Asad was a 13-year-old boy who was very honest and hardworking. Recently, he had entered a new school, so he had no friends yet. On Monday morning, he was nearly late for school. The night before, his family attended his cousin’s wedding and reached home late, which was why he couldn’t get up on time as usual.

At school, Asad could not pay attention to anything and wanted the bell to ring so that he could buy something to eat. After a few hours, when the bell rang, Asad quickly opened his schoolbag to find his money, but just then he remembered that he had left for school in a hurry in the morning and forgotten to take money. He looked under his books, hoping to find some money but there was nothing.

Not knowing what to do, he walked out of the classroom and sat on a bench in front of the canteen. He saw a few of his classmates there, among them was Fahad. He was one of the richest kids in his class, but he was a very arrogant(傲慢的)boy who thought everyone else was a loser. But as Asad was new, he didn’t know much about Fahad.

When he went towards Fahad and asked if he could borrow some money for his lunch, Fahad laughed a lot and said, “I knew you were a loser, maybe a beggar?” Fahad laughed out so loud that other kids also heard and made fun of the situation. He didn’t answer Fahad, and slowly walked back towards an empty bench.

When he reached the bench, he noticed something lying near it. It was a wallet. He picked it up and recognized it as Fahad’s, as he remembered Fahad showing it to his friends and telling that his uncle bought it for him from the UK. There was quite a lot of money inside for a kid.

At first, Asad wanted to keep it a secret and punished Fahad.

Then Fahad said, “Why are you giving back?”

3 . On a trip back from Boston, my two little guys and I stopped at a gas station. It was not until I got home that I ________ my wallet had been left there.

I tried to set aside my frustration and ________ over this and focused on taking action. First, I had to find the phone number of the gas station. Just a quick Baidu ________, right? Unluckily, the number had been recently ________ due to new ownership. So I ________ the restaurant across the street. The hostess warmly took down my ________ and had a waiter bring it to the gas station manager, who then rang me up. He told me that a regular customer had found my wallet and ________ it over to him for safekeeping. We ________ that I would drive back to the gas station the next day to ________ my wallet.

My relief that the situation was heading the right direction was ________, as was my appreciation for the ________ and thoughtfulness of others --- from the ________ who found my wallet to the restaurant hostess to the manager, who was willing to ________ me my wallet if that was     ________ for me.

At every step of the way, a generous spirit was shown, which was ________ in a world where we often ________ self-focused thinking and self-serving behavior.

Much good fortune ________ me after I left my wallet behind on that trip back from Boston---including a powerful reminder of the goodness and generosity of others. My world was ________ and made more joyful, not just by being reunited with my wallet, but by the ________ acts of others. As Marianne Williamson wrote, “________ is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

4 . Around twenty years ago I was living in New York.______ I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree，I couldn’t find ______ work.

I was driving a school bus to make ends meet and ______ with a friend，for I had lost my flat. I had ______ five interviews with a company but they said I did not get the job.“ Why has my life become so ______？” I thought painfully.

As I pulled the bus over to ______ a little girl，she handed me an earring ______ I should keep it ______ somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”．

At first I got angry. Then it hit me—I had been giving all of my ______ to what was going wrong with my ______ rather than what was right！I decided to make a ______ of fifty things I was happy with .Later，I decided to ______ more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for me from a director at a large ______.She asked me if I would give a lecture ______stress management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.

My ______ there went very well，and before long I got a well-paid job .To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of thinking that I completely changed my life.

5 . Last night, my sister sent me a message: “The 1196 weather service will come to an end. So if you want to listen, today is the last _________.”

For 20 years, a caller could dial 1196, _________ an area and then hear the weather forecast read by a computer-spliced (电脑合成的) version of my father’s _________. This was the 20^th-century service that _________into the 21^st century. Soon, it would be _________ by the newly-developed weather app.

Dad’s love for the job was _________ my imagination. He stuck to making most of the recordings after he had cancer. I remembered _________ him to the recording room in my spare time. He would sit there for a whole day,_________ thousands of words with headphones on. He pronounced each word carefully. The _________ headphones and the precise pronunciation all took him back to his previous job as a radio journalist. And he was __________   of his voice. It sounded strong and held its fine timbre (音色) __________ he was in poor health.

The whole recording was really a large __________ with many sessions. In the end, Dad was too __________ to go to the recording room. __________, the sound engineer came to my parents’ house to __________ the last parts.

Finally, I plucked up(鼓起)the courage to dial the number to say another goodbye to my father.