【正文】 only human beings are capable of feeling the emotion of love. However, there are many more people, usually pet owners, who feel that they not only love their pets, but that their pets love them in return. This is only one, but a very important, benefit of owning a pet. All of us want to enjoy good health. Thousands of articles are written in newspapers and magazines giving advice of all types as to what people should be doing if they wish to improve their chances of having good health. Most often this advice includes suggestions that we should eat right, exercise, take vitamins and get a pet. Why get a pet? Because more and more studies are showing that people who have pets are healthier, both physically and mentally, than those who don39。s disease or physical disabilities. One lady in Tucson [N], Arizona [N], shares her lovely little dog with many elderly nursing home residents. She takes her dog there at least once or twice a week and allows the elderly people to hold and pat her little dog. They eagerly await its arrival and always ask when she and her dog will be back. She is just one of hundreds of people who share their pets with the old and lonely. And then, of course, there are countless stories of dogs trained to aid blind, deaf, or wheelchair bound individuals, often allowing them to live independently when otherwise this would not be possible. The love between these people and their fourfooted friends is touching. Even brushing or patting a dog is great physical therapy, and we all know the benefits of walking, which is something a dog needs too.[6] James Herriot, a country veterinarian in England , has been a very popular writer in the Englishspeaking world. He has written a number of books and stories about pet owners and their pets. Many of his stories tell of the love between them as well as the benefits that owners and pets derive from each other. Part of his great popularity as a writer es from the fact that people who love pets like to read about and identify with other pet lovers. ( 706 words)【2A】 Speaking Different Languages John Gray[1] When Martians and Venusians first got together, they encountered many of the problems with relationships we have today. Because they recognized that they were different, they were able to solve these problems. One of the secrets of their success was good munication. [2] Ironically, they municated well because they spoke different languages. When they had problems, they would just go to a translator for assistance. Everyone knew that people from Mars and people from Venus spoke different languages, so when there was a conflict they didn39。m sure some people notice you.” “I am so tired, I can39。s anything to forget.” “The house is always a mess.” “It39。s why I39。t feel heard.” [7] Even this plaint is misunderstood and misinterpreted! [8] A man39。t feel heard” is: “I feel as though you don39。s a bum in the restroom ” but “ there39。 strange question, but she was too embarrassed to ask him about it. At five o39。s hard to laugh. The man who traveled to Auckland instead of Oakland didn39。 genuineness is. The genuine person realizes his own uniqueness and appreciates the uniqueness of others. [5] A winner is not afraid to do his own thinking and to use his own knowledge. He can separate facts from opinion and doesn39。d never considered anything so callous as kidnapping. [5] Yet here he was, lying in the grass, hidden by trees from the house, waiting for an innocent , redhaired, twoyearold girl to e within reach. [6] It was a long wait。t win for losing, as they said. [18] He really tried. [19] Once, while working at a succession of railroad jobs, he tried studying law by correspondence . [20] But he dropped out of that, too. [21] He tried selling insurance , selling tires. [22] He tried running a ferryboat , running a filling station. No use. [23] Face it—Harlan was a loser. [24] And now here he was hiding in the weeds outside Roanoke , Virginia , planning a kidnapping . [25] As I say, he39。d meant to kidnap from his runaway wife. [32] And they both returned to him, the next day, anyway. [33] But now the years had passed by and a lifetime was gone and he and they had nothing. [34] He had not really felt old until that day the postman brought his first Social Security check. That day, something within Harlan resen。s habits, and knew about her afternoon playtime . [26] But, this one day, she did not e out to play, so his chain of failures remained unbroken . [27] Late in life he became chief cook and bottle washer at a restaurant in Corbin. And did all right until the new highway bypassed the restaurant. [28] And then his expected life span ran out . [29] He was not the first man nor would he be the last to arrive at the twilight of life with nothing to show for it.[30] The bluebird of happiness, or whatever, had always flown just out of reach. [31] He39。t you know she announced she was pregnant the day he announced he39。s habits. He knew she would e outside her grandfather39。s hotel room and meals in New Zealand and for his flight back to California . “ Oh well, ” the man later said, “ I always wanted to see New Zealand. ” ( 650 words)【3A】 Born to WinYou cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. — Galileo [1] Each human being is born as something unique , something that never existed before. Each person is born with what he needs to win at life. A normal person can see, hear, touch, taste, and think for himself. Each has his own unique potentials —his capabilities and limitations. Each can be an important, thinking, aware, and creatively productive person in his own right —a winner. [2] The words “winner” and “l(fā)oser” have many meanings. When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who defeats the other person by dominating and making him lose. Instead a winner is one who responds genuinely by being trustworthy and responsive , both as an individua