I went to a supermarket to pick up some things. I placed my purse in the baby carry-on chair and turned my back to add some cabbages into a bag for supper. The cart(购物车)was right next to me one minute ago, then gone!
As I looked around, I did not see an abandoned cart nor mine. I searched the fruit and vegetable area, and every cart but with no luck, no purse! My heart started pounding as I realized that someone may have taken my purse.
I walked to a member of staff, explaining what happened. He ran to get the manager. The manager listened carefully and told me she would go into her office and check the camera to see what happened on the video and call the police if necessary. I felt very nervous then. I told them my purse had my keys, license, phone, identification, etc. Meanwhile, the staff said he would check carts. The manager ran to her office at the front of the store to check the camera.
A young lady had just walked by asking if I was OK. I said, “Not good, but thanks.” I asked if she had a cell phone to call my phone to check if someone would pick it up. But no one answered it. I thanked her. She said she would accompany(陪伴)me till I found my purse. I couldn’t thank her enough.
After a while, the manager came back and told me she had seen an old woman in the camera video take my cart when I was in the meat section. Not until that time did I remembered that there was indeed a woman near me picking out goods. She must have dragged my cart by accident!
I rushed to the meat section, followed by the manager and the young lady. To my relief, I found the old woman without any effort.
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I approached her and told her what had happened.
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I accompanied the old lady to the manager’s office to check the camera again.
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The incident took place, believe it or no, on the playground. I was something of a football player, but I had never been a good player, in fact far less a great one. To be frank, I played for the mere physical joy that I got out of the game, but I played with a will, and put my whole heart into the game. I had plenty of energy and enthusiasm for this sport. But undoubtedly, the result was that I was never picked for my college team.
Let me confess frankly that this was only because there was another player in the same position, much better than me. Though I considered myself the better sportsman, he was certainly the greater player. So I never grumbled or complained. I was content to wait for my time. As others knew, I was very patient.
At last my patience was rewarded. It was a special day for me. Our team had shot up the final and was meeting its opponent. Our star-player sent word that he was ill and he could not participate at the last moment, leaving the whole college camp in great astonishment. All the team members thought that the game was almost lost and so did I for this player was our trump(王牌). We were all in low spirits, not knowing what to do with the situation. However, something had to be done. And I realized the moment I was always waiting for came and that I should seize this opportunity to do something for our team and prove myself. I went to the captain and told him I would like to take the place,
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Extremely shocked, the captain stared at me with hesitation.
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It was indeed a thrilling moment in my life.
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A freezing downpour washed the street in front of the small-town bar. I sat gazing into the watery darkness, alone as usual. I had been in that old bar for half an hour, quietly thinking, when my thoughtful eyes finally focused on a medium-sized lump in a puddle (水洼) a hundred feet away. For another ten minutes, I looked out through the window trying to decide if the lump was an animal or just something.
The night before, a dog named Shep had come into the bar begging for potato chips. He was starving and just the size of the lump in the puddle. Why should a dog lie in a cold puddle in the freezing rain? I asked myself. The answer was simple: Either it wasn’t a dog, or it was, and he was too weak to get up.
The wound in my right shoulder ached all the way down my fingers, I didn’t want to go out in the storm. Hey, it wasn’t my dog. It was just a stray on a cold rainy night, a lonely drifter(流浪者). So was I, I thought, as I gulped (大口吞咽) down what was left of my drink and headed out the door.
He was lying in the three inches of water. When I touched him, he didn’t move. I thought he was dead. I put my hands around his chest and raised him to his feet. He stood unsteadily, and his head hung like a weight at the end of his neck. His floppy ears were just hairless pieces of flesh dotted with open sores (伤口).
“Come on, Shep,” I said, leading him to a corner next to the bar, where he lay on the cold cement floor and closed his eyes. A block away I could see the lights of a late-night convenience store. It was still open. I bought three cans of dog food and fed him. He couldn’t swallow but looked at me. He was dying!
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The local vet was still at his office, so I loaded the poor creature into a taxi and headed there.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________A week later, when I opened the door of the vet’s, Shep welcomed me with wild enthusiasm.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Several years ago, shortly after going through months of chemotherapy (化疗) for breast cancer (癌症), I was burned out. I should have been happy. The treatments were over. Instead, a door somewhere in my heart flew open from the stress of dealing with my cancer diagnosis (诊断). All the feelings, worries, and fears made me struggle. It took a huge effort to get through each day. The world was dark. I didn’t care about anything. One day, I visited a counselor at the nearby cancer center.
“You need to make a treasure map,” she said. “How do I do that?”
“First, you make a list of the things you want to do or achieve in the future. Then bring it here next week.”
That afternoon, I started and wrote, “Walk for twenty minutes each day” and “Finish the book I started.” Then I began thinking a week and then a month ahead, writing, “Visit Sea World,” and “Start attending yoga classes.” And, finally, I was looking a year ahead: “Finish writing my novel,” and “Go to cheer for Diane.” (My sister was training for a sixty-mile walk to raise money for breast cancer research.) I felt a little better.
When I showed my counselor the list, she told me to buy a piece of poster board and cutout pictures of the goals I had written. That would be my treasure map, my working plan to lead my way to the future.
At home that day, I cleared off the kitchen table and took out some old magazines. At first, I felt silly looking for pictures, like I was back in kindergarten. But as I found what I was looking for, I became more interested. Before the cancer diagnosis, I had wanted to travel to see the Grand Canyon. I had forgotten that. I had wanted to learn to use my camera and to visit New Orleans. I had forgotten those, too.
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As I worked on creating the treasure map, my world began to change.
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I’m sure that following that early treasure map made things happen.
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One afternoon in August, five years after Mom passed away, I was unpacking my groceries(食品杂货) in my kitchen. When I lifted my left hand out of a grocery bag, I suddenly couldn’t breathe. Looking at the ring on my finger, I found the star sapphire (蓝宝石)was gone. Mom had given me the ring on my twenty-first birthday. I had worn it every day for twenty-nine years. It was a reminder of Mom and a symbol of our love.
“No! No! No!” I yelled, hurrying to check the bag and the floor, and then my car, but the star sapphire was nowhere to be found. Feeling helpless, I called my best friend, Marie. “The star sapphire in my ring fell out. I don’t know what to do,” I said, extremely worried.
Marie replied, “Please don’t be anxious. Try to stay calm and positive. You can go back to the places you just visited and take a look.” But how could I keep hope in seemingly impossible situations? Anyway, I started my car and drove to the grocery store again. I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was little chance that I could find my stone.
Back at the grocery store, I pulled into the same parking spot and looked everywhere for my star sapphire. My hands and knees felt the hot ground as I searched crazily around and under my SUV car. Then I rushed inside the store, searching for a familiar face for more help. I spotted Amanda, a staff member whom I had met on previous shopping trips, and urgently tapped her on the shoulder. “I was just here twenty minutes ago and lost the stone of this ring. It’s very special to me. It’s from my late mom. Could you please help me look for it?” I cried, unaware that many other people around also heard my words.
Amanda’s eyes softened and she nodded understandingly. She immediately took a large mop(拖把) and started carefully sweeping it back and forth down the first aisle (过道) of the huge store.
Paragraph 1:In tears, I called after her, “It’s light blue and small.”
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Suddenly, a customer near the counter excitedly called out loudly, “Oh, Madam, I’ve found it!”.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________On rainy days, Juanita liked to climb the attic (阁楼) stairs and play with her stuffed animals (毛绒玩具) under the roof. Here she could hear the drumming sound of the rain. The attic was dark on stormy days, but Juanita thought it was comfortable to have only one light bulb (灯泡) on.
Today, Juanita was pretending that her stuffed animals were Olympic athletes. The event was the high jump, so Juanita threw them into the air to see how high they could fly. Tom, her stuffed monkey, flew so high that he hit the ceiling and went over into a dark corner.
When Juanita went to find Tom, she saw a box on the floor in the corner. It was dusty (布满灰尘的), with gold corners and a metal lock that held it shut. Its key was lying just beside it. She had never noticed this box before. What could be inside?
Juanita brought the box and the key over to the middle of the attic, under the light bulb where she could see better. She opened it carefully and looked inside. Inside the box were a lot of black and white photos. Most of them were of a small girl with her hair braided (编辫子).
The girl looked just like Juanita! This was confusing. “I’ve never been to that house,” she thought as she looked through the photos. There was a gray farmhouse in the background of each picture. How could Juanita be in pictures of a place she had never been to?
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Juanita ran downstairs with the photos to show her mom.
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________A little girl whose parents had died lived with her grandmother and slept in an upstairs bedroom.
One night there was a fire in the house and the grandmother died while trying to rescue the child. The fire spread quickly, and the first floor of the house was soon engulfed(吞没) in flames.
Neighbors called the fire department, then stood helplessly by, unable to enter the house because flames blocked all the entrances. The little girl appeared at an upstairs window, crying for help, just as word spread among the crowd that the firefighters would be delayed a few minutes because they were all at another fire.
Suddenly, a man appeared with a ladder, put it up against the side of the house and disappeared inside. His actions showed no sign of hesitation or fear. When he reappeared, he had the little girl in his arms. He delivered the child to the waiting arms below, then disappeared into the night without leaving a trace behind.
An investigation revealed that the child had no living relatives, and weeks later a meeting was held in the town hall to determine who would take the child into their home and bring her up.
A teacher said she would like to raise the child. She pointed out that she could ensure her a good education. A farmer offered her an upbringing on his farm. He pointed out that living on a farm was healthy and satisfying. Others spoke, giving their reasons why it was to the child’s advantage to live with them.
Finally, the town’s richest resident rose and said, ”I can give this child all the advantages that you have mentioned here, plus money and everything that money can buy.“
Throughout all this, the child remained silent, her eyes on the floor. It seemed that nothing could stir her from grief and loss of all those loved ones. ”Does anyone else want to speak?“ asked the meeting chairman.
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A strange man came forward from the back of the hall.
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All eyes turned to the girl in disapproval.
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