When I was thirteen years old, a girl gave me an important gift. It was a _____ . It was the early autumn of my first year at a new school. No one knew me. I was very lonely, and _____to make friends with anyone. Every time I heard the other students _____ and laughing, I felt even more lonely. I could not talk to anyone about my problem at school, and I did not want my parents to _____ about me.

One day, my classmates were talking with their friends, but I sat _____ . At that moment, a girl walked into the classroom. I didn’t know who she was. She looked at me and, without a word, _____ . Suddenly, I felt happy and warm.

That smile _____ my life. I started to talk with the other students. Day by day, I learned to trust people, and they had me in their circle of friends. The girl with the bright smile has become my best friend now.

One day, I asked her _____ she smiled at me that day. She said she could not remember the reason! Now I believe that if you think you are _____, you might always be alone. My _____ is: smile at the world and it will smile back. You never imagine what you will get.

Long long ago, there was a strange bird. It had two heads but only one stomach. The two heads always face ________ directions. They hated each other and often fought for some small matters.

One day, one head noticed a red fruit ________ a tree. He picked it and began to eat. The fruit tasted delicious. So he said, “It is ________ delicious fruit I have eaten.” Hearing this, the second head asked the first head to give him some. But the first head ________. He said, “I eat it, because I saw it.” The second head didn’t know ________ to say, so he kept ________.

Later that day, the second head saw a pink fruit on another tree. Just when he was trying to pick the fruit, the first head shouted, “It is a poisonous (有毒的) fruit. The second head didn’t ________ him. He picked ________ and said, “I will eat it, because I saw it.” The first head felt so frightened and cried, “Please don’t! Please! ________ you eat it, both of us will die.” “All right,” the second head said, “I make a ________ to give up eating the fruit. But when you find something nice next time, give me some.”

The story tells us: no one can live on his own. We must learn to share.

One day, a strong woodcutter（伐木工）found a new job at a timer（木材）company. Because he was _________ the pay and the work, the man decided to work as hard as he could.

His boss gave him an axe（斧子）and told him _________ he should work by showing him around. On his first day, the woodcutter cut down 18 trees. “Amazing! Good for you!” his boss said. “Keep going!” After hearing his boss’s words, the woodcutter decided to work even harder the next day, but to his surprise, he could only cut down 15 trees. On the third day, _________ he did his best, he finally brought _________ trees back. Day after day, the man could do nothing but cut down fewer and fewer trees. “I must be losing my _________ ,” the woodcutter thought. He went to his boss and said that he could not understand what was going on.

“When was the _________ time you sharpened（磨）your axe?” his boss asked.

“Sharpen? I _________ sharpen my axe. I am always busy trying to cut down trees.”

Our lives are like that. We sometimes get so busy that we don’t take time to sharpen our “axe”.

In today’s world, it seems that everyone is busier than ever, but also _________.

Why is this? There is _________ wrong with activity and hard work. Maybe it is because we forget how to stay “sharp（锋利）.” We spend little time ____________ so we lose our efficiency（效率）.

Then we ourselves become more upset and worried.

What about you? Have you sharpened your axe today?