2 . “Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you don’t ________, something good will happen some day.”

Mother was ________, as I discovered after graduating from college, I had ________ myself to be a sports announcer(播音员). So I went to Chicago to knock on the door of every station and was ________ every time. In one station, a ________ lady told me that large stations wouldn’t employ（雇佣） a person without ______ since I just graduated. “Go out of the town and find a small station that might give you ______,” she said.

I returned to Dixon, where I had finished my high school education and had ______ high school football. My father said that our town had built a store and wanted a man to ______ its sports department. The job sounded just ______ for me but I wasn’t hired.

My disappointment had ______ as if by design. “Everything happens for the best,” Mom ______ me. Dad lent me his car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio Davenport. The program director told me they had already ______ an announcer. After I left his office, I asked aloud “______ can a fellow get to be a sports ______ if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” ______, I heard the director calling. “Do you know anything about ______?” Then he asked me to ______ an imaginary game. It was easy, and I did it without difficulty. The director was ______ and told me I would be broadcasting a game on the ______ Saturday.

3 . When I was 12 years old, I went with my dad to his work --- a car showroom. I was wandering around and _______ a poor woman with a child in her arms standing _______ the showroom. I saw that she was _______ and went inside and told my father. My _______ went out and asked the woman to _______ into the showroom. He offered her some water and then _______ her what was wrong.

The woman said that her _______ had died some months ago and that she didn’t have anyone else in her family who could _______ her. She did some manual labor to _______ some money to take care of her daughter but her daughter was __________ for the last three days and she was __________   to go to work. Now she didn’t have a grain of food to eat. While she was relating (讲述) her story to my father, she was unable to __________ her emotions and started crying again. My father and I were     __________ moved by her story.

We got some __________ for her and her baby to eat. My father then took them to the nearest     __________ for her baby to be treated as the baby did not seem to be very well. On the way, we __________     her a 5kg bag of wheat from the market. My father gave her some money before we left her. The woman was so __________.

It is eight years later, but that event is still so __________ in my mind. My father’s __________ to this woman inspired me deeply and since then, I have decided to walk a similar path and __________ others.

4 . A professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. All students were ________ and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk.________ he was done with ________ the test to all students, he asked them to ________ the test paper and begin.

Students were confused (迷惑) to see that there was just a black ________ in the center of the page. The professor told them, “I want you to ________ about what you see there.” The students were ________ confused but got started with the test. ________ the end of the class, the professor collected all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. _________of them described about the black dot and tried to explain its position.

Now, professor began to explain, “Here everyone ________ the black dot and wrote about it ________ no one wrote about the white paper. The same is   ________ our lives. The white paper stands for our whole life and the black dot   ________ problems in our life.

Our life is a ________ given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate ---- our friends around us, the job that provides us with everything we need.________, we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships, but we ________ see that these problems are very ________ compared to everything we have in our lives.”

We should try to take eyes off our ________ and enjoy each moment ________ life gives us. Be happy and ________ your life positively.