What is friendship? The answers may be different. 【小题1】 . We cannot live without friendship just as we cannot live without air or water. Friendship gives us a felling of safety  and  warmth， and friendship encourages us to go ahead all the time.

 【小题2】 . When we feel happy， we can share our happiness with friends. When we feel down， friends will comfort us. If we are overconfident， our friends can persuade us， and they can make us confident and brave when we are discouraged.

Friendship is valuable. It can touch your heart and give you hope. Many people are proud of having a good friend. 【小题3】 . If you help your friends for no reason but simply because they are your friends， this means that you regard（认为） your friends as yourself. This is true friendship.

In fact， friendship isn't always easily kept. 【小题4】，you should treat him or her in the way you want to be treated. Keep the secrets that your friend tells you. Keep your promise with your friend. Share things withyour friend. We should try our best to protect the friendship from being hurt.

Because of friendship， our lives are full of happiness. Therefore， the more friends we have， the more pleasures（乐事） we can share with them. Let's say “Thank you” to our friends for their love and care. 【小题5】， never forget to keep the beautiful friendship!

   Nowadays，an increasing number of people are indifferent to others and unwilling to help others who are in trouble. In their opinion, what _______ is their own interests, and they are simply not _______ about whether those people live or die. How terrible the phenomenon（现象）is!However, I _______ believe that helping others is helping yourself in one way or another.

Then I will explain why helping others can _______ ourselves in more detail.

When you  help others, you will find yourself becoming confident. Take myself as a（n）________ .

When I was a little girl, I dared not talk with others and I preferred staying _______ . One day in an art class, my deskmate _______ to bring color pens, then I _______ lent her mine. She appreciated my help but was _______    because I rarely talked. After that, she often chatted with me and helped me become a（n）________ girl, and she also helped me when I was in trouble. There is no ________ that we became best friends. What benefited me most was that I gained confidence and was willing to ________ others. If I hadn't lent my color pens to her, she might have been punished by the teacher, and I wouldn't have been confident so soon. Through this thing, I have come to ________ helping others is helping yourself in one way.

________ , when you help others, you will feel very pleased. As the Chinese old saying ________ ，“Fragrance（香味）will be reserved in your hand when you present others with roses. ”________ someone meets with some difficulties, then you come to help him. “Thank you”will make you feel that you have done a rewarding thing and your ________ is much more than the person who gets your help. What a wonderful thing it is!

From what have been discussed above, we can safely arrive at the ________ that helping others is helping yourself. Helping others can1 not only bring others pleasure, but also bring ourselves pleasure and confidence. This time we helped others, maybe ________ when we are in trouble, others will help us. So we should try our best to form the habit of helping others. Only in this way can the world become warmer and more ________ .

Yesterday, I saw the old lady fall down when I went to school. I was going to help him up. At that moment, a passer-by stop me, saying I might be misunderstood. Hearing from his words, I began to slow down my steps. However, another student, that saw everything, went quick up to help. The old lady said nothing but lots of thank to the boy. I felt badly and ashamed. Help others is forever a virtue of China. We can’t let it disappear. I will try my best reach out my hand next time.

   Several years ago，we planned to move out of the city and buy a country house. The first ___________ was finding a suitable country house that we could afford. We started to ___________ the real estate（房地产）listings online and thought we had found a really ___________ one. My wife Catherine went to look at it. I was expecting a positive result. ___________，my wife told me the house wasn't suitable for us at all. While this was not the ___________ of the world，it prevented us from carrying out our plans as we had expected. So，what did we do？Could we ___________ and decide to stay where we were？No. We decided to ___________ looking.

To make a long story ___________，it took us two years of weekly visits to the real estate listings before we ___________ found three houses that might be suitable. The next ____________ seemed obvious-we had to take some time off work and drive down to ____________ these houses. So，off we went and after 15 hours of steady driving，we ____________.The next three days were tight-looking，then looking again and then finally making an ____________. The final story has a ____________ ending-we found our house，and ____________ several months later.

Sometimes, ____________ show up out of nowhere to destroy the best of plans, and some of these difficulties can be the final play. ____________, if you adopt the philosophy that every obstacle has a solution, then you can find your ____________ through. Obstacles will appear no matter who you are or what you are trying to ____________, but it is only those who know there is a solution and keep digging until they find it that will ____________ one day.