Terry Fox was only seventeen when he got a cancer (癌症). He must have felt hopeless when the doctor said his right leg would have to be cut off 6 inches above the knee.

But to everyone’s surprise, Terry Fox made up his mind to become a long-distance runner and do something about the cancer. What a dream!

Although it seemed impossible, Terry decided to run across the whole country. He hoped to raise one million dollars for cancer research. Few believed he would make it. Anyway, on April 12, 1980, Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope. For the first days of his marathon, Terry Fox was alone. He started running at 4:30 am. Day by day, people began to realize that something big was happening on the lonely road. As people saw Terry, they stopped and donated (捐赠) money for cancer research.

However, his health took a rapid turn for the worse several months later. He had to give up his marathon on September 1, 1980. Terry died three months later, at the age of 22. In his short life, he raised $24 million for cancer research—one dollar for each person in his motherland.

Since his death, the yearly Terry Fox Run, first held in 1981, has grown to be the world’s largest one-day fundraiser (筹资活动) for cancer research.

Nowadays, most of our lives are saved online. We set up email and online shopping accounts (账号); we download (下载) music, movies, games and e-books; we share things on Weibo and WeChat. Together, these things make up our “digital legacy (数字遗产)”.     36    

US Company Apple is testing a new digital legacy service. With it, you can pass on your personal data (数据) such as photos, videos, notes and other things to your friends or family members. In fact, there are two kinds of digital legacy. One is things that we buy with money.     37     Dealing with these is a problem.

    38     The Internet companies do. You only have a right to use them. For example, your Taobao account might be closed by the company if you haven’t used it for more than six months.

    39     “Whether social media accounts, like WeChat and Weibo, can be passed is a question, because they are highly personal,” said Wang Cheng, a professor at Beijing University.

But some people have different ideas. A Chinese girl Gao Yixin said that, “As a member of the online world, I would like to leave my digital legacy behind. For me, death is not the end, being forgotten is.     40     Through this digital legacy, younger people can learn from the experiences of my life and share my happiness and sadness.”

A survey showed that in America boys earned (赚得) an average pocket money (平均的零花钱) of $13.80 each week. On the other hand, girls earned only $6.71. That’s less than ________ of what the boys received! Why?

One reason is that parents assign (分配) differently. They often ask boys to do ________ work, such as mowing the grass or taking out the rubbish more often than girls, ________ girls are given housework tasks. They’re often asked to clean the bathroom or do the dishes. Boys’ tasks are considered more physically challenging (体力挑战). However, cleaning a dirty toilet isn’t ________ at all. Walking to the rubbish bin isn’t more challenging than lifting a heavy laundry (洗衣物) basket.

Parents can and should work to ________ their ideas about which tasks are suitable for girls and boys. All children can learn to take out the rubbish and do the dishes. Both are useful skills that children will need in the future.

One day I was shopping in the supermarket when I heard a young voice.

“Mom, come here! There’s a lady here like my __________!” The mother ran to her son, then she turned to me and said sorry. I __________. “It’s okay.” Then I talked to the boy, “Hi, I’m Dairy Kramer. How are you?”

The boy looked at me from head to toe. Then he asked, “Are you a little mommy?”

“Yes, I have a son,” I answered.

“ __________ are you so little?” he asked.

“It’s the way I was born,” I said. “Some people are little. Some are tall. I’m just not going to grow any bigger.” After answering his questions, I shook (握手) the boy’s hand and left.

My life as a little person is filled _________ stories like that. I talk to children and explain why I look different from their mothers. I was born a dwarf (侏儒). I am very short and stand 114cm tall.

However, I did all the things other mothers did when I was growing up. I didn’t realize (意识到) how __________ I was until I started school. New students would always stare (盯着看) at me as I tried to __________ the school bus stairs (阶梯). Some kids even laughed at me. Then I began to dislike the first day of school each year. I’m 37 now, and the stares have not changed when I grow older. People are still __________ when they see me driving. __________, I learned to smile and accept the fact that I would be noticed my whole life.

I try to keep a __________ attitude (态度). When people are rude (粗鲁的), I say to myself, “Look what else I have: a great family, nice friends.”

I enjoy answering the children’s questions. It’s their questions that make my life special. My __________ is that people will respect (尊重) the different persons around them, whatever size they come in, and treat them in a friendly way.