I strongly believe the right words at just the right time could change someone's life.

When I was 3 years old, my parents ________ I was totally deaf. But from the third grade, they decided to put me in a “mainstream” school where all of my classmates had ________ hearing. So I was the only deaf child at Blue Creek Elementary School. From the first day there, the other kids often ________ me and called me names mainly because of my hearing aid(助听器) and the way I talked.

I was ________ throughout elementary school. Besides the problems of fitting in with the other students, I also had ________ with most of my schoolwork.

One morning, Mrs. Jordan, my fifth­grade teacher, asked ________ a question in her math class. She was a large woman with a ________ that bounced off the walls of her tiny classroom, and it could even spread to the hallway.

I ________ her lips(嘴唇) and immediately raised my hand. For once I knew the answer! ________ I was afraid when she called me. Then I answered her question ________. I will never forget what happened next.

Mrs. Jordan pointed directly at me. With sparkling(闪光的) eyes and a wide ________, she cried, “THAT'S RIGHT, STEPHEN！”

For the first time in my young life,I became a shining star. I had ________ been so excited before!

Right then and there I made a ________ that I would make a place for myself in this world. No matter how many difficulties I might ________ in life, I knew I could overcome them.

A simple three­word phrase has totally ________ my young life, “THAT'S RIGHT, STEPHEN！”

Cait, 11, was trying to fall asleep when her 8-year-old brother, Doug, came into her room. He looked around, but seemed really out of it. Then Doug went back into the hallway and stood there looking straight up at the light. This was really strange. Cait didn’t know what to do. Just then, Cait’s father appeared and explained Doug was sleepwalking.

Not all sleep is the same every night. We experience some deep, quiet sleep and some active sleep, which is when dreams happen. You might think sleepwalking would happen during active sleep but a person isn’t physically active during active sleep. It usually happens in the first few hours of sleep in the period called deep sleep.

The truth is that not all sleepwalkers walk. Some simply sit up or stand in bed or act like they’re awake when, in fact, they’re asleep! Most, however, do get up and walk around for a few seconds or for as long as half an hour.

Sleepwalkers’ eyes are open, but they don’t see the same way they do when they’re awake. They tend to go back to bed on their own and won’t remember it in the morning.

You also might have heard that sleepwalkers can get frightened if you wake them up. That’s true, so what do you do if you see someone sleepwalking? You should call for a grown-up who can lead the person back to bed. And once the sleepwalker is tucked back in bed, it’s time for you to get some sleep, too!