A few years ago, my husband and I were on an island for a long weekend with our two daughters. As we were thinking about what to do _______, our girls jumped in and told us what they wanted to do. “_______ want to go to the butterfly (蝴蝶) museum,” said Emily and Hanna.

As soon as we _______ into the main area of the museum, we saw thousands of _______ butterflies, all flapping their colorful wings.

My girls were _______ up and down, and I knew we had made the right _______ to come to the museum. They were having so much fun.

I _______ to our museum tour guide because I was curious (好奇的), and asked, “_______ do butterflies live?”

She said, “About ten days.”

“What can butterflies do _______ ten days?” I asked.

The guide stopped, looked at me, and said, “They make the world ________ more beautiful place.”

“Wow,” I said, “I never thought about butterflies like that. Thank you.”

After we said goodbye, I ________ stop thinking about what the guide had said. She was right. We all have ________ to give the world with the time we have. ________ we focus our gifts on taking care of each other every day, we can make a ________.

How thankful it is that you can have the influence (影响) on your family, friends and neighbors. Like a butterfly, you have your own way of making the world a little ________ for everyone.

The young girl was always interested in everything. She was always _________ questions, and she always wanted to know more. One day, she _________ a new book from the library. The book was called “The Magic Treehouse”. The girl was so _________ that she read the whole book in one night. The next day, the girl went back to the _________ to borrow another book. She found another book in the “Magic Treehouse” series. The girl skipped the whole way home. When she got home, she sat down and started _________ the book. She read and read, but she just couldn’t get into it. She put the book down and _________ why she didn’t like it. She realized that the book was not as good as the first one because she was _________ comparing it to the first book. She went there and found another book that she had never read before. This time, she didn’t compare it to anything else, and she enjoyed it. The girl learned a(n) _________ lesson that day. She learned that it was important to _________ new things without comparing them to what she had experienced before. She also learned that it was okay to _________ doing the things that she didn’t like and move on to find something else.

Jack opened a shop and made lots of money. But he had few friends because he _______ shared his things with others.

One day, Jack had a bad headache. His wife _______ about him and took him to the hospital. A woman doctor _______ Jack over and asked him to go back home. After a week, the doctor told Jack he had cancer (癌症). The _______ that Jack had cancer spread soon. Jack decided to _______ home and travel around the world with his wife. He gave his car to his neighbor. He even gave his house to the workers in his shop. People were very _______ to Jack. And Jack made some good friends and became very _______. On the day _______ Jack flew to America, he got a call from the hospital. The doctor said _______ to Jack on the phone because she made a mistake. Another ________ with the same name as Jack got cancer. There was nothing wrong with Jack.

Jack lost money, but he got other important things—friends, love and happiness.