One cold day, I sat in a natural hideout (隐蔽处) for about an hour to wait for animals to show up. ____ showed up. I ate two sandwiches and drank a little coffee. Still nothing. The forest were really ____. Only wind came toward me.

Suddenly I saw a deer, a big beautiful eight-point deer. Surely I couldn’t ____ the chance! I waited for him to ____ I was there. I waited for him to run. But he came toward me! He was curious (好奇的), I suppose, or maybe he was silly — how else can you ____ it? It wasn’t a baby, but a grown-up ____. He must have known about men and guns (枪). ____ he came closer, and I still waited. Well, that deer walked right up to where I was sitting. Then he ____ and looked at me! I felt his head. His nose poked (拨弄) at my shoulder. He didn’t even move when I fed him my last sandwich!

Well, he finally went his way, down the hill and up the deer road. Shoot him? No. I just ____ him going away and started walking back to my car.

But unexpectedly I heard two shots (枪响声). I had ____ that there were other hunters (打猎者) in the forest.

John Muir was a protector of nature. He set an example that each of us can follow to protect the natural areas _________ us.

The first way we can follow Muir’s example is to discover our local natural areas. Muir was a great _________. He once walked one thousand miles from Indiana to Florida.

Another way to follow Muir is to _________ nature. Muir loved to explore(探索) the outdoors. He learned _________ he could about rocks, plants, and animals. From _________ exploring, he came to realize that the wilderness, places where people do not live or build, is an important gift. Muir made a _________ that his life’s goal was to protect this gift.

Muir’s greatest example for us is his work to protect nature. He _________ its beauty by writing books. He climbed Yosemite’s peaks(山峰) and _________ them as “clothes in light”. In _________, he enjoyed its “pearl-gray belt of snow(珠灰色雪带)” . However, he also saw _________ eating Yosemite’s plants and people cutting down its trees for wood. Muir gave talks _________ wrote books about these dangers. President Theodore Roosevelt was _________ impressed(给……留下深刻印象) after hearing that Muir visited Yosemite that he signed a law making Yosemite a _________ park in 1890. This meant that the US _________ would take care of it.

We can find our own pieces of nature to explore, learn about and protect. We can write to our local newspapers about nature’s beauty and tell people _________ to help care for it. We can all follow John Muir’s footsteps.

I have had thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But only one ________ was the most important. It happened last term just after I had got a ________ result in an exam. I was sad and lost my confidence. I decided to go to a class which can tell me how to be ________. The speaker walked into the room. But he did not start talking ________ a teacher. Instead, he held up（举起） a twenty yuan note（钞票）!

“Who wants this? ” he asked slowly. ________ of us in the class put up our hands.

The speaker smiled. Then he put up the note on the blackboard and asked the same question. Again, we all put up our hands. The speaker smiled again, but ________ nothing. Suddenly, he threw the note onto the floor! Then he asked the same question a third time.

I didn’t ________ what the speaker was doing. Why was he asking the same question again and again? I didn’t know what to do. I wanted the note, so I put my hand up again. After a while, he ________ a note and started to laugh. “You have all just told me how to become successful, he said to us with the note in his hand. “The note is worth（价值） twenty yuan. It is always worth twenty yuan, even though I throw it on the floor. You are like the note. No matter ________ happens to you, you still have your worth.”

When I heard those words, I was deeply moved. Suddenly, I ________ I was worth a lot. I may have done in an exam, but it doesn’t mean I can’t do well in the future. If I believe in myself, I will be successful!