train was within a prescribed(规定的) distance to turn the bridge into7,but, to his horror, he found the locking control did not8. If the bridge was not securely in position it would wobble(摇晃) back and forth at the ends, causing the train to jump the9and go crashing into the river. This would be a passenger train with many people aboard. He10across the bridge to the other side of the river where he would have to hold the lever(控制杆) back11as the train crossed. He could hear the rumble(隆隆声) of the train now, and he took hold of the lever and12backward to apply his13to it, locking the bridge. He kept applying the pressure to keep the mechanism locked. Many lives depended on this man's strength.

    Then, he heard a sound that made his blood run cold. "Daddy, where are you?" His four-year-old son was crossing the bridge to14him. The man almost left his lever to run and seize his son and carry him to15. But he realized that he could not get back to the lever. Either the people on the train or his little son must die. He took a16to make his decision.

    The train sped safely and swiftly on its way, and no one aboard was even17of the tiny broken body, thrown mercilessly into the river by the onrushing train. Nor did they notice the18figure of the sobbing man, still holding tightly the locking lever19after the train had passed. They did not see him walking home more slowly than he had ever walked: to tell his wife20their son had brutally died.