Pooja Dhingra is an Indian chef and businesswoman, the owner of macaroon bakery chain Le 15 Patisserie (西饼店) in Mumbai. She should have been a lawyer. But while studying 1 at university in Mumbai, she decided to 2 her major and do something more creative.

    Dhingra's father and her elder brother are both restaurant owners. Remembering helping her mother in the 3 during her childhood, she decided to work with food instead of legal cases. She 4 her parents to let her attend a hospitality (招待) and management course in Switzerland. Three years later, she went to Paris to learn the 5 of French baking. There her friends took her to one of the best macaroon shops. After just one 6, Dhingra determined that when she returned to Mumbai she would 7 her own shop, the first of its kind in India.

    After graduation, she started making macaroons in her parents' kitchen, 8 it was a complete failure. The hot and wet weather in Mumbai made it 9 to make delicious cakes. It took her around six months of research and 60 failed 10 to finally get a favorite recipe. Yet being both young and female 11 she faced extra challenges. “The biggest problem was to get people to take you 12,” she says. “For example, if I had to buy machinery, I would have to ask my father to make these calls for me.”

    Dhingra eventually opened her first shop in 2010. To 13 sales in a city where very few people knew what a macaroon was, Dhingra gave away some 14 macaroons to customers, which made her cakes popular immediately. She continued 15 new recipes. “Once you know basic techniques, inventing recipes is very 16,” she said. “All you need is an open 17. I get a lot of my ideas and 18 from basic things around me.”

    Dhingra is the author of a best-selling cookery book, The Big Book of Treats. She also started running classes on how to make macaroons and other cakes. In 2016, Dhingra 19 her business, opening a new location called Le 15 Café. Today, as a professional baker, Dhingra 20 up one of India's finest patisseries .

    Many years ago, there was an emperor(皇帝). One day he told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and 1 as much land area as he liked, he would give him the area of land he had covered.2 enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and 3 as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could.

    He 4 riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. Even when he was 5or tired, he did not stop 6he wanted to cover as much area as possible. When he at last covered a large amount of land, he was exhausted and was 7. Then he asked himself, “Why did I 8myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only 9 a very small area to 10myself.”

    The above story is 11 to the journey of our 12. We push ourselves very hard every day to make more 13, to gain power or recognition. We neglect(疏忽，忘记) our 14, time with our family and to appreciate the surrounding 15and the things we love to do. One day 16 we look back, we will 17that we don't really need that much, 18 then we cannot turn back time for what we have 19

    Life is not about making money. Life is definitely(肯定地) not about work! Work is only 20 to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life.

    I planted two seeds side by side in the soil in my backyard. The first says, “I want to grow! I want to send my roots1into the soil, and try to2. I want to feel the 3 of the sun on my face!” and it grew. The second seed says, “I am4. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don't know what I will meet in the5. If I push my way through the hard soil, I may6my small sprouts (芽). What if a small child may pull me7from the ground. No, it is much better for me to wait8safe.” A hen walking around for food found the waiting seed and9ate it.

    I sometimes10myself -- What if I stop focusing on the worst and go for the 11? Most people can do12things if they have the confidence to take the 13. Yet most people don't, there are lots of people14on the sofa saying: I'm going …They will do it when they are rich and when they get15and their children are perfectly grown.

    The16is that your life can never be perfect. Part of it might be, though. Step away from the sofa sitters who are17a single perfect day to begin18 their dreams.

    Believe in yourself and know that you can do19! However, those who20to risk get controlled by life finally.

    A father and his daughter have donated a C$44-million cattle ranch (牧场) to a school for veterinary medicine (兽医学). They want to 1  students a unique resource to learn about animal medicine. 90-year-old Jack Anderson and his daughter Wynne Chisholm have been 2 W.A. Ranches since 2005 when the senior 3 from his work in the gas and oil field. They are now 4 the 19,000-acre (about 77km2) ranch to the University of Calgary's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM). Their only 5 for the donation are guaranteed 6 for their five full-time ranch workers and the ability to visit the ranch from time to time.7 that, the university will take on full 8 and ownership of the ranch and all of its property.

    According to the news, the ranch is the single largest 9 of a ranch to a university in North American history.

    “Our hope is that this gift will 10 the teaching and learning at UCVM, and make the students able to 11 and share scientific, evidence-based 12 .They will strengthen our industry, 13 animal care and welfare, and inform the public,” Chisholm added in a statement.

    Dr. Baljit Singh, dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, said: “The gift of a cattle ranch of this size and standard offers unexpected educational 14 within the creative teaching model practiced at the university.

    “The ranch will provide a platform for 15 with other equipment, industry and the public sector. It can also 16 interdisciplinary (跨学科的) learning and research, and help develop an international centre in beef cattle health.”

    “This gift will 17 the leadership of our Faculty of Veterinary Medicine even further. It actually 18 a unique opportunity for our students to 19 practical learning. This will also develop their professional skills, and make the 20 between human, animal and environmental health,” says university president Elizabeth Cannon.

    Many years ago at Christmas time I parked my car in the town centre on my way to the post office to post my Christmas cards. It was the last posting day for Christmas cards if they were to be1before Christmas.2I came out of the car park I saw a boy who was3and holding his right hand side. I 4some bigger boys had perhaps bullied him and he was in5. I had to go to his aid and see if I could6.

    He told me that his sister who was a7had bought him a Christmas present. It was a mobile phone. He only had it days when he8it and cracked the screen! That's9he was holding his right hand side of his body—his mobile phone was in the upper right hand pocket of his coat. The little guy was extremely 10, tears rolling down his face as he told all this to me. My heart11for him. It was clear he12his present and knew that this was a lot of money for his 13to spend on him, for nurses didn't make much money. He'd been to a phone shop and they'd told him it would be ￡80 to get a new14.

    I had to help, though I was15to make ends meet myself. I searched my purse and gave the boy the only ￡20 I could find and made some16as to why I could only give him so little. I didn't want him to know it was all I had until pay day. I could not17pay for his phone to be repaired but I hope the18he received from a stranger was19that stayed with him when he became a man.

    The Christmas cards not getting posted somehow didn't seem20; greater issues had been addressed with a kindness stamp.

    A video show has become a hot topic on the Internet around China these days. The 35-second video shows that a man driver took a woman out of her red car, threw her to the ground and 1 her several times.

    Later, the man driver told the police that was because the woman driver changed lanes (变道) 2 and scared his child in the car. That made this man driver very 3. And his anger changed into this fight. The man was blamed (责备) a lot from Internet users, who regarded him as " Crazy or Mad".

    However, public attitude (态度) soon took a u-turn when the video from the dashboard camera (行车记录仪) on the man driver's car was put on the Internet on Tuesday. The 4 video shows the woman driver suddenly crossed lanes in front of Zhang's car twice and the two said angry words to each other 5 both cars came to a stop under an overhead bridge. And there the fight happened. The latest online poll (民调) shows that 78% Internet users believe that the woman driver should be blamed for 6 she had done. However, the woman driver 7 to realize her own mistake and refused to say sorry at first. The discussion further grew when some people started a cyber hunt (人肉搜索) against the woman. Some of her personal 8 was put on the Internet, including her ID number, address, phone number and so on.

    9 the morning of May 11, the woman driver finally wrote a letter to say sorry to the public, and put it on the Internet, saying that she felt sorry for what she had done and what her family had 10 about this accident. Both of the two have paid for what they had done! So when we drive on the road, try to be calm enough to avoid such happenings again.