The little boy entered the house, unhappy. His mother was 1 cakes in the kitchen. She smiled as she 2 but stopped when she saw his face. “Tyler, 3 happened? Is everything okay?”
“Nothing is okay, mom.” said the boy, “Today, in our science lesson, Mrs. Green was talking about the 4 .She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are dying. She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way, but there is 5 I can do to make a difference.”
“Let me tell you 6 .” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish covering the beach, they were pushed up by the 7 , and it was too far up for them to make their way back by 8 . The man shook his head as he walked along, ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.' The man felt very sorry 9 those starfish. He went on walking and just at that time he was 10 to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as 11 as he could, ‘how silly you are! My 12 , the man said, ‘There are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?' The boy didn't stop but kept throwing, " 13 I can't help them all .I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.”
“Thinking for a moment, the man 14 to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself, ‘Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the 15 person.
