Just a few seconds later, fourth-placed Navarro caught up with him. Surely, he could simply overtake Esteban and come third. But Navarro slowed down and let Esteban run ahead of him. The two cyclists reached the finishing line with Esteban ahead on foot, Navarro just behind him. Navarro had let Esteban finish in third place, while he came fourth. The audience was amazed at his show of sportsmanship and cheered and clapped for the cyclists. After the race, Navarro said, “I didn’t want to win that way.” Later, Esteban, who won the bronze medal, tried to give his medal to Navarro. However, Navarro refused, and his response was: “Offering me the prize was worth more than what I did for him.”

Long-distance running is a great sport for beginners. It has a lot of benefits. It will help you get fit and prevent diseases.     1    

If you are new to running, here is some advice for you. It is important to warm up and cool down properly before and after running, so you do not hurt yourself.     2    . After a long run, you should jog slowly for ten minutes, then walk for five minutes. Such kind of warm-down relaxes your body after exercise.

6 . Sam and Joe were spacemen. There was once a very dangerous trip and the more experienced spacemen knew there was only a small chance of coming back alive Sam and Joe, however, thought it would be full of excitement though a little dangerous.

“We’re the best men for the job,” they said to the boss. “There may be problems, but we can find the answers.”

“They’re the last people I’d trust,” thought the boss. “But all the other spacemen have refused to go.”

Once they were in space, Joe had to go outside to make some repairs. When the repairs were done, he tried to get back inside the spaceship. But the door was locked. He knocked but there was no answer. He knocked again, louder this time, and again no answer came. Then he hit the door as hard as he could and finally a voice said. “Who’s there?” “It’s me! Who else could it be?” shouted Joe. Sam let him in but you can imagine that Joe never asked to go on a trip with Sam again!

8 . The little boy with big brown eyes was waiting for us on the other side of the world. Ever since our adoption agency had _________ us, I’d been hurriedly competing all the necessary paperwork. I made it a personal goal to never delay the process. On one late afternoon in June. I rushed toward the closest FedEx office. I had some _________ to send overnight, and I wanted them to go out that day.

I thought I knew where the FedEx office was. I drove there as the minutes slipped away, only to find that the office was no longer _________ where I remembered it. Tears came to my eyes. This was _________ we all had a smartphone in our pockets. I had no way of _________ the correct location. _________ , I started driving toward home. I felt like a failure, as though I’d just ___________ my new son to more days in an orphanage waiting for us.

Suddenly, I was ___________ at a stoplight by an oversized box truck My anger turned to ___________ when I saw the sign. It was a FedEx truck I ______________ closely behind the truck. What were the ______________ the truck would lead me straight to the FedEx office I was seeking?

It broke out the chances were good. Less than five minutes later, I saw a FedEx sign, and the truck made a turn into the parking lot. I had ______________ in my eyes again.

Our documents went out that night. The truck driver ______________ knew he was an angel for me that day. Three months later, we flew halfway around the world to ______________ our son for the first time. We have been with him every day since.

Miracles are always around us ______________ we are open to them. Sometimes, it’s a smile at the right time or a kind word. And every now and then, it’s even a big truck that cuts us off in traffic.

9 . There is nothing so great as a star’s life.That, at least, is what we’re led to believe, as we ___________ those whose success makes them greater than they really are.This weekend, however a story about former NBA great player Charles Barkley filled the web with ___________ and more than a few tears.That was the story of Charles Barkley and a friend who few knew.

Lin Wang was a mechanic who happened to meet Barkley one night in Sacramento in a ___________.They talked for hours.They had dinner.They talked for more hours.They keep ___________.

Wang’s daughter Shirley didn’t really believe ___________ that Barkley and her dad were friends.How would such a famous man ___________ with her dad? However, it was only when she talked to the big man himself that she heard a simple, powerful ___________.Barkley told her that Lin Wang was one of the happiest people he’d ever met.He said he simply ___________ being with him.

Success means you meet a lot of people.As Barkley says, you ___________ a lot of people, it doesn’t mean you like a lot of people.It ____________ doesn’t mean you trust a lot of people.Barkley and Lin Wang came together, because when they talked they would be themselves.Not their public selves, not their work selves, but their ____________ inner selves.

True friendship isn’t ____________ with business.It is about being together on a little island where you can breathe.The modern world honors ____________ above, seemingly, all else.There are only winners and losers.Yet ____________ the traditional definition (定义) of success, there’s a more elevated world.It ____________ those with whom you really want to talk and be.

10 . A few years ago, a friend sent me a restaurant gift card for Christmas, and I picked a pretty, sunny Sunday afternoon to use it. It felt good taking my two grown sons and daughter to a nice sit-down restaurant instead of the fast food places we usually ate at. The meal was delicious, and we all had a good time just being together. The gift card covered almost all of the check. I reached into my wallet to get enough cash to cover the rest. I saw two bills in the front of it. The first would cover the rest of the check. The second would cover the check and give the waitress a nice tip. I reached down to pick out the first one.

At that moment, my mind flashed back to 30 years ago. I was working as a busboy (餐厅勤杂工) in a restaurant much like the one we were in. It was long hours of hard work for low pay. I went home just barely making enough to feed my young family. I also remembered how more than once I saw the waitresses counting their small tips while worrying about how they were going to pay the rent and buy their kids the things they needed. I remembered the pain in their eyes and saw the sadness in their faces at the end of the day.

I blinked (眨眼睛) and was back in the present again, with my fingers touching the smaller bill in my wallet. I smiled, pushed it back down and picked out the larger bill. I folded it around the gift card and covered both of them with the check. As we all got up from the table, I handed them to the hardworking waitress. “You keep the change,” I said with a smile and a happy heart.

We are all one family in this world. We live together and suffer together. Do your best to be kind. Do your best to be a good person and replace the suffering with joy.