When gold was found in California in 1848, many people left all that they had to go there and try to find gold. Everyone dreamed to become rich overnight. There were two brothers who sold all they had to join the gold rush. ________, they found gold and said the gold was for their own. They then ________ to dig the gold out of the mine. All went well at first, but then a ________ thing happened. There was suddenly no gold anymore. It had only been on the surface and didn’t seem to go deep. The brothers continued their work, but without ________. Finally, they gave up. They sold their equipment and claim(所有权) for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back home.

The man who bought the claim asked an engineer to examine the rock there. The engineer told him to ________ digging in the same place where the two brothers had left off. They dug three feet ________ and the new owner found gold. If the two brothers have a little more persistence, they would have been quite ________ themselves.

There’s gold in you, too. You also have ________. Will you dig deeper to find and bring out the best in you?

【推荐2】One Saturday afternoon when I was surfing the Internet for an online tour, a net friend _______ a meaningful story with me.

One day, three people were going out for travelling. One of them took a (n) _______, one took a walking stick, and another one took nothing.

When they _______ back home in the evening, they looked different. The person with an umbrella was _______ from head to toe as if he finished swimming just now. The one with a walking stick fell on the way and hurt himself _______. However, the last one with _______ looked very well, why?

The first two men felt very _______. They asked the third man, “Why are you so good with nothing?” The third man smiled and answered, “When the rain came, I tried to find a place to _______ from the rain; when the road was not good, I walked very _______. That’s the reason why I’m still good.”

This story tells us that sometimes a _______ of advantage (优越) makes us careless but without it people will care about the bad things in our lifetime.

【推荐3】A mother wanted to encourage her son to play the piano. She bought tickets to the _______ of a great pianist. When they arrived _______ the theater, the mother found a friend. She stopped to talk to her friend and her son ran off.                 

At eight o’clock, the light began to become dark, and the concert was about to start. The mother began to _______ the boy. Then, she saw her 6-year-old son on stage (舞台). He was on the piano bench playing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

The mother was very _______. Before she could get her son back, the famous pianist _______ was on the stage and quickly moved to the piano.

“Don’t stop. Keep playing,” he said _______ to the boy. The great pianist reached down with his left hand and began filling in the bass (低音部) part of the song. Soon, his right arm reached around the other side and played _______ beautiful piece of music. Together, the two impressed people with their beautiful music.

In all of our lives, we _______ helping hands ― some we notice, some we don’t. We also have _______ chances to give helping hands ― sometimes we want people to know, sometimes we don’t. Little of what we all achieve comes without others’ help. We should give back ________ we receive.