Everyone, rich or poor, can have happiness（快乐）. You don’t need to think too much about those _______ people. They may always feel _______ because their houses are too big, and they may want to _______ on country roads because they drive to work every day in the busy city. _______, happiness is always around you. When you are unhappy, your friends will come to help you and this will surely _______ you happy. When you study hard at your lessons, you will get good _______ and of course you will feel happy about it. If you don’t _______ well, your parents will take good care of you and you will be happy. When you are poor, you can _______ say you are happy because you may have something else that money can’t buy. When you _______ problems, say loudly that you are happy because you have ________ chances to challenge（挑战）yourself. Then you can succeed（成功）in what you do and this may bring you happiness.

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s ________, she said she would go. This would be the first time that his classmates and teacher ________ his mother and he felt sorry for her look. ________ she was a beautiful woman, there was a serious scar（疤痕）on her right face. The boy never wanted to ________ why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were impressed（使留下印象）by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother though she had the scar. But the little boy was still ________ and hid himself from everyone. Just then, he ________ a conversation between his mother and the teacher.

“How did you get the scar on your face, Madam?” The teacher asked carefully.

The mother replied, “When my son was a baby, his room caught fire one day. ________ was too scared to get into his room, but I did. When I was running towards his bed, a long piece of wood fell down and I put myself over him. Finally, when I ________ I found I was in the hospital.” She touched her right face. “The scar was left on my face, but I have never regretted what I did for my son. You see, he is strong and healthy now.”

Hearing that, the little boy cried ________ and ran to his mother. He hugged his mother and felt great love ________ his mother. He held her hand tightly for the rest of the day.

I took the bus to school every day when I was in grade school. Alvin, our bus driver, came by every morning at 8：00 to _______ us children from poor families up.

Alvin picked up around twenty _______ in our area and dropped us off after school. About once a month he would make a _______ at the local drive-in. Someone would come out and ask each of us if we wanted an ice cream or a drink. Alvin would _______ the whole bus out of his own pocket. The kindness that he showed was _______

I remember him picking us up at the end of the school year and taking us to his home for a party. He would _______ drinks and chips for everyone.

Remembering the kindness he showed, I called him up twenty years _______ and thanked him. I told him that he probably wouldn’t remember _______, but I sure remembered him! We didn’t see much kindness from others as we grew up, so it made it all the more _______

I could hear the smile in his voice when he thanked me for calling. He’s the reason why I do my ________ to show kindness to everyone whom I cross paths with. He’s had such a huge impact in my life and I’m so thankful that I was able to tell him.