Two men came into     1     office yesterday to pick up an item. One was admiring a piece of metal ornament (装饰品) I had. It was a snake     2     (make) from a nail. He was admiring     3     so much.

They left and came back into the office.     4     they were waiting, I     5     (wrap) up the ornament. I wrote “don’t open     6     you leave”.

As they were     7     (leave), I told the young man, here, this is     8     you. He was happy and said thank you and God Bless You. I hope he liked it. I had it for about 20 years. I figure, ah, let it go onto to someone else     9     they can get     10     (enjoy) out of it.

A young man presented himself to the local expert on gems and said he wanted to learn from him and become     1     expert on gems, too. The expert refused to teach him because he feared that the youth would not have the     2    (patient) to learn. The young man asked for a chance. Finally the expert agreed and told the youth, “Be here tomorrow.”

The next morning the expert put a jade stone in the boy’s hand and told him to hold     3    . The expert then went about his work, cutting, weighing, and setting gems. The boy sat     4    (quiet) and waited.

The following morning the expert again placed the jade stone in the youth’s hand and asked him to do the same thing. On the third, fourth, and     5    (five) day the expert repeated the exercise and the instructions.

On the sixth day the youth held the jade stone, but could no longer stand the silence. “Master,” he asked, “when am I going to learn something?”

“You’ll learn,” the expert     6    (reply) and then occupied himself     7     his own business.

Several more days went by and the youth felt deeply     8    (depress). One morning as the expert approached and signed to him to hold out his hand, he was about to say that he couldn’t go on any longer.     9    as the master placed the stone in the youth’s hand, the young man exclaimed without looking at his hand, “This is not the same jade stone!”

“You     10    (begin) to learn,” said the master.

“I hope your dad will be happy here,” Mom said. We were settling my father into his room at a new nursing home. .

It hadn’t been easy to find the right place for my father,     1    suffered from brain disease. At first, we cared for him at home. When we could hardly manage the work     2    our own, we moved him into a care facility (护理机构), but it wasn’t a good fit. There was only one     3     (real) positive thing about it: a nurse named Don. Dad’s eyes always lit up when Don     4     (enter) the room. Don was     5     (energy) and kind. All of us     6     (touch) by his thoughtful and warm services. When Don got a new job elsewhere, it made our decision to move Dad easier.

Now that we were in the new nursing home, we could only hope we had made the right     7     (choose). Mom took Dad's hand,     8     (ask),“Are you okay here, dear?” Just then the door opened and     9     worker came in. Unbelievably, it turned out     10     (be) Don. At the sight of Don, Dad's eyes immediately lit up. Yes, he was right where he belonged.

The acknowledgement (致谢) of a doctoral dissertation (博士论文)     1     (write) by a scholar four years ago was     2     (wide) shared on social media in recent days.

    3     author of this doctoral dissertation is Dr. Huang Guoping,     4     graduated from Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017.     5     (look) back on Huang’s life, he described his life as “always accompanied (伴随) with     6     (die), separations and poverty”. In the acknowledgement, Dr. Huang recalled his past life, in which he has “come a long way and endured a great deal of hardships”. The beliefs that supported him to move forward were “keep learning, then head for a wider world, making my life     7     (meaning)”.

He     8     (admit) by Southwest University in 2008. After postgraduate study, in 2012, he studied for his doctorate (博士学位)     9     the help of his supervisor Zong Chengqing. In July 2017, he graduated as a PhD. He is now working in Tencent AI Lab, continuing the research topics identified in his PhD stage and continues pursuing his goals.

Lots of net friends have been moved by Huang’s     10     (experience), and praise his resilience and courage to take control of his own life.

Both Jim’s parents died when he was 12. No one showed     1     (kind) to him, and he felt lonely. His only friend was a dog    2     (name) Tigt. He gave his dog enough food to eat,     3    sometimes he was not polite to Tigt.

One day, Jim walked slowly in the street with a young lady     4     (walk) in front of him. Suddenly, the lady’s bag dropped from her arm. As she stopped     5     (pick) it up, Jim came to help her. “Thank you, dear! You are a nice boy,” she said kindly.

A special feeling came over him. These were the first kind words he     6     (hear) since his parents passed away. He watched her until she went far away.He repeated the lady’s words and then he said to his dog, “You are a nice dog.” Tigt raised its ears and waved its tail     7     (excite). “Even a dog likes it,” he said in    8    amazing voice. From then on, he had a new life.

Jim, now a     9     (success) businessman, said he would always remember that kind lady    10    planted the first seed of love in his mind.

A nine-year-old child genius became the youngest person to complete     1    university degree. Laurent Simons gained his electrical engineering bachelor’s degree(学士学位) from Eindhoven University of Technology, a demanding course even for 18-year-olds. It took Laurent only nine months to complete     2     should be a four-year course. Laurent’s teacher said, “He is three times     3    smart) than the best students I have met in my long career. He achieves a level that many adult     4    (student) never reach.”

Laurent is half-Dutch and half-Belgian and .    5    (live) in Amsterdam. The young talent finished the whole primary school study in only 12 months and then took just 18 months     6     (complete) his secondary school studies, effortlessly     7     (pass) every test with a high score. While Laurent comes from a family of doctors, his parents cannot offer any     8    (explain) as to why their son is so     9     (gift). His mother joked, “I ate a lot of fish     10     I was pregnant.”