Ritch Addison was ashy kid. In elementary school, he didn’t speak up for himself, and he    1    (worry) a lot. But once he went to high school, he made up his mind    2    (develop) a sense of humor to make more friends. His new approach worked and he started to become known for his jokes—like the time he made fun     3    a classmate’s poor score on a math test.

“It turned out that I had gotten a hundred on the test and he didn’t do so well,” Addison recalled. “And I joked heartlessly about it.”

Then one day, his good friend, Holly, pulled him aside and said, “Ritch, sometimes you really hurt     4    (people) feeling.”

Addison    5    (shock). He had always seen himself as the one who made his friends laugh. He couldn’t imagine that he might be hurting them.

“But I kept thinking about what Holly said. Finally, I realized that she was     6    (absolute) right. I started paying attention to     7    other people was reacting to my humor,” he said.

It couldn’t happen overnight,    8    . “Over the years, I worked on    9    (be) more compassionate(同理心的) toward the people around me since I wanted to have    10    different kind of relationship with them,” he said.

When I decided to major in English, I thought it would be fun. However, it turned out to be much     1    (hard) than I thought it would be. The differences in the language over thousands of hundreds of years made many passages hard     2    (understand). Trying to understand Shakespeare and Chaucer gave me a headache     3     reading Byron and Shelley also took lots of effort. However, there were times     4     I read passages that gave me wisdom(智慧).

One of these was by William Wordsworth. It went, “The best portion(部分) of a good man’s life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” The first time I read it, I was deeply impressed by the wisdom     5    (convey) in it. Over the years I began to fill my days     6     acts of kindness and love.

What would happen if everyone followed Wordsworth’s wisdom and lived the best part of     7    (they) life? What would happen if all of us     8    (practice) acts of kindness and love all our lives? Would we stop    9    (hate)? Would we put an end to war? Would this world     10    (transform) into a beautiful, loving place? Let’s all live our lives with acts of kindness and love.