One day, while I was waiting for my father, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been set free from some sort of prison(监狱) . The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.

    At that moment, I thought to myself, "Why aren't most adults this way?" Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don't even make a second attempt. They would be so embarrassed that they would not try again if someone saw them fall. Or, because they fall, they would find a good excuse for themselves that they're not fit for it. They would end up being too afraid to attempt again for fear of failure(失败) .

    However, with kids, when they fall down, they don't consider their falling down as a failure, instead, they treat it as a learning experience. They try again and again until they succeed.  The answer must be that they have not connected "falling down" with the word "failure". What's more, they probably think to themselves that it's quite okay to fall down and that it's not wrong to do so.  In other words, they allow themselves to make mistakes, so they remain energetic.

    I was deeply impressed by the boy's persistence(坚持不懈) and the manner in which he did.

    This was a very interesting story. I 1 thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But one class was 2 of all.

    It happened last term just after I had got a bad result in 3 exam. I was sad and had lost my confidence. I decided 4 to a class 5 can tell me how to be successful. The speaker walked into the room. 6 he did not start talking like a teacher. Instead, he held up a twenty yuan note!

    "Who wants this?" he asked. Unsurprisingly, 7 of us in the class held up our hands. The speaker smiled. Then he put up the note on the blackboard and asked the same question. Again, we put up our hands. The speaker kept 8, but said 9 . Suddenly, he threw the note onto the floor! Then he asked the same question for  10time.

    I didn't understand the speaker. Why was he asking the same question again and again? I didn't know 11 to do. I wanted the note, so I put my hand up again. "You have all just told me how to become successful." He said to us 12 the note in his hand. "The note is worth twenty yuan. It is always worth twenty yuan, even though I throw it on the floor. You are like the note. No matter what happens to you, you still have your worth."

    Hearing those words, I 13 deeply. Suddenly, I realized I was worth a lot. I may have failed, but it doesn't mean I 14 do well in the future. If I believe in15I will be successful!

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Word for My 2024    ▲

Li Na is a middle school student. Last term, while she was watching a clothing show on TV, a kind of traditional clothes called hanfu 1 her eye . How she wished to have her own hanfu!

She told her 2 that she wanted one. Her mom thought for a while and said," You can have one if you make 3 by the end of this term." She felt disappointed(失望的) but decided to make it. After that , she studied 4 than before. Whenever she faced difficulties, she tried her best to 5 them. Sometimes she 6 giving up, but she fought on. Then, in the final 7 , she made great progress. And her mom was 8 with her. 9 , the" big" day came. When she got home one afternoon, she saw a beautiful big box on the table:" Wow, hanfu!" Her wish 10 .

On a sunny Saturday, Li Na wore her own hanfu to a park with her family. There,a lot of people were attracted by her 11 including some foreign children. Li Na introduced hanfu to them 12 . She told them that hanfu—a13 of Chinese culture, is getting more and more popular. That day, she enjoyed the beauty of hanfu and experienced the traditional culture.

Looking back at the 14 days, she thinks she has got a lot more than the new clothes. Whenever she sees hanfu, it 15 her that hard work can help people get what they want.

One day, I saw Harry sitting under a tree. He looked very sad. So I asked him what was wrong. " Nothing, " he said. "I'm too short to join the school basketball team. "" And our PE teacher thinks I have little hope to be in the team in half a year, " he added. " Why not join another team?"I asked. " But my dream is to be an excellent basketball player in the future, " he said. He told me his father wanted him to change his idea to join the school ping- pong team. " Good idea, "I agreed. " You're sure to be excellent, because you have a smart head. " The next day, he joined the school ping- pong team. He worked harder than any other boy. Soon he was very popular in the team and looked happy every day. Last month, in the city's middle school ping- pong match, he and his team won the championship(冠军). 

Sometimes your dream may not come true. Then make a small change, and it will bring you another success. 

My father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, we used to talk much with each other. He always told me, "You should have goals like climbing the mountain." I really got a lot from the mountain-climbing time. It gave me chance to talk with my father. If we didn't climb the mountain, we couldn't have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I learned much from him. And it also gave me chance to think more carefully. What more, I learned to keep doing something or waiting for it for a along time. 

Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so hard for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds' singing; but as time passed, I got an ache in both of my legs. I wanted to give up climbing. In fact, I hated it at that time, but my father said to me "You can always see a beautiful sky at the highest place of the mountain, but you can't see it before you get there. Only there, can you see all of the nice things, just like in life."

At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got new hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the highest place of the mountain. And there, I could see the whole of the sky, and it was as clear as crystal（水晶）.