It is impossible to please everybody all the time. If you work hard at school and never misbehave, your teacher will (a)   you but your classmates may tease you and call you a goody-goody.

It is impossible to please everybody all the time. If you work hard at school and never misbehave, your teacher will praise you but your classmates may tease you and call you a (a)   .

If your friends are planning an act of mischief and you agree to help them, they will say you are a (a)   but other people will not be impressed with your behaviour.

Telling the truth can also be a problem. For example, last week my mother had her cut very short. She asked me what I thought of her new hairstyle. I knew that she would not be pleased if I gave her my (a)   opinion: it looked awful!

At the same time, I could not tell a lie and say I liked it, so I had to think of a (a)   remark that would not upset her. Life can be very difficult sometimes.

In the town of Smallsville, Jack Knight is a local (a)   .

Even before the incident that made him famous, everybody who knew him liked him, because he was always (a)   and friendly.

If anybody was in trouble, they knew that they could go to Jack and he would immediately stop whatever he was doing to listen to their problems and give them (a)   and advice.

One day there was a fire at a school near his home. Many local people rushed to the scene to help the fire brigade rescue the children and teachers, but it was Jack who showed the greatest (a)   that day.

He went in and out of the blazing building at least thirty times, fighting his way into classrooms where the walls had collapsed, to make sure that nobody was trapped inside. Later that year he received an (a)   for his bravery, and nobody deserved it more.