3 . Dale Carnegie, the person who became famous for his inspirational programs has empowered people all over the world. He once said, “Perhaps tomorrow you will forget the kind _________you say today, but the recipient (接受者) may _________them over a lifetime. ” When I read Carnegie’s comment I _________to reflect upon one of my activities during the _________few days. In my opinion, what I said has had a life changing effect on _________person with whom I had come in contact.

I _________that the previous morning I had a meeting with a recent graduate of Teachers’ College to interview her for a _________with my tutoring agency (辅导机构). We had _________met before, yet when our eyes met in the _________room at Tim Horton’s, I knew right away who she was. __________we sat down to talk, I explained to her that of all the people in the room, she was the one who __________. She “looked exactly like a teacher”. I said that as a very __________comment about the “presence” she showed and the way she __________herself. She thanked me and then we went on with our __________.But I could tell that my comment__________a lot to her.

It is very clear that the lady who has far been __________in her search for a chance to begin her career in teaching may have __________the strength and inspiration. She is confident to carry on pursuing her dream of being a teacher in front of a __________one day. She has obviously __________the right career choice just __________I told her that she “looked like a teacher”.

6 . If you intend to use humour in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify(鉴别)shared experiences and problems. Your humour must have _________ with the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you _________ their situation and have the same point of view as them. _________ on whom you are speaking to, the problems will be _________. If you are talking to a group of _________, you may refer to the foolish methods of their secretaries; if you are speaking to secretaries, you may want to comment on their foolish _________.

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ meeting, of a story _________ works well because the audience all _________the same view of doctors. A man arrives in _________ and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees __________ accommodations(膳宿), beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very __________, polite and friendly until, __________ in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the __________, takes his food and walks over a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked __________. “Oh, that’s God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a __________.”

If you are __________ of the group who you are speaking to, you will be able to know the experiences and problems which are __________ to all of you and it’ll be __________ for you to comment on the terrible canteen(食堂) food or the __________ bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t try to cut in with humour as they will hate an outsider making bad     __________ on their canteen or their chairman.

7 . For the longest time, I had always wanted a cat. _______, my parents did not share the same_______. Every year, I would ask for a cat, but I always got the same answer “No”.

So I _______ year after year, hoping they would _______agree. Right when I was about to give up, my seventeenth birthday rolled around. My parents were _______against the cat, but my friends were a different story. On my birthday, they _______ with a wide- eyed ,_______cat named Bandit. At that moment, I was _______ with joy. My lifelong wish had finally come true! I knew my life was about to_______

To my surprise, Bandit is the most timid(胆小的）cat I’ve ever met. I didn’t know how to deal with his actions. Upset and angry, I________him loudly. But that didn’t ________ So then I tried, I regret to say this, forceful ________. Carrying him to the outside world as he meowed(喵喵叫）________ didn’t work, either. During all of this, he was closer to my mom. I felt angry. How could the one thing I loved most love my mom more? I thought over many ________ including: maybe she would speak the language of cats, or she was luring (引诱）him with a secret ________. I went to talk with her about it, excited and ________.

“I didn’t have a secret treat, dear. What I do have is ________,” my mom replied. Ever since then, Bandit has been ________ me to be more and more patient.

He has taught me to grow up. He has also brought my family________by leading me to talk with my parents. We eat dinner together at the table more often now, usually with a Bandit as the________.

8 . One day, while I was walking to work, I decided to bring some flowers that I had picked from my garden that morning. On the way, I ________ a stranger and presented the flowers to him with a smile card. ________ by the sense of joy I felt from giving flowers to another person, and may be ________ his day, I wanted to do it again.

When I got to my office, I had the ________ of anonymously( 匿名) leaving flowers around the workplace. The impersonal ________ of the building where I work makes me ________. It just feels a little boring sometimes, ________ it's a nice building with great light. I ________ lots of people might feel the same way, so why not put a little ________ there, and throw in an inspirational quote(引言) while I'm at it? ________, who doesn't like flowers？

So, for the past month, I've been ________ flowers in a little cup on the sink in the bathroom. Each week, I ________ the flowers and the quote. It always feels ________ for me to read quotes like Henry David Thoreau's "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a ________ unexpected in common hours. " and Gandhi's "The fragrance always ________ on the hand that gives the rose.” If anything, I figured, it at least makes me ________ each time I visit the bathroom.

Then today, when I walked in, I noticed ________ flowers in the cup, and a quote that someone else had written! It ________, "Be the change you wish to see in the world. " ----- Gandhi. This little act________ me that, at the end of the day, we're all just people with hearts ________ the various roles and different hats we may wear in the workplace.

I did a little dance and am smiling wide for the rest of the day!

9 . One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor ________ the question papers, with the text facing down as usual. ________ he handed them all out, he asked his students to ________ the page and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no ________, just a black dot (点) in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the expression on everyone’s face, told them the following:

“I want you to write what you________ there.”

The students, ________, got started on the inexplicable (令人费解的) task.

At the end of the class, the professor ________ all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them, with no ________, described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been ________ , the classroom was silent, the professor began to explain:

“I’m not going to grade this. I ________ wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the ________ part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our ________ . We have a white paper to observe and ________, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a ________ given to us with love and care and we always have________to celebrate: nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that ________ our livelihood and the miracles we see every day.

________, we insist on focusing only on the dark spots: the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the________ relationship with colleagues, the ________ with a friend, and etc.

The dark spots are very ________ compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.”