【推荐1】A man came to the USA from another country. After    1    (settle) down at an island, he went into a cafeteria to get something     2    (eat). He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order, but nobody did.

    3    (final), a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him and informed him     4    the cafeteria worked.

“Start out at that end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At     5    other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”

“I soon     6    (learn) how everything worked in the USA,” the man told his friend. “Life’s a cafeteria there. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price. You can even get success,     7    you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it for you.You have to get up and get it     8    .”

You can’t change the inevitable. The only thing you can do    9    (be) to control your attitude. Once you reach that point in life, happiness and     10    (satisfy) can’t be too far away.

Today I will share a true story about an overseas student     1     studied in Germany.

After years of hard work, this student graduated with     2     (amaze) achievements. When he     3     (apply) for a job to big companies, everyone was sure that he was going to get a good job     4     (easy) and have a bright future. But to his surprise, he was not even given the chance for     5     interview! It was the third time that he had been refused, he couldn’t help     6     (telephone) the company to ask why they didn’t want him. He got such a     7     (respond). “We don’t offer jobs to people who are not honest in Germany.”

You might wonder what was wrong. The     8     (true) is, shortly after he arrived in Germany, this clever student found that     9     was easy to skip (逃票) buying subway tickets in this country. So in order to save money, he often went in the subway without a ticket. As a result, he had been caught without a ticket many times.

From this story, we learn that we may get short-term benefits in     10     (honest) ways, but it will come out sooner or later and the cost is high. So remember that dishonesty may lead to failure. We must be honest. It is a rule.

【推荐3】Some time ago, a friend of mine who worked in a part of the city I didn’t know very well, invited me to call on him. It took me hours     1     (get) there and I took great trouble finding a proper place to park my car. As I was already half an hour late, I parked my car quickly on a non-parking place. At noon, just as I     2     (leave) my friend’s office suddenly I had no idea     3     I had parked my car. I could hardly go up to a policeman and tell him that I had lost a small green car somewhere! I had to walk down street after street and examined each car     4     (close). I was very happy to see a small green car just behind an old car. But how     5     (disappoint) I was to discover that though the car was exactly     6     my own, it belonged to someone else! I was very tired and went off for lunch. About half an hour later, I left the restaurant,     7     was nearby, and walked down the street. Turning the corner, I nearly jumped for joy: my car was right in front of me. But soon I felt down because a ticket     8     (attach) to my car.

To tell the     9     (true), driving in crowded cities is far from being a pleasure. So walking or cycling     10     (be) a good choice.