1 . My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.

My best friend Betsy’s father was a manager at Hough Bakeries, which, at Easter time, _________ little bunny (兔子) cakes for all its _________throughout Cleveland. It happened that the plant downtown needed eight kids for _________ help during our spring break, for which I had no_________ beyond listening to my favorite records. I’d _________ minimum wage. I’d see how a factory_________. My parents thought all of this was a grand idea and called Betsy’s dad with their _________.

Our_________in the factory were simple: Place cakes on a moving belt. Attach icing (糖霜) ears. Apply icing eyes and nose._________ bunny from the belt. This was ____________ than it sounds.____________ a bit and the cakes pile up. As I told my parents at dinner that first night, it was all a little more high-pressure than I’d   ____________ .

Dad __________. The son of a grocer, he’d spent the summers of his childhood____________ food in Benardsville, New Jersey. This was the sort of work that made you____________ the dollars you earned and respect those who did the work, he told me.

2 . It was early in the morning when people heard unusual noise. They had no choice but to _________ to see what it was. The workers _________ the Parnu River cautiously to _________ the strange noise they overheard. It was not until they were about 100 yards out that they could _________ what it was. It turned out that there was a _________ animal.

The animal making the noise seemed to be “dog”! Upon rescuing the “dog”, the men quickly wrapped the animal in a thick blanket to provide some much-needed _________.

The men phoned their local animal hospital, and then they were _________ that they should take it there as quickly as possible, so that’s what they did. The whole time there, the animal didn’t _________ at all. In fact, it slept all the way silently there.

Unfortunately, the vets felt confused and didn’t _________ know what they had on their hands. So they phoned a local hunter. Thankfully, the hunter hurried down to the ____________ and recognized exactly it as a wolf they ended up saving!

Sure enough, the wolf began to return to its ____________ ways the moment it started to recover. It was a one-year-old wolf. The ____________ arrived for the wolf to go back home. When they ____________ the cage that fine morning, it walked forward slowly and looked back several times. Not until they waved did it fly like a(n) ____________ from the string and then disappeared into the ____________.

3 . A woman is volunteering in ashelter. It all started because she missed her own _________ .

Sandy was at a loss when her beloved Angus died last year — terribly lonely, yet not quite______for a new dog in her life. ________, she decided to volunteer at the local animal shelter and spend some quality time with furry friends who, like her, were ________ their old buddies (伙伴).

Remembering that her dog had loved being read to, she brought along a ________   there.

It's now been 18 months sinceSandy first began ________ her chair beside the dog house. Shelter workers say it really calms down the dogs, but Sandy says it does more ________ to her than it does to the dogs.

Sandy was ________ that photos of her reading to dogs were spreading on the Internet until the media started calling. Kathleen, a fellow shelter volunteer was so touched by the sight of her     ____ to an old dog that she took a photo and posted it on the Internet. She was so ______ with the dogs — I watched her read to several — and they just loved being ________ by her, "Kathleen said.

Inspired by Sandy's style of _________, the shelter has announced that a reading marathon is being ________ for next September. The plan is to get kids in the neighborhood ______ in reading to the animals, with the added benefit of reading practice for the two-leggers, along with plenty of friendly _______ for the four-leggers.

4 . A famous theorist once said, “I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong: or the successes and the failures...I divide the world into the learners and the non-learners.”

What on earth would make someone a non-learner? Everyone is born with an intense _______ to learn. Babies rise to the learning challenge daily. Not just for _______tasks, but the most difficult ones of a lifetime, like leaning to walk and talk. They never decide it’s too hard or not worth the _______. Babies don’t worry about making mistakes or _______ themselves. They walk, they fall, they _______.

What puts an end to this fearless learning? A fixed mindset. As soon as children become able to evaluate themselves, some of them become _______ of challenges. They worry about not being _______. My research team have studied thousands of people from preschoolers on, and It’s breathtaking how many _______ an opportunity to learn.

We offered four-year-olds a _______：they could redo an easy jigsaw (拼图) or try a harder one. Even at this young age, children with a fixed mindset stuck with the __________ one. They believe smart kids don’t make __________.

Children with a growth mindset, however, thought it was a __________ choice. Why would anyone want to keep doing the same puzzle __________? They chose increasingly difficult-ones instead.

Believing that success is about learning, children with a growth mindset seized the chance. But those with a fixed mindset didn’t want to expose their __________. This is how a fixed mindset makes people into __________.