“Miss Smith! What ugly(难看的)hands Mary has!” said Daisy, as she walked home from school with her _______.

“Daisy, I think Mary’s _______ are the prettiest(最漂亮的)in our class.” said Miss Smith. _______ ? Miss Smith, they are red and hard. They looked ugly when she tried to play on a _______ !” Daisy said.

Miss Smith took Daisy’s hands in hers, and said, “_______ hands are very soft and white, just the hands look _______ on a piano, _______ they don’t have the same beauty as Mary’s hands do. Shall I tell you what the difference is?”

“Yes,please, Miss Smith.” Daisy _______ Miss Smith, with eyes wide open.

“Well, Daisy, Mary’s hands are very _______. They wash dishes; they make fires; they wash clothes, too; they are always trying to help her poor, hard-working mother.”

Miss Smith said, “Also, they wash and dress the ________ in her neighborhood; they mend(修理) their toys and dress their dolls.”

“I will ________ think Mary’s hands are ugly any more, Miss Smith ” Daisy said that with tears in eyes.

“I am happy to hear you __________ that, Daisy; and I must tell you that they are beautiful because they __________ others happily.”

"Oh, Miss Smith! I feel so ashamed(惭愧的)of myself and so __________, said Daisy, looking into her teacher’s face with shining eyes.

“My dear, beauty doesn’t lie(在于)in how one __________ but what he does.”

【推荐2】To Test Your wings

“We have to let him try it, Lila,” I said to my wife. “Can’t you see that?”

“But how will he_______on his own?”

“He'll make it.”

“But he can't see, he's blind!”

“I know it.”

Of course I knew it. I'm Andy's father, aren't I? But I also knew how much it hurt Lila to say that. It was years before I heard her accept it. She knew it and had been told it over and over by all the_______at the hospitals we had taken Andy to when we were still hoping during the early years.

“Lila,” I tried again, "he's nineteen years old. He's clever. He's ambitious. He's_______-he believes in himself. He wants to try things on his own. We've given him what we can. We have to let him go.”

“But why does he have to_______a college halfway across the country?”

“Because he wants to test his wings.”

“That's all very well,” she continued to protest (抗议), “but he cannot see. How do we know he can fly on his own?”

“I think he can,” I said softly. “And we have to let him________He'll come back sometimes.” We were both silent for a while.

“Remember Gertie, the bird we saved?” I asked.

“Yes,” Lila nodded.“ I remember Gertie.”

“ And we let her use her wings, didn't we?”

Lila_______again.

“Even though it had broken her wing; even though you wanted to hold onto her; even though she was disabled too in a way, and we were_______she might not make it, we still let her test her wings.”

“Yes.”

“And she did come back, didn't she? Not only that spring, but for several springs, and a couple of falls, too.”

“But never to stay.”

“No. Never to stay,” I agreed. “And that's the_______it is with children too, once they're grown and gone.”

There were tears in Lila's eyes again, but her voice was firm(坚定的) as she stood up.

“Let's go find Andy. We'll tell him he can go and test his wings.”

【推荐3】An artist painted many pictures of great beauty. But he found that he had not yet painted a “real” picture.

He began his trip to look ________ the most beautiful thing in the world. On the way, he met an old priest who asked him ________ he was going. “I don’t know”, said the artist. “I want ________ the most beautiful thing in the world. Perhaps you can tell me something about it.” “How easy!” replied the priest. “In ________ church, you will find it—‘Faith’ is the most beautiful thing in the world.”

The artist traveled on. Later, a young mother with a baby ________ her arms told him the most beautiful thing is “Love”. “Love” makes the world go round. ________ there is no love, there is no beauty.

Still the artist ________ his trip. He asked a soldier the same question and his answer was “Peace”. He said, “War is ugly and wherever you find ________, you will find beauty, faith and love.”

“But ________ can I paint all of them—Faith, Love and Peace?” He thought and thought. He was ________ that without thinking where he was going, he had got to his own home. In the faces of his wife and children, he ________ Love and Faith. “We are thinking of you ________. We hoped you would come back to us ________.” said his wife. The artist sat on his favorite old chair and ________ heart was at peace.

The artist painted the most beautiful thing in the world and called it ________.