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I was in the ninth year when I began to suffer depression. My parents noticed but felt that since I’d always been a good child, this was temporary.

____61____ (fortunate), it was not to be so. I didn’t have friends. Hardly could I share my problems. Deep worry began to destroy my confidence. Finally I refused to attend classes, ___62___(shut) myself in my room for hours.

The examination was approaching, but I simply didn’t care. My parents and teachers were surprised   63   my bad performance. One morning, after ___64___ particularly severe lecture from my father, I stood at the school gate, _____65___ (depress). Then as the other students marched to their classrooms, our headmaster called me. The next forty-five minutes was one of  ____66____ (precious) moments in my life. She said she ___67____ (notice) a big change in me and wondered why. At first she took my hands in ____68_____ and listened patiently as I mentioned my worries. Then she hugged me as I wept. Months of frustration and ____69___ (lonely) disappeared in her motherly hug.

No one had tried to understand ___70___ the real problem was except the headmaster, who helped me out simply by listening and hugging.

When I was young, I read many kinds of books,    61   (include) fairy tales. In those books, heroes described were handsome and heroines were beautiful. So, I believed I had to be beautiful if I wanted to become a great person.       

As I    62   (grow) up, I began to realize outer beauty was not so important to make someone excellent. I remember a friend of     63   . She believed that she could do everything she wanted because she was so beautiful, but she lost friends one by one. My poor friend!    64    she learned was that inner beauty is more important than outer beauty.

Whenever I see TV    65   (advertisement), I feel that they make us believe beauty is very important ---    66  (especial) physical attractiveness. Although we say that inner beauty is more valuable, we often look for plastic surgery (整容手术)    67   (make) us more beautiful. There seems to be a boom in plastic surgery. It is surprising to realize    68    number of people who try it is increasing day by day. 

We know good-looking guys usually get    69   (high) scores on job interviews than others. So, what is real beauty? I want to say that it is inner beauty that makes one look    70   ​a really beautiful person.

    For Rachael and Leigh Barman, there is only one wish on their Christmas list this year- --that their sick daughter Paige should survive/live until December 25. Fifteen-year-old Paige suffers from ___76___rare brain disease, ____77___affects as few as 12 people in the world, and could kill her any day _____78___warning(警告).

And her condition has gone even ____79____ (bad) in recent months. Her parents filled the family home with Christmas decorations ___80____ September 1st so that she could enjoy the rest of her life. Since then, she has ___81___ (regular) opened Christmas presents and received visitors---but s he sleeps for up to 19 hours a day, her parents knowing that each time she closes her eyes, she may never wake up.

    Mrs. Barman ____82_____(describe) dealing with the condition as “like being on death row” as she never knew if ____83_____ daughter would wake up the next morning.

    The mother said: “She always loves Christmas and my heart was _____84____(break) when I see her suffering like this. Our best Christmas present would be having Paige with us at Christmas. No matter ____85____ she leaves the world, we make sure that she is always happy.”

Around twenty years ago I was living in York. 61. ________ I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find satisfying work.

I was driving a school bus to make ends meet and living with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had attended five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not get 62. ________ job. “Why has my life become so hard?” I thought 63. ________ (painful).

    As I pulled the bus over 64. ________ (drop) off a little girl, she handed me an earring, saying that I should keep it in case somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring 65. ________ (paint) black and said “BE HAPPY”.

    At first I got angry. Then it hit me --- I had been giving all of my attention to what was going wrong with 66. ________ life rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a list of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to add more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for me 67. ________ a lady who was a director at a large hospital. She asked me 68. ________ I would give a one-day lecture on stress 69. ________ (manage) to 200 medical workers. I said yes.

    My day there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of think 70. ________ I completely changed my life.