Where is happiness? How to enjoy happiness? Many people fail to find happiness ________ they always focus on something that troubles them every day. What is your secret to happiness? I want to share the following story with you.

Once upon a time, there lived ________ man named John who considered himself as a clever man. He always thought that he was ________ than many people. John liked fruit, especially bananas. One day, a large box of bananas ________ by John. He went back home and. smiled all the way. ________ he looked!

But when he got home and opened the box. he found that two of the bananas were going bad. He asked himself what ________ with them. “It doesn’t matter. I am clever. I can leave the good ones and eat those which are becoming bad first.” And so he did.

The next morning, ________ his surprise, he found another two bananas that were becoming bad and he ate them again. The same thing went on. Every day, John would choose two or three bananas that were becoming bad and eat them. He always ________ the good ones. A week later, John ate up all the bananas, but he had never eaten a good one. Do you think John is a clever man?

So it is with our lives! If we always choose ________ something terrible and are worried about it, there will not be happiness in our lives. Instead, we ________ find something true, good and beautiful and enjoy it every day. And happiness will be always around us.

Len was thirty years old, and he had very long hair. He lived ______a big city,but one year he did not find any work there,so he went to a small town and began ______job there. He went to a lot of places,but ______wanted him.

Then he met an old friend,and his man said to him, “People in this town don’t like long hair. Why don’t you go to a barber’s shop (理发店.？He can cut a lot of it off,and you can get some work.

Len went to a barber’s shop and said, “Please cut most of my hair off.”

The barber began. He cut and cut for a long time and then he said to Len, “_____you in the army a few years ago?”

“Yes, I was ,” Len answered. “_____did you ask that?”

“Because I’ve found your cap,” the barber said.

Have you heard of Zhu Yanjun, a middle-aged builder from a small village in Gansu Province? Can you believe that he _________ second prize in Chinese Poetry Competition hosted by CCTV in February, 2023?

Born in a family of farmers, Zhu’s love for _________ started from a very young age. After he finished middle school, Zhu worked for house building in more than ten _________. Wherever he was, he went to local bookstores with a notebook. He would take notes from the books and _________ the words in a dictionary to check the meanings.

In the beginning, he read poems from the Tang Dynasty. As time went by, he found some _________ methods to remember them. Over the years, he has read thousands of poems.

“I get to know the history and traditions of many places by reading books and poems. It opens up a new _________ for me,” Zhu said. Reading also helps him live _________ and he never complains (抱怨) about hard work. There are _________ everywhere in his home, so he can read whenever he wants.

Zhu is already 50 years old, but he _________ on learning all the time. His story tells us that learning is a lifelong journey. Whether we are old or __________, we should always learn to improve ourselves. Our life time is limited. Let’s put it to good use.