Switzerland is famous for its watches. However, this country didn’t  26  the
watch.   It was the British   27  did it.Here is a story of  28  the
watch was  29  to Switzerland.
Many years ago, an Englishman was  30   to Italy   31   his way he stopped in a small town in south Switzerland. This Englishman travelled in a      carriage inside    32  there was a carriage watch. This was the  33  kind of  watch. A native shop assistant   34  to see the watch. He  35  what it was  and asked the Englishman   36  it.“Itis a carriage watch. ”said the man. “ This  machine    37  the time but now it
isn’t working.”
At once the shop assistant    38   to try to repair it. So the traveller  39  him the watch. The assistant was a very wise man. So it  was not  40  that he managed to repair it. He  41  remembered how it was made. As soon as the traveller had  42  on his journey, he made a watch of  43  the same type.
  44  the watch-making was   45  in Switzerland. Today Swiss watches are sold in stores all over the world.

More Than I Had Dreamed Of
From the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the Students Union．I always   36  my school leaders for taking responsibility for all of us．So I dreamed of being a leader．
Years flew by, and soon I was able to participate in the elections,   37  I would win．But the reality struck that I hadn't had a chance．I wasn't pretty．Girls across the school hardly knew me．I just did not have what it   38  to win a school election．I was    39 ．
As I cried in my room that evening, I   40  took a deep breath and decided I wouldn't stop dreaming．I decided that I would   41  for elections again in my final year at school—and I would win．
I recognized that my  42 had a lot of things in their favor．What were the   43  that would work in my favor? I had good grades, and I was friendly and helpful．And my biggest  44  was the faith I had．I would not allow my   45  appearance to hold me back from putting my best foot forward．That evening, I   46  my election plans a whole year in advance．
I realized that girls would have to get to know me and recognize that I had the ability to   47  them．I loved making friends and I liked being helpful,   48  I decided that perhaps I could use these qualities to work to my advantage．In order to learn how to present a great election   49 , I also attended a course on effective public speaking．
The day after the election, when the principal announced I won the second highest number of votes, the students   50   That joy on the faces of all my friends showed me that my victory was   51  theirs．
Suddenly, I realized that I had   52  much more than I had dreamed of．I had made many new friends and had helped people   53  the way．I had won the   54  and love of my school-mates and they knew me as somebody who would stand by them．I was able to put a smile on their faces and  55  their day．

"Everything happens for the best." my mother said whenever I felt disappointed. "  36 , and one day something good will happen. Then you'll realize it wouldn't have happened  37  the disappointment you had experienced  38 ." Mother was right,  39  I discovered after graduating from college, I had decided to try for a job  40  radio, then  41  my way up to a sports announcer. I hitchhiked (搭免費(fèi)車) to Chicago and tried every station, but got  42 . In one studio, a kind lady told me big stations couldn't risk hiring inexperienced persons. "Try your luck in the  43 " she said.
I hitchhiked home to Dixon, Illinois, where there was no radio-announcing jobs. My father said a store wanted a local  44  to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was  45  I had played high school football, I  46 . The job sounded just  47  for me. But l wasn't hired.
My disappointment  48  have shown. "Everything harem for the best." Mother  49 . Then I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer. As I left his office, my disappointment boiled  50 . I asked aloud. "How can a fellow become a sport announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"
I was waiting for the  51  when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports? You know something about football?" Then he  52  me before a  53  and asked me to broadcast a(n)  54  game.
On my way home, as I have many times  55 , I thought of my mother's words.

Nicknamed the Golden Music Boy, 25-year-old Hu Yanbin, was born and 36 up in Shanghai. At the age of 15, he made a wish that he would make his own album before he was 18. Fortunately, the  37    boy’s dream came true. His first album Adept with Both Pen and Sword   38  in 2002 and he became the first mainland artist to  39   a solo album ( 專輯)  in the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan   40   at the same time. The album  41   him to become a popular star.
His success is not only because of his excellent singing  42    , but also because of his talent in song   43   . Before his album was made, Hu Yanbin’s    44   company tried to invite someone else to write several songs 45    him. None of them were as good as they are hoped.  46  Hu Yanbin came into the office with a guitar on his back and played several songs.     47  , everyone in the office really liked these tunes and they decided to  48   them on his first album.
Some people would 49  this rising star with Jay Chow from Taiwan, but Hu says his musical 50  is quite different from Jay Chow’s,  51  he likes Jay Chow’s music.
With many music awards already in his  52  , Hu Yanbin seems to be  53   up with many of the superstars in the country. Though some people don’t like him and say 54   things about him, he says that it doesn’t  55  him. All he plans to do is focusing on his music and bringing out more and better songs for his fans.

Martin was grown-up, and for his birthday that year his father gave him a   36  without any pictures in it!
Martin’s father found he was not   37  about it, and told him, “Son, this isn’t just any   38  book; it’s a magic (有魔力的) book. But to discover its magic you’ll have to   39  it.”
Well, that was better. Martin liked   40  to do with magic. He started reading it,  41  he wasn’t very willing to.
The next morning, his   42  asked him, “Have you found the magic   43  ? ”
So… there was a key to find! Martin flicked through (快速翻閱) the book, but there was no   44  of the key.
And then his father   45  him, “You won’t find it like that . You have to read the book.”
Martin didn’t have much patience (耐心), thinking his father just told a   46  . A little later, his little sister, Angela, asked him   47  the book. After several days, she   48  shouted, “I’ve found the key!” And she wouldn’t stop   49  all the places she had visited using the magic key.
This made Martin read the book again. At first it was a   50 ; there wasn’t even one single   51  in the book. But, gradually, Martin became   52  the adventurous (冒險(xiǎn)的) prince’s life. Then, suddenly, he was there.
The book   53   was the key!
It was true that every time he   54  it, he felt going to its valleys and seas, and he lived the adventures of the prince.
From then on, with every new book, Martin never   55  being attracted by the letters and words inside.

The family had just moved. The young woman was feeling a little __1__. It was Mother’s Day – and 800 miles separated her from her parents.
She had called them that morning, and her mother had __2__ how colorful their backyard was __3__ spring had arrived. Later, she told her husband how she __4__ those lilacs (丁香花) in her parents’ yard. “I know where we can find some,” he said. “Get the __5__ and come on.” So off they went.
Some time later, they stopped at a hill and there were lilacs all round. The young woman rushed up to the nearest __6__ and buried her face in the flowers. Carefully, she __7__ some. Finally, they returned to their car for the __8__ home. The woman sat smiling, surrounded by her __9__.
When they were near home, she shouted “Stop,” got out quickly and __10__ to a nearby nursing home. She went to the end of the porch (門(mén)廊), where a(n) __11__ patient was sitting in her wheelchair, and put the flowers into her lap. The two __12__, bursting into laughter now and then. Later the young woman turned and ran back to her __13__. As the car pulled away, the woman in the wheelchair __14__ with a smile, and held the lilacs __15__.
“Mom,” the kids asked, “__16__ did you give her our flowers?”“It is Mother’s Day, and she seems so __17__while I have all of you. And anyone would be __18__ by flowers.”
This satisfied the kids, but not the husband. The next day he __19__ some young lilacs around their yard.
I was the husband. Now, every May, our yard is full of lilacs. Every Mother’s Day our kids __20__ purple lilacs. And every year I remember that smile of the lonely old woman. And that has become a lasting touching memory of my life.

When 16-year-old Ella Fitzgerald stepped onto the stage to perform at Harlem’s Apollo Theater in 1934, she had no idea that her life was about to change. Her childhood had been    36 . After the death of her parents, Fitzgerald had been placed in a boarding school.   37 , the teachers at the school mistreated her,   38  she ran away. Homeless and orphaned, Fitzgerald was trying her best to   39  on the streets of New York City when she won a contest to perform during an amateur night at the Apollo. She had   40  planned to dance, but at the last second, she decided to sing her mother’s favorite song   41 . Her performance earned her   42  from several well-known musicians. Ella Fitzgerald went on to become a   43  jazz singer.
During a musical career that spanned six decades, Fitzgerald   44  more than 200 albums. She won 13 Grammy Awards, the last of which she received in 1990. She worked with some of the greatest American singers of the twentieth century, including Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her talent and charm   45  a wide range of listeners around the world. The worldwide   46  of Ella Fitzgerald helped make jazz a more popular genre.
Until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the United States   47  African American citizens the same treatment   48  white citizens received. Fitzgerald’s manager and her band   49  to perform at places where discrimination was practiced. They also decided not to perform unless they were paid the same   50  as white singers and musicians. Ella’s fight for   51   received support from numerous celebrity admirers, including Marilyn Monroe. Fitzgerald never took her good fortune for granted. She gave money to charities and organizations that contributed to   52  disadvantages children. For her many civic contributions, in 1992 President George Bush   53  her the Presidential Medal of Honor, one of the highest honors   54  to civilians.
In 1991, Fitzgerald gave her   55  performance in New York’s Carnegie Hall. Although Ella Fitzgerald died in 1996, the American “First Lady of Song” continues to live in the hearts and ears of music lovers worldwide.

A long time ago, there was an emperor. One day he told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and 1  as much land area as he liked, he would give him the area of land he had covered.  2 enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and 3  as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He 4  riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. Even when he was 5  and tired, he did not stop 6  he wanted to cover as much area as possible. When he at last covered a large amount of land, he was exhausted and was  7 . Then he asked himself, “Why did I 8  myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only 9  a very small area to 10  myself.”
The above story is 11  to the journey of our 12 . We push ourselves very hard every day to make more  13 , to gain power or recognition. We neglect our 14 , time with our family and to appreciate the surrounding 15  and the things we love to do. One day 16  we look back, we will 17  that we don’t really need that much, 18  then we cannot turn back time for what we have 19 .
Life is not about making money. Life is definitely not about work! Work is only 20  to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life.

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had  36  a beautiful sports car in a show room, and knowing his father could well   37  it, he told him that was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day came near, the young man awaited 38_  that his father had bought the car. 39 , on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his  40  study room. His father told him how  41  he was to have such a fine son, and told him how  42  he loved him. He handed his son a beautifully  43 gift box.
Curious, and somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and  44  a lovely, leather- bound (皮紙封面) Bible(圣經(jīng)),  45 the young man's name pressed in gold.   46 , he raised his voice to his father, and said "With 47  your money, you give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house.
Many years passed and the young man was very successful in  48  . He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very   49 , and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him  50  that graduation day.
Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram（電報(bào)）  51  him his father had passed away, and willed（立遺囑） all his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and  52_ things.
When he arrived at his father's house, sudden   53 and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still gift - wrapped Bible _54__as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages.
Suddenly, a car key dropped from the back of the  55  . It had a tag (標(biāo)簽) with the date of his graduation on it, and the words PAID IN FULL.

In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my __36__, it was the same score.
Later that evening, I _37_ told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agree that we knew our _38_ much better than an IQ test. We _39_ that Michael’s score must have been a __40___ and we should treat him ___41___ as usual.
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got _42 _ grades in the school, especially _43_ biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.
Michael _44_ Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student, soon afterwards, his teachers permitted him to take more courses than _45_. In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.
On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I _46_ the ceremony  at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the _47_ IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say _48_, “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!” It is his special way of thanking us for the _49_ we had in him.
Interestingly, Michael then _50_ another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had _51_ the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be _52_.
Children often do as _53_ as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, _54_ of them. That is, tell a child he is “ _55_”, and he may play the role of a foolish child.