By the third year of teaching I"d begun to expect Christmas break more for the school holiday
and less for the excitement of the children. I was teaching fourth grade and my students had made
me__1__. I just had to get through one of the hardest days of the school year.
The morning bell rang. I walked__2__through the cold into the overly heated school building.
Twentytwo smiling faces__3__me at the school bus stop. I forced myself to __4__ their smiles.
Back into the classroom, they__5__, comparing plans for the__6__. I had to remove one student
from each arm__7__I could take a seat at my desk for my morning duties. Before I could find my
roll book(点名册) my desk was covered with__8__and gifts followed by a__9__of "Merry
Christmas" wishes.
"Oh, thank you," I must have__10__a million times. Each gift was truly special to me, except
my__11__mood(情绪). It was kind of them to__12__me. After a while, I heard a small nervous
__13__say my name. I looked up to see Brandon standing__14__by my desk, holding a small,
round gift. "This is for you."
"Thank you, Sweetheart." I laid it on my desk with the others."Um, could you__15__it now?"
I gently tore at the paper and tape. "__16__," he said, "it"s breakable." Slowly I opened a small,
green Christmas tree ornament(装饰物), complete with a hook already__17__. It dawned on me
what he had done. Then a nearby student said that he just pulled that off his own tree. I tried to keep
my__18__back.
Later that day, I sat__19__the ornament in my hands. Was I really so important to this child that
he had searched for something to give me? Now every year as I__20__pull a green Christmas ball
from my ornament box, I remember the deep influence my students have on me.
"Two books per visit per week,"said the unsmiling librarian as she handed a library card.
Neither the limits nor her attitude __1__ me, a 9yearold Jewish girl growing up in Berlin in
the 1950s.I needed those visits.The books were filled with stories in which, however__2__
things seemed, everything__3__ well in the end, __4__ justice, bravery, and wisdom-a
striking contrast (对比) to my everyday experiences.
Thirty years later, I, a recent immigrant to the US with a daughter aged 13, stood in front
of another librarian.This librarian was__5__.
"What did she say?" I asked my daughter, who already knew a little English and often
__6__as my interpreter.
"She said "Can I help you?""
"Ask if they have any books in__7__," I requested.
"No, they don"t." translated my daughter.
While hunting for a job, I was told that the library needed people to__8__ books.The
interview was short-the job didn"t require much English, just a__9__ of the alphabet.I started
the next day.Every day, I handled hundreds of books whose meaning was__10__ from me,
mentally dividing them by size and color. One day, while shelving, I found English for
Beginners and began studying it on my own.__11__ English letters started forming words
I could__12__, words combined into phrases, and-oh,__13__!-I was reading.It was a slow
process, supported by dictionaries and __14__ by tears, but it was progress.Afterwards I got
promoted to the front desk-__15__ books in and out and answering simple questions.
Every day I receive dozens of people.Sometimes I spot new immigrants.They come from
all over the world, so they look different, but the hesitant expression on their faces and their
__16__ manners are similar.My heart goes out to them,__17__ they are people like me.I fully
understand the __18__roads on which they have stepped."They"ve come to the right place," I
think to__19__.Then I smile and say-just the__20__ a librarian said to me a long time ago "
Can I help you?"
Not long ago I wasn"t doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and __1__
thinking.While on the Internet,I met many new friends, but one in particular __2__.His nickname
is Colorful Day and we __3__ on the Web.He told me: he lost his __4__ at age 15, and felt the
whole world had closed its door to him.
He was __5__ so fast that I couldn"t believe he was blind! But he continued to __6__: Five
years ago, I realized it was time to change my life.I had read about Helen Keller and understood
her life and __7__.So I developed a website about her life __8__ mine called Three Days to See.
I visited his website which was well produced and vividly __9__.
I asked, "How did you __10__ to build such a website?" He said,"Owing to the new technology,
I can use software specially __11__ for the blind. __12__ I point the cursor(光标), it will just read
it out to me.We can do far more things and __13__ more information than we could before."
I then asked, "Didn"t you have great difficulty with it?"
He hesitated and then began his __14__ with a smiling face," Yes, but I have faith in myself to
__15__ my colorful day. And modern technology gives me this __16__ to do it."
His __17__ attitude towards life made me believe that our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
__18__ the chalice (大杯) of opportunity. I returned to my lessons, and this time with a smile on my
face and with __19__ of a colorful future.
The Internet, which opened to me to __20__ different lives and cultures, has a charm you couldn"t
find in another wise nonvirtual world.
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