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Videos of 77-year-old Xu Xiuzhen, who speaks 11 different languages with foreigners while working at a scenic spot selling water, postcards and headdress flowers, have brought her instant fame. Xu's village,   (locate) at the base of Moon Hill, is popular scenic spot famed for a moon-shaped hole at the summit.

 (support) her family, Xu, who dropped out of junior school in the third grade, began to learn different languages in order to attract more foreign customers. She has been working  a guide and vendor (小贩) in a county and resort town in Yangshuo since 1998,  the area became famous with foreign backpackers and organized tours. Over the past two decades, Xu  (teach) herself 11 foreign languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, German, Hebrew and Korean, In addition to making her  (extreme) popular, her linguistic prowess (超凡技术) has made  easier for her to communicate with foreign tourists. As a result, Xu has also become one of the  (busy) tour guides in Yangshuo. Her reputation draws a large crowd of tourists every day, especially foreign  (visit), who come to meet the multilingual guide out of admiration.

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Eileen Taylor had something sweet on her mind in the drive-through (汽车餐厅) line at Heav'nly Donuts. But it wasn't a doughnut (甜甜圈) .

Just the day before, a stranger ahead of her in line had1 paid for her coffee. "It made such a big difference in my day," says Eileen. She had recently2 her job as a physician's assistant, and money was tight. But Eileen was3 to pick up the $6 bill of the person in the car 4 hers. What she didn't know was that her5 would go around, and in a chain reaction, other6 would be inspired to pay backward too. In half an hour, 8 drivers paid for the7 of the person behind them in line. The doughnut shop's employees had8 this before. In fact, this Heav'nly Donuts was known as a special 9 — the manager Wendy Clement says her customers are the "best in the world". But, even so, the workers were amazed when a 15th car 10 to the window and the driver paid for the next customer. By the time the lines for the drive-through and at the counter were 11 , the shop had more than12 its previous record. Later that day, Eileen went back to pick up a coffee. Wendy told her what had happened. "Everyone was all13 ," says Eileen.

Now—working again as a physician's assistant, Eileen14 Heav'nly Donuts every Saturday morning, having a 15 —and paying for the order of the customer behind her.