Two things changed my life: my mother and a white, bike basket. I would be a different person if my _______ didn’t bring the basket into my life.

It was summer, one day, my mother took me to a bike shop to fix my bike—and there it was in the _______. The white basket winked (眨眼) at me and I knew—I knew—I _______ have it.

“Mom, please can I please, please get it. I’ll do _______ for as long as you say. I’ll do _______ but I need that basket. I love that basket. Please, Mom. Please?”

“You know,” she said, “If you _______ up, you could buy this yourself.”

To get the basket, I have to collect _______. My mother bought the beautiful basket and hid it _______ out of reach in a place I couldn’t find. Each week I counted my _______ eggs by doing housework here and there. (washing the car, helping my mother make dinner, finishing small work ________ that already looked strange without the basket in the front,) And then, weeks later, I counted, recounted and jumped ________. Oh, happy day! I made it! I had enough eggs ________.

Days later the unthinkable thing happened. A neighborhood girl appeared with the ________ basket. I rode hard and fast home to tell my mother about this disaster. This thing ________ terrible.

“Honey, your basket is extra-special,” Mom said gently. “Your basket is special ________ you paid for it yourself. I think you are great.”

Do you know that the song Happy Birthday was written ________ an American girl? One day, the girl was invited to her friend’s ________ party. She was happy ________ sad because she didn’t have enough money to buy a gift for her. Later that night, when she was in bed thinking about the ________ , her grandma came. “What happened?” Her grandma asked. Hearing the girl’s story, she said, “Don’t worry. I think I can help you. Why not ________ a song for your friend? Happy Birthday to you.” What a beautiful song! They sang and sang. ________ the girl woke up. It was a dream! She decided ________ it down at once and sing it to her friend at the party.

When she sang the song at the party, her friend was very ________. “Thank you for ________ me the special gift.” Her friend said. And they learned to sing it together. Later the girl became very rich and famous in ________.

You might like to listen to music while studying. What kind of music is your favorite? An experiment（实验）found that listening to classical music at work can _________ efficiency（效率）by 15%.

A survey of 2, 000 British workers found that half of them listen to music _________ they are at work. Some of their bosses（老板）_________ them to do so, while others are against it. They believe it has a bad influence（影响）on their _________. British doctor Becky Spelman did an experiment to find out _________ background（背景）music hurts or improves efficiency.

In the experiment, four office workers needed to copy two 600-word sets of _________. The group worked on the first passage with no music playing and worked on the _________ one with classical music playing in the background. It _________ them an average（平均的）time of 20 minutes and 59 seconds to finish the first set. But the average time for the second was 17 minutes and 42 seconds.

Classical music can work as a kind of white noise, ___________ Spelman. White noise is a mixture of sounds with different frequencies（频率）. It can help people stay focused（集中精力的）.

__________, as long as the music has a calm（镇静的）beat, it can help us keep calm. “This makes it easier for us to focus on what we’re doing,” Spelman said.