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Billy is one of my classmates in junior high school. Three years ago, he was very heavy, but he looks wonderful now. Here is his story about how he lost weight.

Billy 22 a lot of snacks and fast food in his elementary school days. Besides, he did not do much exercise. So he kept putting on weight. He became so heavy that one day he broke the chair he was sitting on when he was in class.

After this experience, Billy decided to lose some kilos. First, he went to see a doctor and 23 to avoid fast food. Also, the doctor said he should start exercising. Billy followed the doctor's advice: he 24 away from fast food and snacks for one year, and most important of all, he jogged every day.

That is how Billy lost 20 kilos before he entered junior high school.

One day after dinner, Lois went to the park for a walk. On her way there, she was stopped by a man who 30 his fingernails. “Somebody took my bag,” he said, “and I have no money to get home.” He asked Lois if she could lend him some money. Lois was afraid and said “no” to him in a polite way. The man did not listen and kept asking for money. Lois did not change her mind. The man got angry and cried out, “You 31 a cold person. I hate you!” Lois felt so bad that she ran home quickly.

Even today, Lois is still wondering whether what she 32 to that man was right or wrong.

Preface

My mother was lousy at cooking. To her, cooking was more like an exciting experiment. You put some of this and some of that in a pot, and you wait and see what will happen. “No experiments, no experiences.” is what she would say when her experiment did not turn out good, and I heard that a lot.

My father was a good cook, and he loved to cook, too. He often said that he got my mother to marry him with a table of delicious food, not with a beautiful ring. “A family needs only one good cook,” he said.

Now I am a cook myself. And I have my own restaurant. I learned how to cook from my father, of course. From him, I learned the art of cooking. But I did learn one thing from my mother. It’s her famous saying: “No experiments, no experiences.”

When Marcy was a little girl, her parents were always worried about not having enough money. Their sad faces made her decide to help, so she left school and 35 to work at the age of fifteen. Since then, she has done many different jobs. Most of the jobs did not pay well, but she tried her best in all of them and learned a lot.

Marcy is now thirty years old, and her family has a better life. But Marcy's friends keep telling her that she should learn to make more money. They 36 her several ways, but she has not tried any of them. She is not interested in anything risky. What she wants most now is to go back to school. She knows she 37 really happy if she can be a student again.

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