Miracles（奇跡）will happen if you don't give up trying. Even if you have  16 for one hundred times, you may succeed when you try for the 10lst time.
When I was born, my doctor told my mother that there was something wrong with my 17 .  They were too soft to be able to walk. Although the news was bad, my mother didn't become  18 . She didn't believe what the doctor said  19 started to look for other ways.
My mother kept looking for other doctors for me, and finally she  20 . The doctor and his team in the hospital did   21 they could to help me. They also asked my parents to teach me to do some  22 to help me walk. One day when my mother came to pick me  23  . I crawled(爬) towards her. She was so surprised and happy that she couldn't believe  24  eyes. Crawling was not walking, but it was a good  25 . Day by day, I could walk by myself.
When I grew up, my mother   26  told me these stories. She said that if I thought of what she said whenever I met   27 , I could do anything successfully. I have been working hard and I have turned out to be a very   28  person. I get best   29 in school and I am a good dancer and swimmer. Thanks to my mother's strong resolution(決心), I live a    30   life now. What the story tells us, as my mother always says, is: Never give up.

In the past, large numbers of American people liked to use tomorrow’s money. However, since the economic depression(經(jīng)濟蕭條), many have learnt to live  16 . Here is a true story about an American girl, Anna. After graduation, she began to live in Los Angeles on her own. She  17  a job in a publishing house(出版社) and earned  18  $30,000 a year. Her parents thought Anna’s life would be  19 , but Anna was able to live on her money and still  20  $5000 in the first year. How could she do so in  21  expensive city?
Cheap living always starts with keeping the  22  cost small. For people, that  23  housing. So Anna chose to share a flat with three other friends. Her next biggest cost was  24 . When she ate  25 , she went to cheap restaurants.  26  she bought a $9.99 whole chicken at a local restaurant. She then took the chicken bones home and made soup out of them. Today young people often  27  a lot of money on entertainment. But Anna loved going to museums and parks as the  28  for these places were free. Did Anna feel poor by cheap living? Not really. She even  29  to take two trips, one to the Netherlands,  30  to Portland.
“Don’t think of saving money as something hard. It’s a kind of game,” said Anna.