★少儿英语美文欣赏：明亮的心[1]-英语资源

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　　Last year around Halloween, I was invited to participate in a carnival for Tuesday‘s Child, an organization that helps children with the AIDS virus. I was asked to attend because I‘m on a television show; I went because I care. I don‘t think that most of the kids recognize me as a celebrity. They just thought of me as a big kid who came to play with them for the day. I think I liked it better that way.

　　At the carnival they had all kinds of booths. I was drawn to one in particular because of all the children that had gathered there. At this booth, anyone who wanted to could paint a square. Later that square was going to be sewn together with the others, to make a quilt. The quilt would be presented to a man who had dedicated his life to this organization and would soon be retiring.

　　They gave everyone fabric paints in bright, beautiful colors and asked the kids to paint something that would make the quilt beautiful. As I looked around at all the squares, I saw pink hearts and bright blue clouds, beautiful orange sunrises and green and purple flowers. The pictures were all bright, positive and uplifting. All except for one.

　　The boy sitting next to me was painting a heart, but it was dark, empty, lifeless. It lacked the bright, vibrant colors that his fellow artists had used.

　　At first I thought maybe he took the only paint that was left and it just happened to be dark. But when I asked him about it, he said his heart