One day a boy called Charles Chaplin was walking     42     along the street in London. It was a cold winter day in 1900. He     43     at the bread and wanted to buy it, but he didn’t have any money. There was something     44     happened that his father had died when he was young.

He and his brother had to work to help their sick mother. Charles was small, sometimes he might be in     45    , but his dream was very big. He wanted to be a great man in the world of the films, so he worked hard to be a good dancer and singer. Later his dream came true.

Even if you don’t     46     English, you can enjoy his films because no words are used in his films.

A reader wrote to say that she was feeling lonely at break because her best friend wasn’t around. Here’s our advice to her—and to all kids who feel lonely sometimes.

A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” Sometimes in life, you find a special friend：

Someone who changes your life just by being part of it;

Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t stop;

Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world;

Someone who convinces(使相信) you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to ________ it.

This is Forever Friendship.

When you’re down and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend lifts you up in spirits and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and ________.

Your forever friend gets you ________ the hard times and the sad times. If you turn and walk away, your forever friend follows. If you 1ose your way, your forever friend guides you, encourages you, holds your ________ and tells you that everything is going to be OK.

And if you find such a friend, you feel happy, because you ________ not worry. A true friend is someone who gives you a hand and touches your heart.

Anna lived on the side of a valley (山谷). One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses were washed away. Anna’s house was high enough to escape the flood. So, when the water had disappeared, her house was not damaged.

However, Anna’s house was quite small and there were only two little bedrooms. Her husband died when their four children were very young. But, Anna shared her house with one of the families that had lost everything in the flood until it was possible for them to rebuild their own house.

Anna’s friends were very puzzled (困惑) when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give herself so much more work and trouble when she had so many children to support. Life would be even harder when another family joined them.

“Well,” Anna explained to her friends, “30 years ago, a woman in the town was very poor, because her husband had been killed in the war, and she had a lot of children, as I have now.”

“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t have much for Christmas this year, so I am going to get only one gift for all of us and I am sure we will all be glad to have it. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a little girl who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here is our gift,’ she said to her children.”

“The children were very excited and happy to get such a gift. They welcomed the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas gift.”