Froggie was a frog who never remembered where he had been. His biggest dream was to find the best pond to _______ in freely without worrying about water snakes, which were his natural enemies. One day, Froggie hopped (跳) to a kitchen and jumped into a pot full of hot water. Froggie felt the burning heat _______ hurried out of the water as fast as his legs could carry him. “I almost_______ there!” Froggie thought. A few days later, Froggie _______ back to the same kitchen, completely forgetting he had been there. He again hopped into the same pot. This time, the water inside was _______. He _______ and thought, “There’s no water snake trying to eat me and I can have this place all to myself!” At that moment, Froggie knew it was his _______ pond. What he didn’t know was that the water was warming up over a low heat.

After thirty _______ of swimming, Froggie felt the water was warmer but he regarded this as a nice surprise. “This sure is the best place for swimming. I get to have a hot bath, too.” _______ his comfortable bath, the water kept getting warmer and warmer. Froggie was so comfortable that he fell asleep. And he ________ woke up.

From Froggie’s story, we can learn that people are blind to problems that slowly get worse over time.

It’s the first day of the new term. Miss Wang gets the class to play a _________. She gives each student a balloon (气球). Then she asks them to write their _________ on the balloons. After that, she _________ all the balloons into another room. The class comes into the room, too. Miss Wang makes the students find their own (自己的) balloons in five minutes.

Everyone runs quickly to _________ their own balloons. Three minutes later, _________ can find their own balloon. It is a really _________ job. What should they do? At that time, Lucy looks at the balloon in her hand. Kate’s name is on it. She calls Kate’s name. Kate is so _________ to get her balloon. Lucy looks at her smile and then she thinks of a good idea. She asks every student to get a balloon and give it to the student with his or her name on it. In two minutes, all the students are excited and they _________ the game.

Miss Wang says, “We are always _________ getting happiness, but we don’t know __________ to do it. If we help others find their happiness, we can get our own happiness easily. Don’t you think so?”

Little Jimmy lived in a village with his grandpa. Each morning, Grandpa got up early, he sat at the kitchen table reading his book. One day Jimmy asked, “Grandpa! I try to read the book just like you but I don’t understand it, and I forget what I do understand as soon as I close the book. What’s the _______ of reading then?” Grandpa pointed to an old coal basket in the corner and replied, “Take this basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water.”

Jimmy did as he was told. Of course, he brought back an _______ basket. Grandpa laughed and said, “You’ll have to move a little faster next time.” Jimmy tried again. This time he ran faster _______ the result was the same. “Grandpa, it was impossible to carry _______ in a basket.” “Jimmy, I don’t think you are trying hard enough. Why do you _______ so easily?” With lots of questions in mind, Jimmy decided to have a last try. This time he did it even more _______, but no matter how hard he tried, it still made no difference. “See, Grandpa, it’s _______!” Jimmy shouted when he got into the house, _______. “So you think it’s useless?” the old man said, “Look at the basket.” Jimmy looked at the basket and for the first time he _______ that it was different. Instead of a dirty old coal basket, it was clean, inside and out. “Jimmy, that’s what happens when you read books. You might not understand or ________ everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out.”