Most people want to be happy, but few of them know how to find happiness. Money and success alone do not bring happiness forever. Aristotle(亚里士多德), a Greek thinker, said, "Happiness depends upon ourselves" {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Here are a few suggestions to help you be happier. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} such as reading a good book, listening to your favourite music, spending time with close friends. People who have several close friends often live happily.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}.

  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}.Many people go dancing or play sports. People can forget about their problems and only think about the activities.

    Finally, many people find happiness in helping others. Studies show that people feel good when they spend their time helping others. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} You can help a friend with his or her lessons, go shopping to buy food for an elderly person.

In 1990, when I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be) nine years old, I wanted very much to find {#blank#}2{#/blank#} pen friend. I found Ashley's address in a magazine, and decided{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (write) to her. I sent off my letter with a little hope. Very quickly, I received her letter. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} my surprise, Ashley was only one month {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (old) than me. I learned some new expressions from her. I {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (real) liked this new friend.

Letter after letter, year after year, Ashley and I continued to write to one another. A letter would be received and I'd write back right away. We would send each other birthday and festival {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (gift).

Eight years later, my parents decided it was time {#blank#}8{#/blank#} me to meet this friend. They drove me down to Mississippi for a few days. We {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (have)a fun time together. We did the things that teenage girls love to do.

Twenty—five years after the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (one) letter, Ashley and I still have an amazing friendship. Although we don't write letters now, we communicate through mobile phones and the Internet.

Allan is a doctor. He is taking notes about the lifestyles of two children, Angela and Andy.

Angela: The girl looks healthy. She knows how to keep fit. She gets up early even(即使) at week-ends. And enough exercise makes her fit. She doesn't eat fast food very often.

But sometimes she eats snacks between meals. Are most girls greedy(嘴馋的)? She should eat fewer snacks. They are not good for her. She can eat more fruit between meals.

Andy: Andy likes sports. He is good at swimming and football. He does sports for over one hour every day. That makes him fit and strong.

But Andy is a picky eater. He doesn't eat enough meat for meals. So he is not tall. And he has another problem—sleeping in(睡过头，迟起床). He gets up too late on Saturdays and Sundays.

To get enough energy, Andy should get up early and eat more meat.

Some people like to collect stamps. Others prefer posters or coins. But Pinky Bhutia is different. She collects children. In her mountain village, in Sikkim, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts (领养) all the children she can. 

Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose patents died. Pinky's parents did not mind. Pinky left school and started working full time because she had a baby to feed. Today, she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage. 

Pinky is about 30 years old and she comes from a common family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn't give her a second look. She lives in a brown mud-washed（泥刷的） house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food.

If you ask her why she provides a home to so many kids, she smiles shyly. But her eyes are serious. "I know what it is to be poor and hungry. "As a child, her only dream was to eat a full meal, and her favorite amusement was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless. 

Pinky feels very proud when she sees her children happy and bright, Her oldest baby, Aarita Rai, is now 20 years old. Then, there is 19-year-old Nimbe who came to Pinky because her mother was unable to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. 10-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their father died. They started living on a patch of land given by Pinky and grew vegetables for sale.

"I like children. It's not one more mouth to feed but one more soul saved, "Pinky says. 

One day, a big red hen is playing with her chickens in the garden. After some time she feels1 and she takes her chickens to2 food. When they are3 , she finds some grains of wheat（几粒麦子）. So she asks4 chickens to plant them in the back of the garden. But5 wants to do it. 6 big red hen has to do it herself. After a long time, they get a lot of wheat. 

She says to her chickens, "7 will take the wheat to the store and get flour（面粉）?" But they don't want to do it. So she8 the wheat to the store and put the flour home. 

After she gets home, she says, "Who will make some bread9 the flour?" They all say they are too busy and don't have10 to do it. 

When she11 the bread, she says to her chickens, "Who wants to eat12 ?"

"I will. " they say. 

"No, you can't. You don't want to do anything13 I make the bread. You must know ‘no pains, no gains'（没有付出就没有收获）. She doesn't14 any bread to her chickens and she eats all the bread15 . All her chickens are regretful（后悔）. 

A: Hello! {#blank#}1{#/blank#} am Julie. What's {#blank#}2{#/blank#} name?

B: Hi! {#blank#}3{#/blank#} name is Frank. 

A: Nice to meet you, Frank. 

B: Nice to meet you, too.