Do you know the poem Song of the Great Wind? Its 1 is Liu Bang, who was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty (206BC- 220AD). Born into a 2 farmer's family, Liu didn't go to school for long, but he still wanted to do something 3. In his thirties, he became a village official. In his forties, he became the leader of an army. In his fifties, he became the emperor. During all these years, he 4many difficulties and won many wars. His life was exciting and successful, just as his poem Song of the Great Wind shows us. Liu wrote this poem when he went back to his hometown 5 an emperor. During a meeting, Liu remembered the old days and felt sad. He read this poem aloud for all to hear.
Li Fang is my desk mate. She is a top student in our class. She doesn't talk too much but she is kind and1.She thinks helping others makes her happy.
Once I was asked to read a text in an English class. I pronounced some 2 in such a bad way that my 3 laughed at me. After that, I felt so helpless that I wanted to give up English.
When she knew this, Li Fang helped me and encouraged me to 4 more. With her help, I'm not 5of making mistakes now and has improved my English a lot.
I feel very proud and lucky to have such a good desk mate.
Zhang Jiacheng is a 13-year old and one armed basketball player. He is not1in the face of a taller, stronger, and older player. Often his skillful plays are followed by loud cheers from the crowd, showing great2for the young rising player.
The young boy3his arm in an accident when he was 5 years old.4year(s) later, basketball became his strong wish, which led him to make an effort to5the game, regardless of his physical condition.
Encouraged by his own motto "Learn well and play well", he6with the balance between studying and playing basketball. His being7on social media (媒体) has given him even more courage to work harder towards his great goal:8a professional basketball player.
After only a year of9, Zhang Jiacheng has improved his skills dramatically. Through patience, confidence and resolution, the young basketball player continues to get10to his life goal.
A 24-year-old boy looking out from the train's window shouted. "Dad, look, the trees are going behind!" And Dad1.
A young couple sitting nearby looked at the 24-year-old's childish behavior with pity. Suddenly he2shouted, "Dad, look, the clouds are running with us!"
The couple couldn't resist and said to the old man, "3don't you take your son to a good doctor?" The old man smiled and said, "I did and we are just coming back from the4. My son was blind from birth. He just got his eyes today."
Every single person on the planet has a story. Don't judge people before you truly know them. The truth might 5you.
Peter lived in a village. He was sad recently because he thought that he had 1left. One day, Peter went to ask a wise man2help. He said to the wise man, "I don't have anything left,3I don't want to live." The wise man said, "I'm sorry to hear that."
Then the wise man took a piece of paper and drew a straight line down the middle. He explained that he would write down the things Peter4on the left side and the things Peter still had on the right side.
The wise man asked, “When did your5leave you?”
What do you mean? "They haven't left me. They love me! That's great!" said the wise man. "Then that will be the first thing on the right side—Family haven't left." Now, do you have freedom?
"That's a silly question. Of course I6!"
"Good! That's the7one on the right side-You have freedom! said the wise man, writing it down.
After Peter8some more questions in the same way, he finally understood and smiled. "Things will change when you think of them in a9way!" he said.
As a matter of fact, change your10and you will change your world.
As a police artist, Joe Brown draws pictures of suspects (嫌疑犯) when people tell him about the 1 of each suspect. Then, the police put the pictures in newspapers and on television to help 2 the suspects.
His job is interesting but not 3, because different people describe the same person differently and sometimes many people don't have good 4, especially the old. "The suspect is of medium height and young. He has long straight brown hair and big eye," an old woman says. Another woman says, "He's tall and thin with blonde hair. He's about thirty years old." In the end, the real 5 is a short heavy man and he has short brown hair.
Everyone admires heroes. When we are asked 1 are our heroes, someone well-known like Yang Liwei or Zhong Nanshan may come into mind. They make a big difference to the world.2there are "everyday" heroes in our daily life. They may not be so 3to the public, but these common people are also working hard to build a better world.4them is Sun Jun.
Sun Jun comes from a poor village. The villagers used to have no enough food. He knew much about the 5. He learned to 6food at his early age. When he was a college student, he found that the problem of food waste was more and more7. He started to 8unsold food from restaurants and stores for homeless people.
After graduating. Sun Jun joined a volunteer9called Green Food Bank, which was setup in Shanghai in 2014. The purpose of the organization is to build a bridge between people who are ready to help others and those who are 10. It works by collecting and11free food for the poor, the disabled and so on.
Sun's team developed a phone app. It can show how much food restaurants remain each day. Usually, the workplaces of volunteers are not far from the restaurants,12 they can just walk there to get the food for free. Then it can be given out in just a few13.
So far, Sun and his team have done something14to the society. On the one hand. they've saved a lot of food. On the other hand. they've helped some people 15. More volunteers and restaurants join them now. The small actions of these heroes can make a 16 influence than we imagine.
Why does Sun do 17 these things? He says," Thanks to Grandpa Yuan Longping, we are almost no longer short of food. We need to think about how to_18 wasting. There's a long way to go, but I won't19 halfway. It's just the beginning. We still have20to do.
Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist and educator, died at the age of 91 in Hunan last month. He was called the "Father of Hybrid Rice（杂交水稻）"and he helped 1 people around the world.
Yuan Longping was the first person to develop a kind of hybrid rice which helped fight 2 in China. Food was a big problem in China in the past. This was because China had 22 percent of the world's population, but only 7 percent of its 3. In the 1960s, Chinese people had a difficult time. Millions of people died because they had no food. As an agronomy teacher, Yuan was very 4to see this. "How can I help them have enough food?" he thought. He decided to work on a kind of hybrid rice. It has a high output（产量）.
At that time, other scientists didn't think hybrid rice was worth 5. But Yuan and his team worked on it every day. They took very good care of their rice seeds.
At last, in 1973, they grew a new kind of hybrid rice. This nee is 6. Farmers can grow it in many different kinds of farmland and in bad 7 . It can also fight disease. Its output was much8 than common kinds of rice. With the new kind, about 70, 000, 000 people could have food every year!
Yuan solved the food problem in China. But he was 9 working on rice when he was very old. Before he retired, he hoped to grow rice in the sea!
Yuan once said he had two dreams 一 to "enjoy the 10 under the rice crops（庄稼）taller than men" and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the global food problem.
I do volunteer work every Friday. A week ago, I had the pleasure of helping one sick lady.
She is in her eighties and is very 1 and I always bring her lunch on Fridays. She looked worried when she opened the door that day. She told me her phone was broken and that she couldn't receive the 2 from her doctor. She went to her neighbors, but they were not at home. She thought maybe the mailman could 3 her, but he didn't come. She was disappointed.
Having heard her story, I decided to do something for her. I tried to satisfy the needs of the old 4 who only needed a helping hand. I called the phone company (公司) and made sure they knew that getting this phone fixed was 5 . I took down her phone number and her name just to make sure I could call her 6 to make sure that the phone had been fixed.
I called the phone company twice that day. They told me they had checked the phone and got the phone fixed. I called the old woman. She was so7 that she was in tears. To make sure she was 8 , I called her every day after that.
Just being able to help her in her time of difficulty filled my heart with such 9 and happiness. It is not so 10 to help someone like a neighbor. Sometimes, all that is needed is just a smile, a hug or a phone call.
In Chicago, the USA, there was a girl called Jenny. She was very polite and ready to help everybody. One day she found a brown paper bag on the way to school. She opened it and saw there was a lot of 1 in it. She thought she should hand it in to the teacher, so she 2it in her schoolbag first.
When she went to the office, her teacher wasn't 3. As it was time for class, she hurried to the classroom. After class, she told her friend, Linda, about the money that she 4. Then, her greedy (贪婪的) friend 5 away the bag. After school, Jenny wanted to go to the 6 office again, but she found the money was missing.
The next day when the children were playing a game, Linda fell down and was hurt very badly. The other children stood around her and didn't know7 to do. Jenny kept calm and did8 to stop bleeding. She told the others to go to teachers for 9. Soon a teacher took Linda to the 10and the doctor examined her carefully. Within a week she was all right again. Jenny became very11 in the school.
12 three days, Linda came to Jenny's house. Her 13 turned red. She was crying. She gave Jenny the 14 paper bag with the money in it and said, "Jenny. I have taken the money away. That day when you helped me, I felt very ashamed and now I decide to tell you the 15. You are such a nice friend!16 please don't tell the teachers about this!" Then Jenny said," You are now17, but you have done a bad thing. Though I will not tell anyone. I want you not to be greedy and never to do anything wrong. The girl thanked Jenny and 18.
At the end of the term Jenny was given a 19 for being a very helpful girl in the school. Linda became an honest girl and was 20 greedy.
Once wrong, never be wrong forever.
