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The English teacher came into the classroom with test papers in his hands. He said with a smile, “I know there are too many tests for you these days, but the test today is very _________. It is different from your other tests.” The teacher started to hand out the test papers to each student.

There was only a small black “X” in the middle of the paper. The students were very _________ to see that. The teacher noticed the students’ surprise. Then he said, “I want you to _________ what you see there. You must finish it by yourselves.”

All the students _________ about it hard and then wrote down their answers quietly. The next day, the teacher said, “You only paid attention to the black ‘X’, but nobody wrote about the white paper.” The whole class listened _________, because they worried that they might fail the exam.

Then the teacher said, “Don’t worry. I just want you to think about your _________. The white paper is like your whole life and the black ‘X’ is just like the problems in your daily life.”   _________, the students understood what the test was about.

Life is a wonderful _________, full of love and care. If you only care about the problems, you’ll never _________ that they are much smaller than everything else life gives you. So it’s better to look on the bright side, ____________ each moment, and find happiness in life.