Dear children,

      How time flies! As your teacher, I'd like to talk about 'behaving like a grown-up' with you before you leave school.

      During our lives, we need the strength of other people to achieve our goals.    1   of us can make it on our own.

      In an   2   world, we would all have thoughtful, helpful people to guide us in life. Imagine having a   3   who is devoted to keeping you healthy.

Or imagine having a boss who wants you to enjoy your job and make progress in your    4  . But many of us have difficulty dealing with (打交道)

grown-ups who seem   5  in their changeable moods. If we have immature(不成熟的) adults    6   trustworthy adults around us, we will certainly get into real trouble.

     What's more, if we are always   7   that we're right all the time, while others are wrong, then we are like those immature adults.

Our own personalities could be the   8   .