When my parents were in trouble at Christmas, our neighbors taught me the true value of kindness. I grew up on the 50-acre farm in the small country community in Missouri, as the sixth of seven children. My parents were hard working farmers and paid regular visits to the farm growing crops. During meals they often talked about how everything on the table except the sugar and flour came from the land. Although we were not rich, they were eager to help others and would make donations to the needy every year.
Besides running the farm, Dad was also a carpenter. However, unfortunately, in the fall of 1970 as he was working on the house, the ladder broke. He fell off the ladder and his back was fractured (使断裂) in two places. He suffered from great pain. Misery and worry took over our family as well. He stayed in hospital for three weeks with his head and feet down, permitting his back to be straight again.
On Thanksgiving day, dad was still in hospital. We always butchered pigs the day after the holiday, and that year my uncle showed up with a couple of cousins to help my three elder brothers prepare our year’s supply of pork.
After Dad returned home, he was not in a good situation and unable to work. I was too young to realize our family had no money coming in and could hardly make ends meet as Christmas approached.
One night we heard a car coming up the long driveway. Growing up in the faraway farm, we kids were curious about who was visiting. As it turned out, Peggy, one of our neighbors, was at the door, holding an envelope filled with money. She told my dad she had collected money in the community and was there to deliver it.
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Dad rejected the money when Peggy handed it to him.
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At Peggy’s insistence and persuasion Dad finally accepted.
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Every kid has a bike but me. Sergio rides his new bike while I run beside, out of breath. He reminds me that my birthday is coming. He forgets there’s a difference between his birthday and mine. My birthday wishes won’t make money appear.
At Sonny’s Grocery, I stand in line, waiting behind the lady in the blue coat who we see all the time. She steps up to pay and her purse (钱包) tips. A dollar falls onto the floor. No one sees. I pick up the money fast. She’s out the door, but I don’t follow her-it’s just a dollar.
Later, when I’m alone, I fish out the crumpled (皱的) bill. It is not one dollar. It is one hundred dollars. My hands are shaking. That money is enough for a bike like Sergio’s.
That night, when I take my papers out of my backpack, I find the zipper (拉链) that was closed is open, and the money is gone. I head out the door. Rain is falling as I retrace (折返) my steps from school to bike shop to home. Rain and tears feel the same. It’s nowhere.
When the bell rings the next morning, I tell Sergio I’ll walk to Sonny’s to pick up some juice for Mom. When I pack my backpack, I notice the smallest zipper inside-still closed. I slide it open, and find it! I am rich again. I race to Sonny’s as fast as riding.
Someone bumps (撞到) into me and apologizes in a soft voice. I turn. My feet are ice-cold, watching as the lady in the blue coat makes her way to the counter with her eggs. She reaches into her purse. And suddenly, I remember how it felt for me when that money that was hers-then mine-was gone. I leave the juice behind and follow her. She walks down one street, then past the bike shop. My mouth is dry.
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“Excuse me,” I say.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________At home, everyone is waiting, and it’s time for me to tell the lost and found story.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Though I cat an apple almost every day, one month ago my doctor came to my house standing in front of me, not being kept away, due to my sudden illness.
“Well Jian, I think I need to have a strong talk with you. You are overweight. Have you ever heard about Body Mass Index (指数), BMI? Well, I’ve weighed you and measured your height and you have a BMI of 28. That is obese (肥胖的),” said the doctor.
I knew I was a little bit overweight but I didn’t think it was that bad. He added that my name means healthy in Chinese and he thought it is time that I should become healthy. There is a direct link between my health and sport. So he asked me, “How much sport do you do every week?”
I told him that I go for a walk every weekend. Then he replied, “Hmm, that’s not a lot. Sport and health go together. They affect your mental, physical and emotional health. For example, sport can improve your mental health, allowing your brain to think better and focus. It will help you to learn more easily. Is that clear, Jian?”
“I think so. I know it would be good to be able to concentrate better at school.” I said.
The doctor explained to me that from a physical point of view, sport makes us tired so helps us to sleep better. At the same time, sport bums off the calories that we have consumed. It builds muscle and improves our circulation. Sport helps to control our cholesterol count (胆固醇指标) and this is important to stop us having a heart attack. Additionally, it also keeps our blood pressure normal and strengthens our bones.
Para 1: The doctor’s words left me lost in thought.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Para 2: “Exercising alone is hard. Why not: try some team sports?” the doctor suggested.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The True Meaning of Love
“You don’t want that one,” the shelter volunteer said. “He’s broken. He’d been abandoned.”
“Broken? Abandoned?” I asked. Had I heard her correctly? I looked down at the black cat sitting on my foot. The minute I’d walked into the animal shelter’s cat room, he’d been one step behind me, my shadow. I wasn’t an expert, but this cat seemed friendly.
The volunteer explained, “He doesn’t like anyone—not other cats, not dogs, not people.”
“I want to adopt him.” I said.
“Really?” she asked. There were several other lovely cats up for adoption, cats that would be easier for a first-time owner. “Why?”
“Because he needs a home,” I said. Then under my breath, “And because I’m broken too.”
It was 2017. I’d been in therapy（心理治疗）for a while, but it was only recently that my therapist suggested I get an animal companion—preferably something low-maintenance, like a cat. It would be good for me. Maybe it can even help me form connections with people. I didn’t know if I believed that. But I went to my local shelter.
I don’t know what it was about that little black cat, but I immediately felt a connection with him. Two abandoned peas in a pod, I guess. I filled out the paperwork and left with him that afternoon.
At home I let him out of the carrier so he could explore. I watched as this little cat smelled every inch of the house. Eventually, his curiosity was satisfied, and he settled in my lap. I reached out a hesitant hand to pet him, saying, “You need my help, and I need yours.”
It took me a week to come up with a name for him. I finally settled on Mr. Bojangles, after the song about a homeless man who, even after getting into big trouble, remained happy and positive. I thought the name fitted this cat. Later I called him Bo for short.
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Amazingly, we both began new connections with the outer world.
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Braving the Waters
Joel Boyers and his wife Melody Among were heading home from the Nashville airport. Among had just earned her helicopter pilot’s licence when Boyers received a call from a stranger. The caller told him that her brother and his two daughters were trapped on their roof in Waverly, 60 miles from Nashville. They were surrounded by rising floodwaters caused by the heaviest rainfall that year.
Desperate, the caller begged, “Could you please, please rescue my loved ones?”
Boyers, 41, looked at the address the caller mentioned while glancing at the storm clouds. “Ma’am,” he said, “no one will fly in this weather ...” But even before he finished the sentence, Boyers knew they would go back up. “I’ve got a daughter myself,” Boyers says. “I’ll see what I can do.” He put the brother’s address into his phone and they drove back to the airport.
Before long they were in the air, unprepared for what they were about to see. It was nothing but raging water below them. There were two houses on fire. Cars in trees. Tons of debris (残骸). No one was going to be able to swim in that.
The flooding also took out cell phone service, meaning that Boyers couldn’t use his phone to pinpoint (精确定位) the house he was looking for. He flew on regardless.
As Boyers controlled the helicopter, Among began searching for people caught out on rooftops, bridges — anywhere they could land and get them on board. Suddenly, she saw a teenager trapped in a tree. The teen, soaking wet and exhausted, was barely out of the water. Since there was no place to land, Boyers lowered the helicopter until it approached to just above the water line. Among jumped out and swam to the tree, where she helped the teen into the helicopter. The teen was shaking and looking behind anxiously when she said, “Thank you so much, but my sister and uncle ... please help them ...”
Boyers dropped off the teen on a patch of land across the street. Then he and Among were back in the air.
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Seconds later, they spotted two people on the roof of a destroyed house.
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________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Last March, Margarito drove to visit his mother who lived in the countryside. When he set off for home, Margarito’s mother looked at the dark sky and noticed the sign of a coming storm. Worried about her son's safety, she told him to drive as carefully as possible on his way home and he promised to give her a call upon his arrival.
With his mother's words in mind, Margrito approached the main road carefully. Soon, it started to rain heavily. Eager to get home, Margarito began to drive faster. Two hours later, he came to a bumpy mountain road that had been flooded by a creek（小溪）.Margarito, driving a four-wheel truck, figured that he would be OK. At that moment, he didn't realize that such a thought would be a big mistake.
It was halfway across the creek that an unfortunate incident took place: The rushing waters grabbed hold of his vehicle, pushing it off the road and sending it down a rocky creek bed. The truck finally stopped some 80 feet away. Margarito’s problems only grew from there as the water had somehow positioned the truck into the creek bank at a 45-degree angle, making it difficult for him to open the driver's side door. Injured and trapped inside with the muddy water rising quickly, Margarito was certain he was going to die. Shaking with fear, he was at a loss about what to do.
On the road right behind Margarito were a delivery worker named Steve and his nephew Mike, who were on the way to deliver furniture to customers in the countryside. They witnessed the horrible incident, and when Margarito's truck came to rest in the middle of the overflowing creek, Steve quickly began to take action. First, he grabbed a rope from the back of his vehicle and used it to ensure he could safely approach the truck.
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Next, Steve turned to Mike and yelled," Give me a rock!”
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Compean was no stranger to Angeles National Forest. He’d hiked the park near his home many times. But after walking along a new path last April, the 45-year-old man was lost.
As the day was near dusk, his concern turned to fear after several hours of aimless wandering (游荡). The area was a wildfield. With no flashlight, only some water and a bar of chocolate in his backpack, and less than ten percent battery remaining on his cell phone, Compean was unprepared for anything except the two-hour hike he’d planned.
Compean climbed to a place, about 7,000 feet above sea level, where he found at least one bar of signal (信号). “SOS. My phone is going to die. I’m lost,” he texted a friend, adding a photo showing where he was. The photo showed his dirty legs hanging over large rocks and plants.
All Compean could do then was wait and hope. The temperature was dropping fast and the winds were blowing. Dressed only in a T-shirt, shorts, and a jacket, the hiker felt extremely cold. He hugged himself into a tight ball, using his backpack to shelter his legs from the cold winds. But he wouldn’t sleep. After finding two mountain lions and a bear, he spent the night suffering from stress, keeping a big stick and some sharp rocks beside him to stop an animal to come close.
Sixty miles away in Ventura County, Ben Kuo, was a lover of satellite maps (卫星地图) which could help exactly locate things or persons in some areas. He was working at home when he read a twitter online from the Sheriff’s Department (警察局), showing a photo of a man’s legs. The Sheriff’s search-and-rescue teams had spent a night looking for Compean. Unsuccessfully, they post the photo to the public, hoping someone might know the location.
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Ben’s unusual hobby helped find where Compean was.
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The rescue (救援) workers got there as soon as possible.
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“Good morning, everybody,” Mrs. Harris greeted the students as she entered the music room. The 65-year-old music teacher had a reputation for being strict in class, despite music seeming like a light subject. But Mrs. Harris took her job seriously, and teaching music was a massive passion for her.
She walked to the piano and started leading the students into a song to get them warmed up. This semester, she was going to teach them about composition and songwriting. Suddenly, one student raised her hand.
“Mrs. Harris, what do you like to listen to in your leisure time?” she asked curiously.
“I bet she listens to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky at home,” another student said.
“But I actually like a lot of pop music, and even some of the things you, young people, listen to nowadays. But I must admit that I listen to a lot of old songs, especially Paul McCartney,” Mrs. Harris answered, smiling at the kids.
Soon enough, the students got used to her, and some started taking her lessons more seriously. Others still liked to be playful, but she wasn’t truly mad at them.
However, the worst was yet to happen. Her husband suddenly died in the middle of the school year, and she didn’t have the heart to go to work. Fortunately, the school was accommodating. They gave her some well-deserved time off.
At first, she was like a zombie(迟钝无生气的人) at home, lying in bed all day. She didn’t even listen to music anymore. But when her daughter encouraged her to start playing tunes once again, she began to play again until she decided to return to school.
She called the headmaster, letting him know she was ready to get back to normal, even if the love of her life was gone.
“Good morning, everyone,” she began upon entering the classroom for the first time since her husband’s death. She placed her things on her desk and started to speak again. “Before we begin, I want to apologize…”
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But before she could go on, the sound of notes being played cut her off.
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Her students approached her one by one.
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As I was looking for a new flat, I was temporarily staying at a lovely small hotel. Unfortunately, during that time, I was due to participate in an online conference for an entire week. I was stuck inside from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm, the entire duration of the cleaning hours. I figured that I could go those five days without my room being cleaned and it wouldn’t be a problem. I would just put a “Do Not Disturb” sign on my door.
On the second day as I was heading to get breakfast at the hotel, I bumped (撞见) into the cleaning lady named Anna. I asked her if I could give her my rubbish, and I mentioned that I would be working the entire day so she needn’t worry about cleaning my room. She smiled and said it was okay.
The next day, when I returned from my breakfast, my room had already been cleaned. The same happened on the following day. On Friday, I finished my breakfast quicker than usual and the cleaning lady was just heading out. She smiled and said that she was happy that even though I ate quicker than usual, she was still able to finish in time.
I finally realized that all this time, she had been keeping an eye on when I headed for breakfast so she could clean my room. Given that looking for a flat in a new city and working in one of the smallest hotel rooms in London were already very stressful, I was incredibly moved. I thanked Anna and told her that, fortunately, it was the very last day of the conference, but I was very thankful.
The following week, I finally got the keys for my new flat. Excited and grateful for all the help I had received while moving in, I bought a box of chocolates and made my way to the receptionist.
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I said to the receptionist, “Could you please give those to Anna?”
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(1) 李华沉迷于电脑游戏，这分散了他学习的注意力。(定语从句)
(2) 为了帮助他度过脱瘾期，他的母亲用英雄故事激励他。
(3) 她经常从图书馆借一些书。
(4) 当他接触到这些书后，他意识到自己应该专心致志学习，决不认输。
(5) 他的母亲非常高兴看到他把注意力从电脑游戏上转移开了。
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