Growing up is not always easy. When we face difficulties, a spirit of depending on 1 is more useful than crying for help. That's what Hong Zhanhui's story of growing from boy to man 2 family hardship tells us.

    Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua County(县), Henan Province. When he was only 11, his father became badly ill and one day he came back with an unwanted baby 3. A year later, Hong's mother 4 home. She no longer wanted to live such a poor life and face her sick husband. So everything hard fell onto the young boy's 5: to take care of his father and the younger sister Chenchen, and to go on to study.

    Although his life was hard, Hong didn't go away from his father and sister. He took several part-time jobs to 6 his family. He climbed tall trees to get birds' eggs for his sister. He walked 2 hours at weekends to the market to 7 different things to sell around his school. A few years later, he studied at a college. To take care of Chenchen, he worked hard to 8 a room near his college for her, and sent her to school.

    After Hong's story went 9, he became a hero in people's eyes. But Hong 10 offers from others. He said he felt encouraged by kind offers, but he could depend on his own work.

    Through his hard life, he has grown up from boy to man.

    When I was ten, I was crazy about candy. Whenever in our small-town 1 with my mom, I would run my fingers through my favourite candy on the shelf.

    Once I noticed a man pushing buttons on the ATM machine. He seemed to be hurriedly waiting for his cash to appear. He quickly got a pile of bills and headed out. Curiously I walked over and saw a beautiful $100 bill at the bottom of the machine.2I wanted to believe my magic made the cash appear. I knew the man must have left it behind.

    I held the money in my hand, looking at the number "100" and feeling 3 than I ever had. I thought about putting the money into my pocket. No one would know, but it didn't feel4.So I told my mom what had happened. "We will look for him." she said. We rushed out and found him stepping into his car! We went over and asked if he had left money at the cash machine.

    "Let me 5" he said, pulling out his wallet and bill. "One hundred, two hundred, three...Oh!You're right," he said with surprise. "I'm 6a $100 bill."

    "Here you go," I said, smiling with pride, as if I was a detective who solved a mystery. "Thank you so much," he said. Before saying goodbye, he asked me for my name and address.

    On my way home, my7 was racing. 100 dollars. What could I have done with it? I bet I could have bought a puppy or every single candy bar or something else in town! But now 8 of that would happen. Yet I knew I had done the right thing.

    A few weeks later, I got a box with a note. I opened it to find packages of candy.

    "Dear Felice ， thank you very much for returning my $100. Your are a great girl, and I appreciate(欣赏)your 9action. I hope you enjoy this candy. Best wishes, Tom." The candy tasted sweet. Although my act wouldn't always be 10 with candy, it would make a difference to someone. And that was the sweetest part of all.

    At the age of 12, most of the kids like to watch TV or 1online games. But the 12-year-old Jaysea is 2teaching yoga. She finished 200 hours' teacher training and is the youngest yoga  3now.

    She teaches kids and teenagers yoga. "I want to do this for a long time 4I love so much," says Jaysea, the girl 5long blonde hair and long legs. She seems quieter6more serious than most other kids.

    She  7a twin brother and a 15-year-old brother. Their parents, Rick and Julie said, "They only go to school three days a  8. We tell them to think about  9they want to do and they have  10days to do it. And when they finish high school, they will get their favorite 11."

    Her father says she still 12her best at school. "She finishes all her homework and she13wants to miss a class."

    School doesn't 14before 9:45 a.m. or 10:30 a.m., so Jaysea has enough time to do practice every 15at home for an hour.

    David and Tim are brothers and they are in the same school.

    One afternoon, 1they finished their lessons, they stayed in the school to help their teacher work. They2for an hour. Then the teacher said, "Thank you, boys. We will finish the work tomorrow. It's getting dark. Now you3go home." When the boys got home, it was seven o'clock. The lights were on in their house and the door was4.They saw a man in the house.

     "Who can it be?" David thought." Dad and Mum are5now. They won't be back until(直到) eight o'clock."

    6the man saw David, he smiled and said, " Come in! You don't know me. But I am your 7 friend. He asked me to fetch(取) something for him." However, the man didn't see Tim.

    David went into the house and talked with the man. Tim quickly went to8the police. Soon Tim and a policeman came back. When the man saw the policeman, he tried to run out of the door, but the policeman9 him.

    Just then Mr and Mrs Baker, the boys'10came back home from work. The policeman asked Mr Baker, "Do you know the man?"

    "No," said Mr Baker, "I don't know him. He must be a thief."