Mark and Betty are brother and sister. They love to play on the1. They think it's very2to play there. They go to the beach by3every weekend. They live far away from the beach, so their father usually4about two hours driving them there.

    Last Sunday their father was very5and couldn't send them to the beach. Mark and Betty6very bored at home. They thought they must solve (解决) the7quickly.

    Then Mark came up with an idea and said to his father, "I have a good8, Dad. We can live near the beach. Then Betty and I can go there every day, and you don't need to drive us there."

    His father looked at him up and down and smiled, "Sounds really good. But the houses near the beach are very9. I must work hard to buy a10. Then you can go to the beach every day."

When I was in school, I volunteered to work in a hospital for some time.

On one visit, I carefully entered a dark room to find an elderly man {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (lie) in bed. I firstly thought he was sleeping. When I moved {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (close), however, I realized he was very much awake. He wanted to communicate something; but I couldn't make sense of what he {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (say). 0He seemed quite weak, and I couldn't tell if he was in pain, or just frightened. I knew nothing about him, and I felt totally helpless. He clearly didn't want me {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (leave) him, but I felt so lost and uncomfortable that I had to leave the room after only a couple of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (minute).

The next time I was at {#blank#}6{#/blank#} hospital and saw him again, I was certain he didn't remember me. But he {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (immediate) said, "I remember you. , You gave me hope in my darkest hour that evening!" I was so {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(amaze) that I didn't know how to answer.

In the short moment of my staying there, I did nothing at all. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} surprisingly he found in me something he needed, just because I was there.

I have thought about this thing often over the past years. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} makes me want to offer whatever kindness I can to others, and I try to make it out and appreciate (赞赏) it.

Kaitlin Douglass is a middle school PE teacher at Big Rapids Middle School in Michigan, US. She started to 1 ways to introduce activities with wheelchairs（轮椅） into her classes. This idea was inspired 2 the parent of one of her students, who uses a wheelchair, reached out to her. 

Chase Fuller, an 11-year-old from Big Rapids, has used a wheelchair since an accident in 2019. Chase has developed a love for wheelchair basketball and wanted to know if there was a 3 to have wheelchair activities in his PE classes at school. 4 about the idea, Douglass, worked with Fuller's mother to make it happen. 

The class has also tried a few different activities. They 5 wheelchair pickleball（匹克球）, wheelchair volleyball and wheelchair football. According to Douglass, wheelchair volleyball and basketball have been the most popular sports the class has tried on wheels. 

"I can see how bringing in the wheelchair has given some of my 6 a better understanding of those who need to use a wheelchair day in and day out," Douglass told the media. For the able-bodied students in the class, they can 7 know where their weaknesses are while trying different sports. Then they can think about how they can turn them into strengths, according to Douglass. 

Douglass spent long hours researching these sports. She also hopes to make these kinds of sports more 8 in school. She believes this will give students challenges and chances to grow. 

May 10th is Meg's birthday. She gets a gift. It is a new jacket from her sister. The jacket is very beautiful and she is very happy. 

One day，Meg finds a button（纽扣）of her jacket is lost. She looks for the button everywhere，but she can't find it. The next day，she doesn't wear（穿）that jacket to school and is unhappy all day. After school，she goes to the clothes stores and wants to buy that kind of clothes. But she is disappointed. 

Meg tells her sister about that，her sister says，"We can change all the buttons. Then the buttons will be the same. "The jacket is nice again and Meg is happy again. 

It was a fine summer afternoon. Sam was going home from school. He walked along the road slowly, reading a book. Sam had spent all his money on the book. He liked it very much. When he came to the high road, there was a blind man, holding out his hat. The poor man said, "I haven't eaten anything since yesterday. Please give me some money. I want to buy some bread." But Sam had nothing to give. So, he just walked on, feeling very sad.

Soon after, a fine carriage(马车) came up, and in it were Harry and his mother. The blind man still stood there and held out his hat. "Let us give the poor man something," said Harry to his mom. His mother found some coins in her bag and passed them to him. However, Harry did not put them into the man's hat. He threw them into the bush (灌木丛) beside the poor man. How could the blind man find them?

As Sam turned back to look at the fine carriage, he saw Harry throwing the coins into the bush. So he walked back at once and helped look for the money until he found all the coins.

As the blind man held the coins, he smiled. It touched Sam's heart. At that moment, Sam knew that kindness wasn't always about big actions; sometimes, it was the simple act of giving a helping hand that could make a difference.

One day, a little boy asked his father, "What does the word ‘great' mean? Who are great people and how do they become great?" The father asked the boy to bring two young1 home. Then he told him to plant one of them inside the house and the other outside the house. The boy did as his father2 .

The father asked his son, "My boy, which of the two trees do you think will be 3 ?" The boy answered, "The one inside the house will be safer4 it will grow bigger. But the tree outside the house is not safe at all. No one will be there to 5 it. And animals may eat it."

The father smiled and said, "Let's wait and6 . We will know the answer one day." Then the boy left for study and after four 7 he came back. He said to his father, "Look,8 happens to this young tree inside the house and it is safe." When the boy went outside, he was very 9 to see a very big tree. The boy couldn't believe his eyes. He couldn't 10 how the young tree outside was able to grow much bigger than the one inside the house.

"The tree outside the house 11 many difficulties!" The father told his son 12 the tree outside was bigger. "The tree inside was safe. It didn't face weather changes, and it didn't get 13 sunlight, so it didn't become big."

Here is the answer to the question about being14 : To become a great person, one must meet many 15 and try to solve (解决) them. Only after that he or she is able to become great.