Worrying about his farm, his health and his family, a farmer was always fearful, angry and upset. Sometimes he treated his family badly even though it was not their _______.

One day, when the farmer was working in his backyard, he _______ found a box of gold coins. He was shocked by his good _______. He wondered what he would do or buy with his new _______. In the end, he decided to bury (埋藏) the gold coins again and save them. He didn’t tell anyone about the thing. He thought the gold coins would be helpful in difficult times. However, he _______ dug up the gold coins.

_______ the gold coins were there, the farmer was no longer worried or angry. He was kind to his family. He even _______ to help his neighbors. His change made the whole village feel surprised. From then on, he _______ others and lived a happy life.

Before the farmer died, he told his sons about the _______. His sons went out to the backyard to dig up the gold coins. When they found the box, though, it was ________. In fact, someone had discovered it and stolen the gold coins.

For the farmer, the true security (保障) isn’t the gold coins buried in the backyard but those buried deep in his heart.

A teacher asked her students to play a game. The teacher told each child to bring a ________ with a few potatoes. Each potato was given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child would put into the bag would ________ the number of people the child hates.

Some children had two potatoes; some had three and the others even had five potatoes. The teacher then told them to ________ wherever they go for a week.

As the days went by, the children started to complain about the unpleasant ________ coming from the rotten potatoes. And the students with five potatoes also had to carry ________ bags.

After a week, the teacher asked, “How did you ________?” The children started complaining about the ________ they had to go through. For example, when they carried the heavy and smelly potatoes everywhere they went, people always covered their noses and moved away from them ________.

Then the teacher said, “This is the ________ situation when you carry your hate for somebody inside your heart. The smell of hate will ________ your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go.” If you cannot the smell of rotten potatoes for just one week, can you imagine what it is like to have the smell of hate in your heart for your lifetime?

Sam was worried. The following morning, he would have art class. It was his favourite class, but there was a _____. Sam saw the world differently from everybody else. When he drew, birds had different-sized wings and buildings had strange shapes. Every time he painted a picture, his teachers and classmates would be _____.

It was time for the art class. Nervously, Sam looked at the white piece of paper in front of him.

“Good morning, Class.” said Mr White. “Today, we’re going to paint...”

Sam _____, wondering what the next word would be. “Please.” he thought. “Not houses, not buildings...”

“We’re going to paint _____.” said Mr White, with a smile.

“Yes! Great!” said Sam excitedly.

“We _____ paint that!” shouted Mike from the other side of the classroom.

“Sure, you can!” replied Mr White _____. “Think about it, Mike. What makes you happy?”

“Umm...beaches, sunshine, and... ice-cream!” said Mike.

“Well, there you go. That’s how you paint it. Start working!” said Mr White.

Sam was already _____. He splashed (泼洒) large amounts of paint all over the paper. It was really beautiful! There were shapes that we didn’t have _____ the real world and the colors were so shining. The whole class _____ and Sam looked proud.

From that day on, Sam was never nervous about art class. He knew that he could paint happiness, _____ he painted.