【推荐1】A test of values learned

My girlfriend and I were at the grocery store recently, and her wallet     1     (steal) from our cart. Of course, we were both very upset at the time, for she worked in a pizza shop     2     I had dropped most of my savings into buying our own house. A few     3     (hour) after we got back home, the grocery store     4     (manage) called and told us that the wallet had been turned in. Her cash was of course not there. At least they left her Social Security card and license. About five days     5     (late). I was delivering to a grocery store for my job. I happened to glance over a cart beside where I parked my truck. And there sat a woman’s wallet in the back of it. I picked it up, of course     6     (think) of what had happened to my girlfriend’s wallet. A quick thought of just taking     7     thing flew across my mind. My parent’s and grandparent’s voices popped（出现）in my head and told me otherwise. In fact, the wallet belonged     8     a single mother who came back in the grocery store looking for it. I’m not telling this story to praise myself. I would just like other parents     9     (know) that the examples you set for children can     10     (real) make a difference.

【推荐2】One day, about ten years ago, while working at the cash register (收银机) in the gift shop at my University Museum of Natural History, I saw     1     elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As I looked     2     (close) at this girl, I found that she was fixed on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, a neck and upper body,     3     (dress) in a little white skirt. As the couple wheeled her up to me, I turned my head toward the girl. When I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back     4     the girl, who was giving me the most optimistic, largest smile I had ever seen. All of a sudden, her handicap (障碍) was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl,     5     smile just melted me     6     almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of     7     life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and     8     (bring) me into her world; a world of smiles, love and     9     (warm). I’m a successful business man now and whenever I think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable (非凡的) lesson about life that she taught     10     (I).

In today’s world many people seem to be     1     (hunger) for money. Money does have its most useful effects on the poor.     2     even if a person has already got plenty of money,     3     (happy) can’t be bought by money.

If money were beginning, all millionaires     4     have real love, true friendship, good health and a long life. However, this is not always correct.

Since     5     beginning of time no three words have ever invited more     6     (pleased) than “I love you”. But can love be bought? I’m afraid not Love     7     (mean) to give, not to take. To every person, health and a long life are bought with money? The answer is “No”.

Of all the longest     8     (life) people in the world, few of them are millionaires. True friendship can’t be bought, either in a world, where money is     9     (dream) too much, it can cause brothers to quarrel, marriage to end, lovers to hate, and     10     (strange) to fight. No matter how much money you have, it is still not enough to make a happy person if you have no one to laugh with, no one to cry for.