1 . About a decade ago, my seven-­year­-old daughter was in our car on her way to school. This particular day we drove _______ many homeless people who were asking for help. She asked why the same people were asking for help every day and why no one was _______.

I really did not have an _______ answer to this question. So I decided to ask her how she thought she could help.

This beautiful little girl had so many ideas _______ of her that I couldn’t keep up. There were a few good ideas flying past me just as the time did that morning. The next day on the morning trip to school my daughter asked me to stop at each corner where a homeless person stood. I asked why but was _______ informed to wait and see.

I _______ my window and asked the gentleman to come over. My daughter _______ him 50 cents and told him she would see him every morning. This _______ for 3 blocks. I asked her where all of the money came from and she quickly _______ me that her classmates took up a collection of ________ and coins for her to pass on to the “people on the corner”．

Every school day for 2 more wonderful years we stopped and offered ________ or a good morning wish to the “people on the ________”.   She could always get everyone to ________even if just for a quick second.

Times have changed, and many frown upon (不赞成)giving ________ to homeless people on the corner but everyone ________ to be acknowledged, so my “people on the corner” can get a “good morning” and a smile every day. I get the same in return every day.

2 . In a small village there lived a lazy Brahmin Ramdas. He would do nothing but daydream all day. One sunny afternoon, Ramdas was very _________. He said, “What a beautiful day! How I wish I could go back to sleep. But I have to go out and get my food.” After bathing, Ramdas took out a bowl and out to _________. By begging the whole day he managed to get a pot full of _________.

“It is this pot of milk that is going to make me _________,” he thought. “I will use it to make butter. From the butter, I will be _________ to make ghee (酥油). I am really clever! I will then go to the _________ and sell the ghee,” his dream _________. “With the money I get, I will buy a pair of goats. They will have _________ after six months. Soon I would have an entire herd of goats.”

“How _________ I am,” he thought. “The day I become a rich businessman I will build a big house right in the middle of the village. There will be a splendid garden and a swimming pool in front of the house. Early morning I will __________ in the blue waters of the pool.”

Deep in his __________, he struck out with his foot, breaking the __________, and drenching (使湿透) himself with the milk. He saw the broken pot and cried. He lost whatever he had because of his __________ and daydreaming.

Laziness is the biggest __________ of our life. If you are lazy then you will not acquire any significant (重要的) position in your life and will always have nothing. Laziness is a __________ who slowly steals everything from us. If you want to become successful in your life and career, please overcome the devil laziness.

4 . Are all inventors scientists? No. Anyone can make a(n) _________. All it takes is a(n) _________and some hard work. A person must be willing to try again and _________ the invention works. That’s just what happened to Murray Spangler in 1907.

Spangler was a janitor(清洁工) at a department store. He _________ to work every night after the department store closed. He _________ his job, but it was a lot of work to clean all that space. He was_________. He wished that there was a better way to clean the store’s floor.

Each night as he worked, he thought about the _________. What kind of machine could he make? After a while, some ideas formed in his head. He got a group of _________, including an old box, a tape, a pillowcase, an electric fan, a broom handle, and a paint roller. Then he spent weeks fitting them together. He tried it at home. It_________! At last, he was ready to take his invention to the __________.

A police officer was walking down the street. He glanced at the department store window. He saw Spangler ________ his invention. The officer went to the owner’s house, __________ the owner that Spangler was doing something with a(n) __________ machine that made a lot of noise. He thought that Spangler had lost his mind.

The __________ rushed to the store. He told Spangler that he was fired for messing around __________doing his job. Spangler told him that he was doing his job __________ than ever before. He asked the storeowner to let him show him how his machine worked. __________, the man agreed. He was __________ when Spangler moved his machine over dirt and gum wrappers. They __________! Spangler had just built the first vacuum cleaner. The next year he sold his invention to a firm named Hoover. Before long vacuum cleaners were as __________ as stoves in homes.

8 . A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the ______ of a noble who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years. In the last act, a gaoler (狱卒) would always come on to the ______ with a letter which he would hand to the prisoner. Even though the noble was expected to ______ the letter at each performance, he always ______ that it should be written out in full.

One night, the gaoler decided to play a ______ on his colleague to find out if he had managed to learn the contents of the letter by ______. The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed (揭示) the noble sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell. Just then, the gaoler ______ with the precious letter in his hand. He entered the cell and presented the letter to the noble. But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full as usual. It was simply a ______ sheet of paper. The gaoler looked on eagerly, ______ to see if his fellow actor had at last learnt his ______. The noble stared at the blank sheet of paper ______ a few seconds. Then he said, “The light is dim. Read the letter to me”. And he suddenly ______ the sheet of paper to the gaoler. Finding that he could not remember a word of the letter either, the gaoler replied, “The light is indeed dim, sir, I must get my ______”. With this, he hurried off the stage. Much to the noble’s ______, the gaoler returned a few moments later, with a pair of glasses and the usual copy of the letter. Then the noble ______ to read the letter.

10 . It was early winter several years ago. I pulled out my old winter _______ for another year’s use. It was still in good _______ although it looked dirty. I didn’t really _______ a new one but I wanted one and casually (随意地) mentioned it to my daughter. A few weeks later, she _______ me with a brand-new coat.

I put the old one in my _______. Each day, though, when I opened my closet, something _______ me. It seemed a shame that my still good, old coat should just sit there keeping no one _______ during the cold days. After a few weeks, I took the coat to a charity shop. I _______ it off and walked out of the door. As I did so, I saw a man in only a jacket walking in. I couldn’t help but wonder if he would be the new _______ of my old coat. With a smile, I went home.

My new coat is my old coat now. It is getting a little dirty and ________, too. I wonder if I should buy a new one soon but I think I will ________ a while.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “ ________ is a growing giant (巨人) whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.” Perhaps the best way to deal with our wants is by ________ and giving of ourselves. Love brings us ________. The more we ________, the more we have.