Think you can’t be happy? You’ll think again after reading this story.

Barbara Ann Kipfer hated her feet. They were too big and she always seemed to   36   over them when someone was   37   —usually a smart guy. Come to think of it, her teeth were too big, too. The other kids teased her because of the way she   38   and because she wanted to be a sportswriter some day. No matter what she did, she was teased for being “  39  .”

That’s   40   she started writing down things that she liked in a notebook. “It was like a friend, and it   41   me that there are good things,   42   everything around me is unpleasant,” she says. She copied the list over and over,   43   new things every day.

One day, she decided to   44   her list with some of the girls in her class, hoping they would think it was as much fun as she did. But   45  , they made her feel stupid again. “They laughed at me,” she remembers, “I was ashamed, and I   46   doing it.” Here comes the  47  part. When she was in 10th grade, Kipfer found her old notebook and decided to   48   where she left off. “It was like a diary, like a photograph of my life,” she says. She started writing to publishers, asking them if they’d be interested in printing her list as a book.

She kept writing to one company   49  , because she liked the types of books it printed. “He kept saying, ‘It’s just a list, what am I supposed to do with it?’” “You’re not   50   to do anything with it. It’s   51   supposed to remind people of something they did that was really  52  .”

Finally, the publisher   53   to turn Kipfer’s list into a book, which sold more than million copies! 14,000 Things to Be Happy About even   54   it to be New York Times Best Sellers list.   55   being a best-selling author, Kipfer also went to realize her dream of becoming a sports editor at the Chicago Tribune.

36. A. jump                         B. fall                          C. turn                         D. push

37. A. nearby                       B. around                            C. watching                  D. laughing

38. A. dressed                      B. lived                        C. thought                    D. looked

39. A. foolish                       B. special                            C. different                   D. shy

40. A. what                          B. when                       C. because                    D. where

41. A. reminded                   B. told                         C. persuaded                 D. helped

42. A. because                      B. but                          C. unless                      D. even though

43. A. adding                       B. finding                     C. making                    D. giving

44. A. talk                           B. discuss                     C. share                        D. write

45. A. then                          B. naturally                  C. further                            D. instead

46. A. continued                   B. stopped                    C. enjoyed                    D. hated

47. A. cool                          B. important                 C. exciting                    D. funny

48. A. find out                            B. pick up                    C. think of                    D. give up

49. A. in general                  B. at first                      C. in particular              D. at last

50. A. made                         B. going                       C. advised                    D. supposed

51. A. often                         B. just                          C. also                         D. always

52. A. excellent                    B. successful                 C. fun                          D. true

53. A. hoped                        B. agreed                      C. refused                     D. considered

54. A. made                         B. expected                   C. hoped                      D. helped

55. A. Without                            B. Instead of                 C. While                      D. Besides

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