I had hardly sat down on the train and opened a bar of chocolate     1     a really old man with huge bags sat down across from me. I said hello     2     him, smiling sweetly and then I suddenly thought, “Why not offer him a piece of chocolate?” So I did. He was quite     3    (surprise), but accepted and thanked me. He said that people didn’t usually do things like this for     4    (stranger) — at least that was what I understood, because he was speaking a really     5    (usual) dialect, and the train was loud.

Then he opened one of his bags and gave me     6     handful of freshly picked cherries,       7    (explain) that he had just taken them from his orchard. The cherries were really lovely, better than those in the shops, and I enjoyed them very much. It     8    (be) just an impulse (冲动)     9    (offer) him a piece of chocolate, but if I had not done so, I would never have tasted those lovely cherries, which I didn’t even know he had at the time. Life is about giving and taking, and it’s     10    (general) true that if you give, you will receive.

【推荐2】Hardly can you succeed     1     doing something perfectly the first time you do it.     2    , when you do something for the first time, it is time to give up the idea of perfection.

I remember the first time I     3     (drive) a car in traffic after getting my driver’s license. I was very nervous in that heavy traffic--- my driving style showed that I wasn’t a very confident driver. Now I’m much more     4     (experience) as a driver.     5     I still don’t consider myself a perfect one, I’m much more confident behind the wheel than what I was     6     I started.

In general,     7     is useless working hard for doing something perfectly when you do it for the first time. You are setting the bar so high that you just feel bad when you are     8     (able) to meet the level you have set.

Also, perfection is just another way     9     (delay), so trying to be perfect is just     10     waste of time. You should work hard for excellence instead.

At my workplace there aren’t enough     1    (opportunity) to be different. We give care to others but sometimes we forget to care for     2    (we) and each other.

So, I print     3    (inspire) messages, happy pictures, etc, and post them on a blank space     4     I’ve found in one of our rooms. I believe they add to our “emotional education”.

One person asked me, “Why do you try to help these people? They are not very nice?” My answer     5    (be), “If it affects one person then it’s a good thing.” It doesn’t matter whether it has an impact     6     anyone else. What matters is that I’m the     7    (good) person I can be.

I know those     8    (print) stories and articles are read because they keep getting moved about. So,     9    (eventual), like sandpaper against a rough surface,     10     surface will become smooth and the messages will get through. How long it takes really doesn’t matter.