In 2003, Tim Baker and his wife   (1)   the Shepherd's Field Children's Village, which has  (2)  more than 4,000 orphans. More than 3,000 operations and medical   (3)   have been carried out and 900 children have been adopted.

   The Village receives children from   (4)   around the country. The majority of them come from   (5)   rural areas. All the children there receive education and are  (6)   the care of 100 workers, including teachers, Chinese nannies, Western doctors, volunteers and interns. About 40 children are   (7)   annually, with most joining overseas families.

   "I want the children to remember   (8)  they come from, even though they will live  (9)   with their new families, speaking different languages," Tim says.

   "The most difficult thing  (10)  was to believe that we could do something for the children with special needs," Tim says. The first orphan they received was a newborn with   (11)  heart defects. The Bakers asked for help from friends, family and supporters, who responded   (12)   and raised money for the baby, who was later adopted. Supporters   (13)  international companies, local enterprises, hospitals, schools and individuals.

   "Now, I am happy to see more people and organizations   (14)  . China has the best adoption system—clear,   (15)  and without corruption." Most of the orphans are between 1 month and 6 years old. The Bakers are working to find solutions   (16)   the older children, who are   (17)   likely to be adopted. The center's workshop provides a place for older orphans to learn such skills   (18)   handicraft making for later jobs. "The happiest moment for me is when I see the kids   (19)  with their new families," Tim, who the children call "Papa Tim", says. "But it's a little sad, too, since in my heart, they are always my kids. But I wish they can have a   (20)   family and a new life."

Dear Laura,

I just heard you tell an old story of gift giving and unselfish love in your program. You doubted that such unselfish love would happen in today’s world. Well, I’m here to give you  (1)  .

I wanted to do something very  (2)  for my fifteen-year-old son, who has always been the perfect child. He  (3)  all summer to earn enough money to buy a used motorcycle. Then, he spent hours and hours on it   (4)  it looked almost new. I was so   (5)  of him that I bought him the shiniest helmet and a riding outfit.

I could   (6)  wait for him to open up his gift. In fact, I barely slept the night before. Upon a wakening, I went to the kitchen to  (7)   the coffee, tea, and morning goodies. In the living room was a beautiful keyboard with a  (8)  :” To my wonderful mother, all my love, your son.”

I was so  (9)  . It had been a log-standing joke in our family that I wanted a piano so that I could  (10)  lessons. “ Learn to play the piano, and I’ll get you one” was my husband’s   (11)   .

I stood there shocked, crying a river, asking myself how my son could  (12)  this expensive gift.

Of course, the   (13)   awoke, and my son was thrilled（激动的）with my reaction. Many kisses were   (14)  , and I immediately wanted him to  (15)   my gift.

As he saw the helmet and outfit, the look on his face was not   (16)   what I was expecting. Then I   (17)  that he has sold the motorcycle to get me the keyboard.

Of course I was the proudest mother  (18)   on that day, and my feet never hit the ground for a month.

So I wanted you to know, that kind of love still   (19)   and lives even in the ever-changing world of me, me, me!

 I thought you’d love to  (20)   this story.

 Yours,

Hilary

P.S. The next day, my husband and I bought him a new “used” already shiny motorcycle.

I’ll never forget Easter 1946. I was fourteen, my   (1)  sister, Jenny, was twelve and my elder sister, Darlene, was sixteen. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without(没有……也可以). My dad had died five years   (2)  , leaving Mom with no money and seven school-aged kids to   (3)  .

   (4)  1946, my brothers had left home and my elder sisters were married. A month before the minister of our church   (5)   that a special holiday offering would be taken to help a poor family. He asked   (6)  to save and give sacrificially.

   When we got home, we talked about   (7)   we could do. We decided to buy fifty pounds of potatoes and live   (8)   them for a month. This would allow us to   (9)   twenty dollars of our grocery money for the offering. Then we thought that if we kept our electric lights   (10)   as much as possible and didn't listen to the radio, we'd save money on that month’s   (11)   bill.

  The night before Easter, we were so   (12)   that we could hardly sleep. We didn’t  (13)    that we wouldn’t have new clothes for Easter; we had   (14)   dollars for the sacrificial offering. We could hardly wait to get to the   (15)  !

  Then we sat in the church   (16)  . When the sacrificial offering was taken, we were sitting in the second row from the front. Mom put in the ten-dollar bill, and   (17)   of us kids put in a twenty-dollar bill.

  We sang all the way home from the church. Later that afternoon, the minister drove up in his car. Mom went to the door, talked with him for a(n)   (18)  ,and then came back with an envelope in her hand. We asked what it was,   (19)   she didn’t say a word. She opened the envelope and out   (20)   a bunch of money. There were three crisp(全新的) twenty-dollar bills, one ten-dollar bill and seventeen one dollar bills.

Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was born in Kingfish, Oklahoma on March 29, 1918. He was raised in Missouri where he worked in his fatherˈs store   (1)   attending school. This was his   (2)   sale experience and he really enjoyed it. After graduation, he began his own   (3)   as a sale merchant.

   He   (4)   opened his first Wal-Mart store in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. Wal-Mart specialized in name   (5)   at low prices and Sam Walton was surprised at the success. Soon a   (6)   of Wal-Mart stores sprang up across rural America.

   Waltonˈs management style was   (7)   employees and he founded some of the basic concepts of management that are still in   (8)   today.

   After taking the company public in 1970, Walton   (9)   his "profit sharing plan". The profit sharing plan was a plan for Wal-Mart employees to   (10)   their income dependent on the profits of the store. Sam Walton believed that "individuals donˈt win; teams   (11)  ". Employees at Wal-Mart stores were   (12)   stock options and store discounts. These benefits are commonplace today, but Walton was   (13)   the first to adopt them. Walton believed that a happy employee meant happy   (14)   and more sales. He also believed that by giving employees a part of the company and   (15)   their success dependent on the companyˈs success, they would care about the   (16)  .

   Wal-Martˈs unique decentralized(分散的) distribution system, also Waltonˈs idea,   (17)   the advantage needed to further encourage growth in the 1980s during growing complaints that the "superstore" was stopping smaller and   (18)   stores from developing. By 1991, Wal-Mart was the largest US merchant with 1,700 stores. Walton remained   (19)   in managing the company, as president and CEO until 1988 and chairman until his death. He was   (20)   the Medal of Freedom shortly before his death.

Mr. Jones had always wanted to make a trip into the middle of Africa to shoot wild animals.    (1)    first he had no enough money, and then he was married. His wife had not wanted him to     (2)    her. At last his wife    (3)    to the trip if he allowed her to go, too.
 “But it will be very uncomfortable,” Mr. Jones   (4)     her. “It will be very hot and we shall live in a tent, and it     (5)       be dangerous.” “I don’t care.” said his wife. “I want to go with you.” So they bought a big tent, camp beds, a refrigerator (电冰箱) which did not need    (6)      and many other things which would make the trip comfortable, and went off to the   (7)    of Africa.
The first morning,   (8)      Mr. Jones took his gun and left the tent, he    (9)     his wife a bell and explained to her, “If you fell in    (10)    and you need me,   (11)      this bell and I’ll come at once.”
After a few minutes, he heard the bell and returned     (12)     to the tent. “What’s the matter?” he asked. “    (13)    ” said his wife, “I was only      (14)      the bell.” Mr. Jones went off, but after a quarter of an hour, the bell rang     (15)     .
Mr. Jones hurried back to the tent, but his wife said, “I’m      (16)    . I was cleaning our tent, and I knocked the bell over by mistake.” Mr. Jones returned to his  (17)     , but soon he heard the      (18)      once more. This time, when he got back to his    (19)    , the tent was burning and Mrs. Jones was lying on the ground, with     (20)     running from a big cut on her shoulder. “That’s better!” said Mrs. Jones. “This time the bell had been used correctly!”