I had plans to meet two of my friends downtown, so I took a shower and left home despite the rain, It was just an ordinary day, but deep in my heart, there was a shadow of_______.

It was because of the novel coronavirus（新冠肺炎）) At that time, there weren’t yet _______ cases in our city. But still I could smell the fear_______among the   crowd. We had lunch together and hung about for some time in the busiest district before I returned home.

That evening, _______, began to cough slightly at first. and then it got worse.I took my body _______ again and again to make sure I didn't have a fever. In spite of the _______words from my parents that I just caught a cold from going out in the _______ after a shower, I was terribly frightened. For a few nights，I lay _______ in my bed, worrying that I had already got the disease -and possibly the virus was in my body..

I took my mom's _______to exercise at home. I also read, watched films and painted，just to ________ my anxiety. And it worked, A few days later, I was fully ________ .

As I watch the news about how many people are dying of the disease and how brave medical workers are________ their own lives to help their patients, I'm deeply ________ that I'm one of the lucky ones.

Now, I'm sitting at my desk and taking a class ________. The little insects of early spring fly around my bedroom, and a beam (束) of sunlight shines on my windows. It's just another ordinary day. But after that incident, I've learned to________ the day's beauties, however small they are.

To most people, winter is dull and grey which raises many emotional problems. _______ the flowering blossoms（花）by my front gate bring their bright beauty to the _______of winter. I feel they are astonishingly stunning（极其漂亮的）. Why do these small blossoms _______ me so much, even more than a large number of wildflowers and roses in long summer days? When most of the trees and bushes are _______ , these tiny rose-colored blossoms are a rare _______ . In my eyes, they are predictors of_______.

Rushing from one task to another and moving mindlessly _______our days, we become accustomed to or _______ good and beautiful things in our lives. We focus,_______, on what’s wrong with our world, our jobs, our health and relationships,________what Shakespeare called “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to（是……的继承者）”.

But a moment of beauty can ________ us up, especially when it is ________. We are filled with a sense of awe（敬畏）and ________when we see blossoms in winter, a ray of sunlight through the clouds of a rainbow arching overhead. These positive emotions can ________ us. They strengthen our immune systems, develop our personal ________, open our mind, and enable us to explore the ________of the world. As Emerson, Thoreau, and centuries of poets have realized, a moment of beauty can ________our world view on the whole and thus     ________ change our lives.

If you’re experiencing “the winter of discontent”,________during these dark days, look around you at the ________world to experience the healing power of beauty.

I don’t own a camera anymore. I know my computer has one and my daughter is ________ taking photos with her smart phone. However, I rally miss those ________ cameras. I can remember taking a roll of film, mailing it out, and then ________ for two weeks to get the pictures back. And half of them were either overexposed by the sunlight or all of us had red eyes in them from the flash on the ________.

I can also remember the ________ when we finally saved up enough money to get a Polaroid (一次成像的) camera. It was more exciting to ________ the camera and have a photo ________ in only a minute. Even then, though, we only used it for special ________, such as birthdays and family gatherings.

Nowadays everything seems to be ________, saved and posted online. I wonder ________. Maybe a part of it is that we all want to stop, freeze and ________ these moments in time that fly by so fast. I have to ________ that sometimes I do. Just the other day I ________ some dusty photo albums about my ________. In one there was a picture of me just a few years old, laughing in my front yard. How I longed to go back to that ________, see my mother’s smiling face and be held in my grandmother’s ________ arms once more. Still, I know that does live on in my heart, and one day we will all be ________ again.

The truth is that hard as we try we can’t ________ time. All the photos can’t keep it in place, either. Perhaps we should really ________ our lives instead of just filming them. Perhaps it is best to smile with joy instead of smiling for a ________.