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    I believe in miracles(奇迹) because I've seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old.“There's a 1 in my upper jaw, ”she said. “I told my own dentist it's nothing, but he 2 I come to see you”

    Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would 3 to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the 4 of her mouth. A careful examination later 5 that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer.

    During her next appointment, I explained to her the 6 of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, “I know you're worried about me, but I'm just 7.”

    I thought otherwise. After considerable 8 on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to 9 me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon. She saw him, but as I expected, 10 treatment.

    About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and 11.

    “How are you?” I asked.

    “I'm just fine, honey,” she responded 12 high spirits. “When can I get stared on fixing my dentures(假牙)?”

      Surprised to see her at all, I answered 13, “Let me take a look in your mouth and we'll see about it. ”

      I couldn't believe my eyes. The cancer that had 14 nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness 15.

      I had read of such things happening, but had 16 seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I've seen many others, because they keep getting 17 to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are a miracle, 18through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to 19 the miracles of one another.

      Since my first miracle, I;ve come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is 20 we choose to find it.

    When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more1 than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him 2much in repairs that he decided that he had better3it.

    He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly4 to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so5of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was 6 when they met one evening, and said, "What's 7, Dave?"

    Dave told him, and Sam answered, "Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may8more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!" Thinking that Sam's9was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read "For sale: small car, 10 very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50."

    For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no 11.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to12 him about the car. "All right," Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be13or not. "Fine," the man said, "and I'll 14my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to 15it."

    The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, 16to wait there for the people who had17 his advertisement. Even Dave had to18that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean19 it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, "Have you reported this 20 to us yet, sir?"

    Years after graduation, I tried to maintain the little bit of French I learned in school, but eventually I was 1 that new languages are best learned when young and our ability to learn 2 with age.

    However, before my 50th birthday, I signed up for French classes and was 3 in the class for basic level. Contrary to my 4 that learning a new language was tough, I was 5 by the number of students learning French as a third, or even fourth language when I first 6 my class.

    Still, I found it was really 7 that certain linguistic（语言学的）abilities decline with age. 8 I'd always regarded myself as a quick learner, that was no longer the 9.

    I absorbed new vocabulary very10. What I learned one week before seemed to 11 away as soon as I learned the next skill. I 12 the same words and language structures in the dictionary again and again.

Despite the 13, I make it and can listen to the news in French and catch 90 percent of it on the first 14. I can catch up a conversation that doesn't go too fast.

    Who knows what I might still 15? I've learned so much beyond grammar and vocabulary. I meet people from around the world and all walks of life（各行各业的）who have the 16to make fools of themselves to learn something new. I've been taught by inspirational teachers from many corners of the world. Listening to the news as it is 17 to the people of France, I have a newer understanding of how something can look 18 different from another perspective. I've learned a language is not just a set of 19, but a way of thinking. But above all, I've learned it is never too 20 to learn something.

    There were two hours before the flight landed in Florida. I was going to meet my 1. It was my first time in the United States. Mother had said I was 2 to learn English in Florida, but the main 3 for coming to Florida was to visit my sister, not to learn English.

    The plane 4! I started running when I 5 my sister! "Oh, you little girl!" she said. She changed her style 6 living there for two years. She looked different since she was 7 a sweater and colored jeans. We went back to her apartment. I was very 8, so I fell asleep quickly. Tomorrow would be an exciting day!

    My sister didn't go to work the next day because she had taken the day 9. We went to Disney's Epcot to 10 all the different buildings. Being hungry, we decided to 11. The food was different from what I was used to and there was a lot to 12 from. She showed me her favorite store and we went to buy all the 13 I wanted. I was having the best 14 of my life. It was late when we came home that night; I went 15 to bed.

    Three days flew by. When my sister took me to the 16, she said, "I'm going to miss you." I was so touched 17 she had never told me 18 like that before. On the plane I was looking forward to seeing all my friends, telling them about this 19 vacation and showing them all my new clothes! I was very 20 about this trip!

    From a young age, Michael Platt loved two things: Martin Luther King and cupcakes. He remembered statistics about income inequality and children hunger. But he also1afternoons at his computer in his Bowie home, awestruck by YouTube bakers who transformed a base of eggs, flour and water2edible (可食用的) works of art.

    Michael saw a way to3his twin passions. At age 11, he founded a bakery that operates on the Toms one-for-one model: For every cupcake, cake or cookie Michael4, he donates another to the homeless and5. Michael, now 13, said he6enjoys handing out cupcakes to kids.

    Sometimes Michael bakes to7money for hunger-fighting nonprofit groups, too. He spent a morning last weekend teaching a baking class to raise money for No Kid Hungry.

    He can keep up with his baking in part because he is homeschooled by his mother, who quit her job to8Michael full time. Michael9from public school-and his mother from job-after his epilepsy (癫痫) was diagnosed in sixth grade. His epilepsy became too10and too frequent to allow him to sit in a classroom, his mother explained.

    "It was a very, very11time," she said of the period after the diagnosis, during which Michael had to12 his physical activity. "He had to stop everything he13:Gymnastics, climbing trees, diving. So that's when he kind of threw himself into baking," she said. Baking, Michael said, makes him feel 14 .

    But when he started the bakery, he knew from the beginning that he wanted his15to do more than make money. Michael hopes his cupcakes spread awareness of the past and16others to work for social equality.

    Sometimes, Michael17, he grows tired of being in the kitchen. Then he remembers the18boy he met once while19cupcakes. A couple of days afterward, the boy's father messaged Michael on Facebook to say that his son, encouraged by Michael's example, now aspired (向往) to20a baker, "That inspired me," Michael said.

A group of foreigners visited Weihai, a coastal city, to explore what the rising star in China's tourism market can offer.

Driven by social media and short video platforms, Weihai's tourism industry saw a huge growth, with the city of just 2.92 million residents welcoming over 59 million visits.

Their first stop is the Dongchu Island in Rongcheng, a county-level city in Weihai, where the scenery is characterized by the region's unique seaweed-roofed houses. "I've never seen a roof made of seaweed. I can't believe my eyes at the houses," said Nick Ive, a British editor.

The group then visited the Sanggou Bay Marine Ranch（海洋牧场）, a hot family-friendly tourist destination to experience marine farming. "Visiting Sanggou Bay Marine Ranch was a pleasant experience because I could see and experience firsthan d how the sea fishes are kept," said Desca Lydi Natalia, a journalist with Antara, Indonesia's national news agency. "This experience not only increased my understanding but also provided enjoyment, as I could directly eat clams（蛤蜊） freshly harvested from the sea. I even had the opportunity to feed the seagulls."

Sanggo u Bay Marine Ranch receives about 80,000 visitors every year since it was established in 2015. Visiting the marine ranch has become one of the must-dos in Weihai.

Desca said that her favorite experience was living in a homestay in Weihai. "While staying in a hotel is comfortable, a homestay offers a different experience, especially since the yard is large and full of flowers, making it feel like home. So I chose a homestay,"said the Indonesian journalist. The homestay Desca chose is just a stone's throw away from the beach. Desca said that her country is a maritime country and also has many homestays. "So when I stayed in the homestay, the atmosphere reminded me of Indonesia," she added.