Have you ever felt lonely?Why?1 can you make new friends?
Students often get together2 small, closed groups. If you are not part of a group, it can be3 for you to be accepted. This is especially true if you can't speak to the group members in their language.
This was the situation Sam4 each day as he went to class. Sam and his family moved to France last month. Before he arrived, he knew there would be many difficulties. But they were even5 than he imagined.
Every lunch hour, after arriving at his new school, Sam sat6 in the dining hall. He looked at all the different groups of students around him. But he had 7 way to let them know that he was a good person. He simply couldn't find the right words to reach them.
Sam knew he had to find a way to change the8 .Somehow. he had to adapt（适应） to this new environment. He did a little research on the Internet and discovered that9 is a worldwide language——it is understood everywhere. One morning, as Sam was10 a group of students, he smiled at them.
A boy in the group smiled back at him. That was a good11 for Sam. Later he12 the boy coming towards him in the hall with a warm smile on his face Sam returned the smile.
Soon the boy asked Sam to join him and his13 of friends for lunch. 14 Sam wasn't able to say much in French, everyone smiled and laughed. Before he knew it, Sam had a group of friends, and they all wanted to help him learn French.
That day he experienced the15 of a smile. Everything went well from then on.
