As an exchange student, I studied in France for two years. The first time I took a class in the _________ lab, I was surprised to find that students were fully “armed”. Everyone was wearing goggles (护目镜) and gloves. _________ come(s) first for science lab class.

My chemistry teacher Mrs. Louise usually gave us the instruction paper the night before the lab class and let us read it. During the class, she first _________ the steps and then put us into groups of two to do the experiments (实验). What was _________ was that for every lab class, Mrs. Louise changed everyone’s lab partner to make them work with different classmates.

The _________ was often filled with laughter. We once tried to burn the chemicals and watch the colors of the flames (火焰). Different chemicals _________ different colors of flames, including bright orange and dark green. Many students in my class were surprised. “Wow! That’s so beautiful!” they screamed. Then they _________ took pictures, posted them online and sent them to their friends. Mrs. Louise didn’t get _________ with us at all for our noises. She herself even took photos with us!

After finishing an experiment, we had to _________ a lab report. If we had a big mistake in the experiment, we needed to study why it happened and what we should do to __________ it next time. The lab reports were very important. They made up around 25% of our term grade.

I’m so happy that you’ll go to the middle school this September. I’ll give you some advice on your middle school ________.

Don’t be ________ in class. Try to be an active student and ________ the teachers’ questions. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes.

________ well with your classmates. Be a friendly boy and help them when they’re in ________. Play some sports with them in P.E. class.

Don’t care about ________ appearance (外貌) too much. Keep your head up, and ________ to be a confident boy.

Study hard and try your best on all the subjects. I know you do well in math, ________ you should also study other subjects.

Don’t stay up too late. Go to bed and get up early. They’re good ________ and they’re good for your health. ________ a word, I hope everything will be OK in your new school life.

Yours,

Dad

【推荐1】Do you have the same experience? While I was growing up, I often heard my teachers say things like, “Oh, Tina is gifted in algebra （代数）.” While watching the Olympics, I would hear my parents say, “These gymnasts are ________ with such agility（敏捷性）.” When we would pass by a swimming pool, Mum would say, “I have no idea how people swim so well.”

These statements ________ my beliefs about talent. They gave me a mindset（观念）which is difficult to change. I believed people were born with certain talent and if they didn’t have a particular one ________ then they never would. Therefore, I ________ focused on algebra because I could see I was not “talented” in it. I did not even try to be a gymnast because I was not born with that agility, and I never ________ the pool because I did not have any idea how people swam. Nobody told me when I was a child that algebra always seemed ________ at first, but if you keep trying to be friends with it, you will have a lifelong ________ with numbers. Nobody told me that when you were trying, mistakes were important. They could help you find the right way to success. Nobody is a born swimmer, but if you practice a lot and learn from the mistakes, you will master swimming in deep oceans. This is the ________ of making mistakes. We can be ________ we would like to be if we make an effort on a daily basis. If you keep trying and trying, and enjoy, one day the difficulties will seem easy-peasy. That is a ________ mindset.

Zong Qinghou was the founder (创始人) of Hangzhou Wahaha Group. He was born in 1945 in wartime China. He grew up very poor in Hangzhou and often ________ hungry. His father lost his work, and his mother supported the family of five children as a factory worker.

“Because of the difficulty, as a child I had many ________ and hoped to make big money for my parents in return,” Zong said in a history book. As the ________ child, Zong left school after junior high to support his family and spent over ten years ________ different jobs, including hard physical work at a far-away farm.

In 1978, Zong returned to Hangzhou and spent the next ten years working as a _________.“My only dream at that time was to have my own company and do ________ I wanted to do, and I had been ________ such a chance ,”he said in the history book. The chance finally came in 1987. Zong ________ 140,000 yuan to start his own company, ________ ice pops and stationery to students at a nearby primary school.

The company, which would later ________ Wahaha, sold ice pops for a cent each. The company is privately owned. During his door-to-door sales, Zong learned that many children were picky (挑剔的)eaters and didn’t ________ all the necessary nutrition (营养). That was a big ________ for parents. Seeing a potential (潜在的) chance, Zong worked with a professor of nutrition to invent a vitamin ________ for children, called Wahaha Oral Liquid (口服液).

The product became a huge success. The company reached ________ 100 million yuan in sales in the third year ________ it went on the market. That year, Zong founded the Hangzhou Wahaha Group after buying a failing canned food factory.

Today was a special day for me. I went to school by bus in the early morning. An old man was sitting next to me. He held some flowers in his ________. They were so ________ that I kept looking at them. When he got off the bus, he put the flowers on my seat. I was excited to ________ them.

I got off the bus when it arrived ________ the next station. Suddenly, I saw a little boy sitting by the roadside, crying. I asked him why he was crying. He said ________, “Today is my mother’s birthday, but I don't have money to buy anything for her.” I thought for a while and said, “I don’t have ________ money, either, but I have some flowers. I can give you three of them.” He said thanks to me and then walked away.

When I finished my classes, I found the little boy waiting for me in front of the ________ gate. He seemed so happy, “I gave a flower to my mother and she was very excited. Thank you. By the way, you might want to know where the other two flowers went. While I was on my way back home, I met a poor man who had just   ________   his child. His eyes were full of tears （眼泪） ________ I gave him two flowers to cheer him up.”

I smiled. Yes, that is how love ________.