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I have had thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But only one ___1__ was the most important.   It happened last term just after I had got a __2__ result in an exam. I was sad and had lost my confidence. I decided to go to a class which can tell me how to be __3___.   The speaker walked into the room. But he did not start talking __4_ a teacher. Instead, he held up a twenty yuan note(钞票)!

“Who wants this?” he asked. Unsurprisingly, __5__ of us in the class held up our hands.   The speaker smiled. Then he put up the note on the blackboard and asked the same question. Again, we all put up our hands. The speaker smiled again, but __6_ nothing. Suddenly, he threw the note onto the floor! Then he asked the same __7_ a third time.   I didn’t __8__ what the speaker was doing. Why was he asking the same question again and again? I didn’t know what to do. I wanted the note, __9_ I put my hand up again. After a while, he __10__ the note and started to laugh. “you have all just told me how to become successful,” __11_ said to us with the note in his hand.   “The note is worth twenty yuan. It is __12__ worth twenty yuan, even though I throw it on the floor. You are like the note. No matter __13__ happens to you, you still have your worth.”   When I heard those words, I was deeply moved. Suddenly, I _14_ I was worth a lot. I may have done badly in an exam, but it doesn’t __15__ I can’t do well in the future. If I believe in myself, I will be successful!

1.                A．classroom       B．subject         C．class D．school

2.                A．same          B．good           C．lucky D．bad

3.                A．comfortable     B．successful       C．famous   D．rich

4.                A．like            B．for            C．about    D．by

5.                A．both           B．neither         C．all   D．none

6.                A．said           B．bought         C．saw  D．wanted

7.                A．student         B．teacher         C．question  D．way

8.                A．remember      B．understand      C．notice    D．find

9.                A．so             B．though         C．if    D．or

10.               A．took out        B．threw away      C．picked up  D．put down

11.               A．you           B．he            C．she   D．they

12.               A．never          B．sometimes      C．hardly D．always

13.               A．when          B．who           C．what  D．how

14.               A．realized        B．forgot          C．dreamed  D．decided

15.               A．know          B．mean          C．think D．complain

Ever since I was little, my favorite season was winter. I loved to play in the snow and enjoy the hot chocolate.   1  , winter never gave me the special gift of snow on my birthday. I would ask my grandmother  2  it didn’t snow on my birthday. She would laugh and tell me I asked too many questions.   3  one day, she promised that she would make it snow on my next birthday.
That year,   4  my birthday, my grandmother died. I was sad but angry because she had promised to make it snow. The day of my sixth birthday, I woke up and ran to the window,   5  to see just one snowflake. But there was no snow. I felt mad at my grandmother. She had broken a promise.
By my sixteenth birthday, I   6  all hope of getting my snow, even though I still wished for 7 . During my party, I stayed with my friends and family and was truly happy. I   8  the best time ever! Then I saw the white snow   9  down all around. I was so excited that I ran around screaming and laughing. My friends all laughed   10  me, but I didn’t care.
When I   11  home, my grandpa said he had a gift for me. I was   12  because he had given me a gift. It was a small white box, which looked old. I opened it. There was a crystal snowflake(水晶雪花) with a card that   13  , “Happy Birthday.”
How could this be? My grandpa said it was my grandmother’s final   14  on my “sweet sixteenth”. I cried.
I was   15  that my smiling grandmother angel was and had been watching over me.