I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents.I told them I was __6__ and coming back home.I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer.I __7__ be in prison! My father answered my __8__with just two lines—two lines that will always sing in my__9__—two lines that completely changed my life：

　　Two men looked out from prison bars，

　　One saw the mud，the other saw the stars.

　　I read those two lines __10__．I was ashamed of myself.I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present __11__；I would look for the stars.

　　I made friends with the natives，and their __12__ amazed me.They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had __13__ to sell to tourists.I studied the delightful forms of the cactus.I watched for the desert sunsets，and __14__ for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the sands of the desert had been an ocean __15__．

　　What brought about this __16__ change in me? The desert hadn’t changed，__17__ I had.I had changed my __18__．And by doing so，I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing __19__ of my life.I was excited by this new world that I had discovered.I had looked out of my self－created prison and __20__ the stars.

　　1．A.off

　　B．behind

　　C．near

　　D．beyond

　　2．A.before

　　B．already

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