1 . It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for all appointment(约会)at 9:30. The nurse had him take a _______ in the waiting area,_______ him it would be at least 40 minutes_________someone would be able to see him. I saw him_______his watch and decided, since I was_______busy—my patient didn’t_______ at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment. The gentleman said no and told me that he_______to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his_________. He told me that she had been_________for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be____________if he was a bit late. He replied that she __________ knew who he was, that she had not been able to __________ him for five years now. I was____________, and asked him, “And you__________go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?” He smiled and said. “She doesn’t know me but I know who she is”. I had to hold back __________ as he left.            

Now I __________ that in marriages, true love is____________of all that is. The happiest people don’t__________have the best of everything, they just__________the best of everything they have. ____________isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

2 . Steve was a seventh grader, a big boy, looking more like a teenager than a 12-year-old. Yet, he went unnoticed — he had been________ every examination since first grade — until Miss Wilma.

In the middle of the first semester of school, the entire seventh grade was________ for basic skills.

“You all did pretty well,” Miss Wilma told the class after going over the________ except for one boy. And it________ my heart to tell you this, but…” she________ , “the smartest boy in the seventh grade is failing my class.” Steve________ his eyes and carefully examined his fingertips.

After that, Steve still wouldn’t do his homework. Even if Miss Wilma________ punished him, he remained________ .     

“Steve, please! I care about you!”________ , Steve got it! “Someone CARES ABOUT ME?!”

One Monday a couple of weeks later, Miss Wilma gave a________ on the weekend homework. Steve________ through the test and was the first to hand in his paper. With a look of________ , Miss Wilma took his paper and began to look it over.

Miss Wilma’s face was in________ shock! She glanced up at Steve, then________ , then up. The smartest boy in the seventh grade had just passed his first test!

From that moment, nothing was the same for Steve. He discovered that not only could he remember and understand________ , but he could translate what he learned into his life. He became________ . After high school, Steve enlisted in the Navy, and he had a(n)________military career. During his naval years, he inspired many young people who might not have________ themselves without him. A________ took place within the heart of a boy all because of one teacher, who________ .

3 . I wrote my first novel when I was 22. It was a mess. I didn’t know how to properly organize dialogues and structure a plot (情节). Those were all _________. I planned to work out later. I gave the book to my father to read, and he left me a voice mail in a few days saying that it was _________ and that I was going to sell it for $300,000.

_________, and rather quickly, the book was _________ by every publisher in New York. If there were a literary prize for Most Rejections, I would have won it. I was _________: of course, but I knew better than to give up—writing wasn’t an easy job, and if this book wasn’t my _________ in, maybe the next one would be. I got back to work.

But this scenario (剧情) happened again: I wrote books...and then they wouldn’t _________. Still, my father’s faith in me never wavered (动摇), even if I worked a host of other jobs. Some of the jobs, like being a bookseller, were great and _________ to my writing life. Some, like selling overpriced jeans to 12-year-olds, were only insofar as they were material for future _________. And they were—because it finally __________. I sold a book! I was going to make it big!

I completely agree with the motivation speaker and author John Maxwell’s words: “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities but in their __________ to reach their potential.” Life’s not __________. It never was, it isn’t now, and it won’t ever be. But do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a(n) __________. You are not. Get over it and __________ with it. And yes, most things are more __________ when you break a sweat to get them.

4 . My mother left the field of education formally after I was born. However, she did not leave it _________. She made learning a _________ part of my life. I never watched television, not because I was not _________ to, but because it was more fun writing stories with my mom.

On my first day of kindergarten, I was excited, but _________. During snack time that day, I sat quietly and opened my _________. Inside, I found a note from my mother written on a napkin(餐巾纸). The note said that she _________ me, that she was proud of me and that I was the best kindergartener in the world! Because of that napkin note I _________ my first day of kindergarten successfully and many more school days to follow.

There have been many napkin notes since the _________ one. There were even napkin notes _________ to me in college, far away from my home. __________ I changed majors, changed the way I looked at the world, there was one thing that never __________ — my mother’s encouragement, support and __________ in napkin notes.

This year, my mother __________ to go back to school to earn her degree in teaching. Although I was in __________ of my mother for following her dreams, I wanted her to __________ that she didn’t need a(n) __________ to make her an excellent teacher.

So I gave her a __________ for school: a lunch bag filled with her favorite foods. She laughed as she __________ the lunch bag. Then she pulled out a napkin with __________ on it.

As she opened up her “You can do it!” napkin note from me, tears began to run down her face. When her eyes met mine, I saw she __________ my unspoken message: My mother is, and always has been, a teacher.

6 . While high school does not generally encourage students to explore new aspects of life, college sets the stage for that exploration. I myself went through this _______ process and found something that has changed my _______ at college for the better: I discovered ASL-American Sign Language.

I never felt an urge to _______ any sign language before. My entire family is hearing, and so are all my friends. The _______ language were enough in all my interactions(交往). Little did I know that I would discover my _______ for ASL.

The _______ began during my first week at college. I watched as the ASL Club _______ their translation of a song. Both the hand movements and the very _______ of communicating without speaking _______ me. What I saw was completely unlike anything I had experienced in the ________. This newness just left me ________ more.

After that, feeling the need to ________ further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL club’s meetings. I only learned how to ________ the alphabet that day. Yet instead of being discouraged by my ________ progress, I was excited. I then made it a point to ________ those meetings and learn all I could.

The following term, I ________ an ASL class. The professor was deaf and any talking was ________. I soon realized that the silence was not unpleasant. ________, if there had been any talking, it would have ________ us to learn less. Now, I appreciate the silence and the ________ way of communication it opens.

7 . Last summer, I cycled to a small village with my friend Mike. We had a great time there. However, one day, when we were _______ a bike on a narrow road, we found a big tree lying across the road.

Both my _______ and I had to get off the bike. And my friend started complaining, “Why did someone put a _______ across the road? And why did no one get it out of the way?” He kept complaining. I thought he would ask me to _______ him get the tree out of the way, but he didn’t. Instead, he just stepped over it with his _______, followed by me. And he still didn’t stop complaining, “I guess nowadays _______is ready to do something for others.” I thought now he would try to remove it, but he _______ didn’t. He just got on his bike and was about to leave. But I didn’t _______ him. Noticing I wasn’t moving, he asked me, “What’s wrong?” I said, “Let’s _______ the tree.” He looked ________ and asked, “Why should we do it? It’s not our ________.” But I insisted. At last, he got off his bike and we got the tree out of the road ________. “You see, there are people who are willing to do something for others,” after removing the tree, I said laughingly to my friend and he laughed, too.

My dear friends, when something is in your ________ next time, will you choose to complain or remove it? You can choose to complain and just ________ it there. But you can also choose to get it out of the way. Don’t wait for others to do that. You can be the one who ________ action and does something for others.

8 . Most people need to hear those “three little words”— I love you. Once in a while, they hear them just in time.

I met Connie the day she was transferred from the gurney(轮床) to the hospital bed, her husband, Bill, stood _______ nearby. I worked as a _______ in the hospital.

Although in the final stages of her fight against cancer, Connie was a cheerful and _______ woman. She loved soap operas, novels and movies with a good love story. As we became _______ , she expressed how _______ it was to be married 32 years to a man who often called her “a silly woman.”

“Oh, I know Bill loves me,” she said, “but he has never been one to say he loves me, or send cards to me.” She sighed and _______ the window at the trees in the courtyard. “I’d give anything if he’d say I love you, but it’s just not in his _______.”

Bill visited Connie every day. In the beginning, he sat next to the bed while she watched the soaps. Later, when she began _______ more, he walked up and down the hallway outside her _______. Soon, when she no longer watched television and had ________ waking moments, I began spending more of my volunteer time with Bill.

One day, I asked Bill “Do you tell Connie you love her?”, and he looked at me as if I was __________.

“I don’t have to,” he said. “She knows I do!”

“I’m sure she knows,” I said. “But she needs to ________ it, Bill. She needs to hear what she has ________ to you all these years. ”

Some days later I walked down the hospital ward. There stood Bill, leaning up ________ the wall in the hallway, ________ at the floor. His face was ________ with tears and he was trembling.

“I have to say something,” he said after ________ a deep breath. “I have to say how good I feel about telling her.” “This morning I told her how much I loved her... and loved being married to her. You should have seen her ________!”

There, on the bedside table of Connie’s room, was a large Valentine card from Bill that ________, “To my wonderful ________... I love you.”.

9 . About one year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me. I never heard any noise from the children but I often heard the parents _______ shouting at the kids, not in a nice tone, but in a(n) _______ one.

We often _______ in the hallway. I always greeted them, _______, the only answer I ever got was a “hello” from the eight-year-old girl. I usually _______ to see my doctor and one day when I returned, they were just _______ their apartment and the little girl was _______ the outside door open for the painters and others. I _______ in the car doing _______ things because I wasn’t eager to be snubbed (冷落) again. Finally, I got out of my car and walked towards the door. The parents were telling her to ________ to get into the car, but the little girl was still holding the door, ________ me! I hurried although I was still in pain from my injury.

I forgot to tell her how ________ I was for her kindness. I wrote a note saying how much her act of kindness had ________ an old man’s heart.

The next day there was a(n) ________ on my door and it was the little girl and her father. She was quite ________ of her behavior and thanked me. Then I noticed her mother standing there, too. Her parents ________ me, too.

Now when we meet in the hallway, we always greet each other, in a friendly ________.

Last night there was a heavy snow. I looked out at my car and ________ how I was going to keep my doctor’s ________ because I could only walk for a short time. This morning when I opened the front door, all the snow was removed.

Isn’t it ________ that the small kind act of an 8-year-old girl can change so many things for the better? It is said that good things come from small acts.

10 . Laughter is so familiar to every one of us. There is an English saying that _________, “He who laughs last laughs the hardest.” High School Musical star Zac Efron is laughing a lot these days.

_________ a young boy, Efron was picked on in school because he was always the smallest in his class and _________ because he had a big space between his teeth. In sixth grade, Efron’s basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime(两个加时赛), with three seconds left, he rebounded the ball and passed it-- to the _________ team! They scored and his team lost the game.

But history, as they say, is a thing of the _________. Now at 21, Efron is one of People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People, graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood’s most _________ magazine, and is traveling the world _________ the third High School Musical film. Director Adam Shankman _________ Efron as “ the biggest teen star in America right now.” Simply google “Zac Efron” and you get more than 14 million_________. Yes, it seems Efron has a lot to smile about these days.

Efron was born and __________ in California. He took school __________. According to Efron, “I would get crazy if I got a B and not an A in school.” It was his father who encouraged him to act. He took part in school __________ and acted in a local theater group. He also__________ singing lessons. He graduated from high school in 2006 and was __________ to the University of Southern California to study film. But he put it off--why study movies __________ you can star in them?

Now Efron is also earning more than $3 million for his __________ in High School Musical 3. Not bad for a 21-year-old. But Efron __________ remembers those bullies(欺人者). “You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they __________.” Efron said. “Also, when you get made fun of, when people point you’re your __________, it’s an opportunity for you to rise above.”

Efron has risen all the way to the top of the movie business. And he can now __________ all the way to the bank.