I had my first job at the age of thirteen, when a friend of my mother who owned a bookshop hired me for six hours a week to help her in the shop. I was very _______ to earn my own pocket money and my parents _______interfered (干涉) with how I spent it, even when I was spending it _______.They believed that by earning money, spending it, and learning from the _______, I would become more mature (成熟的) and _______ in how to handle work, relationships with others, and money.

Like many _______ parents, my parents also let me and my brothers do things about which they _______ a great deal .When I was sixteen, for example, after I finished high school and before I entered university, I wanted to spend the summer months traveling around _______ .My mother was against the idea of my traveling alone at such a young age, but my father felt that it would be a great _______ for me .In the end,   my father won the __________ on the condition that I limited my traveling to France, my mother’s home, where I had many uncles, aunts and cousins __________ through the country who could __________ shelter and help if I needed them .

Three years later, my younger brother decided to __________ a year off after his first year in university and travel through the United States and the Caribbean. Again my mother was very worried and not __________ to see my brother leave school, but my father encouraged him and my brother spent a(n) __________ year working his way on trains and ships to __________ his passage to different ports and cities, and discovering many fascinating places and people.

These kinds of experiences are probably __________ for children in many countries but in the US they are fairly common. Most parents start __________ their children at a young age to do small things by themselves. By the time they have finished high school, many American kids have already had __________ jobs and traveled around the US or other countries on their own, have selected the university they plan to attend,   maybe even have decided on their future __________, and so on .

【推荐2】In our societies, we used the word “success” a lot. And we think we know just what it means: money, status, fame, and power. But take a look at the _______, and things start to look, thankfully, a lot more_______, because success is, in truth, rather more neutral and _______ subjective than we tend to assume.

It just means doing anything well, expert at something, and that might include a lot of different _______: running 100 meters, for sure, selling your app for a lot of money, but also strangers, like, listening a lot very_______to a child, or being extremely_______to strangers, or filling your mind with_______ideas and associations, or knowing just when to put an arm_______someone when it’s too much for him. People who triumph here are _______big success stories.

______________, if you want to do great work, it’s going to take a lot of hard work to do it. And you’re going to have to______________out of your comfort zone and take some______________that will scare you so much. But, to some degree, what’s the______________of life if not finding yourself and trying to become the best?

As we know,______________can be successful at everything; whatever they tell us, it’s almost______________to succeed with a career and a family, or with popularity and integrity. There are always______________.Just as a business concept called opportunity cost explains, when you choose one course of action, you______________all the other opportunities you might have chosen to______________,but didn’t.

It’s great to be successful. It’s even better to make sure you followed your own______________and not necessarily always obvious path to the success that can truly______________you.

【推荐3】People on a college campus were more likely to give money to the March of Dimes if they were asked for a donation by a disabled woman in a wheelchair than if asked by a nondisabled woman. In another _______, subway riders in New York saw a man carrying a stick stumble (绊脚) and fall to the floor. Sometimes the victim had a large red birthmark on his_______; sometimes he did not. In this situation, the victim was more likely to _______ aid if his face was spotless than if he had an unattractive birthmark. In _______ these and other research findings, two themes are _______ : we are more willing to help people we like for some reason and people we think_______assistance.

In some situations, those who are physically attractive are more likely to receive aid. _______, in a field study researchers placed a completed application to graduate school in a telephone box at the airport. The application was ready to be _______ , but had apparently been "lost". The photo attached to the application was sometimes that of a very _______ person and sometimes that of a less attractive person. The measure of helping was whether the individual who found the envelope actually mailed it or not. Results showed that people were more likely to ________ the application if the person in the photo was physically attractive.

The degree of ________ between the potential helper and the person in need is also important. For example, people are more likely to help a stranger who is from the same country rather than a foreigner. In one study, shoppers on a busy street in Scotland were more likely to help a person wearing a(n) ________ T-shirt than a person wearing a T-shirt printed with offensive words.

Whether a person receives help depends in part on the "worth" of the case. For example, shoppers in a supermarket were more likely to give someone________ to buy milk rather than to buy cookies, probably because milk is thought more essential for ________ than cookies. Passengers on a New York subway were more likely to help a man who fell to the ground if he appeared to be ________ rather than drunk.