One day in early December, we woke up to discover a heavy fall of snow. “Mom, can we go1after breakfast?” my eleven-year-old daughter Erica begged. I didn't want to 2her request, so we headed towards the only 3in our town.

    When we arrived, the hill was crowded with people. We found an open spot next to a thin man and his three-year-old son. The boy was already lying in the sled (雪橇), 4to be launched. “Come on, Daddy!” he called.

    The man looked over at me. “Okay if we go 5?”he asked.

    “Sure. Looks like your son is ready to go, ”I said. With that, he gave the boy a huge 6 and off he flew! And the father ran after his son at full speed.

    “He must be afraid that his son is going to7somebody, ”I said to Erica. “We'd better be 8 too.”

    Then we also skied down the hill at a great speed. As we returned to the top, I noticed that the man was 9his son, who was still lying in the sled, back up to the summit (山顶)，When we reached the top, the boy was ready to play again. Again, the father 10him down the hill, and then pulled both the boy and the sled back up. The little boy was terribly spoilt by his father, I thought. 11he was small, the child could pull his own sled up the hill once in a while. This 12went on for more than an hour, but the man never 13 and he was very happy instead. Finally, I could14it no longer. I called to him, “You have tremendous15!”

    The man smiled and said, “He has cerebral palsy (脑瘫)，He can't walk.

    I was dumbstruck (惊呆的). It had all seemed so happy, so 16 that it never occurred to me that the child might be 17.Although I didn't know the man's name, I told the 18in my newspaper column. Either he or someone he knew must have recognized him, 19shortly afterward, I received this letter:

Dear Mrs. Silverman,

    The energy I expended on the hill that day is 20compared to what my son does every day . To me, he is a true hero.

    I was driving in my car the other day. The sun was out, the radio was playing, and I was 1 along. The song was a 2 one and even my weak voice sounded good singing it. Then it 3, however. The sweet sound of the music 4 and there came the 5 news. Gas prices 6 again. Fans of two sports teams got into fight. I sighed and wondered about this 7 world we live in.

    8, I could take no more and turned off the 9. Silence seemed preferable to listening to 10 else about the crazy, competitive society we live in. I slowed down as I entered a town and 11 the people as I drove by. A tall man was 12 an elderly lady out of a car and helping her place her walker so she could go into store. A smiling woman was 13 food onto the square while a dozen birds flew down to enjoy the 14 being laid out before them. A young man was walking along, carrying his 15 safely in his arms. When the daughter pulled the hat off his head, they both 16. I laughed too as I looked at all of his 17. The radio may have been off in my car, 18 in my heart I was 19 singing.

    In truth, this world could have more kindness and less 20. Kindness makes us all winners in this life and our life is full of kindness, love and joy.

    One of my favourite films is Mr. Bean. At a Fancy (化装)Restaurant. In the film, after being1at his table, Mr. Bean takes out a2, writes a few words on it, signs his name, puts it into an envelope and 3it on the table. After a moment, he looks at the4but this time he looks surprised, as if he did not know it was there. He opens it to find a birthday card and delightedly puts it on the table for everyone to see.

    When he looks at the5, an astonished look quickly6on his face. He takes all7out of his pockets, counts it and puts it in a saucer(碟子).He then looks from the menu to the money with 8until he finds one thing that makes him smile. He9a dish called "steak tartare." When the dish arrives, he is 10to discover that "steak tartare" is11a raw(生肉的)hamburger. He12an attempt to eat it, but it is13, from the look on his face, that he finds the taste really terrible. He cannot14his feelings, except when the waiter asks whether everything is OK. He smiles and nods,15that everything is fine.16no one is looking, however, he17himself hiding the raw meat anywhere he can18, inside a sugar bottle, a tiny flower vase and under a plate. He becomes so disappointed in the end that he19hides some inside the20of a woman sitting near him and throws some under the seat of the restaurant's violinist!

    I like to watch Mr. Bean on TV but I wouldn't want to meet someone like him in real life.

There was a knock at the door of Great-Grandma Smith's home one Thanksgiving. Since she was the 1 for this family holiday, she got up, opened the door, and shouted with delight, "Look who's here!"

She 2 a young man into the house, hugged him, and said, “It's 3 to see you again! Everyone will be so delighted!" Great-Grandma then hurried to 4 his coat and led him to the table. "Oh, just look who's here!" she 5 with joy. The families 6 to each other. She moved things around and 7 him in a seat between my uncle and herself. He was 8 by families on both sides and faced Great-Grandpa Smith across the table.

"Coralie, get us another place setting!^" Great-Grandma 9"We're so sorry that we 10 without you. No one knew you were coming," she 11. "But you're just going to love everything. We have turkey and many other 12. Oh, and Coralie made an apple and a pumpkin pie for dessert even! So, just help yourself. My dear, it's a long time since I saw you!" She patted his arm again and 13 .

No one had 14 her joyful speech from the moment she left the table to answer the door. After looking around the table at our 15, the young man turned and looked 16at Great-Grandma Smith's face, which was filled with love and joy. He said in a(n) 17 voice, "I don't 18 any of you. I just stopped at your house to get 19 !"

"But I really appreciate your warm-hearted dinner on this special day as I have lost my way here," he added with 20 in his eyes.

Bergl doesn't consider himself the next Thomas Edison, He's just a man loving animals, Africa and adventure, Yet, Bergl might have invented a tool as great as the light bulb (灯泡) ―a tool that uses modern-day technology to solve an almost prehistoric (史前) problem.

The tool is called the SMART. It is designed to be waterproof (防水的) , shockproof and poacher (偷猎者) proof. Bergl worked with worldwide wildlife groups to develop it in 2011. Since then it has been seen in more than 55 countries where poachers have forced the best-known but most endangered animals to nearly die out .

SMART works as a very simple smart phone―it lets the user record what they see, like animal sightings. changes in animals and illegal activities If a park ranger (管理员) sees something that is very important, that information can be sent to the cloud (云) and sent out to the base camp so they can take action and stop the killing 

Bergl and his workmates travel to African wildlife reserves now and then They teach park rangers in some of the most remote countries how to use SMART. "SMART makes collection of information easier It allows us to pay attention to the things that really important. according to what the information is telling an,"Aid Skim Young, manager of the Etosha National park in Namibia, "thanks to SMART, most of Africa's endangered animals seem to be coming back." 

Bergl never plans to make money from his small but great invention. SMART is free and doesn't even have a patents(专利).

At a snow park in Zhangiakou, Hebei, Chinese teenage snowboarder Su Yiming won a silver in the men's snowboarding competition on February 7, 2022. It was the first time that a Chinese snow boarder had ever competed in this event at any Olympics. 

Su was introduced to snowboarding at the age of 4 by his parents who were both snowboarding fans. Su fell in love with the sport the first time they took him to a ski center. Later he kept on practicing after class. To save up more time for snowboarding, he would get up at 5 a. m. and finish his homework early. Su just saw snowboarding as a hobby in the beginning. However, on July 31, 2015, when he knew that 2022 Winter Olympics would be held in Beijing, his mind tuned to professional (职业性的) competition. He dreamed of joining in the Winter Olympics. And he decided to go professional. 

In 2018. Su became a member of China's national snowboarding team. In 2020 and 2021, he took home gold medals (奖牌) in all national competitions. In January 2021, he became the first Chinese male snowboarder to finish the Cab 1800-one of the most difficult snowboarding skills. 

Behind his success is Su's hard work. He has made full use of every chance to train more. Usually he arrived at the training center earlier than his teammates. In that way, he could practice more. He even broke several snowboards in one week because of heavy training.