Every June, our children are given bowls to collect leaves. They leave bowls full of leaves on the doorstep and we go for a ______. When we return, we find fairies (仙子) have ______ the leaves into ice cream.

“When are the fairies coming?” five-year-old Anna had been asking all last June, with______ Meanwhile, Joshua, ten, was______ fairies and such silly things. He found Mom would always. ______ something and return home during our walk.

The evening arrived and we followed the tradition. Halfway, I said that I had forgotten my keys and needed to______.

Joshua, smiled as if he ______ everything. “Wait,” I added. “I’ve found them! I don’t have to go back.” Joshua got a bit ______. When we were back, the bowls were still there. ______, it was filled with ice cream.

Anna accepted all this with complete______, excited to eat. But Joshua was surprised. He looked up at me and looked around in______.

Joshua was quiet the entire evening. But at 2 a.m., he crawled (爬) into my bed. “Mommy,” he______. “How did you do it?”

For a ten-year-old, you need to tell him the______. A neighbour helped me. Joshua smiled and______ me for telling him. Then he fell asleep. And just at that moment, I believed in ______ too.

Hundreds of community members poured into the home to express their condolences (哀悼）to Eli's family. I walked in and ________ myself, saying I was the headmaster of a school in a neighboring city. I then told the following ________ to the family.

When I was in middle school, I was the troublemaker and always behaved ________ in class. One day, when I was bored in class, I ________ a paper ball at the teacher. With a bright red ________ face, the teacher lifted the ball and said, “I will ask only once for the student who did this to ________ and get out of the room. I won't ________ class until that student leaves, "The room was ________. I was not going to give myself up. I never ________ what would happen next. After 30 long seconds, a boy named Eli, who was always a ________ and well-behaved student, stood up and walked out with his ________ down. He had no reason to help me but he ________ to anyway.

I wiped my ________ and said, “I want you to know that Eli saved my life. Through that ________ act, he conveyed to me how concerned he was about my ________.That shook me up. From that moment on, I took my life more ________, With a lot of work, I stopped being a ________

When I heard that Eli ________,I had to go to let all know that if I've ________ people's lives through my work as an educator, it's all due to Eli's ________ and selflessness.

One day, my father and I were watching a dance reality show. For some reasons, I disliked one of the dancers from the very beginning of the show.

Unknowingly, I kept finding his _________ and criticizing (批评) his dance moves. _________, my father was watching the _________ with a smile all the time. When the performance ended, he looked at me and asked softly, “How much do you _________ about the dance competition, Martha?”

“No, Dad, not at all,” I said.

“Then how do you know that he is a _________ dancer?” he asked still with a smile.

“Just _________ the other dancers! He is not as good as them,” I said.

“But he is among the final 10 competitors who were carefully _________. How can he be bad? Maybe his dance is of no _________ to you, but that doesn’t mean you can _________ or even criticize his creativity.’’

“Why not?” I asked carelessly.

“Because criticizing someone or something __________ nothing but negativity around you. Instead of criticizing something you don’t like, you should spend your time __________ something you like, which will spread __________ thoughts,” my father said.

So choose __________! Never criticize anyone or anything unless you have a good __________ of it. This is the most __________ advice my father has ever given me.