【推荐1】Most people want to be happy but few know how to find happiness. Money and success don’t really ________ happiness. A famous person once said, “Happiness depends on ________. “ In other words, we make our own happiness. Here are a few ways to help you become happier.

The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the ________ things in life. Too often, we spend so much time thinking about the ________ , for example, getting into college or getting a good job, that we can’t enjoy the present. We should enjoy life’s simple pleasures, ________ spending time with close friends, listening to our favorite music, or reading books. People who have close friends often ________ happier and healthier lives.

Another ________ of happiness is to be active, and have ________. We can collect toy cars, go fishing or play sports. In this way, we enjoy ourselves. We can ________ our problems and only think about the activities.

Finally, many people find happiness in helping others. According to studies, people feel good when they offer to help others. ________ you want to feel happier, do something nice for someone else. We can help a friend with his or her study, go shopping to get food for an elderly relative, or simply help our parents to do the dishes.

Everyone has his own dream. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Maybe you like singing and want to be a singer like Zhang Shaohan. Perhaps you like _________ and want to be a star like Liu Xiang, Yao Ming, David Beckham, Michael Jordan and so on. Maybe you like exploring the space and want to be an astronaut like Yang Liwei.

But do you know there was hard work _________ their success (成功)? If you have a dream but don’t work hard for it, the dream is _________ a “dream”. Many famous people _________ good examples for us, such as Edison, Einstein, Marie Curie, Hua Luogeng and other great people.

To _________ is the first step, but the main way is to work hard for it. Believe in yourself and create your future with your own hands. I hope you can make your dream come true. I hope you can try your best to do it from now on.

You’re at your new school. It’s lunch time, but you don’t have anyone to sit with. You want to join someone at their table, but you’re not sure if they’re friendly. What do you do? Natalie’s ________ of solving the problem was to create an app. She knows what it feels like to be alone at a new school. She found it difficult to make new friends and had to ________ a new table at lunch every day. If she sat by herself, she felt ________. But if she asked to join someone and was ________, she felt embarrassed(尴尬的). She created a lunch-planning app to help students like her find people to have lunch with.

The app—called Sit with Us—is ________. If a student is having lunch, he or she can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and ________ that invitation. They can then use the app to decide when and where to meet. This allows students to make ________ online instead of face-to-face. This is the reason why it works so well: It ________ the risk of being refused, and the embarrassment that goes along with it.

Natalie is happy to see that people are replying to her app actively—________ those who suffer from bullying(遭受欺凌). Soon after she made her app available to the public, she won a prize for it. She also appeared in many news stories.

Natalie was even asked to speak at a university. In her talk, Natalie wanted people to know that you don’t have to do something ________ to change lives. Sometimes, a small thing—like having a friend to enjoy lunch with—can make all the difference.