Sam is a bus driver in a big city. All day he drives a bus through busy street. Driving a big bus is very  (1)  work. It makes some drivers unhappy. But not Sam!

Sam is always happy. And the people who ride in his bus seem to be happy, too. This story shows   (2)  .

Early one morning, Sam started his big green and yellow bus. He went off on  (3)  work. “Oh, what a beautiful morning!” he sang. “Oh, what a beautiful day!”

At the first bus stop, a man was  (4)  . “Good morning, Mr. James,” said Sam with a big smile. “How are you?” “Fine, thank you, Sam,” said Mr. James. “How are you?”

“Wonderful!” Sam answered. “This is a fine day.”

Mr. James smiled. He took a seat. As he looked   (5)  the window, he still smiled.

At  (6)   stop a man came running up. He was puffing. (气喘) “I have to catch a train at seven,” he said. “Can you get me to the station?”

“Now, just sit down and rest,” said Sam. “I’ll drive a little   (7)  . We will be there in time. Then you   (8)   run again.”

“Thank you!” said the man. He sat down.

Sam did drive just a little faster. He got to the station before seven!

“Thank you,” said the man, as he got off the bus. “You are the best bus driver in the city!”

As he drove on, Sam   (9)   talking again. “It is now ten minutes after seven,” Sam called out, “The sky is blue, it’s fine today. We all like sunshine, don’t we?”

He began to sing, “I love you, Mr. Sunshine. I love you, Mr. Sun. In all the world I love you best. You are the only one.”      “What is that song, Sam?” a girl asked.

“It’s my song,” he said, “I made it up. I like to sing. It makes   (10)   people want to sing, too.”

Sam was right! The man behind him started to sing!

Life is not easy, so I’d like to say “When anything happens, believe in yourself.”

  When I was a young boy, I was   (1)  shy to talk to anyone. My classmates often   (2)  me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later,  (3)  happened，and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to   (4)  it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak before all the teachers and students of my school.

  “Come on, boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to  (5)  the contest.” Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I chose the topic “Believe in yourself.” I tried my best to remember all the speech and practiced it over 100  (6)  .With my mother’s great love, I did   (7)  in the contest. I could hardly believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first place. I heard the cheers  (8)  the teachers and all the students. Those classmates who once looked down on(看不起)me, now all said “  (9)  ”to me. My mother hugged(拥抱)me and cried excitedly.

  Since then, everything has changed for me. When I do anything, I try to tell  (10)  to be sure and I will find myself. This is not only for a person but also for a country.

There was a poor boy named Howard Kelly. To pay his school fee(学费)，he started to   (1)   things from door to door. But very few people would buy from him. One day, he had just one coin in his   (2)   and he was hungry.

 He wondered for a while and then decided to ask for   (3)   at the next house. When he knocked at the door, a pretty lady came out and Kelly felt   (4)  . He just asked for some water instead of food. The lady could see the   (5)   on the boy’s face, so she brought him a glass of milk. Kelly was surprised. He drank the milk slowly and asked, “How much do I have to  (6)  you?” She replied, “You don’t have to pay. I have been taught never to accept money for an act of   (7)   .”

 Many years later, the lady became seriously   (8)   and she was sent to hospital. One of the doctors was called Dr. Howard Kelly. He at once recognized(认出) the lady. He started doing   (9)   to save the lady’s life. Soon the lady started getting better. Later, Dr.Kelly asked the hospital to pass the final bill to him. Finally, when the lady  (10)   the bill,she saw something written on the side of the bill, “Paid in full with one glass of milk. Dr.Howard Kelly.”

When I was twelve, I became a gardener. I liked to work in the   (1)  . My early decision of gardening   (2)   not have come from my love for nature. It was to annoy my parents.

   At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful tree stood. But my parents were not interested in it at all. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to my mother, “Something else to   (3)  ! It’s rather tiring”, she often complained. Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father  (4)   thought it was a waste of time.

At that age, I always did something   (5)  whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found unhappy, I would plant a garden!

I planted some lily seeds in the yard. But they   (6)   to come up. I went on planting sunflower seeds and roses. One day, I was very   (7)   to find the first rose bloom. One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off. Finally, I was   (8)   by this land of wonder.

  (9)  , my parents still showed no interest in my garden. My father even   (10)   at me because he found it difficult to move around my garden to the driveway. As for my mother, the roses that I put in her vase were grass but not flowers in her eyes. I didn’t care about   (11)   

dislike. I kept on planting my garden and   (12)   to enjoy the pleasure gardening.

It has been many years   (13)   I made my first garden out of my desire to challenge my parents. Today I become famous, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show which makes my parents feel very   (14)  . And now I could say it is my love for   (15)   that makes me a real gardener.

One day there was a woman walking on the way when she met a girl. She found the girl sitting on the cold ground, and asked, “  (1)   are you?” “Me? I’m sadness,” said the girl in a low and soft   (2)  . “Oh, Sadness,” said the woman, as if she greeted an old friend. “You know me?” asked sadness with a(n)   (3)  look. “Of course I know! You sometimes stay in my way.” “Yes, but…” said sadness with serious thought, “Why don’t you run away from me? Aren’t you   (4)   of me?” “ Why should I run away? You understand clearly you can catch up with   (5)  who tries to run away. But I want to ask you, Why do you look so   (6)  ?” “ Do you really want to listen? I’m upset. Actually, nobody   (7)   me. When I visit people, they can feel terrible. Some of them drink   (8)  they won’t have to feel me. Weak people can cry,” said Sadness. “ But I just want to help them to  (9)   all kinds of difficulties in their lives. And I want to make them   (10)   and stronger.” After the woman heard these, she gave Sadness a hug and said, “Don’t feel guilty（内疚）. You are part of life.” “But who are you?” “Me? I’m Hope,” said the woman with a smile.

 When Kathy was a little girl, she shared all her secrets with her mother. Her mother was very  (1)    with her. But since last year, she has become a little mysterious. Kathy’s mother expected a   (2)   talk with her as usual, but it never happened. Her mother  (3)    if she fell in love. These thoughts made the mother worried.

  Last Saturday evening, Kathy told her mother that she was going to a movie with her friends and would return late. Her mother agreed.   (4)   soon Kathy’s mother began to worry, because Kathy had never been out at night   (5)   . She couldn’t fall asleep, so she decided to go out to wait for Kathy. Just at that moment, she heard the sound of a car ----she saw Kathy waving goodbye to a boy. She felt that her heart missed a   (6)   .

  “Mom, I’m back. Sorry to come back late.” Kathy said. Then Kathy said nothing about the film and the boy. Kathy’s mother really wanted to know something, so she asked, “Who is that boy?”

Kathy was   (7)   , but she tried to calm down. Soon she said, “Ah, it’s my monitor. He gave me a   (8)   on his way home tonight. Mom I’m going to bed. Good night!”

The next morning, when Kathy’s mother was do some   (9)   , she found Kathy’s diary left on the bed. After a few minutes’ hesitation(犹豫), she opened it. It   (10)  , “Mom, it’s love that made you ask me that question, but if you hadn’t it would show your understanding to me.” Holding the diary, Kathy’s mother was lost in thought.

A Chinese student went to England to study by plane. His English name was Sun. It is spelt S-U-N, just   (1)  the word “sun”, the sun in the sky, is spelt.

England is a country with bad weather. It is often   (2)  and rainy, so the people there don’t get much sunlight in the year. When the Chinese student arrived at the London Airport, a tall Englishman   (3)  his passport to check the visa(签证), and was interested in finding the name “Sun” in the passport. So he said to the student, “I see your name is Sun. You are   (4)  here.”

The Chinese student felt surprised, “Is there  (5)  wrong with my visa? Do I have to   (6)  to my country?” “What?” shouted the Englishman, “No, we’ll never let you go away.”

The Chinese student was   (7)  . He was sure that he had been in  (8)  . So he asked again, “What has happened ? What have I done?”

It was then that the Englishman began to  (9)  . He said “You don’t know what you have done, Mr. Sun? You have brought   (10)  to England! So we don’t want you to go away.”

Mr. King lives in a city. He has some shops and gets a lot of money. His son, Mike, studies in a middle school. The boy doesn’t like   (1)   .So he doesn’t listen to his   (2)  in class and he never finishes his homework on time. He always plays football when he is  (3)  , and he can not pass the exams. His father has   (4)   time to stay at home and doesn’t know anything about it.

One day, Miss Read, Mike’s teacher   (5)  Mr. K ing on the telephone, and she told him everything about the boy. She wanted him to help the boy at home. The man heard this and wasn’t   (6)  . When his son came back from school, he gave him a good beating(痛打). But soon he felt sorry for it   (7)   he saw Mike crying in the bedroom. The next morning, before Mike went to school, he said, “Study hard, my son! I   (8)   you a car if you pass the exams next year.”

Another term (学期) was over. Mike didn’t pass the exams once more(又一次). Mr. King looked

  (9)   the school work and asked，“What did you do this term, Mike?”  “I learned to   (10)  a car，” answered the boy.

Once, a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole. So it went around,looking for its  (1)  piece. But because it was not complete, it could only roll（滚）very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine  (2)   the way. It talked with worms. It found lots of different pieces, but   (3)  of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on   (4)  for the lost piece. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit   (5)  . The circle put the piece into   (6)  . It could be whole with nothing lost. It was so happy and began to roll. As it was a perfect circle. It could roll very fast. Too fast to see flowers or talk to worms. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad   (7)   it stopped. Left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled very slowly.

Sometimes we are perfect when we lose something. A man who   (8)   everything is poor in some ways. He will never have hopes dreams or something  (9)  . He will never know someone loves him or someone is giving him something he has always wanted or never had.

We couldn’t be perfect. But we must be brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, kind enough to share   (10)   with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us and then we can always have a wonderful time in our life.

Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead of him had dropped all of the books he was carrying. Mark helped the boy pick them up.   (1)   they were going the same way, he carried them for the boy. As they walked, Mark knew the boy’s name was Bill. Mark   (2)  discovered that he loved computer games, baseball and history and that he was having a lot of   (3)   with his other subjects.

They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was invited in   (4)   Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed   (5)   with a few laughs and some shared small talk, and then Mark went home. They   (6)   to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice and then  (7)  ended up from the same high school. Just three weeks before they finished school, Bill asked Mark if they could have a talk.

Bill   (8)   him of the day years ago when they had first met. ‘Do you   (9)  wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?’ asked Bill. ‘You see, I   (10)   out my locker because I didn’t want to leave a mess for anyone else. I had planned to   (11)   from home and I was going home to pack my things. But after we spent some time together   (12)   and laughing, I realized that   (13)   I had done that, I would have   (14)  anew friend and missed all the fun we would have together. So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more. You  (15)   my life.’