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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