—OK, I will.

—Do you mean that it can provide free breakfast?

—Yes. She is much          now.

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    King Hiero asked a crown-maker to make him a gold crown, 1when the king got the crown, he asked himself, "Is the crown made completely 2gold?"

    Then the king 3 the crown to Archimedes, the 4 scientist in the kingdom. Archimedes thought about the problem  5a slave poured some water into a bath for him. Archimedes got in the bath and some water came out of it, 6the floor.

    "That's it" shouted Archimedes. "Some of the water will move out when we put an object in water. The object displaces the water. A big object will displace a lot of water. A small object will displace only a little water. "Archimedes was very 7 .

    Archimedes went to the palace to 8 the crown. It weighed only one kilogram. He put the crown in a pot of water. Five centimetres of water came out. Then he put one kilogram of gold in another pot of water. Three centimetres of water came out. Archimedes said to King Hiero, "Silver made the crown bigger. The crown displaced9 water so it was not made completely of gold. It was made of both gold and silver. "

    King Hiero became very 10 when he heard this, and then he sent the crown-maker to prison.

    As a volunteer teacher, I travelled a long way to a small village school in Longzhou, Guangxi. On my way there, I thought about the village, the school, and the children there. However, my heart sank when I arrived there. It wasn't what I expected. It didn't look like a school at all. The school had only 3 rooms, one for Grades 1, 2 and 3, and another for Grades4, 5 and 6. There was a third one for me.

    The children welcomed me warmly on my first day. They asked me a lot of questions, and I told them stories and my life in Shanghai. The next day, I gave them a test to find out their level. To my surprise, although the test was very easy, over half of them failed it. But they all wanted to learn new things. I knew they needed me.

    I am busy preparing lessons, and reading test papers every night. I enjoyed teaching these lovely and hard-working children, and I could see that they were making progress with my help. I have also learned a lot from them. I understand their lives better and we are now good friends.

    I have worked in Longzhou for a year now. I'm very happy, and the experience has been very useful to me. I love the small village and, the children. In fact, I would like to continue working there.

    Ali, who was working a long way from his home, wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter writer whose name was Nasreddin.

     Nasreddin was already in bed. "It is late," he said. "What do you want?" "I want you to write a letter to my wife," said Ali. Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, "Has the letter got to go far? What does that matter?" answered Ali.

    "Well. My writing is so strange that only I can read it, and if I have to travel a long way to read your letter to your wife, it will cost you a lot of money. "Ali went away quickly.

    An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money, so soon he had nothing left. Of course, when that happened, all his friends left him. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see Nasreddin, who was a kind, clever old man and often helped people when they had trouble.

    "My money has finished and my friends have gone," said the young man. "What will happen to me now?"

    "Don't worry, young man," answered Nasreddin.

    "Everything will soon be all right again. Wait, and you will soon feel much happier. "

    The young man was very glad. "Am I going to get rich again then?" he asked Nasreddin.

    "No, I didn't mean that," said the old man. "I meant that you would soon get used to being poor and to having no friends."

    In 1995, Oseola McCarty gave a present of $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi. She wanted to help poor students. It was a very generous thing to do. But her friends and neighbours were surprised. McCarty was a good woman. She went to church. She was always friendly and helpful. But everyone in her town knew that McCarty was not rich. In fact, she was poor.

    How did a poor 86 year-old woman have so much money? Oseola McCarty was born in 1908 in Wayne County, Mississippi. She had to leave school when she was eight years old to help her family. She took a job washing clothes. She earned only a few dollars a day. Oseola washed the clothes by hand. Then she hung the clothes to dry. She did this for nearly 80 years. In the 1960s, she bought an automatic washer and dryer. But she gave them away. She thought they did not get the clothes clean enough! At that time, many people started to buy their own washers and dryers. McCarty did not have much work, so she started to iron clothes instead.

    McCarty never married or had children. Her life was very simple. She went to work and to church. She read her Bible(圣经). She had a black-and-white television. But she did not watch it very much. It had only one channel.

    McCarty saved money all her life and eventually had about $ 250 ， 000.When she was 86, a lawyer helped her make a will. She left money to the church, her relatives, and the university. McCarty just wanted to help others. She thought she was not a special person. But then people found out about her present to the university, She received many honours(荣誉). She even flew in an airplane for the first time! Oseola McCarty died in 1999. She was a shy and ordinary woman who became famous.