1 . “Look down, Lisa,” my father said gently. “There is more than one way to the square. Life is like that. If you can’t get to the place where you want to go by one road, ______ another.”

In the years that followed, I often remembered the words my father ______ me. I know where I wanted to go in life. I wanted to be a fashion ______. And on the way to my first small success I found the road blocked. What could I do? Accept the roadblocks and fail? Or use imagination and intelligence to find another road to my ______.

I came to Paris, the center of the world of ______, with my works. But none of the famous fashion designers seemed interested in buying them. Then one day I met a friend ______ a very beautiful sweater. The sweater was simple in color, but it had a(n) ______ knitting (编织) way.

I suddenly ______ a bold design knitted into such a sweater. I ______ a clear black and white butterfly picture and took it to Mrs. Vidian. She ______ it into a sweater. The result, I thought, was ______. Then came the test. I ______ the sweater to a party which people in the fashion business would attend. To my joy, the sweater was ______. In fact, the representative (代表) of a large New York store wanted 40 sweaters to be ______ in two weeks. I accepted the ______ and walked out on a cloud of ______.

My cloud ______, however, when I stood in front of Mrs. Vidian. “But it took me almost a week to knit that sweater,” she said. “Forty sweaters in two weeks? It is ______.”

I was so close to success and then to be blocked! ______, I walked away. All at once, it hit me that there must be ______ way. This knitting way did take special skill, but surely there must be someone else in Paris who knew how to do it. Luckily, I made it before the deadline.

2 . Saul and Keon have never felt bored with a day of work picking up trash in Miami Beach. They were especially ______ when they were covering their route this week as a beautiful ______ awaited them. When their   huge truck rolled down the street into the North Bay Road community, they found most residents (居民) lining the street with signs and balloons, all to ______ say “we love you”.

Jennifer Elegant wanted to show her family’s appreciation ______ she organized the socially-distancing surprise “thank you” ______ to honor the workers. Even the Miami Beach mayor, Dan Gelber showed up to ______ the two heroes-because Saul Scruggs and Keon Richardson do so much more than ______ trash. “They bring incredible energy to the ______ neighborhood,” Jennifer said. “In a word, they spread ______.”

What is ______ about the two men is the positive energy that they bring with them. They always have ______ on their faces and never ______ a chance to say hello and ______ someone’s day. They also go out of their way to help others and ______ nothing in return. One day, Saul spent 45 minutes helping a neighbor dig through her trash to ______ her lost wedding ring. He also waited for over an hour with another ______ who was having heart problems and needed a(n)______.

Jennifer has had “meaningful discussions” with the amazing workers about their inspiring levels of happiness and often shares their ______ with her students. “Every day we are ______ by heroes who bring us inspiration but too often we are unable to ______ these great people. I want Saul and Keon to know that we are thankful.”

3 . Growing up in the 1960s, I was taught from an early age to send a handwritten thank-you note expressing ______ for kindness. My mother used to buy me a box of paper and ______ me in the art and value of saying “thank you”. She ______ to be right.

A study showed that it took most volunteers less than 5 minutes to write the thank-you notes. Just 5 minutes to make ______ person feel “overjoyed”! ______, in our “instant” world, the idea of getting an actual pen and writing an actual note seems to never come to mind. We tend to do what is ______ for us — a quick text or an email.

It’s easy to use the ______ of being busy, but even very busy and ______ businessmen find time to ______ thank-you notes. For example, when Doug Conant became CEO of Campbell’s Soup, the company had ______ half of its market value and morale(士气) was at an all-time low. He ______fixing that by doing some simple things that are probably not ______ in any MBA class. For one thing, Conant wrote to every ______. He gained their confidence and ______, turned the company ______.

In his ten years as CEO, Conant wrote over 30,000 notes to employees. It’s ______ not to ask how he did it. ______, he had many other things to do ______ writing a thank-you note. Conant made time for ______ because he knew the impact(影响) each one would have. An expression of ______ in this crazy world still makes a difference.

4 . There was once a young couple who lived very happily together. The only thing they worried about was ______ their happiness would last forever.

An old man told them, “______ around the world and look for a happy ______. Ask them for a piece of cloth _______ the man’s shirt. Then you will stay _______.”They began their journey to _______ the happiest couple. Whenever they heard about a happy couple, they would ask them, “Are you the happiest couple?”

They replied, “Yes, we are happy in ______ way except that we don’t have any children.” Actually they were not the happiest so the couple _______ their journey. They met another couple in a city. ______ they were happy, they had lots of children, which made them uncomfortable. This couple didn’t ______ like the happiest, either. They continued traveling to many different places ______ they just couldn’t find what they were ______.

One day they met a shepherd (牧羊人). His ______ was looking after a crying child. The young couple asked them the same question. They ______, “Everybody is happier than the king.” The young couple immediately ______ that they were the happiest couple and asked for a piece of cloth from the shepherd’s ______. The shepherd said, “If I give you the cloth then I will be ______ without any clothes because I only have one shirt.”

They then ______ that it was difficult to find perfect happiness. The wife then said, “It’s important to ______ two things if we want to be happy. First, we should be ______ with whatever we have. And second, we must always be patient.”

5 . When two ninth-grade students found smoke coming out of the back of their school bus early Tuesday morning，their bus driver knew just what to do. Thanks to her _______ thinking，more than 50 students’ lives were _______.

While _______ a group of 56 students to their middle school in Duncan，South Carolina，on Tuesday，Teresa Stroble noticed the heavy _______ rising from the back of her bus. She _______ pulled the bus over，evacuated(疏散) the students，and radioed the transportation office to ask _______ to call 911. Firefighters arrived at the scene shortly after the fire began and quickly _______ the fire，which CBS News reported was so _______ that people driving by were able to feel its heat inside their cars. Parents of the children on the bus were _______ the fire，but thanks to Stroble，the news they received was all ____________ not a single child had been hurt.

Since then，Stroble，who has been a bus driver for seven years ____________ also works as a teacher’s assistant(助教)，has been ____________ for her brave actions. “We are so ____________ of our bus driver，” headmaster Scott Turner told local CBS News. “She was ____________ .She also kept the students calm. She made sure they were safe. She didn’t leave the bus ____________ they all left. She is our ____________ today.”

The local fire department is still unsure what ____________ the fire，but some say that this 1995 ____________ has been known to have wiring and electrical problems. ____________ ，we’re so happy that Stroble was able to ____________ on her feet and keep everyone safe and sound.

6 . The squirrel, Bella, had a rough start to life. At the age of four weeks old, an owl (猫头鹰) had _________and badly wounded her.

Bella stood no _________ of surviving her wounds in the wild. _________ , Ruby Harrison took her home. Ruby not only gave Bella a home, but a   _______   with three other adopted squirrels. They grew strong, but Ruby didn't domesticate (驯养) any of the squirrels. "They are part of the _______ rather than a pet," she said.

It was time to say goodbye in April 2009. Ruby saw them _________ into the trees and never expected to see them often. Then, initially, the other three came back for a ___________once and stopped coming by, but Bella was _________ . She seemed to have a strong _________ with the Harrisons that kept her visiting almost daily.

In the past ten years since her release, it's not just Ruby herself who gets Bella's __________. "Bella sits right at the front door to look in for someone's __________." Ruby described, "My husband rushes out of the door to be ________and happily runs back inside to the big bowl of nuts for her.”

More amazingly, this spring came with a(n) __________. Bella came round again with her ________family, with her three babies__________someone to notice.

7 . Yesterday   I had a walk with a friend in the street. When we were passing by a house, I _____ a BlackBerry cellphone. I picked it up and it still _____ ! I started checking the contact     list and calling numbers. I wanted to   see _____ I could   get   some information   about   the   owner of the   phone. _____, only one   person   answered   and   she didn't   recognize the _____ that I was calling from. In the end, she said, "It is just so nice that   you are trying to _____ whose phone it is."

Since that lady didn't know whose phone it was, my friend _____ me to go back   to the   street. I _____ We went back to the street and to the house _____ which we had found the BlackBerry cellphone.   I _____ the door.   Two   college students _____ and said they hadn't       lost their phones. But when I told them the story and _____ some names on the contact list, one of them said that he _____ had those names so it must be the phone of one of his _____.

They said it was _____ that I took the time to find the _____. I really didn't have anything to say because   in   my mind   I was   just   doing the _____ thing.   I never   considered _____ the phone—it wasn't mine. I immediately tried to find the owner because that is exactly what I would want _____ to do if any of my family members _____ their phones.

8 . When young, I loved going on trail runs. It was my favorite way to _____tress. So. when I was back in my hometown after a _____first year of my Ph. D. program, I thought a trail run was just what I needed. But instead of helping me relax, the run did just the _____.

After I moved to the city for college, where my runs were on flat concrete paths instead of ____dirt trails, I used a GPS watch. When I went on trail runs again in the country, it constantly reminded me of the fact that I wasn't _____up with my usual pace. I ___ my watch, thinking that would allow me to enjoy my _____and find the peace I expected, ____I found myself underperforming. "Why can't I let go and just enjoy myself?" I wondered. But after some _____, I realized why I was _____— both on trail runs and in graduate school.

Going into my Ph. D. , I had thought that my solid undergraduate track record would set me up for _____success. To my surprise, I was wrong. I _____confidence in my research abilities which I thought stopped me performing well and I constantly felt my progress was too slow. Other students' self-confidence and their excellent results made me feel _____. One day, I _____broke down in tears in my adviser's office.

Then came my visit home. I was having _____because I hadn't properly _____my expectations to the differences between _____run and a trail run.

A Ph. D. is like a trail run. Sometimes you can run fast. Sometimes you might find yourself climbing up a steep, winding trail at a _____pace. And that's OK. Barriers are _____, and success looks and feels different on a challenging trail than it does on a smooth, flat path. Sometimes it's best to take a deep breath and do your best to _____the challenge.

9 . The challenge: Sail 30,000 miles around the globe, non-stop, alone. What could go wrong?

Susie Goodall ______ it this week. She was a(n) ______ in the Golden Globe Race which sends sailors from the coast of France around the earth. Goodall was 2,000 miles off South America when her boat was like a ______ man in a heavy storm and a broken bar knocked her ______ unconscious. She then activated the ______system and a series of troubling ______, which recorded her happenings during the journey, were ______ to her Twitter account.

Chile's Maritime Center received her ______ and soon ordered a cargo(货) ship to change its ______ to rescue Goodall. Meanwhile, all Goodall could do was wait—trying to keep her boat ______ in the waving South Pacific and pumping out water that was ______ into the damaged cabin(船舱).

When the Chilean ship finally ______ Goodall, employing a small boat to save her seemed ______ because up to13 feet waves, rocking both ships, would ______ the boat at any time. ______, crew members on board ______ a long thick rope from the ship, and pulled Goodall from her boat to safety. As luck would have it, the chosen method ______.

Goodall arrived at the Chilean port without any delay. On her Facebook, Goodall wrote: "They were the hardest and ______ days I’ve ever had. Actually, all I had wanted was a(n) ______ from my busy daily life. But out there in the sea, half the world from home, I might as well ______ home instead of taking the break."

10 . The small town of Rjukan in Norway is situated between several mountains and does not get direct sunlight from late September to mid-March- _______ six months out of the year.

“Of course, we _______ it when the sun is shining,” says Karin Ro, who works for the town’s tourism office. “We see the sky is _______, but down in the valley it’s darker — it’s like on a _______ day.”

But that _______ when a system of high-tech _______ was introduced to reflect sunlight from neighboring peaks(山峰) into the valley below. Wednesday, residents(居民) of Rjukan _______ their very first ray of winter sunshine: A row of reflective boards on a nearby mountainside were put to _______. The mirrors are controlled by a computer that _______ them to turn along with the sun throughout the ________ and to close during windy weather. They reflect a concentrated beam(束) of light onto the town’s central ________, creating an area of sunlight roughly 600 square meters. When the light ________, Rjukan residents gathered together.

“People have been ________ there and standing there and taking ________ of each other,” Ro says. “The town square was totally ________. I think almost all the people in the town were there.” The 3,500 residents cannot all ________ the sunshine at the same time. ________, the new light feels like more than enough for the town’s ________ residents.

“It’s not very ________,” she says, “but it is enough when we are ________.”