One day I did some silly（傻的）things that made me feel so embarrassed（尴尬的）. Last Saturday morning I went shopping. ____ my way home, it began to rain. I quickly ran into a phone box ____ I didn’t have an umbrella. It was raining hard and I decided to ____ in the phone box until it stopped.

____ minutes later, I saw a young man walk up to the phone box, wearing a yellow raincoat and holding a tool（工具）, so I ____ the phone and pretended（假装）I was talking to someone. I thought he could go away but he didn’t. He waited in the ____ rain, watching me wave（挥手）my hands in the air and act as if I was talking.

Luckily, the rain ____ after about ten minutes. “OK, Mum,” I said loudly into the phone, “bye!” I put the phone down and went out of the phone box. “I’m sorry to ____ you waiting（等待）for so long.” I said to the man.

“Oh, I don’t want to use the phone,” he said. “I have just come to repair it. It doesn’t work.”

My face turned ____ and I quickly ran off with my head down. That was certainly the most embarrassing ____ of my life.

It was a sunny summer afternoon. Sam was going home from school. He walked along the road with a book in his hand. Just then, he saw a blind (盲的) man. The poor man held out his hat and said, “I am so ________. Could you please give me some money to buy some bread?” But Sam had ________ to give. He just stood there.

Soon after, Harry and his mother came up in a fine car. The blind man still stood there and held out his hat. “Let us ________ the poor man something,” said Harry. His mother gave some money to him. ________ Harry didn’t put it into the man’s hat. He threw (扔) it on the ground near the poor man.

Sam ________ helped find the money. The blind man became happy with money. At that time, Sam knew that true love was ________ just giving money. It comes from the heart and the real help. And it’s about how much you ________ others.

From the story, we learned that kindness was the small ________ of giving a helping hand sometimes. It is the sunshine of our life.

Once upon a time, in a small town, there lived a young girl named Emma. Emma was a happy girl. She always saw the ______ side of things. She had a ______ named Sarah. Sarah only thought of the bad side of life.

One day, Emma and her friend Sarah decided to take a trip to the nearby ______. They came to a fork (分叉口) after they walked along the road for a while. One path looked ______ and was easy to walk on. The other ______ was quite difficult for people to go across. Emma quickly chose the difficult one ______ she was sure that it would lead them to an exciting trip.

As they climbed higher and higher, Sarah began to ______ that the journey was difficult and she was too tired to walk any further. Emma, ______, kept happy and excited. And she told Sarah not to ______ and keep going. Finally, they reached the ______ of the mountain and saw a beautiful view (风景) of the whole town.

Emma turned to Sarah and smiled. “It’s often ______ for us to decide what to do in our life. Sometimes, we may ______ many different roads. It may be difficult to choose, but all the ways can lead ______ to wonderful places. It all depends on (取决于) ______ we look at the journey,” Emma said.

After she heard the words, Sarah found the view at the top of the mountain was really ______. From then on, Sarah decided to try to find the good things in her life every moment.

【推荐3】My family moved into our home nine years ago and we called the area in front of our house “stone garden” because it was full of stones.

Last summer, I found a little ________ in the yard（院子）. I didn’t know its name, but I knew I didn’t plant it. We decided to let it go on growing until we could ________ what it was. Weeks passed, and I made my way to the unknown plant. I ________ the flower seemed to be a sunflower. I decided to treat（对待）it ________ and clear away the grass around it. As I pulled（拉开）stones from the area to get to the grass, I noticed something ________. In fact, the sunflower had begun under a big stone. What a nice surprise!

From what I ________, I got to know that the little sunflower didn’t let a big stone stand in its way of growing up. We should also be able to do the ________ thing. As a result, we need to believe ________. Remember that we can make our dreams come true. Like the sunflower, it was sure of the ________.

Stand tall like the sunflower, be proud of yourself, and then everything around you will begin to ________ you. You will find a way to reach your dream.