My mother is 92. Unless I have to be out of town, each week I take my mother to do her 1 and visit the doctor, providing 2 and transportation. During the week, however, she likes to go to a nearby store to 3 some small things she needs.
Last week she walked up to the store, but when she went to pay for her groceries, she was 4 about three dollars. The only 5 to pay for the groceries was to take off the 6 she could do without: a bottle of rubbing alcohol（医用酒精）and a bar of soup. By taking off these, she was able to 7 the new total to the amount of cash she had with her.
At this store, people 8 and then go off to the side to 9 their own groceries. My mother was putting her groceries into shopping bags when a 10 came up to her and said, "Here are the things that you 11." handing her the rubbing alcohol and the 12. My mother, who is never speechless, was speechless. She 13 for the woman's name and address so that she could 14 her. The woman told her it was her 15.
My mother was so 16 by her gesture that she decided to go back to the store and give the cashier（收银员）a five-dollar bill to keep on hand 17 the same happened to someone else if they didn't have enough 18 for all of their groceries.
So, whoever you are, thank you for the random act of 19 that not only helped my mother out, but 20 too.
It's the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.
Burchill was 1 at the hotel on business and planning to 2 some friends in the area. They had asked him to 3 some pepperoni (辣香肠) from back east. So he 4 a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was 5 that it would be too warm, he 6 it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was 7 and well chilled (冷却) and he 8 .
That's when things went 9. "I remember walking down the long 10 and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls," Burchill said in a recent letter of 11 to the 4-star hotel. "The seagulls immediately went 12 . They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to 13 at the same time, and pepperoni—everywhere. The curtains were falling down, the lamps were falling down, It was a real 14 .
Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).
"I have 15 and I admit responsibility of my 16," he said in the letter. "I come to you, 17 , to apologize for the-damage I had 18 caused and to ask you to 19 my lifetime ban from the hotel."
His letter 20. Banned from the hotel since 2001.Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.
Simply saying thank you doesn't seem enough in certain situations. I was considering this while working as a 1 Just a few weeks ago. And it came to me then how much easier it would be if we had a range of words that express different 2 of gratitude (感谢).
My thoughts were soon 3. We had a woman patient who was 4 from a knee replacement operation. One afternoon, while 5to get into bed she collapsed (倒下) from what was 6 discovered to be a heart attack. The collapse was disastrous, 7 the emergency medical team and good teamwork. But she recovered, though 8 ,and was ready for discharge (出院)after four weeks.
She was 9 for everything that the medical and nursing team had done for her. On her day of discharge, we shared in her 10 at her recovery. As she was 11 she was eager to say12 to each of us in the nursing team. When she 13 one nurse, she tried to press a five-pound note into her hand. My colleague 14 to accept it, saying that we were all just 15 our job. The patient looked puzzled, and then16: "Oh this isn't for the 17 I had. I take that as a 18. No, this is for setting my hair yesterday.''
And there you have it. To many people, 19lives is part of the job but styling hair is an 20 and should be rewarded.
My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.
My best friend Betsy's father was a manager at Hough Bakeries, which, at Easter time, 1 little bunny ( 兔 子 ) cakes for all its 2throughout Cleveland. It happened that the plant downtown needed eight kids for 3 help during our spring break, for which I had no4 beyond listening to my favorite records. I'd 5 minimum wage. I'd see how a factory6. My parents thought all of this was a grand idea and called Betsy's dad with their 7.
Our8in the factory were simple: Place cakes on a moving belt. Attach icing (糖霜) ears. Apply icing eyes and nose.9 bunny from the belt. This was 10 than it sounds.11 a bit and the cakes pile up. As I told my parents at dinner that first night, it was all a little more high-pressure than I'd 12 .
Dad 13. The son of a grocer, he'd spent the summers of his childhood14 food in Benardsville, New Jersey. This was the sort of work that made you15 the dollars you earned and respect those who did the work, he told me.
Last year I decided to do some volunteer work. I began to1on the Internet and discovered Volunteer USA. Three months later I2myself on a plane to Phoenix, Arizona. I was3at the thought of living with loads of new people for three months. However, within fifteen minutes of4, my worries had gone. Everyone was so5and like-minded that it was very6to feel at home.
I was sent to the Coronado National Forest for my first 8-day7. We had to8everything we needed and walk three miles to where we worked. It may not seem like a9way but in 35℃ heat and with a heavy pack, my legs were on fire.
My job was to10a stairway out of rock. This11climbing up and down the side of a mountain inhabited (栖息) by mountain lions, although I should say they were only heard,never12.
Three days later, a beautiful stairway came into being. The13of knowing that my14will be on that mountainside for years to come is massive.
But on the last night we were15in a thunderstorm. I woke up at midnight to find a swimming pool in my tent. The temperature was close to16. I had to spend the rest of the night trembling in the only17part of my tent.
18, I suffered a lot. But I know whatever I have to face in my life I was there and I19. I think I am much20for having taken part in the project.
