Sally is eighty-six years old. She has no sons   1 daughters. Her husband died ten years ago. But she didn't move into a nursing home. She would like to 2  herself every day.

    Every night she spends two hours  3   kids with math for twenty years. All kids living on her street can get her help without payment(报酬). She was a famous math    4  before she retired(退休) from a middle school.

    She gets up early in the morning, then does sports, goes shopping or helps cleaners   5   the street. And she does these happily.

When the kids come for help, she is always 6   and tries her best. People asked her   7  . She said, “I love it. It makes me happy to help them.”

    She is always happy every day and always says hello to people around her   8 a smile.

    “ I've decided to love everything around me. So I'm happy to do    9. I'm thankful for those kids who come to me for help. Each kid is my   10. I love each day to help them.”she said.

    Really, a good decision decided on what one does in life.

    I was recently invited to dinner by a friend. During the meal, the manager came over and said that our meal was free. He stood there 1 at me, he seemed to know me. 2 I asked if he knew me. He laughed and said I had probably 3 him, but I had changed his life. He said that twelve years ago he was in 4 stress management class. I asked the group what their number one stress was and 5 of them, including him, said it was their 6.

    He said I listened carefully and then took a chair and placed it in the center of the room. I 7 on the chair for a few minutes and then I invited everyone to do the same. I wanted them to look at the room from 8 there. After everyone had done it, I asked the group to think about how 9 the room looked when they changed their perspective(角度).

    Then I asked them to 10 their bosses. Was this the same person who had seen their good 11 and hired（雇佣） them? Do they remember how happy they were to be 12 for the job? How did these wonderful people become terrible bosses?

    He said I looked at him and asked if he had 13 said thank you to his boss for the opportunity to make a living. He answered no.

    He told me his 14 changed that night. He went back to work with a 15 card to his boss. He had been the manager for 8 years. He said he owed（把……归功于） it all to me: I had taught him to look at life from different perspectives and I had taught him to express gratitude（感激之情）.

    It was in autumn. A woman was ill. She 1 in the hospital. Her husband died ten years ago. She had no sons 2 daughters. Nobody 3 her. She felt very 4 .There was a tree outside her room. She saw the leaves fall down. Day after day, there were fewer and fewer leaves 5 the tree. The woman was very sad. She didn't want to eat or drink. She became worse day by day. She got a strong feeling of death. One day, she said, "When the last leaf falls down, I 6 die."

    An old artist knew that. He decided 7 this woman. One night, all yellow leaves fell down. The artist painted a green and yellow leaf and then put it in the tree. The next morning, 8 the woman looked out of the window and saw the last leaf, she was filled with 9. She wanted to be alive. She didn't want to fall down like 10 leaves. From then on，she became better and better and lived well.

    Don't give up your hope at any time.

    Ashley was outspoken, fashionable, and the "Queen Bee" in my school.

    I looked up to her and idolized her. I listened to the music she listened to, wore the clothes she wore. I even took art class though I had really wanted to take theatre. I finally fitted in 1 group.

    One day, I skipped out of my last class a few minutes early to

2 seats for our group at the dining hall. Concentrating on my homework, I didn't notice they had sat down behind me. Before I could say a word, I realized what they were 3.

    I listened silently. "She's such a loser," one girl said.

    Another girl added, "Ashley, she 4 follows you, trying to copy you."

    "I wish she would leave us alone. We were in the same summer school and now she thinks we're best friends." The once familiar voice sounded so 5 and strange.

    I was mortified. My hands were shaking. I couldn't help crying 6. I felt heart—broken for the very first time. How did this happen? I 7 we were friends.

    I ran home. My mother just held me while I sobbed for hours. The advice she gave was so 8, and I had heard it a million times. "Just be yourself and people will like you for 9you are." This time it became so profound. Then and there I 10 to find myself back. That was exactly—what I did.

    Over the next month, I went through a lot of 11. I bought new clothes that I wanted to wear. I no longer went to art class 12 them, and took theatre. I began making new friends. I developed my own 13 and never again followed the crowd.

    I had an amazing school year. 14 I look back, I think it was the year when I discovered the person I was going to be. Despite the pain I felt that day, it was a 15 they had given me.

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