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The other day, I found my son sitting on the back steps alone. I sat down next to him and asked him what was wrong. He said every year, as the last days of August melted away, he always felt blue.
Well, you must know this ______ 1 ______ —that weird (奇特的) mix of sadness and stress when summer ends and another school year begins. No more ______ 2 ______ mornings or hanging out with friends. Instead, you have early alarms (闹钟) and piles of homework.
I told him I used to dread (畏惧) the first day back, too. I’ll never
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one summer when my family moved to a new city. When September arrived, I didn’t know anyone at my new school. Just the
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of walking into a classroom full of strangers had my stomach twisting (扭) into knots.
Then something
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happened.
On the first day, my class teacher asked us to write down one thing we were excited about for the school year. At first, I
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my eyes. Excited? About school? You’ve got to be kidding (开玩笑)! But it was only one thing, right? I knew the school had an Art Club. I’d
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loved drawing, so maybe I could try that.
That one small idea changed something in me. I realized that in the beginning, I didn’t have to love ______ 8 ______ about school. (Honestly, who does?) I could just try to find something I would look forward to. I joined the Art Club. There, I met someone with the same ______ 9 ______ as me and we became friends. Suddenly, school wasn’t just about tiring early mornings. There were happy spaces in between.
Only you can create your happy spaces. As you head into a new school year, find something that excites you. It might be something very
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, but even that tiny spark (闪光点) can make a big difference.
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) 1. A. opinion B. feeling C. action D. idea
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) 2. A. boring B. happy C. lazy D. exciting
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) 3. A. forget B. know C. reach D. remember
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) 4. A. sense B. thought C. notice D. view
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) 5. A. unpleasant B. unknown C. unusual D. unexpected
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) 6. A. opened B. closed C. rolled D. caught
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) 7. A. hardly B. probably C. always D. only
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) 8. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
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) 9. A. interests B. problems C. wishes D. thoughts
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) 10. A. easy B. small C. important D. hard
