Matt love science, and he wanted to be the Science Star of the week. Now he was presenting his experiment in Mrs. Perry’s class.

“Let me show you _______ to keep an egg in the middle of the glass.” Matt dropped an egg into salt water. But it fell to the bottom.

“Look, Matt’s blushing (脸红)!” Coco shouted. Matt covered his red face with hands.

That evening he _______ The Book of Wonderful Science Experiments. When it came to the last page, he smiled “This is the right experiment for me! It’s impossible to _______ this time.”

The next day in front of his class, Matt spread small pieces of paper onto the desk and rubbed (擦) a spoon with cloth. “The spoon will lift up the paper.” He raised the spoon, but nothing happened. The paper lay still.

“Matt’s blushing again!” Emily pointed out. Matt was _______ and ran back to his seat with his red face.

“Becoming the Science Star seems so _______,” Matt thought. That night he couldn’t sleep. “I have to make it, but the only thing I could do right was blushing.” Suddenly, a plan came to his mind.

The following morning, Matt appeared before the class again, _______ his Mickey Mouse ears.

“Mouse ears on the head are your _______?” Someone laughed and Matt’s face burned.

“No, watch my _______! Blushing is my experiment,” Matt answered. Everyone quieted down.

Matt continued, “When you feel stressed, your blood vessels (血管) in the face open wide and fill the skin with blood, _______ you blush.” He showed a picture of blood vessels. “I’ve tried many times to control blushing, but now I know it’s a normal part of being human. So the best thing to do is to ________ it.” The class cheered and Matt’s red face lit up the whole classroom.

“Matt is the Science Star of the week” Mrs. Perry announced. Matt walked proudly back to his seat. What a perfect day!

During our lives, we all meet a lot of different people. Among them, there is always _________ who influences us greatly.

The first time I saw Emily, she was sitting in my front yard, hugging my dog Harley. She and her husband Sean had just _________ a small house down the road from us. I think she was drawn（吸引）to Harley’s _________ personality, just as he was drawn to hers. I knew Emily would be a treasured friend from the moment I talked to her. Her smile and cheer made me feel _________ just being around her. Her voice was always _________ of happiness.

It didn’t take a _________ time before Emily was loved by all her new neighbors here. Children and adults visited her home often. _________ she already had four pet cats, she also adopted（收养）a homeless dog.

When we visited her, she would _________ listen to all of our troubles and then say something _________ wise that we would leave her home with our hearts singing. Sometimes I would read her my stories and she would always ______________ me to keep writing.

All of this time, though, Emily was slowly ______________ cancer（癌症）. She told me ______________ she was already in the late stage of her disease when we talked for the first time. But she lived each day with such cheer that I often forgot how ill she was. Still, she died ______________ a cold winter morning with heavy snow.

During the short time we had together I learned ______________ from Emily about how to truly live. She taught us so many lessons about kindness, happiness, hope and ______________ .