【推荐1】At my daughter's recent graduation, a speaker kept repeating, ''You can do anything with a degree in philosophy. '' To that, I thought you can do anything with the right _______.

I didn't have a _______ job until I was 27. When I was hired, I was basically _______. My car had broken down. I was living with two other people and sleeping on a couch. My family and friends thought I was going _______．

I didn't feel that way though. I wasn't doing well _______. Sure, friends of mine got married and bought houses. But neither of those choices _______ me. Taking the road _______ traveled is part of being an entrepreneur (创业者). I wanted to _______ my dream, which was to work with my hands and be creative. I wanted to be my own boss.

At the time, I was _______ toy animals and selling them at street fairs. It wasn't easy, but I stayed true to myself. I was ________ and hardworking. I know those were the qualities that led me to get ________ at my first job. So don't give up hope.

One Sunday, I read an article about a toy company called Worlds of Wonder. I knew I could make a better teddy bear than the one they were ________, although I had designed just a few cuddly toys for another company. The next day, I visited the company's offices in person and told them they needed me. To my surprise, they ________ to interview me. Because they could tell I was enthusiastic.

Many of us don't ________ new things because we're sure we don't have the skills. But from my experience, it's far more ________ to have the right attitude. Almost everything can be taught. Are you a ready and willing student?

【推荐3】Most people hold several jobs throughout their life. Some _________employees hold jobs for decades. But one man in Brazil has stayed at-________-one company longer than anyone else in the world. Walter Orthmann, 100, set the world record for ________ at the same company for 84 years and nine days.

As a child, he would walk barefoot to school and was an ________ student. He has always been ________ about learning, but started working to help his family, who lived in Brusque, due to financial hardship.

Orthmann’s ________ started when he was just 15 years old. He worked at the weaving mill (纺织厂) in 1938. There, Orthmann continued to love leaning and got ________ to a sales position, then a manager.

The ________ has changed over the past 84 years, which taught Orthmann the most important part of the business: Stay up to date and ________different contexts (环境). To the young people, his professional ________ is to work in an area where you feel _________.

His 84-year-long career was perhaps achieved by his ________ to live in the present. “I don’t do much ________ nor care much about tomorrow,” he said. “All I care about is that tomorrow will be another day in which I will wake up, get up, exercise and go to work; you need to get ________ with the present, not the past or the future. Here and now is what ________ .”

【推荐1】Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame ________ he found a way to satisfy a universal human need.

It was a need that he first ________ back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrensburg. To get an ________, he was struggling against many difficulties. His family was poor. His Dad couldn’t afford the ________ at college, so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to attend classes. Study had to be done ________ his farm­work routines. He withdrew from many school activities because he didn’t have the time or the ________. He had only one good suit. He ________ the football team, but the coach turned him down for being too ________. During this period Dale was slowly ________ an inferiority feeling, which his mother knew could ________ him from achieving his real potential. She ________ that Dale join the debating team, believing that ________ in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.

Dale took his mother’s advice, tried desperately and after several attempts ________ made it. This proved to be a ________ point in his life. Speaking before groups did help him gain the ________ he needed. By the time Dale was a senior, he had won every top honor in ________. Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they, ________, were winning contests.

Out of this early struggle to ________ his feelings of inferiority, Dale came to understand that the ability to ________ an idea to an audience will build a person’s confidence. And, ________ it, Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do—and so could others.

【推荐3】I suffered a serious head injury as a kid. It led to a constant _________ even in a special reading class. When I met my teacher Jill for the first time, I felt _________ because I’d never known anyone who was _________. She was young but was in a wheelchair. We were _________ to ask our new teacher why. Only Jon asked directly the reason.

The question didn’t seem to _________ her at all. She answered it with honesty and dignity. “While qualifying for the Olympics, I _________ during a race and injured my spinal cord (脊椎).” My first reaction was “Wow!” It _________ me she didn’t talk about how much her life had changed since the _________ Actually, she never acted like she felt _________ for herself. Instead, she __________ us with a big smile at the beginning of every class.

She taught us __________ through reading cards, spelling lessons and writing practices. I was a slow reader, but she showed me it was okay to take my __________ .I remember the day when I was ready to __________. To other teachers, spelling the word “furniture” might be a __________ matter, but she treated it as a significant __________. “You did it, Sandy !” she smiled. “You spelled a difficult word and __________ the tests. Now you can return to a __________ classroom!”

She __________ me and changed my world forever. Looking back, I wish I’d thanked her for making such a big __________ in my life. I’ll always remember what she __________ me: With persistence (毅力) and love, no mountain is too high to climb.