【推荐3】Hi, my name is Jack. It’s a picture of my room. You can see some things in it.

This is my hat. It’s yellow and black. A letter “W” is on it. Where is it now? Do you know? Oh, it’s on the bed.

This is my model plane. It’s cool, right? I always put it on my bed. But now it isn’t in my room. I can’t find it.

This nice green schoolbag is mine. My books and notebooks are in it. My pens are in it, too. It’s always on the chair. But now it’s on the bed.

This nice tape player isn’t mine. It’s my sister Gina’s. Now she puts it in my bookcase. She likes to listen to English tapes with it. But I can’t use (使用) it. Why? Because Gina says only she can use it.

This is my bookcase. It’s big. There are 300 books in it. 80% of the books are mine and 20% of the books are my sister’s.

【推荐2】Reyes Guana, a son of a common family, went from cleaning classrooms to leading a California school. He even got a high-level university education and achieved a doctorate (博士学位).

How did Guana do it?

“When I wanted to give up, someone would put their hand on my shoulder and say, ‘Look, kid! You are born with the ability to succeed. Don’t give up.’”

He said there are two people who had a great influence on him. One was Ms. Robin, the cleaner at his school when he was a boy. Young Gauna liked how she made everything so clean. He told her he wanted to be a cleaner, too.

“It’s good if you want to be a cleaner, but make sure that you go to college and make this as one of your steps there.” She said.

Guana also looked up to the headmaster, Mr. Dell, the leader at his school. He was a tall, friendly and good-looking man. He told Guana about his job, which is helping students and teachers.

“I said, ‘Wow, when I grow up, I want to do what you’re doing.’ And he says, ‘Well, if you don’t give up, you’ll get there.”

Guana did get there, and the two remain friends.

But before Guana became a school headmaster, he followed Ms. Robin’s footsteps. His work, cleaning the schools helped him to pay for the first two years of college.

Then he worked as a safety officer, school bus driver, teacher,… It was a long way to travel for a boy who grew up in a family without much money and seven brothers and sisters.

Now, Guana tells his own three children how important an education is for their lives. He says that even though he has had a successful job, he never forgets where he came from, or how he felt. He uses his life experiences to guide himself as a leader.

【推荐3】Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia（栀子花）was sent to my house. No card came with it. Calls to the lower shops were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to find out the sender’s name and was just very pleased with the beautiful flower in soft pink paper.

But I never stopped imagining（想象）who the giver might be some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My father encouraged this imagining. He’d ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man, who I looked after when he was ill. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy.

One month before my graduation, my mother died. I felt very sad and didn’t want to go to the coming graduation dance at all. And I didn’t care whether I had a new dress or not. But my father, in his own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. He wanted his children to feel loved and lovable. In fact, my father wanted his children to see themselves much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery.

My father died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.