1 . Harland “Colonel” Sanders was born in 1890. He was left to be the only ________ of the house at a young age when his father died, leaving him with a mother and two younger sisters.

By the age of 7, he had started ________ and soon after, he was working several odd jobs.

At the age of 40, he had ________ the perfect fried chicken recipe and had even opened a restaurant to ________ the high demand for his food. As he was perfecting his chicken, he was ________ by a pressure cooker (压力锅) salesman who ________ Sanders to invest in his product to help speed along his cooking process. Sanders ________ buying 12 pressure cookers, and then he was ready to sell a lot of chicken.

At the age of 60, Colonel Sanders decided to ________, but because he was not content with ________ of his $105 social security checks, he decided to franchise (给予特许经销权) his chicken.

He started traveling to different restaurants, cooking his fried chicken at the spot for restaurant owners. If the owners liked the chicken, they would be sold the ________. However, Colonel Sanders got ________ 1,009 times before he made his first sale.

________, Colonel Sanders had 600 franchises selling his ________ trademark chicken. In 1976, the Colonel was ________ as the world’s second most ________ celebrity.

2 . When I was a little girl, every time when my dad was repairing something, he would ask me to hold the hammer. Then we could have a time for a _________ with each other.

I grew up and left home for the college, and since then, he had been _________ me every Sunday morning. Later, when I bought a house, my dad was _________ it by himself for three days in the 30℃ summer _________. All he asked for was to hold his paint brush and _________ to him.

Several years ago, he was _________ me. He spent hours _________ a swing set for my daughter. He asked me to bring him a cup of tea and have a talk with him, but I had to _________ for a trip, so I did not have time for any long conversations.

One Sunday morning, we had a telephone talk _________ , and I noticed that my dad kept forgetting some things we discussed __________. Few hours later came a call. He was in hospital with an aneurysm(动脉瘤). Immediately I bought a ticket for the __________ and by the time I got to the hospital, my dad had passed away. Now it was he who did not have __________ for a talk with me.

After his __________ , I learned more about him, and I realized how little I knew about his deepest __________ and dreams. All he ever asked me was my time, but now he has all my __________ every single day.

3 . I was halfway across Indiana headed home to Kentucky when my car broke down. My phone was ______, too. I managed to get to a gas station, but it was Sunday in the early fall, and there was no ______ on duty. I was working my way through university then and had little money for ______ the car.

I sat alongside my car for several hours trying to ______ the heat when an older gentleman ______ to fuel his car.   He asked about my car, and I ______ my predicament (困境). To my ______, the gentleman told me that he had a daughter my age, and then he opened his trunk and ______ a tool set.

Right then and there, this total ______ examined my engine, explaining as he worked that my spark plugs (火花塞) hadn’t been charged for so long that they were ______ to function.   After about an hour, he ______ that my car was safe to finish the trip.

______ came at the hands of a stranger. ______ his clothes, working on a hot September afternoon, this man ______ a college student from disaster, just because she could have been his ______ .

5 . Once a year, I give my two children money. The only _______ is, they have to give it away. I give them each $100. They know it is a lot of money, so they are _______ how they use it. It is their job to find out who in our _______ is doing things that they feel good about, and then_______ who will get the money, and why.

Giving away money, even if it is only ten or twenty dollars, is a wonderful way to learn about the _______ work people are doing right in your own neighborhood. It makes us get out of our_______ zone, ask around, talk to people we wouldn’t _______ talk to, and ask questions about what the problems are and what people are doing to make them better. Everyone _______. My kids learn about the community and the power of giving. And people in the community, who are often volunteering their own time and money, feel that their efforts are seen and _______ in some way.

Last year, they both chose to give their money to a shelter for runaway ________. They visited a few places that ________ suggestions or instructions to young people, and felt this place was especially welcoming. When they handed the ________ to the director, who had no idea these children were “philanthropists (慈善家)”, everyone was in ________ how good the day turned out to be.

This exercise may be ________ as often as possible. It cannot possibly fail. You do not need to________ holidays, and you don’t need children. You can do it yourself, on any day you like.

8 . One day my best friend accompanied me to the bus station and there happened to be one bus at the station ready to leave. We waved and crossed the road. Before I got on the bus, my best friend had to take something from my bag. I was surprised that the conductor was ________ enough to wait without urging me to hurry up as other conductors ________ do. Therefore, his behavior caught my ________ and I was amazed by him.

We started taking off and the conductor began ________ the passengers. Most of the people were giving him big notes. ________ it was early morning, he had all the rights to ________ to the passengers about the big money notes, but not a word of complaint came out from his mouth. He just ________ accepted the big notes and tried to find change for them. I had planned to give him a large note because the coins I had were very hard to reach, but I ________ that idea.

Soon I noticed he had a problem with his feet, making him look ________.This even touched my heart more because most disabled people are often in ________ mode. They are always moody and unkind in order to maintain their ________. This one in particular really ________ me and left me with a smiley heart.

Complaining is usually not a good ________, which makes things worse, not better. I was ________ by this conductor that complaining is a waste of energy. It would be better to choose to accept the fact and to stay calm. That will ________ you and people around you.

10 . During my stay at the University of Michigan, one of the senior professors asked me to join a seminar on culture and emotion. In a general________of self-introductions, I introduced myself in a(n)________Dutch way as one of those who are “interested in culture and emotion”. The professor supplemented (补充) my self-introduction to________American standards, saying I was one of the world’s experts on the________. In response, I looked down in________, and thought that “expert” was a big word.

When I lived in North Carolina, my new friends came over to ________. Conversations were full of interest and energy, and there was a lot of ________. At the end of the evening, when my guests left, they thanked me for the dinner. My heart________, because I was born and raised in the Netherlands, where “thanking for dinner” means the relationship is ________. Emotions are different enough to feel out of________when you move from one culture to another. The professor at the University of Michigan meant to make me feel________, but instead made me uncomfortable. My friends meant to show ________, but they made me think they were distancing themselves from me.

We think about emotions as feelings deep inside us, but in________, our emotions happen in interactions with others. In my own culture, it was hard to observe the________emotions of others, but I was able to see them when I moved to the US—a different________from where I was raised.