It's 5 o'clock. SeanMurphy is on his way home from work. He is tired and the bus is full, but whenhe thinks of seeing his lovely family at home, his heart is full of joy again.

"I want to see mywife, my children and my mother," he thinks. "But first of all I wantto sit on the sofa. I want to relax and read a good book."

Finally Mr. Murphy isat home. He is very tired now but he is happy. He says hello to his family.Then he sits down on the sofa, stretches(伸展)hislegs and lifts up his book.

"Now I canrelax," he thinks and smiles. But Mr. Murphy is not alone in the room. Hismother is playing the guitar and his wife is playing the piano. His two youngerchildren are fighting and his two older children are arguing about thetelevision. And the pots and pans are bubbling on the cooker(炊具).

It's the same everyday. Poor Murphy is very unhappy. He talks to his friend about his problem at abus stop.

Mr. Murphy's friendlistens to him carefully. Then he says: "Go and see Linda McCormack! Sheis a very clever woman. She knows the answer to everything."

Mr. Murphy thinks itworth(值得)a try. The next day, whenhe gets home, he doesn't go into the house as usual. He goes to the garage(车库)and gets on his bike.

Bex Lindsay's dream was to be a host. From a young age, she was very 1 in radio. In her childhood she often pretended (假装) to host her own shows on Bex Radio while 2 her parents' CDs. At that time Lindsay wanted very much to work at Fun Kids, a radio station 3 young listeners, so she sent them a strange recording, hoping to be accepted.

"In the old host-to-be performance, the final thing you were 4 to do was to jump on a trampoline (蹦床) while interviewing 5, "she told the reporter, "I didn't have a trampoline and I didn't want to do it in front of anyone else, so I interviewed myself while jumping on my bed, having the recording made. "

Lindsay's recording really 6 and she was asked to host the Sunday breakfast show. Now she hosts a popular program and she loves radio more than ever. She says, "My 7 as the host is kind of to be a listener, so I will ask questions that other people would want to ask."

When she is asked how she has been 8, Lindsay says, "First of all, keep the dream in your mind and 9 give up. "She adds, "Hosting isn't about how high up in the world you are; its about having a good 10 and a good idea. Go and do it."

In a hanfu show in Changsha, Hunan, 20 models in beautiful hanfu won many people's hearts. They looked like they walked out of old Chinese paintings. The 20 sets of hanfu are a recreation(再现)of clothing in Yongle Palace murals (壁画). Zhang Zening made these clothes. 

Zhang Zening is from Nanjing. When she got to know about hanfu, she fell in love with it. She has great interest in hanfu. But Zhang found that some styles she liked were not available on the market. So she started to learn to design(设计) hanfu herself. 

In 2015, Zhang started to teach herself how to recreate hanfu. Zhang visited cities, studied museum murals and looked for information online to learn more about hanfu. Eight years later, Zhang recreated over 50 sets of hanfu from different times. She got ideas from murals in places like Yongle Palace in Shanxi, Fahai Temple in Beijing, Dunhuang in Gansu, and from paintings by Tang Bohu. 

The work is not     ▲     because Zhang always tries to make the clothes the same as those in murals and paintings. It takes about a month to recreate each hanfu set. In Zhang's eyes, recreating hanfu is not just about making a piece of clothing; it's also about learning about traditional Chinese culture. It helps her understand people from earlier times. Zhang finds it exciting to learn about the traditional culture. 

One year, a college in the Unites States announced that it would offer a lot of money for the pure white marigold(金盏花). The high reward attracted so many people, but in the nature, besides golden, the marigold is brown, and it is not easy to get the white one. So after they were excited for a time, many people had forgotten the announcement.

One normal day after 20 years, the college received a letter and 100 seeds of pure white marigold. It turned out to be anold woman of over 70 years old. Some experts in the college doubted it , but in order not to let her down, those seedsfinally took root(根) in the earth. The miracle appeared after one year: the field was covered by pure white marigold.

Therefore, the old woman who was always unknown to the public became a newfocus.

The old woman was a flower-lover. When she read the announcement 20 years ago, she got very excited like others. But her right children were totally against her decision. After all, a woman who never knew the seed genetics(遗传学)  couldn't complete what the experts could never do, so her thought was only a daydream.

Still, the old woman didn't change her mind and went on working. She planted some of the most common seeds and took good care of them. A year later, when the marigold came out, she chose one faintest(最暗淡的) from those golden and brown flowers and get the best seed. The next year, she again grew them and chose…. Day after day, year after year, through many seasons, the old woman's husband died, her children flew far and high, a lot of things happened in her life, but only the desire to grow the pure white marigold took root in her heart.

Finally, after 20 years on the day we all know, in the gardenshe saw a marigold which was not nearly white, but as white as sliver or snow.

A problem even experts couldn't deal with was solved by an old woman who didn't understand genetics. Wasn't it a miracle?

To take root in the heart, even the most common seed can grow into a miracle!

A man was driving a car in Texas when a policeman stopped him. The man said to the policeman，"Is there a problem，officer？"

"No. I just saw that you were driving very carefully and you are the winner of our competition（竞赛）for safe（安全）driving. You will get 5，000 dollars. Congratulations！What are you going to do with the money？"

The man thought for a minute and said，"Well，I guess I'll go and get a driving license（执照）. "

The lady who was sitting next to the man said to the policeman，"Oh，don't listen to him. He makes jokes when he is drunk. "

The man from the back seat said，"I told you that we wouldn't go far in a stolen（偷来的）car！"

At that moment，there was some noise from the trunk（后备箱）and a voice said，"Are we in Mexico yet？"

①As Ghandi once said, "Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny (命运)."

②Your values are taught to you by different influences that you grew up around and that every person has, your parents, friends, teachers and the society in which you live. Your values are to guide you throughout your life choices.

③I've come to have many values of my own, and my most important value is compassion. I began to know and feel it from a young age when I realized that I enjoy helping others. Growing older I did as many things as I could to help anyone in need, I didn't care what I got in return. I just enjoy the thought that someone needs me. I would babysit during the summer for my neighbors and didn't ask for pay in return. Makayla, my childhood best friend and I would volunteer to help the old people in the old people's home.

④Another main value that is important to me is politeness. When I walk through a door, I always tell myself to look around and see if anyone is near me. If not, I will continue through the door, but if someone is close behind, I prefer to wait a bit longer and hold the door open for them. I enjoy smiling at people and let them know that I care, even if I don't know them.

⑤Aristotle said, "You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event, it is a habit." Now I'm still being taught many values that will become a habit in the future. Although my main two that I talked about are so important to me, I still have many more values. These values will help me in deciding my future and point me in a positive direction.