This morning, when 1 shaved in the mirror. I found my body was growing older. There was no doubt about it My __ which used to be brown with a touch of gray was now gray with a touch of brown. There was even so __ hair left on the top of the head. My forehead wrinkles appeared when I smiled I thought about letting my __ grow for a second but I didn't really want to look like Father Christmas.

When 1 stepped back. I could see I had become __ as well. It's because while my metabolism (新陈代谢)had __ ，my eating hadn't. My muscles were painful and my body was also __ , However, the work must go on. ______ was my deepest love. An article in my __ seemed to be formed I was thinking of writing the words down in case 1 would __ them when 1 came into my study. When I looked in the mirror again. I ____ and felt a joy in my heart. 1 thought that no matter how old I looked my soul was forever ______. The truth is while I have been gradually growing older on the outside, 1 have been for a while. growing younger on the inside. I can remember how serious, __ _ and worried I was in my twenties and thirties. I often felt the burden of life was _____ heavy. But now at fifty, my heart feels __ and my days look brighter. 1 have more faith and less fear. In the end. all of our bodies will __ and die. but our soul won’t.

A professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. All students were ________ and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk.________ he was done with ________ the test to all students, he asked them to ________ the test paper and begin.

Students were confused (迷惑) to see that there was just a black ________ in the center of the page. The professor told them, “I want you to ________ about what you see there.” The students were ________ confused but got started with the test. ________ the end of the class, the professor collected all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. _________of them described about the black dot and tried to explain its position.

Now, professor began to explain, “Here everyone ________ the black dot and wrote about it ________ no one wrote about the white paper. The same is   ________ our lives. The white paper stands for our whole life and the black dot   ________ problems in our life.

Our life is a ________ given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate ---- our friends around us, the job that provides us with everything we need.________, we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships, but we ________ see that these problems are very ________ compared to everything we have in our lives.”

We should try to take eyes off our ________ and enjoy each moment ________ life gives us. Be happy and ________ your life positively.

In Chicago, the USA, there was a girl called Jenny. She was very polite and ready to help everybody. One day she found a brown paper bag on the way to school. She opened it and saw there was a lot of _________ in it. She thought she should hand it in to the teacher, so she _________ it in her schoolbag first.

When she went to the office, her teacher wasn't in. As it was time for class, she hurried to the classroom. After class, she told her friend, Linda, about the money that she _________ . Then, her greedy (贪婪的) friend _________ away the bag. After school, Jenny wanted to go to the _________ office again, but she found the money was missing.

The next day when the children were playing a game, Linda fell down and was hurt very badly. The other children stood around her and didn't know _________ to do. Jenny kept calm and did _________ to stop bleeding. She told the others to go to teachers for _________ . Soon a teacher took Linda to the _________ and the doctor examined her carefully. Within a week she was all right again. Jenny became very __________ in the school.

Three days later, Linda came to Jenny's house. Her __________ turned red. She was crying. She gave Jenny the brown paper bag with the money in it and said, “Jenny, I have taken the money away. That day when you helped me, I felt very ashamed and now I decide to tell you the __________ . You are such a nice friend! So please don't tell the teachers about this!” Then Jenny said, “You are now __________ , but you have done a bad thing. Though I will not tell anyone, I want you not to be greedy and never to do anything wrong. The girl thanked Jenny and __________ .

At the end of the term Jenny was given a __________ for being a very helpful girl in the school. Linda became an honest girl and was never greedy.

Once wrong, never be wrong forever.