阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

I was brought up in the countryside by my grandmother. She was a very courageous and inspiring woman and was very beautiful, too. In comparison with her or some of my classmates, I always felt that I was not beautiful or pretty. In fact, when I was studying in middle school, I thought I was ugly and just because of these negative feelings I was not very confident. I often felt self-conscious. One day when I was walking with my grandmother after lunch, we met one of her friends. We talked for a few minutes. Just as my grandmother’s friend was about to leave, she turned to me and said, “Xiao Wen, you look so beautiful today in that green dress.”

No one had ever made a comment like that to me before. It was so encouraging. Suddenly I felt confident and happy. I couldn’t believe that someone described me as beautiful. It is true that those words turned my life around. And I admit that I treasured that green dress for a long time.

【写作内容】

1) 以约30个词概括短文的要点;

2) 然后以约120个词写一篇记叙文，描写表扬或称赞给人带来的愉快和鼓舞，并包括以下要点：

a) 叙述你或你的朋友被老师表扬或其他人被表扬的一次真实或虚构的经历;

b) 被表扬后的感觉是怎么样的;

c) 这次称赞、表扬带来的最终影响。

【写作要求】

(1) 可以参照阅读材料的篇章结构，组织故事，但不得直接引用原文中的句子;(2) 标题自定。

【参考范文】

Praise can change a person

The writer was once praised by one of her grandmother’s friends for her beautiful green dress. This praise not only made her happy but also changed her attitude towards herself.

Praise is really magical. Perhaps many of us had such experience. Take myself as an example. I was very naughty in the primary school. Most of the teachers and even my parents felt headache of me. But it happened that I once got a very high mark in an examination and the headteacher reported this to my parents. My parents praised me crazily for this for quite a long time and told neighbours about that. I felt really happy and became polite to others. Every time when I heard others talk to me about my excellent examination result, I thought to myself that I would work even harder and made greater progress.(from www.nmet168.com)

Just as Shakespeare said, “Our praises are our wages”.

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