After the winter vacation, I had to move to a new city with my parents. On the first day to my new school, it was cold and ___1___. I was walking alone slowly___2___worrying about something in my new school. It was early and there weren’t many people on the road. ___3___, a girl who was riding a bike in the snow fell down. She was ___4___ hard to stand up but fell again. ___5___ thinking, I went over to help her quickly. She said “thank you” with a ___6___and then left. Her smile warmed me a lot.
After I got to school, the teacher led me to the classroom and___7___me to the class. Then he asked me to___8___down beside a girl. I felt so ___9___ that I didn’t dare (敢) to look at her. Soon the first class, English, started. Their textbooks were___10___ from those in my old school. As I was___11___ what to do, an English book appeared in front of me. “Let’s ___12___it,” the girl beside me said. “Hi, I’m Carrie.” I looked up. To ___13___surprise, it was the girl I helped this morning. From___14___ on, we became good friends.
From that I learned: to help ___15___ is actually to help ourselves!