Mr. Strong is a London taxi driver. The following talk is given by him.
"I have been a taxi driver 1 nearly ten years. It's a nice job most of the time. I meet a lot of people. I always work at night, 2there is too much traffic during the day. I go to work at 5: 30 in the afternoon, and I usually3 between 2: 00 and 3: 00 in the morning.
"Some 4 things happened late at night. The other day I 5 a woman home from a party. She had a little dog with her. When we got to her house, she found that she had lost her6.So I waited in the car 7she climbed in through the window."
"I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out 8was going on. I tied(拴) the dog to a tree and started to 9in through the window, too. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought I was a thief."
"Luckily the woman came downstairs. She 10have gone to sleep and forgotten me and the dog."
Young people are often unhappy when they are with their parents. They say that their parents don't understand them. They often think their parents are too strict 1them.
Parents often find2difficult to win their children's trust and they seem to3how they themselves felt when they were young.
For example, young people like to do things without much 4.It's one of their ways to show that they grow up and they can 5any difficult problems. Older people worry more easily. Most of them plan things ahead and don't like their plans to be changed.
So when you want your parents to let you do 6, you will have better success if you ask before you really start doing it. Young people often make their parents angry by clothes they wear, the music they enjoy and something 7. But they don't mean to cause any trouble. They just feel that 8this way they can be cut off from the old people's world and they want to make a new culture of their own. And if their parents don't like their music or clothes or their way of speech, the young people feel very sad. Sometimes instead of going out with their parents, they just want to stay at home 9and do what they like.
If you plan to control your 10, you'd better win your parent over and try to get them to understand you.
If your parents see that you have high sense of responsibility. They will certainly give you the right to do what you want to do.
When I was young, I liked climbing mountains with my father. When we walked together, my father and I 1a lot. He always told me，" You should have goals(目标) like climbing mountains." 2mountain climbing, we didn't have enough time to be together because my father was very3. I really got a lot from mountain climbing.
Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so 4 for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours, I 5 the flowers, trees and the birds singing. But as time passed, I was very tired and felt a little sad. I wanted to 6climbing. In fact, I hated it at that time.7 my father said, "You can always see a beautiful 8 at the top of the mountain. When you are at the top, you can see all of the nice things, just like in life.
At that time, I was too young to9his words. But I got new hope. Finally, I found10 standing at the top of the mountain. I could see the whole sky, and it was as clear as crystal(水晶).
Once upon a time, some small frogs(青蛙) held a competition. The first to1the top of a very high tower would be the winner. A big crowd gathered around the tower to see the competition and 2them up.
The competition began. No one in the crowd really believed that 3 of the small frogs would get to the top of the tower. One by one, the small frogs4.
The crowd kept shouting. "It's too 5 ! No frog will make it."
More frogs got tired and gave up, but one 6 climbing, higher and higher. This one wouldn't give up!
In the end, he was the only to get to the top! The other frogs wanted to know 7the frog made it.
One frog walked up to ask the winner. It turned out(结果证明) that the winner was 8 ! He had won because he was able to keep his own 9. He couldn't hear criticism(批评) nor could he hear praise(表扬).
There is a10for us all in the little frogs story. Don't let others turn you away from your path in life.
Alex was a giraffe who lived in a zoo with his mom, dad and other giraffe friends. As Alex grew, he 1 his neck was much shorter than the others. He began to get2.But his mother told him that he was special. She said it did not matter how short or long his neck was.
Alex tried not to think about his short 3. But as his friends grew taller and taller, his neck 4short. Sometimes the other giraffes 5him, but his parents told him not to worry. They said that he should be happy with himself the way he was. He tried, but he could not even play in some giraffe sports. He was just too 6.
One day, one of the zoo workers came and took Alex away. Alex was frightened. Would he have to leave the zoo just 7he didn't have a long neck? The zoo worker calmed Alex down and gave him some food. He felt better. Then he led Alex into another area of the zoo. There was a small 8 between the two areas. Alex was the only giraffe that could fit through it.
Soon Alex's parents came to see him. "I told you that you was special," his mother said. "The zoo has made a place just for 9 because so many people want to see how special you are! She was right. Visitors pointed to him and screamed 10.They looked happy to see something so special at the zoo.
There was once a boy called Jack who loved to make a lot of friends. He was always proud that he had so many friends at school.
One day his grandfather said to him, "Jack, you spend much time making friends but are you sure the friends you are1of are your true friends? I am afraid that some of them are nothing more than classmates." However, Jack didn't2it, "We always play happily together." "Wait a minute," the old man left, and soon returned as if carrying something in his hands, but Jack could see nothing there.
"Take the3chair. It's rather hard to sit on it because you can't see it. But if you take it to school and4sit on it, you'll activate* its magic. Then you'll be able to tell5your real friends are."
Jack wanted to know whether it was true or not,6he took it to school. At break time, he asked his classmates to make a circle, and he put himself in the middle, with his chair. "Nobody moves, or you7see anything amazing."
Having difficulty8the chair, Jack tried to sit on it and fell straight onto his backside. It seemed that everyone around9had a pretty good laugh. "Wait! Let me try again." Jack said. But he missed the10again. At the same time, what he heard were just their catcalls*. Jack didn't stop trying. But he kept falling onto the floor ... until, suddenly, he was in mid-air …
Jack11the "chair." "He saw George, Lucas, and Diana-- three of his best friends,12him up. At the same time, many others he had thought of us friends had done13but make fun of him and enjoying his every fall,
Jack14that true friends were those who care for him, but not just those who happened to be passing by. And the one who took15in his misfortunes* was even less of a friend.
