Happiness is for everyone. You don’t need to care about those people who have a lot of money. Why? Because those who have big houses ______ large gardens may often feel lonely and those who have cars may want ______ on the country road in their free time.

In fact, happiness will be always around you ______ you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you; when you study ______ at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your ______; when you do something wrong, people around you will help you ______ it. And when you do something good to ______, you will feel happy, too. All these are happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see happiness is always around you.

Happiness is not the same as money. It is ______ kind of feeling in your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are happy because you have something else that can’t be bought with money. When you meet with difficulties, you can also say you are happy because you have more chances to challenge ______. So don’t say you are poor or unlucky. As the saying goes, life is like a revolving（旋转的）door. When it closes, it also ______. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.

A little girl thought she didn’t have a nice look, and nobody liked her. So she was always unhappy. She didn’t want to go out to play. She didn’t like to talk to others, _______.

One day, her mother had _______ idea that might help her. She gave the girl a beautiful hair clip (夹子). When she wore it, she looked _______ than before. Her mother said, “How about _______ it to school today?” The girl thought a few minutes. Finally, she decided to go to school _______ the hair clip.

On her way to school, she found someone smiled at her and most of her classmates said “hello” to her, but this never happened before. _______ happy the girl felt! She thought that the beautiful hair clip brought the wonderful things to her. Although all her classmates tried _______ what happened to her, she didn’t want to tell them about her hair clip.

When she went back home after school, her mother asked her, “Did you know you lost _______ hair clip? I found it at home this morning.” She knew she didn’t wear the hair clip to school at all. It’s not important what she wears or how she _______. The most important thing is the way she thinks about herself. After that, she often says to herself, “________ I want to do something successfully (成功地), I should be confident (自信的) first.”

One day, a teacher came into her classroom. She gave her students ________ small test. The teacher ________ out the test paper. The students were surprised ________ that there were no questions on the paper, but only a black dot (点) in the center of it. The teacher said, “I just want you to write down what you see on this paper.”

The students did as the teacher said. At the end of the class, the teacher read their answers ________. While the teacher ________, the class was silent. “Each of you tried to describe the black dot—its size and its color on the paper,” she explained. “Yet, I want you to think about something. All of you focused on (关注) the black dot on this test paper and wrote about it, ________ no one wrote about the white area around the dot.”

“Imagine that this paper represents (代表) your life. The white area represents all of your life experiences, and the black dot just represents the bad things you ________ through since you were born. Life gives us many good things like the most exciting moment and ________ time in your life. And yet we focus too much on the problems and difficulties.”

“From now ________, don’t just focus on the black dots in your life. Remind ________ how lucky you are sometimes.”