Sixteen years ago a boy gave me an important gift. It was a smile!

It was the early autumn of my ______ year at a middle school, and my old school was far away. As a result, no one knew who I was. I was very lonely, and ______ to speak to anyone.

Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart break. I couldn’t talk with anyone about my problems.

Then one day, when my classmates were talking _____ with their friends, I was sitting at my desk unhappily as usual. At that moment, a ______ entered the classroom. I didn’t know who he was. He passed by me and then _______. He looked at me, with a smile.

Suddenly, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. ______ made me feel happy and warm. That smile ______ my life. I started to talk with ______ students and made friends. Day by day, I became closer to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.

One day I asked him why he had smiled, but he couldn’t _______ doing so!

It doesn’t matter because all the _______ days have gone. I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think it is lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.