On Fridays, I come home from work at about 2:00 in the afternoon and I just have a rest. On Friday evenings, I don’t go out, but __36__ a friend of mine comes for __37__. He or she __38__ the wine(酒) and I cook the meal. I love cooking! We listen to music or we just __39__.
On Saturday mornings, I get up at 9:00 and I go to the __40__ to buy something. Then in the evenings, I sometimes go to see a film. I love __41__! Then I eat in my favourite Chinese __42__. On Sunday... Oh, on Sunday morning I stay in bed __43__. I don’t get up until 11:00! Sometimes in the afternoon I __44__ my sister. She lives in the village and has two children. I like playing with them, but I leave __45__ because I go to bed at 8:00 on Sunday evenings.

On the evening of last Sunday while I was reviewing my lessons in my room, it suddenly began to rain.   1   as usual, I stopped to listen to the rhythm（韵律）of the rain. For many years, whenever it rains, I couldn’t   2  listening to it and thinking of the garden in which I spent my childhood（童年） in my hometown.
When I was a little girl, my family lived in a big house with a big garden in the countryside. The garden was full of flowers and   3 , with some bamboo in front of the wall. Whenever it rained, I    4   to sit in the front of the house, listening to the rhythm of the rain and watching the    5   raindrops（雨点）.
When small drops of rain fall from the heaven in a row（持续不断地）, they    6  a curtain made up of pearls（珍珠）; when the raindrops   7  the ground, a lot of small sprays（水花）will splash（溅出）and then disappear slowly.
I have been   8  interested in watching such a scene. Listening to the rhythm of the rain, I feel calm and peaceful in my heart. This feeling of peace makes me think a lot about life. We are the    9  of the earth, and one day we will embrace（拥抱）our earth and stay with her forever. Life is short and we should treasure it.
Listening to the rhythm of the rain, I learn to understand the    10   of life.

About a week ago, when I was playing basketball at our local park, I noticed a small group of boys picking on a smaller, skinnier boy. They were   1  him names and even pushed him to the ground and kicked dirt in his face.   2  I saw that, I walked over to the group.
I stepped   3  them and the smaller boy, and asked them politely what this boy had done worthy of   4  they were doing to him. One of the boys replied, “He’s weird.” At that, I asked one of the boys if he thought his friend was weird, and the  5  was “No.” So, I asked another boy what the word “weird”   6  , and he said, “Different.” That was my cue(暗示). I told them that everyone is   7  , and that they all looked just as different to the other boy as he did to them. They all stood   8  for a moment, and then the most amazing thing happened. One of the boys helped the small boy off the ground and then said sorry to him. He   9  to let him play with them.
I thanked the boy for being so  10 . As I looked around, I realized that there were dozens of other people at the park   11  no one else had stopped to help this boy. I felt happy that the boy was strong enough to stand up against his friends to   12  someone in need, but I felt sad that   13  else had even taken a second look.
I hope that my action helped them   14  that they could have made a difference with a little  15 , and maybe next time they will be the ones who choose to help.