Bob is six years old. He is old enough to go to school. On the first day, his teacher teaches him three words, “I, you, he”. Then the teacher says, “I am your teacher. You are my student. He is your classmate.” When school is over, Bob goes home. His mother asks him, “What does your teacher teach you today?” Bob says with a smile, “Listen, Mum and Dad, I am your teacher. You are my student. He is your classmate. His mother says, “No, dear. You're wrong.” Then she says, I am your mother. You're my son. He's your father. ” The next day, Bob's teacher asks Bob to make sentences with(用……造句）“I, you and he”.

     Bob stands up and says, “I'm your mother. You're my son. He is your father.” All the students in Bob's class laugh (笑).

    Accept life as it is. I learned how to do it from my father. 1 , he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 2 and ill.

    My father was 3 a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 4 all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day.

Even talking is 5 . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started 6 about life, and I told them about one of my 7 . I said that we must very often give things up 8 we grow — our youth, our beauty, our friends — but it always 9 that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 10 up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up 11 ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn't think of anything to say. 12 , he answered his own question: “I 13 the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.

    I was also 14 by his words. After that, when I began to feel angry at someone, I 15 remember his words and become 16 . If he could 17 his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be 18 to give up my small anger. In this 19 , I learned the power of acceptance from my father.

    Sometimes I 20 what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am ashamed(惭愧的) for this one word.

    Long long ago, there was a swan（天鹅） with golden feathers（金羽毛）. She lived in a lake. A woman lived in a small house1the lake with her two daughters. They were very poor. They worked hard all year round, 2 still, they lived a hard life and sometimes they even didn't have enough3to buy food.

    The swan was4to see that. She said to herself, "I'll give one of my5to them each day, then they can live a happy life with the money selling my feathers." That evening, she6to the poor woman's house and left a golden feather on the table without saying7. From then on, the swam came every day and gave them a feather. The woman was very happy because their life was much8 than before.

    But day after day, the woman became greedy（贪婪）. She said to her9."The swan may fly away one day. If so, we will be poor again. We should take all10feathers when she comes next time."

    "Oh, no, Mom!" cried the daughters, "This will11the swan. She helps us a lot!" But the mother wouldn't listen. When the12came as usual, the mother caught her and took all her feathers. But suddenly, the golden feathers13chicken feathers. Then, the Golden Swan said, "Poor Woman, I came to14you, but you wanted to kill me. Now, I am leaving and will15come back. Never be greedy!" With these words, the swan flew away.

    On 28 of March Richard Byrd stood outside the small house. He shook hands with the men who were leaving. They were heading back to the main camp on the coast of Antarctica (南极洲).

    He would 1 to work at the base camp.

    "I don't like leaving you here alone," Pete Demas said." I'll be 2,"Byrd replied.

    He was looking forward to the challenge of spending the winter at the base camp. He would be recording the weather. There was plenty of food and fuel (燃料) in the tiny house. He felt sure 3would go wrong.

    But something did go wrong. Byrd was burning the fuel for 4. But the fumes (有毒气体) were not leaving the house. Slowly he was being poisoned (中毒). On May 31 he broke down.

    When he came to, he made himself into his sleeping bag. Three days later he 5it was a

    Sunday. The men would be 6 his radio message. Byrd moved hard out of bed and 7 the call. He didn't want the men to know how 8he was. It was too dangerous for them to come to save him.

By will-power alone, Byrd managed to stay alive. He was so 9that he could hardly walk. But he forced himself to do the basics. He 10food and made myself eat. He took 11 of weather and sent radio messages. But by late June, the men 12that something was wrong. Most of the time, Byrd's messages made no sense.

    On August 11 Demas and two others reached the base camp. They 13 recognized (认出) Byrd. He was very thin and looked terrible. Byrd 14 them and then fell to the ground. The men had arrived in time. After two months of care, Byrd's good 15 returned. He and his men worked together again.