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

I remember the first time I drove a car in traffic after    2    （get）my driver’s license. I was very nervous in that heavy traffic--my driving style    3    （show）that I wasn’t a very confident driver. Now I am much more    4    (experience) as a driver. Although I still don’t consider    5    (me) a perfect one, I’m much more confident behind the wheel than    6    I was when I started.

In general, it is useless working hard for doing something    7    （perfect）when you do it for the first time. You    8    (be) setting the bar so high that you just feel bad when you are unable 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.

For 28-year-old Russian Artem Zhdanov, China is a place where he can achieve dreams. After graduating from college with a major in Chinese, he left     1     (he) hometown in Siberia and moved to Guangzhou.

In recent years, he     2     (build) a Russian-language news website about China, founded a company and set up     3     online store on Taobao. The news website now has a monthly visit of 100,000, and the     4     (product) he sells online, such as T-shirts, cups and chopsticks with beautiful Chinese phrases, have become popular with foreigners     5     live in China.

“My childhood dream was to be a diplomat (外交官). Now my website and Taobao store     6     (connect) foreigners with China are like bridges,” he said. “China is a good place     7     (start) a business. As long as you have an idea and the courage, you can     8     (easy) build a business here,” he said.

Zhdanov wants to connect Russian businessmen with investors (投资者) in China. “China has much     9     (big) companies than many other countries. And the government has provided investors     10     great support in high-tech development. I would like to tell more Russians that instead of only looking at Silicon Valley, they can also make their dreams come true in China.”

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as “rootless and stemless”. We treat it as a seed,     1     (give) it the water and nourishment required     2     a seed.

When it first     3     (shoot) up out of the earth, we don’t condemn (指责) it as     4    (mature) and underdeveloped,     5     do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process     6     (take) place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be     7     (constantly) in the process of change. Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right     8     it is.

A flower is not     9     (good) when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is     10     same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.