Smith, an old man, lived in the middle of the town. One day he found his watch1in his own store. It 2a lot to him because it was from his wife. After searching3in the store for a long while, he 4to ask for help from a group of children playing outside the store. He5them that the person who found it would be rewarded. 6this, the children hurried inside the store, went through and around the 7store, but still could not find the watch.

    Soon the man felt hopeless and wanted to8. A little boy went up to him and asked for another9 . The man looked at him and thought, “ Why not? 10, this kid looks sincere enough.”11the man sent him back in the store. After a while the boy 12 with the watch in his hand! The man was very13, and he asked the boy how he found it while the others had 14 . The boy replied, “I did nothing but sat on the ground and 15 .Then I heard the ticking (嘀嗒声) of the watch and just looked for it in that 16.”

    We usually do something in a hurry and don't think about our own needs, which can't bring peace into our mind. 17 we need to think about ourselves and keep peaceful for a while, which can produce a 18 result. So allow a few minutes of 19 to your mind every day, and see how it helps you deal with your work and make 20as you expect to!

    Children all round the world are familiar with fairy tales such as “The Little Mermaid”(美人鱼), “The Princess and the Pea” and “The Emperor's New Clothes”. The colourful 1 from the stories made us laugh and cry throughout our 2.

    The stories are the creation(创作) of Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson. He was born into a 3 family in Odense, Denmark, on April 2, 1805. His 4 life was not easy. His father was a shoemaker and his mother a washerwoman. He 5 very little education. As a child he was very6 and was laughed at for being feminine (女性化的) and tall.

    In 1816 his father died and Anderson was 7 to go out to work, first in a tailor's shop and 8 at a tobacco factory. 9 the age of 14 Anderson moved to Copenhagen to start a career as a singer and actor. He struggled for three years 10 he had to leave the theatre when his voice 11 in 1822.

    12, Anderson went to a grammar school. Having done well, he was admitted to Copenhagen University in 1828. He began to publish his fairy tales in 1835. They 13 in small volumes (量) until his death.

    14 Anderson lived a 15 life, he tried to make people 16 in all his stories. He wrote because he didn't want children to have a 17 childhood as he did. The works 18 Anderson world fame(声誉), but he remained a 19 man. He never married and his friends were the people who paid for his work. Anderson 20 on August 4, 1875. His home in Odense is now a museum and thousands of people visit it every year.

    We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are 1 one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say,2 across the bay to a shabby old house.

    I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯)3 memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children,4 from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of 5 , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors 6for 200 years.

    We soon 7 by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories8back, swift as the tide (潮水).

Suddenly, I long to walk again in the 9where I was once so glorious a child. It still 10a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk11the rooms in memory. Here, my mother 12 in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family 13 into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being 14 them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise 15 attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I 16 ; where I belong. "

She has17her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human 18. To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need 19 origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the20 of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.

    I grew up in a small town. My father1chickens and ran a construction company. I was210 years old when my dad gave me the3of feeding the chickens and4up the stable（笼子）. He believed it was5for me to have those jobs to6responsibility. Then, when I was 22, I found a job in Natchbill at a country music club7the Natchbill Palace, I washed8and cooked from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm and then9to sing until 2:00 in the morning. It wasn't long before I became known10a singing cook.

    I had been rejected so many times by record11that it was hard not to be discouraged. One night, a12executive(主管) from a company named Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing. When the show was13, we sat down and talked and after she left, I said to14it was one more rejection. A few weeks later, my manager received a phone call—Waner Brothers15to sign me to a record deal.16after, I release(发行) my first record in June 1986. It17over 2 million copies.

    My best efforts had gone into every job I've ever held. It was the18of responsibility that made me feel like a man. Knowing that I had done my19filled me with pride. I still feel that way today, even though I have become a well-known20.

    Every morning, little Kate makes the day of bus driver John Reed.

    The Milwaukee kid is known to wave and jump up and down as Reed's bus1 to her stop. So when Reed's2 changed, he knew he had to3 a proper goodbye to the 4-year-old girl, for all the sweet 4 from the angel.

    "Good morning, sweetie!" he greeted the child and her mom, Tracy. "I got you a 5, I got you a book and there's something else in there for you," he told Kate as he handed her a shining bag. The sweet moment was recorded by the security6 inside the bus.

    "My daughter is very happy," Tracy told InsideEdition.com on Friday. "That's just her7. In the morning, when she sees him coming, she gets very8. They just9 a friendship."

    Inside Kate's card, Reed wrote: "I can10 say that over the past months you have been my favorite bus passenger. Your happy smile and 11 everyday Good Mornings have 12 my every day. I want to thank you for being a GREAT EXAMPLE for others to13."

    Tracy was so 14 with Reed's kindness that she visited her Facebook account to 15 her daughter's special connection to the bus driver. "Every morning Kate and I take the city bus to school and work," she wrote. "We try to always take the16 bus because we made friends with the driver Reed."

    "She is 17 excited to see him, she always 18 him a good morning, and tells him the latest news in her 4-year-old life. She19 him a Valentine, and he gave her one too. They are best friends."

    Tracy 20 seeing Reed on her morning commute(通勤). "Though my new driver is perfectly nice, he's no John Reed, "she said.

Faye and Matthew Gooding and their five young sons appear to have perfect lives. Mrs. Gooding 1 beautiful photos of life in their four-bedroom house on Instagram(一种社交软件), and more than 32, 000 people 2 them. For the couple themselves, 3 , this "materially(物质地) perfect world" was lacking something—so now they are giving up all their 4 to travel around the world with their kids.

This was the last Christmas that the couple spent in their house, which has already been sold. Most of their belongings are 5 too. Shortly their Ford car will be sold and the family will take just one backpack each.

Mrs. Gooding said: "Some friends and family think Matt and I are 6 to be giving up so much. It's been difficult giving up so many possessions. Yet 7 enjoying spending time with the boys, I found myself cleaning the house all day before. The older ones were at school and I thought, 'I 8 see them'. I admitted how I felt to Matt. He agreed it felt as if our lives moved around 9 things—both of us working to 10 the mortgage(贷款) and keep ourselves in our materially perfect world."

    They will leave this month and plan to start their 11 in Sweden where they have friends.

Mr. Gooding added: "People have said 'aren't you worried about stability and safety?'— 12 as we have five small children. It is a (an) 13 because we are giving up so much. But we can't wait to spend more time with our sons without the 14 of everyday routines. We don't know what will happen, but we do know if we didn't do this we would always 15 it."