【推荐1】Sophia was outspoken, fashionable, and the “Queen Bee” in my school.

I looked up to her and idolized (崇拜) her. I listened to the music she listened to, wore the clothes she wore. I even took art class ________ I had really wanted to take theater. I finally fitted in her group.

One day, I skipped out of my last class a few minutes early to ________ seats for our group at the dining hall. Doing my homework, I didn’t notice they had sat down behind me. Before I could say a word, I realized what they were ________.

I listened silently. “She’s such a loser,” one girl said.

Another girl added, “Sophia, she always ________ you, trying to copy you.”

“I wish she would leave us alone. We were in the same summer school and now she thinks we’re best friends. The once familiar voice sounded so ________ and strange.

I was embarrassed. My hands were shaking. I couldn’t help crying ________. I felt heart-broken for the very first time. How did this happen? I ________ we were friends.

I ran home. My mother just held me while I sobbed for hours. The ________ she gave was so simple, and I had heard it a million times. “Just be yourself and people will like you for ________ you are.” This time it became so profound (深邃的). Then and there I ________ to find myself back. That was exactly what I did.

Over the next month, I went through a lot of ________. I bought new clothes that I wanted to wear. I no longer went to art class ________ them, and took theater. I began making new friends. I developed my own opinions and ________ again followed the crowd.

I had an amazing school year. ________ I look back, I think it was the year when I discovered the person I was going to be. Despite the pain I felt that day, it was a ________ they had given me.

Old Mother Wind was talking with the Tall Tree in the forest, “I’ve just passed by the grass, and there I saw the Best Thing in the World.”

Bobby Mouse happened to sit under the tree and heard those ________. “The Best Thing in the World—what can that be?” he ________. “Well, it must be plenty of delicious nuts! I’ll go and find it.” Then Bobby Mouse ran ________ the grass. He was running so ________ that he didn’t see Peter Rabbit until Peter Rabbit jumped out and asked, “________ are you going in such a hurry?”

“To find the Best Thing in the World,” Bobby Mouse replied.

“The Best Thing in the World? I really ________ eating carrots. That must be lots of carrots. I’ll go and join ________.” Peter Rabbit said to Bobby Mouse and ran after him.

Before long, they met Johnny Chuck, who asked the ________ question as Peter Rabbit just did.

“To find the Best Thing in the World! Would you like to join us?” they shouted.

“The Best Thing in the World?” said Johnny Chuck. “________ is more enjoyable than my own little home, the warm sunshine and the beautiful blue sky. I will ________ go with you!” So he stayed at home and played among the flowers with Old Mother Wind happily.

When Bobby Mouse and Peter Rabbit finally reached the grass, they had run far and fast all day long and still they didn’t find the Best Thing in the World. When the ________ came, they started going back home. Now they didn’t hurry in the dark ________ they were very tired and hungry.

They came across Old Mother Wind halfway home.

“Did you ________ the Best Thing in the World?” asked Old Mother Wind.

“No!” Their ________ sounded very sad.

“Johnny Chuck has it,” she said. “It is being ________ with the things you have. The Best Thing in the World is already around you.”