It is hard to imagine how a person is to spend the whole life when only the head and hands are able to move.

    Xu Ruiyang, an 18-year-old student from Kunming, has suffered (遭受) from spina muscular atrophy (脊柱肌肉萎缩)1she was 2 years old. At that time, the doctor said that most children with spinal muscular atrophy will only live a few years.

    The family did not give up, or even just2. To help Xu Ruiyang live with dignity (尊严), her parents 3her living and learning skills strictly. Opening a book or raising hands, some very easy actions for common people,4, are big challenges for Xu. She had to use her head or5to work together with hands to finish these actions.

    When she started learning to write, she couldn't even6a pen. But she never gave up. Once she lost the pen, she picked it up and7writing. Xu finally could write 500 Chinese characters before becoming a primary school student, after8 thousands of times.

    Over the past few years, Xu has overcome (克服) many problems, including the 9 caused by the disease. Her parents worried about her health and 10her to drop out of school, but Xu's answer was no. "11I read a book and do my homework, the pain is gone," said Xu.

    When asked by reporters on how to deal with difficulties, Xu calmly said, “Patience. When you can't change anything, crying is useless, so just be12."

    In Xu's opinion, her sunny and self-confident13comes from the love of her parents.

    "If we are not able to make her live longer, we can make her life wider," said Xu's father. They travelled across China and more than 20 14 over the world, including Italy, Thailand and Singapore. During these trips, she developed an interest in learning a 15language. "I think it's cool to learn about other countries' culture and express your feelings to others," said Xu.

    Last June, she finished China's Gaokao and received an offer from Sichuan International Study University.

I didn't have any confidence（信心） in myself when I was young. That was because I was the strongest girl in my class but I had never been the{#blank#}1{#/blank#} kid among the classmates. But one thing changed me later.

 It was the first day of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} new school and I didn't know anyone. In the math class, the teacher explained a couple of problems to us and showed us how to deal with the similar problems. After solving the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} problem, she asked us to solve a problem by ourselves and write our answers on the whiteboards（白板） she gave us. Then we were {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to hold up our boards so that the teacher could see the answers. It seemed that everybody had the same answer except me. I could not {#blank#}5{#/blank#} crying because I was afraid that my classmates would laugh at me. The teacher came up to see{#blank#}6{#/blank#} was wrong. After looking at my answer{#blank#}7{#/blank#}, she said with a smile, "You are the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} one in the whole class that got the right answer." The moment I heard that, I started to smile. When the math class was {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, it was time for lunch. Everyone in the lunchroom was discussing how smart I was.

{#blank#}10{#/blank#}then, I have stopped doubting myself. I have also learned to believe in myself and feel sure of my abilities.

Over the past 19 years. Gong Xiuze has used his skills to help others—providing free haircuts for nearly 10, 000 people. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} They are mainly the old the disabled and sanitation workers (环卫工人) . 

Gong, 82 years old, used to be a policeman in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} He began to provide free haircuts many years ago. From 1964 to 1968, he stayed in the army. There, he helped others cut their hair. After leaving the army, he became a policeman in Taiyuan and continued (继续) to cut hair for others. 

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} When he walked around in the parks in the city, he often found sanitation workers doing cleaning work in the early morning. He thought that they worked really hard, and he wanted to do something for them. 

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} With these cards, he told them about his free haircut service. He also gave cards to the disabled. They had difficulty moving, so Gong visited them and helped cut their hair at their homes. 

Now, many people look forward to meeting Gong every month. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} "I can feel my value (价值) of life at an old age while helping others, "he said. I will continue the service as long as I can. "

There was a park near my home. But I didn't go there very often. Many people said there was nothing special. One afternoon I went into the park and found it was really small. I walked quickly and found myself standing in front of two paths (小径).

"Which way should I go?" I asked myself. I looked at one way, then the other.The left one was wide and clean. There were lots of flowers on both sides of the path. Though the flowers weren't very beautiful, they made me feel good. I decided to take this path. But wait! I looked at the right one. The path didn't look nice. It seemed it had not been cleaned for months. Grass grew every where. For a long time I couldn't make up my mind.

After a while, a strange feeling made me follow the dirty path. It wasn't nice, but I didn't want to give up. At last, I came to the end of the path. Ah! There was a small garden there. It was beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful garden I had ever seen. There were trees, flowers and chairs. I thought it was the nicest part of the park.

Many people told me that there was nothing much to see in the park. Now I'd like to tell them that if they had followed the right way, they would have felt differently. But when I told them about what I had seen in the park, they just smiled at me without saying a word. ____. They couldn't even remember that path because it was so small.

My trip to the park that day made me understand something about life. Don't be afraid to choose a different path. You may get a big surprise!

My wife and I were in the forest, with our children. We were taking pictures of some birds {#blank#}1{#/blank#} our daughter Lisa shouted suddenly, "Dad! A bear is right behind {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (we)!" Then I saw that small bear. It {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(move) quietly behind us at that time. 

The bear behaved abnormally (表现异常). It hit {#blank#}4{#/blank#} camera. The situation got very difficult. I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (stand) there— between the bear and my family at that moment. All of us hardly had a chance of running {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (fast) than a bear. The bear opened its mouth. I had to raise my arms {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (protect) myself. I caught its neck. While I {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(get) ready to fight with it, it started to rain heavily. The bear moved back towards the forest. But before returning to the forest, it {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(bite) my arm. It was the first time I had felt afraid. I drove away quickly{#blank#}10{#/blank#} my family. What a terrible experience!

In Anhui Province, an about two- metre-wide alley(小巷), or "Liu Chi Xiang" in Chinese, now attracts a lot of visitors. It has a story behind it.

During the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ying, a minister(大臣), received a letter from his family in Anhui Province one day. From the letter, Zhang learnt that his family quarrelled with their neighbour Wu because of the two sides' house boundary(边界).

Then, Zhang wrote a poem to advise the family to be generous(大度的). What he said enlightened(启发) the family members as the wall was only a little thing. It was the close relationship with their neighbours that mattered. They decided to move their wall about one metre back for their neighbour. In return, the Wu family also moved back another metre. Thus, it made an about two-metre-wide alley between the houses.

Now, the alley has become very famous because people see it as enlightenment, telling people to obey public morals(道德) and keep harmony(和谐).

任务A：根据短文内容，完成表格。(每空限填一词)

任务B：根据短文内容，回答问题。

What else can you learn from the story? (请写下一个完整的句子) {#blank#}5{#/blank#}