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This is a story about a learning experience that had a big effect on the way that I live my life. The ___41___in the story did not give me tests or even grade me on my work. I was taught by one of the most effective ___42___ of teaching one that only people with lots of love can do.
“My wallet! Where is it?” were my first words___43___ I found my wallet was missing. I __44___ my memory for a few good seconds then realized that I had left my precious wallet in the library’s public ___45___!
Because the library was now __46__ I had to wait until the next morningto look for it.
When I got there the next day all I found was a clean restroom. This was the first time I could remember ever ___47___ to see a clean restroom. As I walked out I looked at myself in the mirror and shook my head at the ___48____ fool in front of me.
I politely ___49____ the librarian at the front desk and asked her if a wallet had been found in the restroom yesterday. “No.” I walked off with a sense of ___50____.
I __51___ what I would do if I had found a wallet containing sixty dollars a phone card and many other irreplaceable ___52____things. Finally I __53__ accepted the fact that my wallet was gone.
A week later I received a ___54____ . It was my wallet. And most __55____ nothing was missing! But there was a little yellow sheet of paper folded up in one of the wallet pockets that had not been there before. I slowly unfolded the paper which ___56____something like this:
When we continue to help around we will live in a larger and more rewarding world.
This person didn’t even leave a return address. So I couldn’t ___57___whoever it was. From that day on I __58__ myself that I will follow this ___59___ and help others and make them as __60__ as I was when I opened that parcel!
41. A. leader B. writer C. teacher D. scholar
42. A. aids B. systems