Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Do you sometimes think your studies not ________ enough? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you ________ the whole world smiles to you.

While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed ________ happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?

One day, it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you will feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the concert ________ the nature offers you?

Although everyone wants to succeed ________ what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t ________. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up ________. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best ________ what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”

Attitude means ________. The quickest way to receive happiness is to smile, the ________ way to lose it is to complain. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.

When I was in school, I volunteered to work in a hospital for some time.

On one visit, I carefully entered a dark room to find _________ elderly man lying in bed. I firstly thought he _________. When I moved closer, however, I realized he was very much awake. He wanted to communicate something, but I couldn’t make sense of _________ he said. He seemed quite weak, and I couldn’t tell if he was in pain, or just frightened. I knew _________ about him, and I felt totally helpless. He clearly didn’t want me to leave him, but I felt so lost and uncomfortable that I had to leave the room _________ only a couple of minutes.

The next time I was at the hospital and saw him again, I was certain he didn’t remember me. But he immediately said, “I remember _________. You gave me hope in my darkest hour that evening!” I was so _________ that I didn’t know how to answer.

In the short moment of my stay there, I did nothing at all. But surprisingly he found something he needed in me, just _________ I was there.

I _________ about this thing often over the past years. It makes me _________ to offer whatever kindness I can to others, and I try to make it out and appreciate it.

One’s attitude（态度）is always important. If you are lazy and weak, you will never taste any success. But if you are hard-working, success and happiness will be more likely to come to you.

I love eating persimmons（柿子）. But I can’t get _________ until autumn.

In Grade 9, because of my poor grades, my parents were worried that I wouldn’t be able to get into _________ excellent high school. They pushed me to study hard, but I didn’t really understand _________ they were so anxious.

Summer came, and I studied _________ than before. Every time I wanted to stop working, Mom would shout, “Hey you! Think about your future. If you don’t work hard, you _________ it!” I had to sit back down again and return to my textbooks _________ were full of words. But all I thought about was playing with my friends and eating persimmons.

My mom would say to me, with a serious look on her face, “If a persimmon tree doesn’t grow in summer, it can’t bear hundreds of fruit in autumn! Only by hard work can you get the good result of your work.”

Although I didn’t understand it at that time, I gradually came to see the _________ of her words. A few months later, I succeeded in getting into the key high school. It was autumn. I knew I wouldn’t succeed _________ working hard.

Walking in my new school, I could see quite a few persimmon trees. It was such a red fruit that it looked as if it was on fire. Suddenly, I realized that working hard may be bitter but its fruits are sweet. My mom was right, if a persimmon tree doesn’t grow during summer, it can’t bear fruit in autumn. I smiled. I had grown through the summer _________ now it was autumn. The fruits of my hard work could __________ by me now!