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Jack sat alone on the bus ride home from school. All his friends were ________ their class projects excitedly, but Jack remained silent. How could they understand his feelings when their parents would help them? His parents worked all the time.

When the bus stopped, he raced home, ________ his schoolbag on the floor, and walked straight to his bedroom.

“Jack?” Grandpa’s ________ called out. “Was that you?”

Jack stopped ________ he closed his bedroom door. “Yes, Grandpa, it’s me.”

Grandpa Higgins came from the kitchen carrying a sandwich. “You don’t sound okay,” he said as he took a _____.

Should Jack tell Grandpa the truth? What could it hurt? He quickly ________ they should do a class project for the weekend and they would build something together with an adult. The students needed to make a ________ to explain how their projects had gone.

Grandpa listened quietly. “________ are you so unhappy?”

Jack felt his ________ and anger rising inside him. “Because I don’t have anyone to help me.” He sounded so unhappy and so angry.

Grandpa raised his eyebrows ________. “What am I?” he asked gently.

Jack froze. “You’d build a project with me, Grandpa?”

“Sure, I would,” Grandpa said. “Just let me finish this sandwich first.”

Jack’s heart seemed so ________ that he thought it would float away. He rushed to the schoolbag and ________ his assignment paper. Then, they studied the assignment and made a list of ideas. Finally, they ________ to build a cardboard robot from old biscuit and noodle boxes. They used glue, staples, and tape. Grandpa helped a lot and he ________ found a box of eyeball stickers.

When they finished, Jack looked at their misshapen（奇形怪状的）robot. He couldn’t stop smiling. “I think it’s the best ________ I have ever built. Now I have to write my report,” Jack said, hugging Grandpa. “Thank you, Grandpa. I had a lot of fun.”