When I was 17, I paid a long visit to Iowa to see a college I was thinking of attending. While the _______ was fun for the most part, I was feeling depressed and   _______. I was realizing that I wouldn't be seeing my family _______ if I went to school here. I was also _______ the forests in Appalachian mountains of my home. I loved how the leaves turned a thousand _______ of green in spring and then became a sea of colors in autumn. I loved the   _______ of the forget-me-nots and countless wild flowers that grew on the hillsides.

Here in Iowa everything was _______. The grass looked brown and _______. All that I could smell was a_______ of corn, mud, and pigs. One day I lay down on the ground. Eyes closed, I ________ being back home over and over again. When I ________ opened them, however, I saw something that ________ my soul: a prairie (草原) sunset. It seemed to fill the whole sky from the________. Gold, red, purple and pink clouds all flowed together and________ an amazing picture. It was so huge that I was________. In comparison with it, our mountain sunsets ________. I was filled with wonder and a sense of ________. I realized too that I had been picky and________. This place too had its own special ________

Over the years to come I learned something else. Each of us has a special beauty too —everyone has their own________talents and abilities to share.

It was pouring outside. We all stood there _______, some patiently, others annoyed because nature messed up(弄糟) their hurried day. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust of the world.

“Mom, let’s run through the rain,” a girl’s voice _______ me.

“No, honey. We’ll wait until it slows down a bit,” Mom replied.

The young girl waited about another minute and _______: “Mom, let’s run through the rain.”

“We’ll get wet if we do,” Mom said.

“No, we won’t, Mom. That’s not what you said this morning,” the young girl said as she _______ her Mom’s arm.

“This morning? _______ did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet? ”

“Don’t you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, ‘If God can get us through this, he can get us through _______.’”

The entire crowd turned _______. Mom paused and thought for a moment about _______ she would say. Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being _______. But then we heard, “Honey, you are ________. Let’s run through the rain. If we get wet, maybe we just need washing,” Mom said. Then ________ they ran.

We all stood ________, smiling and laughing as they ran past the cars. Yes, they got wet. But they were guided by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the ________ to their cars. Circumstances(境况) or people can take away your material possessions, and they can even take away your health. But no one can ever take away your precious ________. So, don’t forget to make time and take the ________ to make memories every day！I hope you still take the time run through the rain.

When I was in primary school, I got into a major argument (争议) with a boy named Tom in my class. I can’t _______ what it was about, but I have never forgotten the _______ I learnt that day.

I was _______ that I was right and he was wrong, but he strongly believed that I was wrong and he was right. Our teacher decided to teach us a very important lesson and _______a good idea. She _______ both of us up to the front of the class and placed him on one side of her desk and me on _______. In the middle of her desk was a large, round object (物体). I could _______see that it was black. She asked the boy what colour the object was. “White” he answered in a _______ voice.

I couldn’t believe he said the object was white, _______ it was obviously black! Another ________ started between my classmate and me, this time about the colour of the object.   

The teacher told me to go stand where the boy was standing and told him to come stand where I had been. We changed ________, and now she asked me what the colour of the object was. I had to answer, “White.” It was then ________ I realised I was wrong. In fact, it was an object with two _________coloured sides, and from his side it was white. Only from my side was it black.

My teacher taught me a very important lesson that day: You must ________yourself in the other person’s shoes and look at the ________ through their eyes in order to truly understand their views.