Several days ago, I was walking home from school and saw some ________ on the fence(栅栏) of a house. It said, “Happiness is a direction not a place.” I was having a bad day but it became a little ________ after reading this. I also took out a pen and wrote one of my favorite quotes(格言) down without thinking twice.

When I came back to the fence the next day, I saw another quote under mine in the handwriting as the first one, I added another, so we ________ in this way for quite a while. One day, I was writing another quote on the fence and the old man, one of my neighbours, who owned the fence, saw me. He came out and I was afraid he would be ________ for writing on his fence; everyone in my neighbourhood knew he was known to be very ________. He gave me a look of coldness and seriousness and then read the quotes.

Without saying a word to me, he then went back inside. I was even uneasier and afraid to go back to the fence. But when I did, I noticed no more quotes but two words in ________ different handwriting had been added, “________”.

Later, I saw the old man in his front yard. He called me over and told me how my quotes on the fence ________ him, how he thanked me and how he was glad to see young people still have “Values”. We are now good ________ and we talk to each other a lot. This experience has ________ my life. I still don’t know who wrote the quotes, but if he is out there, I’d like to say “thanks” to that unknown friend.

I did volunteer(志愿者) work in a Kenya orphanage(孤儿院)last year. It was an unforgettable experience.

When I first went to Kenya _______ my classmates, I saw many poor children. I was _______ that we might have to live like them. I was right. We had to sleep in a very _______ room—18 girls stayed together. As there was not enough _______, we had to save it day and night. We only had five minutes to have a bath each time.

_______ the living environment was bad, we did many things to help children there, such as teaching and cleaning. The most difficult thing for me was taking care of babies who were less than year old. That was the first time I held a baby. It was not _______ at all. The babies kept _________ no matter what I did. When I fed them, they still didn't calm down(平静下来). After a while, I was so _______ from the pain(疼痛)in my back and shoulders. I realized how much my parents did for me when I was young.

When we were _______, a 5-year-old girl gave her teddy bear to us. It was her Christmas gift.

Seeing her smiling face and the clean orphanage, we felt ________ of ourselves.

I live with my grandmother in a house with a typical Chinese yard (院子) in Beijing. One day last year, I was _________ to see a tall foreigner walking out of the door next to our house. He has a height of about 185 cm and looked thin with short curly, brown hair. He also wore a pair of glasses, like me.

It was the _________ time that I saw him. I was too shy to speak to him. “My English is so poor!” I thought. My grandmother told me he had just moved into our yard. “I don’t like him,” she said. “_________ aren’t like us. Maybe he’ll play loud music and hold parties every night! I’m sure he’s going to disturb (打扰) the neighbors a lot.”

Several days later, I met the foreigner as I was walking home after work. “Hello!” he said in Chinese. “My name’s Tony. I’ve just moved into the house next door to yours.” While I was thinking about what to say, he _________, “There’s a nice bar (酒吧) down the road. Why don’t you and your family come and have dinner with me?” “Bars are _________ bad places,” said my grandmother when I told her but we still decided to go.

The bar was not all what I had expected. It was in a _________ little house, with several large bookshelves and pictures of Tibet on the walls. Several Chinese people and foreigners were sitting drinking or _________. I noticed that some of the foreigners were speaking Chinese in a low voice to each other. “Oh, what a nice place!” my grandmother said with _________.

The bar served special “hutong pizzas”. As we ate, Tony told us about _________ — he is an English expert (专家) on environment. He always likes to be quiet. We talked a lot and found we had something in common.

My grandmother said to me, “He really seems like a very nice young man.”

“You see,” I answered, “you can never judge (评判) a person by his __________.”