1 . A man named Randy liked to look for big trees and old trees. He made maps to show where these trees were. He did not want to cut them down. He wanted people to take care of them.

Randy was told that there was a very tall tree on Vancouver Island. The tree was said to be 314 feet tall. That would make it the tallest tree in Canada. Randy started to find the tree.

But someone else found it first. It was found by a logger (伐木工). Loggers wanted to cut down Canada’s tallest tree and all the trees around it.

Randy made a path in the forest so people could see the tallest tree. The tree was so big and beautiful that it would bring them enjoyment. More and more people wanted to save that forest. Thanks to these people, that forest is now a park. Canada’s tallest tree is still there.

2 . When my son, Mark, was in the third grade, he saved all his pocket money for over three months to buy Christmas presents. The third Saturday in December Mark said he had made his list and had twenty dollars in his pocket.

I drove him to a nearby supermarket. Mark picked up a basket and went in while I waited and watched in the car. It took Mark over 45 minutes to choose his presents. Finally he came to the checkout counter and reached into his pocket for his money. It was not there! There was a hole in his pocket, but no money. Mark stood there holding his basket, tears falling down his face.

Then a surprising thing happened. A woman came up to Mark and took him in her arms. “You would help me a lot if you let me pay for you,” said the woman. “It would be the most wonderful gift you could give me. I only ask that one day you will pass it on. When you grow up, I would like you to find someone you can help. When you help others, 1 know you will feel as good about it as I do now.”

Mark took the money, dried his tears and ran back to the checkout counter as fast as he could. That year we all enjoyed our gifts almost as much as Mark enjoyed giving them to us.

I would like to say “thank you” to that very kind woman, and tell her that four years later, Mark went house to house collecting blankets and clothes for the homeless people in the fire. And I want to promise her that Mark will never forget to keep passing it on.

4 . Once there was a poor farmer and his farm belonged to (属于) a rich man. One day he brought a basket of apples to the rich man’s house. On the doorsteps, he met two monkeys dressed like children. They jumped onto the basket to eat the apples and threw some on the ground. The farmer politely took off his hat and asked the monkeys to get off. They obeyed (服从) and the farmer went into the house. He asked to see the rich man. A servant (仆人) took him to the room where the rich man was sitting. “I have brought you the basket of apples you asked for,” he said. “But why have you brought a half-empty basket?” the rich man asked. “I met your children outside, and they stole (偷) some of the apples.”

6 . My father often works very hard. And he has __________to see a film. Here I’ll tell you __________about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work and __________ go home, he found a film ticket under the __________on his desk. He thought he __________to have not much work to do that day and __________ was quite wonderful to pass the __________at the cinema. So he came back home and __________finished his supper. Then he said __________ to us and left.

But to our ____________, he came back about half an hour later, I ____________ him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about ____________funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a ____________came to my father’s and said that the seat was ____________. My father was surprised. He took out the ticket ____________ looked at it carefully. It was Row17, ____________. And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her ____________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3. ____________? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The ____________of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, ____________, I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

7 . Our church has a way of helping those who have_________difficulties without making the receiver feel shame or guilt. Money is dropped into a green box with_________only the name of the receiver on the envelope.

There came a time when my husband and I were among those who needed_________. Just as we reached the point of despair, our church_________us a large envelope that had been left in the green box. We were_________to receive a very big amount of money, enough to bring us through that hard time.

A year later, our seventeen-year-old son who_________from high school was applying for a student loan for college. It was then that we discovered his savings account was almost_________.To both of us, it was so_________. We had trusted him to put part of his wages from his part-time job into the bank towards his_________. From nine years old, he had worked very hard for his small earning. I asked him repeatedly to tell me what had happened__________. I was nearly mad. Where has all the money__________?

Finally, in tears, and with great reluctance (勉强), my son__________that the year before he had put his__________in the green box for his father and me during that toughest time. I stood there__________, tears filling my eyes. It had taken my son years to save that money. He had given it to us willingly__________telling us what he had done.

10 . Two weeks ago, a 5-year-old girl named Sunshine Oelfke emptied out her piggy bank (存钱罐) onto the living room floor and immediately started counting. Her grandmother, Jackie Oelfke, thought she was playing as she carefully lined up the coins, but then she saw the girl put the coins into a plastic bag and place it in her backpack.

“What are you doing with that money?” Jackie asked her granddaughter.

“I’m taking it to school,” Sunshine replied. “I’m going to take it for milk money. My friend Layla doesn’t get milk— her mom doesn’t have milk money and I do.”

Jackie’s heart melted at Sunshine’s words. Choked with strong feelings, Jackie held her sweet granddaughter tightly in her arms.

Last week, Jackie and Sunshine met with her teacher, Rita Hausher, and handed her the $30 the kindergartner had saved. There are 20 kids in Sunshine’s class and about half don’t get milk. It costs $ 0.45 a carton (纸盒). The total adds up to about $180 a month for every child in the class to have milk every day.

After dropping Sunshine off at school, Jackie posted a tearful video on Facebook to explain her granddaughter’s plan. To her surprise, many people offered to donate toward the cause. Within a week, Jackie raised more than $1,000. Now every student in Sunshine’s class can get free milk for the rest of the year.

Jackie said Sunshine doesn’t see her kind act as a big deal. She was just trying to look out for her friends. “She doesn’t understand the effect she’s brought about,” Jackie said. “But now she knows she can do whatever she puts her mind to.”