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When I was in my first year of middle school, my father died. And my mother was ill just after I entered high school. I had to (1) ______ going to school because my mother had no money to pay my school bills. We began to work in people’s gardens to save up money for me to back to school. (2) ______, I returned to school. Unluckily, my mother died the next year. And my (3) ______ went dark. I asked my headmaster if l could work for the (4) ______ this summer vacation, so I could pay my bills. He was a nice man and let me work in the school garden during the (5) ______. I had not been able to study well because of my mother’s death. At the end of my second year, I (6) ______ most of my exams and the teacher told me I had to repeat the year. After another summer working in the school garden, I went (7) ______ to lessons again. But suddenly I fell ill. Because of my disease I was weak and couldn’t work at school. I was hopeless. My headmaster told me not to give up. And my teachers and classmates (8) ______ me a lot. Now, I’m feeling better and will finish my third year. My life is still not (9) ______. A few students laugh at my poor clothes. They also call me “farmer” because I work in the school garden. But I (10) ______ hard days will always be followed by sunshine.
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