Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best-loved and most successful children’s book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoyed the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants.

In 1954, Life magazine published a report about school children who could not read. The report said many children’s books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help children and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books.

In 1957, Dr Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old should be able to read it. It was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat made him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words. The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.

In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize. He was honored for the education and enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents.

He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold world wide. People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, "I do not write for children. I write for people."

Every country has its own culture. Even though each country uses doors, doors may have different functions and purposes which lead to cultural _________.

When I first to came to America, I noticed that a public building had two different _______ and they had different functions. You have to push the door with the word "PUSH" to go out of the building and to pull the door with the word "PULL" to _________the building. This was new to me, because we use the same door in South Korea. For quite a few times I _______ to go out of a shopping centre and was embarrassed.

The way of using school bus doors was also _______ to me. I used to take the school bus to classes. The school decided that when the driver opened both the front and back door, students who were getting off the bus should get off first, and students who were getting on should get on _______. In South Korea, we do not need to wait for people to get off. One morning I hurried to the bus through the front door. All the students around looked at me. I was totally embarrassed, and my face went red.

Life and death are not in anyone’s hands. They are things that just h    81     every time and with everyone. Most of us take it for granted that there is always p    82     of time. The idea will let us waste much of time.

The clock is always ticking. Every second keeps on going forward just like busy ants. The ants keep themselves b    83     by always hunting for food everywhere. Similarly the seconds always keep on going to realize short-term goals of making a minute with 60 ticks. A    84     reaching the goal of a minute the second hand of a clock doesn’t take a break, but to start for another round of 60 ticks.

In our life we never r    85     that we have a lot of things to do. Among big tasks we can always find enough time to finish some small tasks. If you are waiting for a train at the station, you can always read a magazine. While traveling by bus, one can find e    86     time to skim through the day notes.

Like the clock, we always keep on ticking by involving ourselves in different things and learning new things. The small knowledge and e    87     will perhaps one day take us to our bigger goal. Time and tide wait for no man. If so, start to get good use of your time now.

Once there was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirroring for towering mountains all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky, from which rain fell and in which lightning played. Down the side of the mountain turnbled a waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all.

But when the king looked closely, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest — in perfect peace. Which picture do you think won the prize? The king chose the second picture. Do you know why?

“Because,” explained the king, “peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, no trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. This is the real meaning of peace.”