Once there was a piano player in a bar. People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady _____ him to sing a song.

“I don’t sing,” said the man.

But the lady told the waiter, “I’m _____ of listening to the piano. I want the piano player to sing!”

The waiter shouted across the room, “Hey, friend! _____ you want to get paid, sing a song!”

So he did. He had never sung in public(公共场合) before. Now he was singing for the first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so _____! He himself couldn’t believe that he got so much cheers(喝彩)!

He had _____ he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life _____ a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he _____ that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.

You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than what you think. With hard work, most skills can be _____. Or you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.

Mr. Brown lived in a far-away village and really hard life when he was young.

By working hard, he becomes a famous lawyer now and lives in a beautiful house with his family. His son Richard is clever. He likes the boy very much and sends him to the best school in the city. He hopes Richard to live a happy life and buys everything the boy wants. He wishes his son could become a great scientist.

But he doesn’t know Richard is not interested in studying and spends much time in fishing. So he always fails in the exams. Miss Green, his headteacher became angry after the boy arrived late again one afternoon.

“I’ll visit your father tomorrow evening, Richard,” says Miss Green angrily.

“You’d better not talk with him, madam,” says the boy. “Or you’ll pay for his advisory service!”