他离开我已经两个星期了，我仍然无法从伤心和愤怒中挣脱出来，我一副病恹恹的样子，毫无生气。我不明白身边所发生的事情，一切就像一场梦。我不吃不喝，什么也不做，只是整日整夜地躺在床上，思考着将来要做些什么。我不能跟任何人说话，因为我不想说话。整天，我只想独自一人回忆我们一起度过的时光。
最后，我决定打开他留给我的那封信。信中他这样说：“不要犯傻，不要哭。你的感受我能够理解，但是，你要明白自己的生活仍在继续。你必须懂得生活的艰难，然后去适应、去奋斗，争取自己想要的东西。我知道生命的美好，然而，只拥有一段短暂的时光来体验。我想要自豪地看着你，只有你作好继续生活的准备，我才能如愿。你要明白，要做这样的一个人：能让所有人笑逐颜开，能分担他们的烦恼，分享他们的爱。你一定要照顾好自己，我会想你的，我知道你也不会忘记我……尽管是永别，但是我不想这样说，我只好对你说再会了。”
读完这封信，我的心情变得明朗起来。正如他所说的那样，“让生活继续”给了我重新开始一切的力量。经历了这件事情以后，我懂得了许多。比如，真正的朋友永远不可能被任何人取代，也永远不会忘记彼此。我明白了，友谊是生活赐予的礼物，它比世界上任何事物都要珍贵。是的，我曾经有过很多感情困扰的经历，不过，我最后还是明白了：每件事情的发生都有它的原因。我已经能够面对朋友离开自己的事实，但是他会永远活在我的心里，对此我深信不疑。只要他仍旧存在于我的记忆中，他就是我生命中不可分割的一部分，就是我一生的骄傲。
心灵小语
因为他的存在，你开怀大笑；因为他的存在，你相信人间真情永驻；因为他的存在，你坚信世界上存在一扇不加锁的门，只等待你来开启。这就是永恒的友谊。在艰难、困苦、烦恼的日子里，即使世界上所有的人都背叛你，他始终陪伴着你，世界也由黯淡、空虚变得明亮而充实。这就是永远的朋友。
记忆填空
1. We would do everything____ , such as playing soccer, play piano and guitar, walking on the street and acting crazy, running away from home and____somewhere, ditching school and throwing a party_____ Monday.
2. That moment was followed by a_____, which I don’t really remember. In order to make him laugh and make his emotions go_____, I began telling some really good jokes. He started to laugh very____, but he coughed too.
佳句翻译
1. 与损失几百万美元相比，失去一个无法替代的好朋友要令人伤心得多。
译________________________________
2. 他泪流满面地出现在我的面前。
译________________________________
3. 我闭上了双眼，几秒钟之后，我感觉到他的脉搏停止了跳动，一股寒流穿过我的手掌。
译________________________________
短语应用
1. For 24 hours I was lying on my bed, thinking about what am I going to do.
think about：考虑
造_______________________________
2. You have to understand that life is tough, and you just have to get used to it, fight it...
get used to：习惯于……
造_______________________________
生活是一面镜子
Do You Have Your Wallet
拉克斯曼?弗兰克 / Laksman Frank
This is a story about a learning experience that had a big effect on the way that I live my life. The teacher in the story did not scream, assign homework, give me tests or even grade me on my work. I was taught by one of the most effective methods of teaching, one that only people with lots of love can do.
“My wallet! Where is it?” were my first words when I found out my wallet was missing. I searched my memory for a few good seconds, then realized that I had left my precious wallet at the library. Not only did I leave it at the library, but I had left it in the library’s public restroom! I distinctly remembered seeing it on the shelf as I went to the bathroom.
Because the library was now closed, I had to wait until the next morning to begin my search. When I got there the next day, all I found was a sparkling clean restroom, its counters clean and its floors shiny white. This was the first time I could remember ever hating to see a clean bathroom. As I walked out, I looked at myself in the mirror and shook my head at the forgetful fool in front of me.
Now all I could hope for was that the person who cleaned the restroom had found my wallet. So I politely approached an old lady reading her book at the front desk. I asked her if a wallet had been found in the bathroom yesterday. She didn’t answer me until she found a good place to pull herself away from her book. Then she peered at me from behind the thick black glasses parked on her nose. Letting out a quiet sigh, she slowly struggled out of her comfortable sitting position. She walked through a door and vanished for a moment. Then she came back to the desk.
“No.”
That was that. I quickly thanked her and walked off.
I wondered what I would do if I had found a wallet containing sixty dollars, a phone card and many other irreplaceable personal items. Finally, I painfully accepted the fact that my wallet was gone.
A week later, after I had canceled my bank card and reported my license missing, I received a mysterious package in the mail. Sure enough, it was my wallet! And most amazingly, nothing was missing! But something was different about it. There was a little yellow sheet of paper folded up in one of the wallet pockets that had not been there before. I slowly unfolded the paper. Into my hand fell a little copper medallion of Christ. The letter read something like this:
Always keep this medallion with you, no matter what your religion is, so that the angel that was watching over you last week will always be close.
This person didn’t even leave a return address. So I couldn’t thank whoever it was. I felt that this was an act of pure kindness that was extremely rare.
From that day on, I promised myself that whenever I am in a situation where I can help others the way that this person helped me,I will follow this example and make them as happy as I was when I opened that package!
这是一个发生在我上学时候的故事，它对我的生活产生了巨大的影响。在这个故事中，老师没有大喊大叫，没有布置家庭作业，没有考试，甚至没有评定功课成绩。然而，那是最有成效的教学方法，只有富有爱心的人才能做到。
当发现钱包丢了以后，我说的第一句话就是：“我的钱包！放哪里了？”我回想了好大一会儿，然后才想起是落在图书馆了，而且是图书馆的公共洗手间！当时去洗手间的时候，我还看见它在架子上，我记得很清楚。
图书馆现在已经闭馆了，我不得不第二天早晨再去找。第二天一到图书馆，我就看到洗手间里干净明亮，洗手台擦得一尘不染，地板反射出亮光。我仍然记得，那是我第一次痛恨看到洗手间如此干净。我走了出去，看着镜子中的自己，对着面前这个爱忘事的笨蛋摇了摇头。
现在，我只能寄望于洗手间的清洁工发现钱包了。于是，我向一位坐在前台看书的上了年纪的夫人走去，我表现得很有礼貌。我问她昨天是否有人在洗手间捡到一个钱包，她并没有立即回答我，直到读到一个认为可以中断的地方才停了下来。接着，她眯着眼睛，从鼻梁上架着的厚厚的黑色眼镜后面看了看我。她轻轻地叹了一口气，缓缓地从舒服的座椅上挣扎下来，走进一个门口不见了。片刻之后，她又回到了前台。
“没有。”
除此之外，她没说其他的。我迅速地向她道谢，然后就走开了。
我在想，如果我捡到了一个钱包，里面装着60美元、一张电话卡和许多别人无法使用的私人物品，我会怎么办呢？我的钱包已经丢了！最终，我不得不接受这个事实。
银行卡和证件挂失一周之后，我收到一个神秘的包裹。我确信那就是我的钱包！而且一件物品也没少，这真是令人惊讶！但有点儿不一样。我在钱包的一个夹层里，发现一张从来没有见过的折叠好的黄色小纸条。我慢慢地展开那张纸条，一枚铜质的基督徽章掉落到我的手里。那张纸条上写着这样的话：
“不管你的宗教信仰是什么，把这枚徽章永远带在身上。这样，上个星期守护你的天使将会一直伴随你。”
这个寄包裹的人甚至没有留下回信地址，因此，我也不知道应该向谁致谢。我感觉到，这是世间少有的善良之举，一种纯粹的善良。
从那天开始，我向自己发誓，无论何时，只要我能够做到，我都会去帮助别人，就像帮助我的那个人一样。我要把那个人当做榜样，并且让别人体会到我打开包裹时的那种喜悦之情。
心灵小语
生活是一面镜子，你对它笑，它也会对着你微笑；你对它哭，它也会对着你哭泣。想让别人怎么对待自己，就来怎样对待别人吧。
记忆填空
