When I was about 12 years old, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to tell me about my weak points. Week by week her list became1I was very short, I wasn't a good student, I talked too much, and so on. I tried to stand all of these as possible as I could. Finally, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.

    He listened to me2, and then asked, "Are the things that she said true or not? Jane, have you ever3what you're really like? Now you have that girl's ideas. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things that she said. "

    I did as he told me. To my great4, I found that about half of the things were true. Some of them I couldn't change, like being very short, but a great number of them I could. I wanted to change the bad things, and for the first time I knew something about myself in a very clear way.

    I brought the list back to my father. He refused to take it. "That's just for you," he said," you know better than5else the truth about yourself, but sometimes others' opinions are also important, so you have to learn how to6, and not just close your ears in anger and feel hurt. When something that is said about you is true, you'll find that it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think that they know you. Don't shut your ears. Listen to all of them, but hear the truth and do what you think is the right thing to do." I have remembered my father's advice at many important moments. I have never had a better piece of advice in my whole life.

A kind of Happiness in Rongjiang—Watching "Cun Chao"

Frank is a 12-year-old boy. He 1 in a village in England. The school in his village is not far 2 his home, so Frank often goes to school on foot. Frank usually gets up at about 7:00 in the morning. It is not early for him, 3 he usually has a quick breakfast. He usually drinks 4 and has some bread. He leaves for school at about 7:50. It takes him about 10 minutes 5 to school. Frank has 6 bike. Sometimes he rides his bike to school. At school, his favorite subject is math. He thinks it is 7 .

Frank has 8 dreams. One of his dreams is to be a doctor like Zhong Nanshan one day, so that he 9 help the sick people. "10 can I make my dream come true? I think I must keep studying hard," says Frank.

Jim had no patience and often changed jobs. His parents were worried and they took Jim to Frank, a wise（明智的）man in their village． After listening to Jim＇s1 ，Frank asked Jim to take a walk with him. 

"What's your favorite2 ?"Frank asked. "Strawberries, " Jim said. 

Frank gave Jim some seeds and said, "Plant them in the garden. " After doing this, Jim got 3 so they went back. 

An hour later, Frank said, "Jim, go outside and see if strawberries have come out!"

"But. . . how can strawberries come out so4 ?"asked Jim. "OK, then5 . Go and see later. "said Frank. 

After a while, Frank asked Jim to go outside again to see if strawberries had come out. 

Later, Jim returned and said, " Nothing6 !"

Hours later, Frank said. "Jim, this time strawberries must have come out. " Jim returned with the same7 , "The plant hasn't come out!" "Let's change the seeds this time, " said Frank. 

Jim was8 and said, " After planting a seed, you have to9 it and wait for a long time to get fruit! Don't you know that?"

Frank smiled, " This is what I want to tell you. "

Jim realized his problem. He started a new job with10 and hard work. In the end, he became a successful man. 

The first cellphone was invented fifty years ago. The man who built that phone, Martin Cooper, is now 94 years old. He has been called the "father of the cellphone".

In the early 1970s, Cooper worked for American technology company Motorola. At the time, Motorola and other companies were competing(竞争) to create cellphones. Cooper made the first public call with a handheld telephone in New York City on April 3, 1973. The device(设备), called Dyna -TAC, weighed about 1 kilogram and was 28 centimeters long.

He developed the phone with his team at Motorola for over five months. They could only talk on it for about 25 minutes. Cooper noted that such a call time was not a problem, because this phone was so heavy that you couldn't hold it up for 25 minutes. Cooper said, "The only thing that I was worried about: 'Is this thing going to work?' And it did. At the time, we had no way of knowing this was an important moment in history."

Today, the phone allows us to do many things. Cooper said the progress of cellphones is sure to continue long into the future. He thinks future phones will monitor our health at all times and batteries(电池) could even be replaced by human energy . He believes that one day, our phones might be small devices inside our ears.

Cooper has also expressed his worry. "We don't have any privacy(隐私) anymore because everything is now recorded someplace," Cooper said. However, he said hopefully that cellphones will continue to develop in ways that can greatly help humans.