A Really Really Free Market, which I just set up to bring the community together, is like a cross between a farmer’s market and a garage/yard sale, except that everything is 1 ! People show up with things to 2 and take what they need from other people's abundance.
It took a little while to be 3 and now it seems fairly busy and I arn trying to make it bigger and more.fun so that more people have 4 to the wonder that is giving without 5 of reward and receiving without being judged.
It 6 once a month on a Saturday afternoon and there are clothes, books, pasta, fruit, furniture-and lots of other stuff. 7 One family brings play-dough, beads and pictures for the children to play with.
I think it's so important to give people a/an 8 to give because everyone, deep down, wants to share and help and give to others- 9 they don’t think of it, or they think it’s too hard, or weak or silly somehow.I also want the people 11 to have a fun place to go where everything is free.This way there isn’t the social 12 of soup kitchens or charity because it’s just people sharing 13 no one needs to say,” Hey, I’m poor and I need help” They can 14 and go home with food and new clothes, having a good time.
This was a big thing for me to do because I’m not really that 15 around lots of people.I have to 16 myself for the week before every market so that I can 17 it all, and from time to time I can’t help 18 but I’m gradually getting better.
I think it is worth the 19 because it’s such a truly great concept, just like this site !If you have one near you please go 20 , If you don’t have one then why not look it up online and start your own?
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
R.W.E, erson
It was Mother’s Day, but the young mother was a little unhappy, because she was 800 miles away from her parents.In the morning she phoned her mother to 1 her a happy Mother’s Day, and her mother told her about the beautiful 2 in the garden.
Later that day, when she told her husband about the lilacs(丁香),he said, “I know where we can find 3 that you want.Get the children and come on.” So they went, 4 down the country roads.
There on a small hill, they saw a lot of purple lilacs.The young woman ran quickly to 5 the flowers. 6 , she picked a few here and a few there.On their way home there was a smile on her face.
When they were 7 a nursing home, the young woman saw an old granny sitting in a chair.She had no children with her.They 8 the car and the young woman walked to the old woman, put the 9 in her hands, and smiled at her.The old granny 10 her again and again.She smiled happily, too.
11 the young mother came back to her car, her 12 asked her, “Who is that old granny?” “Why did you give our flowers to her?”
“I don’t know her,” their mother said.“But it’s Mother’s Day, and she has no children.I have all of you, and I 13 have my mother.Just think how much those flowers 14 to her.”
Hearing 15 their mother said, all the children were greatly 16 .
As we know, everyone needs love.In our society, only more love is 17 to the people, 18 those who are in great 19 , we will feel happy. 20 by this, can we have a better life, a more humorous world.
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New comers to the United States are often 1 at the schools.American schools 2 seem so different from schools they know in 3 parts of the world.American education is based on the 4 that children 5 to learn to think 6 themselves.The school should be the 7 where they learn to do this. 8 , children learn the "three R's"(Reading, Writing and Arithmetic), history and government(often called Social Studies)and many other 9 .They also learn 10 be independent, how to make their own judgment(判断),and how to develop their own 11 and interests.The American teacher does not 12 the children in her class to sit 13 hands folded quietly and to say 14 .She wants them to listen attentively and to ask questions.She knows that 15 children learn from books is 16 .She also knows that, it is necessary for them to know how to use this 17 for their 18 and development.During Open School Week, parents have a 19 to see how American education 20 .
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New comers to the United States are often 1 by the schools.American schools 2 so different from schools they know in 3 of the world.American education is based on the 4 children 5 learn to think 6 .The school should be the 7 they learn to do this. 8 , children learn the "three R's"(Reading, Writing and Arithmetic), history and government(often called Social Studies)and many other 9 .They also learn 10 be independent(独立的), how to make their own judgment(判断), and how to develop their own 11 and interests.The American teacher does not 12 children in her class to sit 13 folded quietly and to say 14 .She wants them to listen attentively, to ask questions.She knows that 15 children learn from books is 16 .She also knows that, it is necessary for them to know how to use this 17 their 18 development.During Open School Week, parents have a 19 see how American education 20 .
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happy
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A man hired a taxi outside the airfield.The cab had a woolen carpet with brilliant silk edges.On the glass partition(隔板)behind the driver's seat. 1 a wonderful painting.Its windows were all 2 .The customer was very much 3 and said to the driver, “I've never seen a nicer cab.”“Thank you for your praise, ”the driver answered 4 .
“How did it occur to you to 5 your ca r?” asked tile customer·
“The car isn't mine.”said the driver.“It belongs to the company.I used to be a 6 of cabs.When they returned, all of them were as 7 as garbage calls with cigarette ends and 8 scattered(散乱)here and there.On the seats or door-handles could be found something 9 like chewing gum.Why so? I thought if the car itself were very clean, the passengers would most likely be 10 .and avoid littering.”
“When I got a 11 to be a taxi driver, I began to put my idea into 12 to tidy and decorate the car.Now 13.a new passenger get on my car, I would make a 14 and be sure it is in good order.When my car returned after a day's work, it always remains 15 .”
When doing a thing.one makes efforts and wants to see the 16 .To change others one has to make twice the 17 but get half the result.To change oneself is tile other way round-more fruit with less effort.One had better ask oneself why one makes 18 on others much more than oneself.If you take enough 19 to do as best as you can for other people's sake, your efforts will naturally 20 .