A little girl thought she was not as beautiful _31_other girls,and nobody liked her. So she was always 32__  and didn’t like to talk to others. 33 _ ,one day,her mother gave her a beatiful hair clip. When she wore it,she looked 34__ than before. She decided 35  it to school.
On her way to school, she found that everyone she saw smiled at her. Most of them said “Hello” to her, but this 36___  happened before. She thought that beautiful hair clip brought them all. She was so happy about all of the great things. Although she didn't 37 her classmates about her beautiful hair clip, they want to know what happened to her.
 38  she went back home, her mother asked her, “Did you know you 39  your hair clip? I found it at the door this morning.”
She understood that she didn’t wear the hair to school at all.
It was not important what we wear or how we look. The most important thing is  40  we think of ourselves.

With a hat by his feet, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building. He held up a sign which said, “I’m blind, please help.”

Only a few people put   36  in the hat. A man was walking by. He   37  some coins into the hat. He then turned the sign   38 , wrote some words, put the sign back and left.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people   39  to give money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man came to see   40  things were. The boy recognized his footsteps （认出他的脚步声）and asked, “Were you the one who   41  my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a   42  way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day,   43 I cannot see it.”

Both the   44  told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply   45  people to help by throwing some money into the   46 . The second one, however, told people that they were able to enjoy the   47  of the day, but the boy couldn’t   48  he was blind.

There are at least two lessons we can learn   49  this story. First, be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help them if you can.   50  , be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way!

When we talk about stars, especially women stars, it seems that they are always young, pretty and own charming body shapes. But recently a Britain’s Got Talent（英国达人）star Susan Boyle has changed our views absolutely.

Simon Cowell, one of the judges of the talent show spoke of his shock over Ms Boyle’s voice. “This lady camp up, and I’m thinking, ‘This will take five seconds and I can go to have a cup of tea’. That changed when she began to sing I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables. She knew we were going to have that reaction and just to see that look of satisfaction on her face –it was one of my favorite moments,” Cowell said.

The performance was posted online and before long, the 47-year-old Scottish woman has been famous all over the world.

Speaking from her home in Scotland, Ms Boyle said that she hasn’t thought of changing her appearance. She said that her friend helped her with make-up. “I mean, that’s hardly a makeover,” she added.

Ms Boyle also spoke of the reason she first began to explore her vocal talents, “I was kind of slow at school, so getting like singing was a good way of hiding behind that and thus it built my confidence.”

36. Susan Boyle is _________.

　 A. a judge　　　 　　　　 B. a reporter　　　　 C. a beautiful 　　　 D. a Scottish woman

37. Susan Boyle had a look of satisfaction on her face when she was singing because______.

　 A. she was confident of her singing

　 B. she was satisfied with the judges

　 C. she was pretty and in good shape

　 D. she sang the song I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables

38. According to the passage, which is NOT true?

　 A. It was the vocal talents that built Susan’s confidence

　 B. Susan Boyle was not good at her lesson when at school.

　 C. Susan Boyle became famous because of her appearance.

　 D. Simon Cowell didn’t think Susan Boyle a good singer at the first sight.

39. What can we learn from Susan Boyle’s success?

　 A. It’s never too old to learn.

　 B. It’s easier to succeed at the age of 47.

　 C. If you have a dream, try to make it come true!

　 D. If you are not able to study well, to be a singer instead.