One day, 100 people were attending a speech. The speaker was making a speech about happiness. However, after a few hours, people began to lose their attention. The speaker thought of _______ idea. He stopped his speech and asked all of the people to take part in a group activity.

He gave each person a balloon in the room. Each person _______ to write his or her name on the balloon with a black marker（记号笔）. Then, all of the balloons were collected and moved to _______ room.

The 100 people were then let into the room and told to find the balloon _______ their own name. Everyone was _______ searching for their own balloon. People were bumping into and tripping（绊倒）over each other.

But after about five minutes of searching, no one could find their own balloon.

After seeing this, the speaker asked each person _______ a balloon and try to find the person whose name was written on it. Everyone started asking each other for their name. In just a few minutes, everyone had his or her own balloon.

“Can you see what _______ ?” the speaker said. “The balloons are like the happiness we look for in our own lives. Everyone is busy looking for their own happiness, not caring _______ happens to others. But sometimes _______ way to find happiness is to help others. Help them find happiness ________ you can find your own.”

One day, a father took his son to go back to their hometown. They visited the little boy’s uncle who lived on ________ farm. They spent three days and nights on the farm. When they were ________ the way home, the father asked his son, “How was the trip?” “It was ________, Dad.” said the son.

“What did you learn from the trip?” asked the father.

The son answered, “We have one dog ________ they have five. We have a small pool that reaches the middle of our garden and they have a big river ________ has no end. We have some ________ in our garden and they have the stars at night. We have a small piece of land to ________ on and they have fields that go beyond (超出) our sight. We need to buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls to protect ________ , but they have friends to protect them. The boy’s father ________ by his son’s words.”

Then his son added, “________ rich they are! Thank you for showing me what a poor life we live.”

We may be very pleased with the rapid progress we have made in every field of study. But the way to test a student’s knowledge and ability still ___poor. To a certain degree, it was even as terrible as it was one     ____years ago, and we have done almost       _____to improve our examination system.

It is   ____known that the examination system we are now using may be good way of testing a student’s memory,     ____it can tell you very little about a student’s ability. It does no good        ____students and teachers.

As soon as a child begins school, he enters __world of examinations that will decide his future. So he has to bury himself in mountains of books and papers preparing for the tests.

In fact, a good examination system   ___train a student to think for     ____. But it now does nothing of the sort. So students     _________to remember what is taught. It does not enable them______ more and more knowledge. The students who come        _______in the examination may often not be the best in their future career. The achievements ___they make are not so excellent as we expected.

Besides, examination often drives teachers to “teach to the test”. They are forced to train students   what   to   do   with   the   coming   examination   from   time   to   time,   which   makes   lessons_____. There must be some     ______and better way to test a student’s ability than memory test. That’s what we should do at once.