One day, a farmer took a bag of wheat to town. He didn't know what 1 when the bag fell off his horse. The bag was 2 heavy for him to lift. He hoped that 3 would come and help him.

    Before long a man came over. But the farmer was 4 when he saw the man, because he was the famous judge(法官) in "town. The farmer was afraid to ask him for 5.

    As soon as he came up to the farmer, the judge 6 his horse and said," You need my help, don't you? Let me help you." Then he took one end of the bag, and the farmer took 7. They 8 the bag of wheat onto the horse.

    "Sir," asked the farmer, "how can I 9 you?"

    "Well," the judge replied, " 10 you see anyone in need of help, do the same for him."

    I had never noticed her. She was not the kind of girl who could draw attention. She was not tall 1 looked ordinary. In class, she liked sitting at the back, reading or writing notes. One day I asked her 2 aloud the text. When I heard her standard （标准） American English, I looked at her with new eyes. And I remembered her name﹣Kelly. Later on, the National College Speech Competition would be held. One student in our school 3 to attend. I thought it over and filled in her name. Kelly practiced 4 for the competition. However, I was a little worried 5 she was always too quiet. Could she really 6 well in the competition?

    7 the night of the competition, I sat in the front row of the hall very early. I told her to take it easy. Her face turned red and she said nothing. 8 seemed that she was really nervous. I felt upset, but I just patted her on the shoulder and 9 her go to draw lots （抽签）. As a result, she drew No.9 while No.8 was a boy who was very good at giving speeches.

    Sure enough, No.8 was very 10. The whole audience made a warm applause.

    While they 11 about his speech with excitement, Kelly appeared on the stage. I with no courage to look at her. It was her 12 time to go up the stage, so I couldn't be angry with her for any small mistakes. But at that moment, I found 13 I was so afraid of her failure（失败）.

    The strong spotlight and large hall made her so small that nobody seemed to notice she had been on the stage. I felt 14.

But the moment that surprised me came. I clearly heard a voice, a very loud voice, "Now, please focus on me."

    Three times in all, louder and louder.

    The whole audience fell silent.

    I could hardly believe that loud voice came from the girl, who was usually soft-voiced and didn't catch attention at all. She gave a perfect speech.

    I think I will never forget this touching lesson which my student taught me-never underestimate（低估） the power of the 15 people.

    Simon has a big shop in the center of the city. He tells all 1 salegirls to be friendly to the buyers and he gets 2 money.

    One day an old woman 3into the shop to buy a handbag. When she went out of the shop with the handbag, she left her wallet in it. A girl who worked 4 a shop assistant picked it up and found there 5 nearly five hundred dollars in it. She looked around and 6saw it. She put it into her pocket quickly. Soon the old woman came back to look for it7 she failed. She was sad and left. That evening Simon was told about it. He was so angry that he sent the girl away. Then he decided to get an honest man to take her place. Several young men came, but none of them could8  him.

    One morning 9 young man came to his office. He asked, "Do you smoke, sir?"

    "No, sir," answered the young man.

    "Do you drink?"

    "No, sir."

    Simon asked him the other questions, and the young man's answers made him happy. Before he made his decision, he asked him the last question, "You have no shortcoming, do you?"

    "No, I don't, sir. " said the young man. "I only like 10  lies."

    My mum works on Saturdays, so every Saturday my aunt, Jenny, takes me somewhere interesting. For example, once she took me to the sea museum, and then she made me do a project (专题研究) about my favourite 1.

    Last Saturday, Jenny took me to an old people's home. She was a volunteer there, so she 2 went there in her free time. There were a lot of old people there. Jenny introduced 3 to some of them. Then she asked me if I would like to read the newspaper to them. I was glad to do that. I read 4 so they could hear me. They said my reading was excellent. I felt really 5.

    Later, Jenny and I had 6 with them. I sat at a table with one man and two women. During lunch, they told me stones about their lives. The man had been a guide. The two women were from other 7. Mrs Wang came from China, and Mrs Guleed was from South Africa. They 8 their lives in their hometowns. It sounded different.

    After lunch, Jenny 9 the piano. Some of the people sang along to the music. The people there were very kind to me. I liked them so much that I began to 10 them as soon as I got home.

    Why won't my teacher believe me? I was a1student. I always do my homework. I did2of my work last night, but now I don't have it. My3thinks it's because I'm busy practising basketball for the school game. I am busy, 4that's not why I don't have my homework today, I really did my homework. But my dog ate it! I know, it's an5story. Students say it all the time. But this time, it's6.

    Last night I went home late after practising basketball. So I did my homework and ate dinner7. But I was so careless that I dropped some8on my paper！It was very late, so I didn't copy it on clean paper. I just put it on the table and went to bed, 9that my dog Max loves meat. Later last night, he jumped up onto the table and10my homework. When I got up this morning, there was only a small piece of paper on the floor.