This story is about Mrs. Jones, an 82-year-old lady. 1her life was hard, she was always nicely dressed every day.
This morning Mrs. Jones was 2to the nursing home（养老院）. The nursing home was very3. After hours of waiting, Mrs. Jones still smiled sweetly when she 4that her room was ready. 5 the way to her room. I told her what the room was like.
Suddenly she said, "I love6!"
"7Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room yet!" I was surprised at her reply.
She stopped and said, "Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is 8. It depends on how I decide to9the room. I have already decided to love the room before I 10 see it."
Then she continued, "I have a 11. I can spend the day in bed and consider how tiny my room is. Or I can just get out of bed and be thankful that I can12enjoy a new day. Each day is a13, I'll enjoy my 14 and all the happy memories that I have stored in my bank account(帐户) before."
Life is like a bank account. You can take out what you've put in. If you have put a lot of 15 in your bank account, you can take out some of it when you feel sad.
Attitude（态度）is everything.
Bob liked collecting vases (花瓶). He had a vase from China. He liked the color very much and decided to have the wall of his bedroom painted the same color as the vase. He then asked many painters to paint the wall. But none of them could make it.
One day a young painter came. He told Bob, "I can paint your wall." "OK, but you must pay 50 dollars for this chance. If you fail, the money will be mine," said Bob. "No problem! But I have a habit of working alone. Come to see your wall in four hours, please." said the painter.
Several hours later, the painter came out and told Bob, "Please come in." "Congratulations!" Bob said. From then on the painter became famous.
When the painter was too old to work, he taught his son all his skills. "But father, there's one thing I don't understand. How did you finish Bob's task many years ago?" "Well, it's easy. After I painted the wall, I painted the vase with the same color."
We all know that exercise is good for your health. But some kinds of exercise may be better than others. Running, for example, may help to protect against heart disease and other health problems. Running may also help you live longer.
Recently, researchers studied more than 55,000 adults. About a quarter of the adults have a good habit of running. The study found these runners were much healthier than non-runners. In fact, the runners lived, on average（平均）, three years longer than the non-runners.
Running may be good exercise, but it can be difficult on the body. Here are commonly shared ideas among fitness experts（健身专家） to lower the risk of injury（受伤） for people who are new to running.
⊙Take it easy.
Do not run too much, too soon or too fast. Most people get running injuries when they push themselves too hard. The body needs time to get used to increases in distance（里程） or speed.
⊙ Get good running shoes.
There is no single best shoe for every runner. You should find the shoe that offers the best fit and support for your feet. More importantly, you should have a new pair of shoes every 500 to 800 kilometers.
⊙Take good notes.
Take time after each run to write down notes about what you did and how you felt. Look for things that happen again and again. For example, you may find that your knees hurt when you run sometimes. But perhaps you feel great when you have a rest between running days. These notes will help you make the best plan for running.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has talked about to be a good parent, saying that 13 is a right age for a child's first mobile phone. The 57-year-old father of three said on the Today show that his children Jennifer and Rory were not allowed phones until their thirteen birthday and his youngest daughter Phoebe is still waiting for one.
"We've made a rule in our family that it's 13 when you get a phone." He also said as a result his child often returned home from school complaining, "All the other kids have it, I'm the only without it, it's so embarrassing."
Asked if he keeps passwords (密码) to his son and daughters' e-mail and Facebook accounts(帐号). Mr Gates said that he doesn't for Jennifer, 16, who he says is "old enough".
Besides their wealth Mr and Mrs Gates, who live in Lake Medina, have said they want to raise their three children as usually as possible. It is said that their kids have to do housework at home after school and aren't given much pocket money.
And in 2010 Mr Gates said that he wanted to give most of his $61 billion away rather than hand it down. "That wouldn't be good either for my kids or society," he said.
Mr Gates left Microsoft in 2008 to put his heart to charity. During the Today interview with host Matt Lauer, he said that helping others made him feel happy as creating software.
"What you really feel is what you've achieved. If a piece of software gets out there and lots of people love it—it lets them get their work down in better ways—that's exciting." he replied.
Tom and his cousin took a boat trip. When they got on the boat, every passenger should answer the keeper a question. If the passenger answered "yes", he or she got one gift; if the passenger answered "no", he or she got two gifts. Tom and his cousin saw all about this. Now it was their turn. The keeper came up to them and asked, "Are you a good sailor?" Tom wanted to get two gifts, so he answered "no" loudly, at the same time he said, "I have never been a sailor. How could I be a good sailor?" The keeper gave him two gifts. His cousin gave the same answer, so he got two gifts too.
The boat started off. The passengers began to open their gifts. Tom and his cousin did the same. They found that one of the two gifts was a small bottle of drinking water, and the other was a seasick tablet (晕船药). Tom had a look at a "yes" passenger's gift. His was a nice chocolate. Tom shouted at the keeper, "We are never seasick. Why do you give us seasick tablets?"
It's no surprise that Laura Fagan is smiling—she has the sweetest job in the w. Her job is to taste chocolate, desserts and cakes.
Laura works in the f supermarket, Tesco. Her job is to try different kinds of desserts. She needs to try to travel to different c to try different desserts.
Although the job seems to be great, it is hard. Usually, Laura begins trying desserts as early as 8 am, and still trying new desserts at 6 pm b she goes back home. Fortunately, the job hasn't made her too fat. She often worries about her teeth.
"Of course I was afraid of becoming fat when I bthe job, so I try to do more exercise. The main pis my teeth. I don't think my dentist（牙医） w be happy if I told them what I do, so I try to brush my teeth as often as possible."
Everyone knows that there's not enough land in Hong Kong. you go there by air, you will land at the Kai Tak Airport. It was built out into the sea. It is in the part of Hong Kong (call) Kowloon. Kowloon is one of the two big (island) in Hong Kong.
The population of Hong Kong is (much) than six million. Chinese and English are spoken by most people there. Clothes, computers, radios and televisions are made in Hong Kong. It is a (shop) centre. You can buy all kinds of things there.
Hong Kong is a beautiful city. It's a good place for travelling. People all over the world visit Hong Kong every year. You can watch dog-racing and motor-racing there. When you are hot and tired, you may (rest) in the small cool gardens. There are a lot of tall buildings comfortable rooms to live in too. If you enjoy eating out, you can (easy) find a good place for delicious food. Foods of different flavours (风味) are served in Hong Kong.
