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   It was not a good morning for Maya. Everything was going ____. First, she woke up late and had to get ready for school very ____. She almost didn't have time to eat breakfast. And when she put on her shoes, the laces were in a knot (结). “I can't get this knot out,” Maya said, almost ready to cry. “Let me ____ you,” said her brother, Andy. He picked the knot apart and quickly tied a bow on her shoe. “Let's run,” he said with a smile.

But her problems weren't over. She was in such a hurry that she ____ her homework at home and the teacher was not happy about that. The teacher asked her to write one more composition for the next day. On the way home, it started to ____ and she dropped her books into a small pool of rainwater as she got off the bus.

Andy got off the bus just behind her. “Don't worry,” he said. “If we take them home and dry them, they will be all right.”

That night Maya was still a little unhappy when she was doing her homework. But when she looked at her homework, she ____. The teacher wrote at the top of the page, “Write about what you like best about one of your friends.” Maya started to write, “The best thing about my brother Andy.”