I can't believe                            and I'm trying to                      .

They decided to work harder and                            after their failure.

We didn't finish the task on time               you.

My teacher often helps me               the difficulties in daily life.

We should                      when we face difficulties.

When I                      those days, I couldn't help laughing.

Mike                      in the bedroom when his mother went out.

Peter is                            .

Every student tries to                      for morning readings.

I think everything will be quite different in                     .

    I remember the green coat in my fifth and sixth grades.

    When I needed a new jacket, my mother asked what kind I wanted. I described something like what bikers wear. She listened carefully. I thought she understood for sure the kind I wanted.

    The next day when I got home from school, I discovered, on my bed, a jacket which was not what I had expected. I went close to the jacket slowly, as if it were a stranger.

    From the kitchen Mother shouted that my jacket was in the closet. I rushed and pulled at the clothes in the closet, hoping the jacket on the bed wasn't for me but my brother. No luck. I wanted to cry because it was so ugly and so big. But I knew I'd have to wear it for a long time before I'd have a new one. I looked at the jacket, like an enemy, thinking bad things before I took off my old and small jacket.

    I put the big jacket on. I stood in front of the mirror(镜子)，turning right and left. I looked ugly.

    I threw it on my brother's bed and looked at it for a long time before I put it on and went out, smiling a "thank you" to my mom.

    The next day I wore it to school. At the morning break, my best friend, Steve, looked at me for a long time. The girls turned away to whisper. The teachers talked about how foolish I looked in my new jacket. When it was time for the whole school to get together on the playground, _______. Although they didn't say out aloud, "Man, that's ugly," I heard their talk and even laughter.

    And so I went, in my jacket. So embarrassed，so hurt, I couldn't even do my lessons the rest of the day. I received Cs on tests.

    I wore that thing for three years. All in those years no love came to me.

    I blamed(指责) that jacket for those bad years. I blamed my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways. It was a sad time for the heart. Anyway, I spent my sixth-grade year, looking forward to something good to happen to me.

    And it was about that time I began to grow, still in that green jacket, which had become my brother who went along wherever I went.