“Who would like this $20 bill!?" a well-known speaker asked, held up a $20 bill. Hand started going up. He said, "I am going to give them to one of you and first, let me do this." He left it on the ground and deliberate stepped on it with his shoe again and again. He picked it up, now covering with dirt. Still the hands were up in air. Because it did not decrease in value and was still worth of $20.

Many times in your lives, dropped and thrown into the dirt by the decisions you make and the circumstances and the difficulties that comes your way, you may feel as though you are worthless. But you are still priceless to your family members, that love you and depend on you.

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People have strange ideas about food. For example, tomato is a kind very delicious vegetable. It is one of useful plant that can be prepared in many ways. It has rich nutrition(营养) and vitamin in it. But in the 18th century, Americans never eat tomatoes. They grew them in their gardens because of tomato plants are so pretty. But they thought the vegetable was poisonous. They called tomatoes “poison apples”.

President Thomas Jefferson, but, knew that tomatoes were good to eat. He was a learning man. He had been to Paris, which he learned to love the taste of tomatoes. He grew many kinds of tomatoes in their garden. The President taught his cook a way for a cream of tomato soup. This beautiful pink soup was served at the President party. The guests thought the soup tasted really well . They never thought their president would serve his honored guests poison apples. Jefferson never spoke with his honored guests about the fact.

Last week, our teacher gave us a task to write a paper about Old China. I make up a group with another three classmates. We didn’t have much information, but we decided to ask the teacher. After that, we took the trip to visit a famous museum. When we arrived the museum, we saw the statue (雕塑) of Deng Xiaoping. His great image let us to admire him immediately. There were so many statue of great people, who fought brave for New China and made what we are today. When faced difficult situations, they chose to sacrifice (牺牲) them. Their stories are so touching, who encourage us to cherish the life we have.