As my teacher called the students’ names, I was sitting there. The students went to receive their report cards happily, I watched their faces with envy and remembered my poor result last year. Since then, I had worked hard, but I wasn’t sure if I had made any progress.

I was so worried that I didn’t hear my teacher call my name, and my deskmate pushed me heavily. I tried my best to keep my cool and walked toward the teacher’s desk. The desk was only two meters away, but it seemed to be a long way for me to go.

Time seemed to stop. My heart was beating fast and my hands were shaking badly when I received my report card. My teacher was saying something, but I was so nervous that I couldn’t hear her.

Soon, thunderous applause（雷鸣般的掌声）brought me out of the darkness, and I heard my teacher say, “Wonderful job!”

When I opened my report card, I discovered an “A” on it. I couldn’t believe my eyes until I gave it a second look. Then all my fears disappeared. I felt like I was flying in the air. I heard birds singing. Perhaps they were also congratulating me on my success. I was so glad that my hard work paid off.

Our clothes can make us feel better about ourselves. One way is to wear clothes in different colors.

Normally, when we are sad, we’ll wear dark-colored clothes. But when we are happy, we often choose to wear bright-colored clothes. What we choose reflects （反映）how we are feeling. It shows that wearing special colors of clothes can change our feelings.

For example, when we are feeling sad, we may feel worse if we wear black. And if we wear green, red or yellow, we may begin to feel better.

It’s said that each color has its own healing power （治疗作用）. When we are wearing red, we should feel more lively. When we are wearing green, we should feel more peaceful （平静的）. When we are wearing black, we should feel safer.

So remember if you are not feeling at your best, you can try out some different colored clothes. Maybe one color has no effect on your feelings, but another will.

Everyone likes a good laugh from time to time, and science supports that feeling. In fact, we start to laugh even before we start to speak.

【小题1】. Think back to a time when the main meal was a four-legged animal running away from us, and we had to hunt it down to fill our stomachs. At the same time, there were also animals running towards us, hunting us down to feed themselves. 【小题2】. So it makes sense that when the danger finally passed, early humans shared a laugh with one another as if to tell the group everything was OK and that there was no need to be anxious or threatened by what was happening around them.

【小题3】. “Laughter can make it easier for couples to communicate and strong their relationships,” one researcher said. In addition, laughter is 30 times more prone to happen together with others than when one is alone. It’s contagious (有感染力的). 【小题4】.

Laughter is like a pill in your medicine box to help you feel better. And it’s free. 【小题5】. If you want to use the healing power of laughter, a funny movie might help—but it’s really the connections laughter builds with other people that count.