1 . Once upon a time, there was a man . There was something wrong with his eyes. Whenever he _______ his eyes and wanted to see things around him, there were _______ in his eyes. He visited many doctors and tried different kinds of medicine, _______nothing helped.

One day, the man visited a famous eye expert. The expert examined him _______ for a long time. Finally, he suggested the man look at only _______things for a period of time. The man felt so desperate (绝望的) that he was_______to try anything, though it was such a strange suggestion.

He bought cans of green paint and let several workers paint everything he could _______ in his house green. To everyone’s _______, it really worked ! The pain was starting to go away.

Several weeks later, a friend, who was _______ in white, visited the man. As soon as he walked into the man’s________, he was splashed (泼洒) with a can of green paint.

The friend was very surprised and________. The man said sorry to his friend and explained ________ he had to do so. The friend laughed after hearing that .“ Why did you take the ________ to paint all things green ?” he asked .“ It would have been ________if you had bought a pair of green ________. You can paint all these walls and floors and other things green, but you cannot paint the whole world green !”

2 . Start Today

＂What can you do when you have done nothing but mess up(把……搞糟)your whole life long?" These were the ____________ I heard when I turned on the TV the other day. They came from one of the talk shows that are so   ____________ on TV these days. I started to turn the channel but the words I heard made me ____________looked at the speaker. He couldn't have been more than 18 years old,   ____________ already thought of his life as a useless waste.

I wanted to ____________ at him,"You are not dead yet!”

It is so ____________ that so many people can't get rid of the past or live in the present. There are people in their twenties who already think they have ___________ the boat to success and happiness.There are people in their thirties and forties who sit around ____________ that life has passed them by. I want to shout at them all, “____________!You are still young! Chances are everywhere!”

If you want a happy life,you   ____________ just think about your past mistakes. If you want joy and love in your life, you must ____________ them today.Never put off what should be chosen until tomorrow!

A new chance in life   ____________ before us every morning. We can live with hope starting at this moment. It doesn't matter how hard our   ____________has been.Our present can be full of joy and our future can be full of happiness. It doesn't matter ___________ we are eight or eighty-we can still make our lives wonderful. Life isn't over   ___________ your last heartbeat. Start today,then,to make your heart beat with joy and love.

3 . The wisdom my 77-year-old father has passed on to me came more through osmosis(潜移) than lectures. My dad’s _______shines through all my life.

Old age hasn’t _______him, mainly because he doesn’t think almost-80 is old. He had ever trained for a charity _______across the Hudson River in New York. He wore his custom-fitted diving suit, but he still got so _______. We warmed him and wrapped him in a sleeping bag. “Oh, _______. It isn’t that bad,” he’d say, “I am fine.” He always is. He did _______the Hudson swim a month later.

If you ask my father whether or not his life has been hard, he will say he is _______. He means the kind of happiness that comes from _______a well-cooked family meal, taking a good long run or growing a perfect tomato. Did I mention that he used to run marathons before his knee replacement surgery? He’s the only one _______convinced me I could do it, too. “Anyone can run a marathon,” he said, “_______you keep training.”

My father was born in 1933. His childhood took a _______at the beginning of World War II. His father joined the French Army and was _______by the Germans and spent the war in a prison camp. My dad and his mother and sister were shipped off to New Jersey to live with relatives. His mother _______from depression, and Dad went to a boarding school in New England from the sixth grade on. Yet in all Dad’s dinner table _______, there have been many times when he turned them into _______stories.

After a family dinner the other night, my father advised us to try the skydiving _______ “Sixty-five seconds of falling,” he said. “ I _______it. I should have been a paratrooper (伞兵)!”

He loves getting cards in the mail, and usually I’m _______, so instead I call him on Father’s Day. But this year I’ve _______to be early for once. I want to let him know how much he _______to me.

Dad, thank you—for all of it and mostly for your long faith that everything will be OK.

4 . As a boy I was always small for my age. I was five years junior to one of my brothers and seven years junior to the other._______, I often felt left out when their friends came over to _______. I was too _______ for whatever they were doing and they didn’t want me to listen to their conversations either. Usually, I found myself outside playing alone and feeling _______.

I remember one spring afternoon I felt especially _______ as I sat in the yard behind our house. We lived miles from town and I _______ saw my own friends outside of school. I _______ my brothers laughing from _______ the house and felt a single tear coming down my face. At that moment I saw a large brown dog _______ me. He was wagging (摇) his tail ________. He greeted me like a long lost ________, licking (舔) my hand and sitting beside me on the spring grass,________ he didn’t know me. I petted and ________ this four-legged angel. He let me pour out all my troubles and ________ my deepest thoughts before he kissed me goodbye. I went back inside feeling happy, knowing that no matter what ________ might hold I was loved. I ________ that the dog was sent in that moment of ________ to remind me just how much I was loved.

In truth, nothing brings us greater ________ than knowing we are loved. Knowing we are loved gives us the ________ to love others as well. It also helps us to be the people the world meant for us to be. Remember how much the world loves you and share your ________ with the world.

5 . When I was in my twenties, I travelled alone through the UK. In order to _______locations that the public transportation couldn’t get to, I bought a(n) _______car, drove in around for three months and sold it before I returned to Australia. The car cost most of my money, so I lived mainly on _______during that trip, it being cheap and filling In Ireland, my _______was stolen, and it was impossible to get another. So for the rest of the trip I _______out in my car, being too poor to afford bed and breakfast.

One morning, I _______in my old Skoda under a twisted tree on a remote lane in the Irish countryside, with no more than a _______house in sight. I had a terrible desire for a _______cup of tea and some hot water to make porridge with _______I would not have to eat the cold leftovers from the previous day.

My thermos (暖瓶) had gone cold overnight sol knocked on the door of the house. A woman opened it. Hot water? She ________let me get away with just that!I was invited indoors, seated at the breakfast table with the ________and given a delicious breakfast, as much as I could eat. I was ________to eat something more than porridge! I ________being friends with the whole family.

That was only one of many acts of ________strangers showed me when I was traveling alone in foreign regions. One London businessman rushing to work, seeing me ________offered to pull my ridiculously heavy suitcase ________several flights of stairs in the underground. After he’d done so, with a smile and a wave, he ________into the crowd.

Kindness gets ________. The other day, I was able to point out a rare parking spot to a young man who had been driving around the railway car park, looking ________desperate. His grateful smile was all the ________I needed as I dashed off to catch my train.