A little boy named Harry became very ill. He had to lie in bed all day, unable to move. He spent his days feeling _________ and blue.

There wasn’t much he could do except look out of the _________. Time passed, and his illness frustrated him. Until one day he saw a strange _________ in the window. It was a penguin eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin got in _________ the open window, and said “good afternoon” to Harry, turned around, and _________ quickly.   

Of course, Harry was very _________. He was still trying to work out what had happened. Outside his window he saw a monkey busy blowing up a balloon. At first Harry asked himself _________ that could possibly be, but after a while, as more and more crazy-looking _________ appeared outside the window, he couldn’t help_________ and found it hard to stop.

An elephant jumped on a stone, or a dog wore a pair of glasses and acted in a __________way. The little boy didn’t tell anyone about this. Those strange characters ended up putting joy back in his heart, and in his body. Before long, his health had __________ so much that he was able to go back to school again.

There he told his classmates all that he had __________. While he was talking to his best friend, he saw __________ coming out of his friend’s school bag. Harry asked his friend what it was, and he was so insistent (坚持) that __________ his friend had to show him what was in the bag.

There, inside, were all the things that his best friend had been using to try to __________ the little boy!

And from that day on, Harry always did his best to make sure that no one felt sad and alone.

I was never very neat, while my roommate Kate was extremely organized. We both got_______of each other._______broke out one evening. Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her_______,“Take your shoes away ! Why under my bed !”_______, I saw my shoes flying at me. I jumped to my feet and started yelling. She yelled back louder.

The room was filled with_______.We could not have stayed together for a single minute_______a phone call. Kate answered it. From her end of the conversation, I could tell right away her grandma was seriously ill. When she_______, she quickly crawled（爬）under her_______, sobbing._______, that was something she should not__________alone. All of a sudden , a warm feeling of__________rose up in my heart.

Slowly , I__________the pencils , took back the books , made my bed…I got so into my work that I even didn’t notice Kate had sat up. She reached out her hands to__________mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at me,“ Thanks. ”

Kate and I stayed__________for the rest of the year. We didn’t always agree , but we learned the__________to living together：giving in , cleaning up and holding on.

The first day of school our primary Mrs. Miller introduced herself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to_________around when a pretty girl came in to my sight. She said,“Hi, my name is Katie.”

After class we became_________friends. Every day for the next 8 years we studied together and talked nonstop. We were_________to our classmates, and everyone knew that if you saw one of us, you’d likely see the other.

But when we started high school, things began to change. Katie_________the cheerleading team and started hanging out with a new group of friends. But I joined the robotics club, and spent most of my time_________with machines and coding. We still saw each other at school, but our schedules became_________and we had less time to hang out.

One day, Katie told me she’d been having a_________time with her cheerleading coach. Her coach had been criticizing her_________and telling her that she wasn’t good enough. She wanted to give it up.

Katie’s words reminded me of a time when I was working on a robot and couldn’t get it to function_________. As I felt like giving up, Katie said to me, “I know you dream of being a ro-botics engineer. When you__________your dream, you die. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.”It was my turn to help her out. I told her that she was an amazing__________, and that she could overcome any obstacle with hard work and__________.

After the chat Katie started to feel better about herself. She even tried out for the team captain position. She didn’t get the role, but she was__________of herself for trying.

Years later, Katie and I were still best friends. We realized that while our new friends were fun, they didn’t__________us the way we did. We pursued different paths, but we helped each other believe in ourselves, and showed each other the power of__________, determination, and support.