“Mommy ,don't go,”my three-year-old son screamed as I walked to the door. My fifteen-year-old leaned against the kitchen counter with his arms folded across his chest ,not screaming,but glaring at me as I pulled his little brother off my leg.
“Are you mad at me too?”
“You spend all your time taking care of other people's kids,but what about us?”Dylan left angrily.
I was shocked and a little hurt. How could my own child not understand that the work I was doing was saving live? Then the answer hit me. He didn't know bemuse he had never seen what Healing the Children actually did. Dylan had heard the sores of sick children, but had never once looked into the eyes of a child and understood the hard truth-that without our help, the child would likely die.
“Get dressed. You are going with me.”I said.
I spend the drive explaining the case of Hector to my son, who pretended to ignore me the entire time.“He's seven, only weighs thirty pounds and is very sick. He has a heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot, which could kill him. It is a miracle(奇迹) that he is still alive. ”
I went on to explain that it took a team of volunteer medical staff to get Hector to the hospital from his remote village and care for him while he was there. Still, Dylan seemed unimpressed.
We stopped at a convenience store for water and snacks. Dylan had one large and one small Slurpee (思乐冰饮料). He said the small one was for Hector. I doubted whether the little guy would be able to drink it, but remained silent. This was the first interest Dylan had shown in being there. I wasn't about to ruin it.
I stopped at the nurse's station to check on Hector's progress while Dylan went to his room. Our patient was recovering physically，but the nurse was concerned that Hector was struggling emotionally. She said “Kids usually bounce back fast, but he hardly speaks and never smiles.”
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On the last day of the National Day holiday, Stephen, a former lifeguard, visited Santa Cruz, Tenerife. Walking down the sandy beach, he was bathed in the last rays of sunshine, enjoying the warm sea air and the gentle wind. Not far from the shore, a group of boys were playing water polo ball in the sea water. Getting a little closer, soon he realized that something was wrong. The wave had pulled Jordan, one of them, into the sea when his mother went for the bathroom. Stephen rushed over without hesitation, dived into the water and swam quickly to the boy. People standing on the shore waved wildly and screamed crazily for help and someone called the lifeguards immediately.
The boy had already been struggling for several minutes when Stephen noticed the scene. He was sinking fast and it seemed as if he would be drowned. Just at that moment, Stephen reached the boy and caught hold of him. He could tell the boy was still alive, but it was clear that he was almost losing his breath.
Gritting out teeth (咬紧牙关), Stephen held the boy and swam tooth and nail to the shore. However, the flow was so rapid that it seemed like a tough task for him to make it. At that moment, a new fierce wave came, pushing them away from the shore farther and farther, making it impossible for Stephen to swim forward.
A sense of tiredness and fear engulfed (包围) him with his feet trembling hard to keep afloat (漂浮的). But he knew that if he gave up trying, he’d become another victim. Holding Jordan tightly, Stephen fought the waves to swim to the shore with his full strength, but the beach was too far away. Fighting the current and holding the boy above the water quickly became tiring.
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Just then, a rescue boat caught Stephen’s eye.
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A few hours had passed before good news came from the hospital.
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A week before Halloween, my young children wild with great happiness were walking and running around our home in their Halloween costumes. Just then the babysitter called, telling me that she was extremely sorry for asking for a day off. I knew that emergencies did occur, and I told her that I completely understood. But what was actually going through my mind were feelings of frustration and self-pity. And I had to pack my three kids into the car, and then drove to the hospital.
On the way, numerous things flooded into my mind, and I especially thought about how life should be going. I was thirty years old, a mother of three girls-five-year-old twins and a one-year-old baby. At this moment, I should be playing with them in the park or visiting the library together. But I was, once again, going to see the doctor. It had been a year since I was diagnosed with cancer. I knew that I was one of the lucky ones. I was grateful that surgery and chemotherapy (化疗) were over, and this was just a routine blood test. As always, there was the remaining fear that the cancer would come back. To be honest, my family and friends were great during the past year when I was in bad condition, but they were also busy with their lives. Therefore, I did not want to burden them with my feelings of unhappiness. What I just wanted to see were the positive things in life and I really wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude to them.
When we finally arrived, we sat in a crowded waiting room. Nothing special occurred until my youngest daughter, dressed up as an angel, walked up to a woman who was in a wheelchair and accompanied by her caregiver. My daughter looked at the woman and pointed to the vending (售货) machine next to her, saying sweetly, “Tweet.” This was how she said “Trick or Treat”, who had been coached previously by her twin sisters.
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Surprisingly, the woman, a complete stranger to us, knew exactly what my daughter meant.
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My daughters thanked everyone who gave them treats.
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I have forgotten the name of an old lady who was a customer on my paper run when Iwas a twelve- year-old boy. Yet it seems like just yesterday that she taught me a lesson in forgiveness that I can only hope to pass on to someone else someday.
On a Saturday afternoon, a friend and I were throwing rocks onto the roof of the old lady's house from a spot in her backyard. The object of our play was to observe how the rocks changed to missiles (导弹) as they rolled to the roof edge and shot out into the yard like comets (彗星) falling from the sky.
I found myself a perfectly smooth rock. The stone was too smooth, however, so it slipped from my hand as I let it go and headed straight for a small window on the old lady's back porch. At the sound of glass being broken, we too off from the old lady's yard faster than any of our missiles flew off her roof. I was too scared about getting caught that first night.
However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn't been discovered, I started to feel guilty for her misfortune. She still greeted me with a smile each day when I gave her the paper, but I was no longer able to act comfortable in her presence. I made up my mind that I would save my paper delivery money, and in three weeks I had the seven dollars that I calculated would cover the cost of her window.
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I put the money in an envelope with a note and headed for the old lady’s house.
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The next day, I handed the old lady her paper, pretending nothing had happened.
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Most people think it s fine to be “busy as a be aver (海狸).” But actually, although beavers may work hard, often they don’t get much done.
Beavers are good at building dams and most beaver dams are wonders of engineering. The best ones are strongly built of trees, stones, and mud. They are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top.
Beavers think nothing of building a dam more than two hundred feet long. One dam, in Montana, was more than two thousand feet long. The largest one ever seen was in New Hampshire. It stretched four thousand feet. It made a lake large enough to hold forty beaver homes.
So beavers do build good dams. But they don’t always build them in the right places. They just don’t plan. They will build a dam across the widest part of the stream. They don’t try to find a place where the stream is narrow. So a lot of their hard work is wasted.
Beavers should learn that it’s not enough to be busy. You have to know what you’re doing, too. For example, there was one Oregon beaver that really was a worker. It decided to fix a hole in a man-made dam. After five days of work it gave up. The hole it was trying to fill was the space that boats go through.
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1. 以约30词概括上文的主要内容；
2. 以约120词就“制定规划与达成目标”这一主题进行议论，内容包括：
(1) 海狸修水坝的故事给你的启示是什么？
(2) 请结合你的生活经历阐述“制定规划与达成目标”之间的关系。
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1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
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I looked around the crowded waiting room at the hospital and sighed. Would the doctor be able to see my eight-year-old son next? I tried steadying the ice pack(冰袋) over his forehead, but it was no use. I couldn’t stop shaking. The wound in his forehead was deep, but at least blood wasn’t pouring from it anymore.
His face was full of tears, he seemed really brave for his age. I handed him the ice pack, and he covered his forehead with it. He was doing a much better job than I had. We were at the hospital because another child had thrown a rock at Luke during class break as he was running around the corner. His teacher called me, and when I arrived, I found him in her lap. His teacher was caring for his wound, trying to keep him calm. She felt terrible about what had happened, but I knew none of it was her fault.
Lulse received four stitches (缝和) and didn’t cry once throughout the whole treatment. For the next two days, his eye was swollen shut and black and blue. I felt like I’d had a mini nervous breakdown. Every time I tried to sleep or tend to housework, horrible thoughts crept into my mind. Fear had taken over, and then the fear turned to anger. I was angry with the child who’d thrown the rock. I just couldn’t shake it. What was she thinking? She should’ve known better.
Luke’s headmaster and teacher called me that evening to see how he was feeling and told me Katie, the girl, felt terrible. I wanted to stand up for my son, do the right thing, protect him.
The next day, Luke’s teacher stopped by to see how he was feeling and dropped off a get-well card that Katie had made. Luke and I read it several times, and I couldn’t help but feel a little choked up. It was a sincere apology.
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I wanted this to be a teachable moment for Luke.
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Later, Luke’s teacher told us Katie was relieved after reading our letter.
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