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    He was known everywhere as a great artist. People1 from miles around to admire his beautiful2 His name was Pygmalion，and he lived long，long3 in Athens，Greece.

    Pygmalion4 his art for many years. His desire 5excellence made him spend months6a single work of art. He would not stop7he felt it was perfect.8the years passed，his work became9 Pygmalion painted flowers which looked 10natural that people tried to11them. He painted fruits which looked so12that people wanted to eat them. Everyone13 looked at the pictures he had painted was14by their beauty.

    As the years passed it15only his pictures that made him famous，Pygmalion16 made perfect pieces of sculpture.He could take a plain piece of wood17stone and make it beautiful. He could make a rough stone as18as glass. He worked long and hard to make his statues as real as possible. Often visitors who came to see his work began talking to someone. They were surprised when that person didn't19They were even more surprised20they realized they were talking to a statue. It always gave Pygmalion pleasure when people were surprised this way.

    Since I was young, my parents have encouraged me to watch the news every day to learn about major events in the world. And at school, my teacher urges us to study 1 so that we can one day become "global citizens".

    2, does simply having the skill of commenting on world affairs in fluent English make one a citizen of the 3? My experience in this summer school inspired me to 4 the answer, which would have been "Yes" if you had asked me this question earlier.

    In July, I 5 the PLE—Political science, Law and Economics—a session at the Yale Young Global Scholar Program. We had about 230 students 6 and about 45 percent of us were 7 students.

    We enjoyed lectures 8 by Yale professors and students. I was 9 with how the speakers stood on the stage. But more importantly, it was their 10 that impressed me most and made my experience in Yale especially 11.

    I talked to students from all over the world: a Palestinian girl told me the real living 12 of refugees (难民) in her country; a Greek guy 13 me to his country's government and people's attitude toward the debt crisis; a Mexican boy 14 the story behind his national flag, and how his country gained independence with me.

    By talking to them, I found myself opening a gate to a whole new world. I suddenly realized even if we're able to 15 different media and discuss world affairs in English, we're still 16. What really makes us think "internationally" is how we engage in 17 with people from different backgrounds and how we 18 their identities and opinions.

    If you were to ask me the question again, my answer would 19 be "No". To really 20 yourself a global citizen, open-mindedness and empathy are the real key.

    Axel Winch was born nearly 13 weeks prematurely (早产地). He 1 2 pounds, 12 ounces and had bleeding in his brain, vision and hearing 2. After a week in the 3 in Grand Junction, where parents Melissa and Adam Winch live, he 4 a life-threatening intestinal (肠道的) condition. Doctors 5 to airlift (空运) Axel and Melissa more than 200 miles to Children's Hospital in Aurora.

    His health remained 6 over the next few weeks as his lungs shut down. "There were many times we didn't think he was going to 7." Adam said. 8, support was on the way. Melissa, 39, is a police officer. The police department in Grand Junction 9 officers in Aurora. Soon, members of the Aurora police department 10 the hospital with offers of help. One brought them banana bread. A detective gave the 11 a place to stay.

    But then things got 12 again. After weeks of caring for Axel in Aurora, the couple had to briefly return to Grand Junction on two separate 13. First, their house had been under contract and they had to 14 in two days. The second time, Melissa's 15 had run out, so she had to return to work for a few days. They hated having to abandon their son, who had improved but was still facing 16 surgeries.

    "We were afraid he was going to die while we were gone," Adam says. Aurora police Mike set up a 17 for his officers to spend time with Axel—when his 18 couldn't he there. They 19 the parents photos of themselves asleep with Axel and updates from the nurses. After four months in the hospital, Axel was 20 enough to go home.

    My family were on a vacation in Dubai and having a good time. One day, we were visiting Abu-Dhabi, 1 with a few passengers in a bus. At our first 2, we got out to take some pictures. At our second stop, we noticed that we had 3 our shoulder bag at the first stop. The 4 part was that our passports, visast hotel booking papers-everything was inside that bag and we 5 at the thought of having to return to India in two days.

    During this process of 6 our bag, we came into contact with so many strangers whom we found to be really concerned and helpful with our 7: A tour guide and a bus driver helped us to 8 the position of a taxi and then called it for us, so that we could travel back to the first 9 to find our bag. Finally, we got there and we saw a tourist who was standing there 10 his friend's car. Obviously, he had to go somewhere, but instead, he decided to 11 us and showed us a way to call a free police station number for a(n) 12.

    An officer on the phone said a local woman actually found our bag. He 13 the bag and found a number to a travel agency. He 14 the travel agency and asked his driver to send the bag there. The driver placed it at a 15 place to us, from where we could get our bag back easily.

    On that day, at first there was real 16 inside me and I was 17 thinking of what would happen next. In such a state of mind, I was not able to say 18 to all those persons who helped us in such a (n) 19 situation. And I don't even know their names. But I'll never be able to forget their 20 and their kindness.

When I got to high school at the age of 16, I took art classes for all of my electives. I began looking at 1 and I knew New York City had the best design schools; the 2 was deciding which one was the best fit for me. I found FIT was a good fit because it could throw you into your area of 3 immediately and absorb you in the culture of New York City.

I've always felt like I'll 4 FIT because I know the fashion design program is probably 5 at times, but that is one of the things I love about the fashion industry. It's constantly moving, changing and looking 6. There's no time to slow down and think about anything but what's 7 next. Not only is fashion an ever 8 industry, it is also an expensive industry. In situations where it's 9 to get your words out right, the way you present yourself is a form of 10. I like fashion and art in general because I can use it to reveal things about myself to people who don't 11 me that well and to express my opinions or 12.

Once I got settled in high school and got more 13 in my art classes, I moved my 14 towards learning more about design. My school offers lots of art classes. 15, fashion design is not included. So I have to search for 16 on my own. The summer after my freshman year I 17 a two-week class at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. I 18 at 8 each morning and learned how to draw a figure with fashion proportions (比例) and even 19 my first clothing. There were ups and downs to this program, 20 this pre-college experience has helped me realize that this is what I need to be doing, and that I don't want to give up until I'm doing it.

While taking a 20-hour train ride along the edge of the Taklimakan Desert in northwestern China, I had the kind of humbling, educational, and above all else, wonderful1 with a local that all travelers long for. A young Chinese man 2 me on the train. My3 friend spoke virtually no English, so I happily took the4 to practice my Chinese.

Over several hours he would tell me about how he had5 a two-year professional school to quickly find a job 6 highways in order to help support his family. Perhaps most7 .however, was the fact that this man spent hours studying every day after hard physical labor. Without batting an eye he would8 a translated Emerson passage before asking about the literary influence of American9 as a whole. "And what do you all learn about Russian authors?" I10 hi m asking at one point.

It would have been easy to11 my assumptions about this highway builder who had never been more than a few hundred miles from home. But this highly informed,12 , and admirable person prevented me doing so. In the course of a couple of hours, he13 me just how much one can gain from14 with an open mind, and a willingness to15 with locals from all walks of life.