My mum lives alone and works at a hotel. One day on her way home from work, she saw a cat. It was very small and had white and black hair. At first, she just walked by ________ because it was a really windy afternoon. But the cat followed my mum a long way.

It looked very hungry and ________. At last it walked into my mum’s heart and life.

Last Sunday, I went to visit my mum. She told me excitedly about her little cat. I saw it for the first time. The cat wasn’t afraid of me at all. When I called its name, it looked at me with its big eyes and said “meow” to me, and then walked over slowly. It was so cute that I ________ it immediately.

This cat makes my mum smile. She is always happy with the cat around. The cat will stay in the room ________ it feels cold or just doesn’t want to be outside. My mum loves it and always tries to make it feel ________. The cat loves my mum too. It must think of my mum as ________ mum. It is really attached to（依恋）her. It makes her heart full of love and happiness. It makes me happy too, because I love to see the smile on my mum’s face.

Crabs(蟹) are very interesting. If you put several of them in a ________, the moment one of them starts getting out, the other crabs will ________ him back down. So none of the crabs ever succeed in getting out of the basket. They just keep stopping each other from climbing ________ than the rest of them. We humans are perhaps more like crabs than we think. 

Whether we realize it or not, most of us want other people to be just a little less successful than we are. Friends are ________ happy about your success, as long as you’re not more successful than they are! But one of the first secrets to success is not to ________ your life with others. Many of us seem to know how to live everybody else’s lives but our own. That’s ________! Even though what happens in someone else’s life has ________ to do with ours.

Successful people always try their best to see how great life ________ be, but jealous(嫉妒的) people only see the faults and mistakes of others. Being jealous of others is just a slow way of suicide(自杀) that will ________ both your health and happiness.

You are born with a special ability and personality that no one else has. ________ stop comparing yourself with others. Instead, enjoy your own natural abilities and develop your own style.