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    When I was 13 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a smile.

    It was the early autumn of my first year at a new school, and my old school was far away. As a result, no one knew who I was. I was very lonely, and a{#blank#}1{#/blank#} to make friends with anyone.

    Every time I heard the other students talking and l{#blank#}2{#/blank#}, I felt my heart broken. I couldn't talk to anyone about my p{#blank#}3{#/blank#}, and I didn't want my parents to worry about me.

    Then one day, my classmates talked happily with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily as u{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. At that moment, a boy e{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the classroom. I didn't know who he was. He passed me and then turned back. He looked at me and, without a word, s{#blank#}6{#/blank#}.

    Suddenly, I felt the touch of something bright and f{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. It made me feel happy, lively and warm.

    That smile changed my life. I started to talk with the other students and made friends. Day by day, I became c{#blank#}8{#/blank#} to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.

    One day, I asked him w{#blank#}9{#/blank#} he smiled, but he couldn't remember smiling at me!

    It doesn't m{#blank#}10{#/blank#} because all the dark days have gone. If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.

    Children grow quickly, especially their feet. But many families cannot a{#blank#}1{#/blank#}new shoes when a child needs them. As a result, about 300 million children around the world go barefoot, Those children risk picking up diseases and parasites(寄生虫) from the soil.

    An American finally has a s{#blank#}2{#/blank#}for those barefoot children a shoe that grows with the child. Kenton Lee is the creator of The Shoe That Grows. He explains how the shoe works and how it is able to last so long. "It grows in three places; the front, the side, and the back. It can last up to five years. The b{#blank#}3{#/blank#}is compressed(压缩的) rubber like tire rubber. The top is just high-quality leather. "

    The shoe comes in two sizes; small that fits children ages 4 to 9 and large for children aged g to 14. Lee says he got the idea for the shoe while working as a v{#blank#}4{#/blank#}in an orphanage in Kenya. "… and there was a little girl in a white dress walking next to me. And I just remember looking down and seeing how small her shoes were. And she had to c{#blank#}5{#/blank#}open the front of her shoes to let her toes(脚趾) stick out. At that time I just remember thinking, wouldn't it be nice if there were a pair of shoes that could grow with her feet. "However, Lee says it was i{#blank#}6{#/blank#}to turn his idea into a reality at that time. "Yet I kept writing down I should do this because of this or because of that. All these reasons why it really was important for me to try to make the shoes grow are to try to help them. "

    Finally, in 2009 Lee founded a non-profit organization called Because International. Together, they have sent over 50, 000 pairs of shoes to 70 countries. Lee says a pair of shoes gives a child much protection b{#blank#}7{#/blank#}self-worth and more chances to succeed.