学进去

   When I spent the summer with my grandmother, she sent me down to the grocery store with a list. I walked up to the counter (柜台). Behind _______ was a lady named Miss Bee.

“Excuse me,” I said. She _________. “I need to get these,” I continued, _______ up my list.

“So? Go get them,” Miss Bee said, “_______ is here except you and me, and I am not your servant. I suggest you get yourself a basket over there and start _______.” It was not _______ for a 7-year- old child, there were so many different kinds of things. I spent over an hour in the store.

I visited Miss Bee twice a week that summer. She _______ short-changed (少找零钱) me. Other times she overcharged. Going to the store was like going into a war. But by the end of the summer, I could finish my shopping trip _______ around 15 minutes. The morning I was to return home, I stopped in the store again to buy something.

“All right,” Miss Bee said. “What did you _______ this summer?”

“That’s you’re mean!” I replied.

Miss Bee just laughed. “I know ________ you think of me,” she said.” Well, I don’t care! My job is to teach every child I meet some life ________. When you get older you’ll be glad that you met me!” Glad I met Miss Bee? Ha! How could it be?

It sounded funny until one day my son came to me with his homework.” It’s too ________.” he said. “Could you finish the math problem for me?”

“________ I do it for you, how will you ever learn to do it ________?” I said. Suddenly, I was back in that store where I had learned to and add up my bill by myself. Had I ever been overcharged since?

Life is full of difficulties. We may be ________ a hand once or twice, but luck may not find us every time. So we should work them out by ourselves.