54-year- old Abdul has a special job. He has been working as a living statue (活雕像) for over three decades, standing perfectly still for six hours a day and resisting people’s attempts to make him move or smile, anything that proves he is a living person.

Abdul, known as “India’s Statue Man”, has been performing his daily routine ever since 1985, soon after getting a job as a security guard. His boss had ever traveled to the UK, where he was so impressed by the statue-like members of the Royal Guard outside Buckingham Palace that he wanted to do something similar back home. So he had his guards receive three months of training, where they would sit perfectly still for around four hours. They weren’t allowed to talk, smile, eat, drink, or even shoo away a fly if it sat on their faces. In the end, Abdul proved the best of the group, so he got the strange job.

Abdul isn’t the only person in the world acting as a living statue, but what makes him special is the fact that he can do it for as long as six hours without even blinking his eyes. Once, a $155 prize was put up for anyone who can make him move a muscle. But try as they might, no one had ever succeeded. Actually, Abdul tries to move about as much as he can in his spare time, and only eats healthy home-cooked food to keep his body in shape. But he claims yoga has been the biggest help. In the 12 years, Abdul has become a celebrity in India and other Asian countries. Many Bollywood celebrities have come to witness this living statue and try to make him move, but none have succeeded finally.

Abdul earns about 10,000 rupees ($156) a month, which is enough to support his family, but definitely not enough to encourage his children to follow in his footsteps. It’s just too stressful and taxing (费力的) on the body. “Despite all the hardship and health problems, I love my job and I am thankful to people for the love and respect they have showered on me,” he says. “When the time comes, I want to die playing a statue.”

   Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table, reading his book. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to copy him in every way he could.

One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa, I try to read the book just like you, but I don’t understand it, and I forget what I understand as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the book do?”

The grandpa quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, “Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water.”

The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandpa laughed and said, “You’ll have to move a little faster next time,” and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned. Out of breath, he told his grandpa that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, so he went to get a bucket instead. The grandpa said, “I don’t want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You’re just not trying hard enough.” The boy again dipped the basket into the river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandpa the basket was empty again. Out of breath, he said, “Grandpa, it’s useless!”

“So, you think it is useless?” the grandpa said, “Look at the basket.”

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean.

“Grandson, that’s what happens when you read the book. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you’ll be changed, inside and out.”

   One night in the pouring rain, Tawny Nelson's car broke down on the road. Her four young daughter cried in the back of the car _______ countless people just drove by as she begged for _______.

"I must have _______ more than twenty people in the course of two hours for help, "she said. "They all ignored me. They just acted as if I hadn't _______."

As her newborn screamed, her 2-year-old cried from hunger, and her two older daughters _______ tried to help, Tawny started to break down. "I was crying loudly and felt like the worst mom ever, "she _______.

An old man _______ on the window at that moment. He _______ her a plate of food and bottles of water for her _______and let her know that a tow truck（拖吊车）was on its way and that he was going to drive them home. The next ________, the gentleman returned to her house with a mechanic（机械修理工）and they made repairs to her ________.

After the kind ________ left, Tawny asked the mechanic if she could set up a payment plan, but he informed her that the man had already taken care of the ________.

"He said that the only ________ the old man wanted was for me to never ________ and keep being an amazing mom, " Tawny said. "I was deeply ________. Things had been completely awful, and without knowing us or our ________ this kind man helped us in ways he will never know."

Tawny is ________ to the man for restoring her faith in humanity（仁慈）when she ________. And while she knows that she can ________ repay him, she hopes to do what he did for her to others one day.

   Dogs will do absolutely anything for the people they love，and for one North Carolina dog，that meant _________his own life in order to save his best friend.

This past Saturday morning，a deadly fire _________in an apartment building that left multiple families and their beloved pets _________inside waiting for help to arrive. "My wife got a phone call and it was very  very _________because she had her on the speakerphone and my daughter was very  very _________ and she was screaming that the apartment was on fire，"said Mare Martinez，whose daughter Karina was _________in the apartment when the fire started.

Karina had no _________ that her life was in danger until her dog，a 2-year-old German Shepherd named Riddick，woke her up with his panicked _________."Her dog wouldn't settle down so she called him up on her bed to cuddle（依）him，"Martinez explained." _________，he was still sitting up and __________barking at the wall."

After __________there was a fire，Riddick helped guide Karina to safety. "She went down the landing（楼梯平台）because there were already flames，but the dog got __________and went back up and would not come down，"said Martinez __________，she couldn't get Riddick to come back down and he __________before firefighters could rescue him." He was her best friend，they were __________and he did what he was supposed to do. He __________and took care of her when she was in danger.”

"The great Greenville Fire and Rescue department of the city did us very  very __________.They made this even just a little bit more tolerable，"said Martinez，who was __________when they went into the building and got back Riddick's __________ so they could give him a proper __________.