RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY

    When I arrived in Hamburg Germany, my colleague who worked there arranged a welcome party for me in a 1. We noticed a few customers including several old ladies, were having their meal. When a dish is  2, the waiter would distribute the food for them, and they would 3every bit of the food on their plates.

    As I was hungry, my local colleague 4much food for me. Since there were other things to do, we did not  5 much time dining. When we planned to leave, there was still about one third of  6food left. When we were leaving the restaurant, we 7someone calling us. When the old ladies spoke to us in English, we understood that they were 8about us wasting so much food.

    “We  9for our food; it is none of your  10no matter how much food we left behind”, my colleague told the old ladies. They got angry, and one of them  11made a call to someone. After a while, an officer in  12arrived. Upon finding what had happened, he issued us a 50-euro  13. The officer told us in a stern（严厉的）voice: “order 14 you can consume. Money is yours, 15the resources belong to the society. You have no  16 for wasting them.” Our face turned red.

    We all agreed with him in our 17. My colleague took out a 50-euro note and repeatedly  18to the officer.

    My colleague copied the fine ticket and gave a copy to each of us as a souvenir. We all 19it to remind us that we should never be 20.

Henry was not 1at math. Even when the teacher explained something a second time, he still couldn't 2it. “Never mind. I'll sit3the boy who's the best at 4” Henry thought, “and5 his answers.”

The day of the exam6 and Henry sat next to Allan,7was 8at the top of the class in math. Henry copied Allan's answers 9 his own exam paper. At the end of the exam, the teacher said, “Well, boys and girls, I've decided to give a red10to the student who got the11grade. It's 12 for me to decide who I'll give the star to, however,13two students, Henry and Allan, got the 14grade.” After a moment she went on, “15I've decided to give the star to 16this time.” Henry was17 when he heard this. He stood 18and said, “But I got the same grade as Allan, madam.” “That's 19” The teacher said. “However, Allan's answer to Question 6 was ‘I don't know.', but 20was ‘Nor do I.' .”

    In 1952, my daddy traveled with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This meant he would 1 a lot of time away from home.

    As 2 came near，he called my mother and 3 why he would not be celebrating the holiday with us. Money was tight and he didn't have a way to get back to his4 .Though she was 5, mother knew he was right. When she told us the news, it really 6 me, and I went to bed on Christmas Eve with a 7 heart.

    When we 8 up on Christmas morning, Santa had come. I still remember what gift we9 that year. We were all happy with our gifts, so we went outside to play. As we were10 I looked up and thought I saw my daddy in the distance I ran inside to tell mother. She did not11 me and told me not to make up stories. My mother12 it just wasn't possible. 13 I was sure it was Daddy！I turned to go back outside when I heard familiar footsteps. Daddy was home！As I 14into his arms, daddy explained that he had tried 15to get home for Christmas, but without success. At last, a group of the workers had decided to drive. But the 16  guy lived miles away. So daddy started 17 on Christmas Eve until he arrived home. He had walked all night！

    Though the 18that year were wonderful, the best gift was not found in the19 . Daddy's special surprise made this my most20 Christmas.

    In the palace of Rubyland there was a thief. No one knew who it was, but the only thing known about him was that he1 in the palace.

    The King decided to 2 who it was, and he asked for help from a wise dwarf who was famed for his 3. The dwarf spent some days there, watching and listening, until there was another 4 —another ruby(红宝石)was stolen. The next day after breakfast the wise dwarf made all the 5 inhabitants meet up together in the same room. The dwarf 6them all one by one.

    But suddenly, one of the 7 began coughing and crying, writhing and crying, and finally he 8 to the floor. The dwarf explained that the food they had just eaten was 9, and the only antidote(解药) for this poison was hidden inside the ruby that had been stolen the 10 night. And he expected that only the thief would be able to 11 himself, because the poison was 12 quick working.

    Gradually the coughs and groans spread around the whole room, and 13 took hold of all present. All except one person. A footman quickly 14 over to where he had hidden the ruby, from where he took the ruby, opened it and 15the strange liquid inside to save his own life.

In fact, the gardener was one of the dwarf's 16, and the poison was just a kind of potion(药水)prepared by the dwarf which could cause a few 17 pains for a short while. Then the footman was 18 by the guards and taken immediately to court.

    The King, grateful, generously rewarded the dwarf. When he asked the dwarf what his 19 was, the dwarf smiled and said: "I only try to get the person 20 the truth to reveal that truth. Anyone can deceive everyone, but no one can deceive themselves."

    Yuan Longping, a great Chinese agriculturalist, was born in a poor farmer's family in Qianyang, Hunan Province in 1930. He 1 from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 and has since devoted himself to agricultural education and research. Since his graduation, 2 ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for 3 the rice output. At that time, hunger was a 4 problem in many parts of the countryside. Yuan Longping searched for a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the fields. 5 his help, Chinese farmers now produce more rice and these increased harvests mean that 22% of the world's people 6 from just 7% of the farmland in the world. Yuan Longping, 7 considers himself a farmer, is now circulating his knowledge in some less developed countries to increase 8 rice harvests. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger. 9 his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. Dr Yuan 10 5-million-yuan State Supreme Science and Technology Prize for his high hybrid rice species. This award is viewed as "Chinese Nobel Prize".

    About rice, he always has a dream…

    Since finishing my studies at Harvard and Oxford, I've watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying Wall Street jobs. As executives (高级管理人员) with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now 1 on their way to impressive careers. By society's 2, they seem to have it made.

    On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life. As they left student life behind, many had a 3 drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and 4 out of small apartments into high buildings. They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine 5 a college year's monthly rent. They replaced their beloved old cars with expensive new sports cars.

    The thing is, a number of them have 6 that despite their success, they aren't happy. Some 7 of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they 8. Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and 9. However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the 10 to which they have so quickly become 11.

    People often speak of trying a more satisfying path, and 12 in the end the idea of leaving their jobs to work for something they 13 or finding a position that would give them more time with their families almost always leads them to the same conclusion: it's 14. They have loans, bills, a mortgage (抵押贷款) to 15, retirement to save for. They recognize there's something 16 in their lives, but it's 17 to step off the track.

    In a society that tends to 18 everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our 19 in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs 20 in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactly the kinds of costs many of us tend to ignore — and the very ones we need to consider most.