For a long time, we had a fat black cat in our neighborhood. Sometimes I saw her walking around my house. Sometimes I saw her 【小题1】 at my door. Sometimes she even hid (躲藏) under my car. Each time I walked close to her, 【小题2】, she ran away. Finally, I decided 【小题3】 her freedom.

These days, though, something 【小题4】 happened. This cat accepted my daughter, Beth. Each time Beth walks over to my house from her place up the road, she is welcomed by the cat. The cat walks between her legs and meows (喵喵叫着) until Beth 【小题5】 her.

It happened day after day until this morning when Beth left her a bowl of cat food. Beth 【小题6】 started calling the cat “Alice”. I wonder if Alice will want to become an indoor cat for she seems to have made Beth her friend. Beth has the 【小题7】 and love that draws all kinds of animals to her from dogs, to cats, to birds.

Isn’t it surprising how love works 【小题8】 way into our hearts and lives? We are minding our own business and suddenly(突然地) we have a new pet, or a new friend, or find a time to share in an act of kindness. Let your love pass onto the 【小题9】 of others, because to love is to truly live and to live is to truly love.

Happiness is very important to everyone. We want to have good 【小题1】 every day. But how can we keep happy?

Feeling happy means forgetting. There are some unhappy things 【小题2】 us. They make us nervous, worried, 【小题3】 or jealous (嫉妒的). What should we do then? Forget 【小题4】 and you will be happy.

Feeling happy means giving. Give a hand to 【小题5】 in trouble. Give your seat to 【小题6】 old person on a crowded bus. The more you give others, the 【小题7】 you will feel. So just learn to give!

Feeling happy also means working 【小题8】. Try your best to make your plan come true. 【小题9】 you’ll have a feeling of pride and happiness.

To be happy can make us become 【小题10】. Let’s keep happy from now on.

There was once a famous scientist who made several important discoveries. Once he was 【小题1】 how he was able to be so creative. He replied that it all came from 【小题2】 experience he had with his mother at the age of two. He was trying to take a bottle of milk out of the fridge. But the bottle was so slippery (光滑的) 【小题3】 he dropped it. The kitchen was covered in milk.

When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of 【小题4】 at him or punishing him, she said, “Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! I have never 【小题5】 such a huge puddle (水坑) of milk. Would you like to play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?”

So he did. After a few 【小题6】, they cleaned it up together. Then his mother said, “This was not a 【小题7】 experiment (实验) in how to carry a big bottle of milk with two small hands. Let’s go out in the backyard and fill the bottle with water and see 【小题8】 you can find a way to carry it without dropping it.”

The little boy learned that if he held the bottle at the top near the mouth 【小题9】 both hands, he could carry it without dropping it. 【小题10】 a wonderful lesson!