The first day of high school can be difficult for many kids. But for Caleb Wrenn, it seemed more _________. The 14-year-old texted his big sister on the first day at Reidsville Senior High School about all the things that had gone _________ .

“I sat alone at lunch and got _________ three times,” he told his sister Leal Edwards, a student at Appalachian State University. Wrenn said no one would be his _________ because he’s short.

Edwards posted a screenshoi (截屏) of the _________, along with a photo of her little brother, on Twitter. “Retweet to let my baby brother know that he is cool before I have to pull up to his school,” she wrote.

Little did she know, the post about her little brother would go viral (疯传), and Wrenn’ s problem would be _________ . The next day, the tweet had been _________ thousands of times, and a senior student at the North Carolina school _________ to Edwards. “I’ll sit with him today at lunch break,” Timothy Thaxton wrote.

Then Edwards saw a photo that _________ her heart — her brother sat at a school lunch table, surrounded (包围) by upperclassmen.

“They simply saw my tweet and wanted to make a __________,” Edwards told CBS News. “They __________ him with a whole group of boys and now he has people to sit with at lunch.”

Edwards said one of the students just happened to __________ her tweet. “I never thought it would get so much __________ ,” Edwards said.

The lunchroom kindness wasn’t just a one-time thing — according to his sister, Wrenn has a(n) __________ group of friends. “Now they all have my mother’s phone number and we’ re all one big __________ ,” she told CBS News. “It really brought our community together.”

Penpals Jill Stretton and Cathie Alexander live half a world apart. However, they've_______a faithful correspondence for seven decades.

The long-lived letter-writing relationship_______in 1950 when 12-year-old Stretton from Australia, was given Alexander's_______ by a family friend in Scotland.

Back then, it sometimes took six weeks for a long-distance letter to reach its _______, but the pair felt an instant rapport（融洽）after their first_______that has only grown_______with time.

Though the two women didn't meet in person until 1982, they feel as if they truly_______ with one another, sharing life's milestones through their letters.

“She is just like one of the family,“ Stretton said. "And we are still as together as we ever were 70 years ago. That is quite_______ for people who've lost confidence in ever-lasting friendship. ^,,

Stretton and Alexander have never stopped _______ to one another. Along with hopes, dreams, plans’ photos, and family updates, through the years, their letters have contained their sweet life________-weddings, birthdays, graduation and so on.

While they ________ write letters, with technology developing, Stretton and Alexander have slightly bowed to the times. For longer messages, they've turned to the Internet, but they agree that nothing will ________ a handwritten note. "Now, we do________to send postcards rather than write long letters because we email now," Stretton________honestly. But letter writing plays the most important part in their friendship.

The two women's story proves that__________is nothing when it comes to true friendship.

Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it _______ patience. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to _______ some action. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends staying home   _______.

Joining a club or group, talking to those who like the same things _______ you do is much easier. Or join someone   _______   some activity.

Many people are _______ when talking to new people. _______ meeting strangers means seeing the unknown. And it’s human nature to feel a bit _______ about the unknown．Most of fears about _______ new people come from doubts about ________. We imagine other people are ________ us — finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don’t forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself ________ you are, and try to put the other at ease. You’ll both feel more comfortable．

Try to act self-confident ________you don’t feel that way when you ________ a room full of strangers. Walk tall and straight, look at other people directly and ________.

If you see someone you’d like to ________, say something. Don’t wait for ________ person to start a talk.

Just meeting someone ________ does not mean that you’ll make friends with that person. ________ is based on mutual (相互的) likings (兴趣) and “give and take”. It takes time to ________ friendship.