1 . It was a vacation when I was 16. I was on a one-week-long trip with some students to ______ a Seminary (神学院) college in Iowa. On the way our ______ had stopped in Chicago for a few days. We were ______ in a building owned by the church on the south side of the city. In the evening I ______ to go out for a short walk. I was going down a street when I ______ other people making a wide berth (安全距离) around someone sitting on the sidewalk. His clothes were ______, worn and torn. His skin was dirty and I could ______ him from several feet away. I stopped in my ______. I had never seen a homeless person before. Then my mind ______ back and I realized I had seen a homeless person once before: Me.

It was a summer night in my 11th year when the home I grew up in ______ fire in the middle of the night. I can still ______ all of us standing outside while the fire destroyed everything we owned. My dad was busying. My grandma and mom were ______. And my brothers and I were standing in ______, scare and silence. ______, friends took us in that ______. Our small town community gathered around us. They fed us, brought us clothes, and within a few days helped our dad to rent a ______. I could remember feeling ______ and blessed even after losing so much.

The homeless man sitting there, however, couldn’t depend on anyone. I could see the ______ and despair (绝望) in his eyes. I only had a few dollars left in my wallet but I didn’t hesitate. I ______ and handed it to the man, talked with him, comforted him.

I have often ______ what happened to him over the years. Did he make it off the streets? Did he die there? I don’t know. I do know that I was no better than he was, only more fortunate.

2 . No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own _______ .

I learned this lesson from a(n) _______ many years ago. I took the head _______ job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the _______ team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to _______ the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn’t _______ I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to _______ that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were _______ me. I had to change my _______ about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little __________ . Most importantly, I began to treat them like __________ . That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their __________ , we met every day and __________ passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering our __________ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to __________ . Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a __________ for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest __________ of my life!

From the experience I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can __________ the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and __________ them. I helped them to see themselves __________ , and they built themselves into winners.

Winners are made, but not born.

3 . In Eric Carle’s book, the hungry caterpillar (毛毛虫) eventually becomes a beautiful butterfly. It can enjoy a rather ________ role — one that’s more colourful and less stressful. I see butterflies as a symbol for ________. For humans, however, it’s not easy to make that ________. It can feel scary to leave the ________ things behind. And there are ________ related to moving to new settings and taking on different challenges.

For me ________ my job meant that my pay dropped significantly. I accepted some training and invested( 投资 ) time in networking. It was scary but exciting because I was ________ my career. Like a butterfly, I started to dip in and out of new things. I didn’t want to be ________ at ground level anymore. I had a much wider viewpoint. As the next stage of my career began, I was full of ________ to run projects of my own. Suddenly I was working in an exciting industry. The new environment ________ me. I could make full use of my experiences and strengths. But sometimes ________ making changes is also a choice; it can cause others to make choices for you, often not to your ________.

In my experience, if you spend your life ________ a butterfly, it’s pretty hard to catch it. Instead, if you go to places where there is a good chance that your gifts are ________ for that situation and you just sit there, a butterfly will ________ come and sit on your shoulder.

4 . I’ve noticed that conversations with my children have started to turn into something I don’t like. It could be my _______. I don’t always _______ before I open my mouth. For example, my kids would call to tell me about something that’s been _______ them. As soon as they’re finished, I go into mom mode.

“You should...”, “You need to consider...”, “If I were you, I’d...” “Mom!”

The tone is full of _______ and annoyance.

When I get one of my adult kids on the phone, I become a(n) _______ on everything, which I’m obviously not. I want to be part of their lives and _______ them from making mistakes that seem so obvious to me.

I’m hardly _______ in this. Over lunch the other day, a friend told me that her son _______ listened to anything she said. “It’s like talking to a wall!” I know that feeling well. But I’m learning slowly that talking at is not the same as talking with.

Giving advice to children can be full of problems. Though we may see ourselves _______ the wisdom of our years, they see something else. They see a ________ parent who hasn’t accepted the fact that they’re adults with their own thoughts and feelings. They’re not ________ any tips. They may not even want a(n) ________ solution to a difficult problem. What they’re hoping for is a safe place to talk with a person who loves and ________ them no matter what.

Because of this, I’ve given myself the ________ of becoming a better parent by being a better listener. It’s not an easy task for parents like me but I’m ________.

6 . I won’t forget my voluntary experience a while back. It always reminds me what people truly need is not always so _________. This story is a lesson which has stayed with me and helped me ever since.

It was Thanksgiving and I was _________ with my mother at a shelter for the needy. We stood behind the counter distributing (分发) food to _________ came in. It seemed that most of our diners had been having _________ times. Their clothes were ragged, worn and dirty; they were hungry and tired. _________, they looked needy!

When we were busy with the unlucky fellows, a well-dressed man came in who looked _________ but poor. I wondered what he was doing there and my jaw dropped in amazement when he _________ the line for food. The closer he came to my service station, the more I muttered (小声嘀咕). What was this man doing? I wanted to know. Surely he wasn’t going to take the food _________ for those really in need! He had small talks with _________ and the look on his face suggested that he just ____________ to escape being alone.

Then my mother ____________ took me to one side, saying, “You have ____________ that the needs of the people who come here must be purely ____________: hunger, inadequate shelter, clothing, etc. But this gentleman seems to have none of those problems. What if his needs are ____________? What if he needs comfort, friends, or just to be among other human beings?” Her words ____________ me like a ton of bricks! I felt like I should apologize to the man, but I didn’t.

About a week later, from an unknown source, the shelter received a large ____________. I can’t help but ____________ if it came from that man.

Now, whenever I meet others, I remember my mother’s words and try to send kindness and blessings to them, ____________ how they look. Needs aren’t always visible. Maybe emotional ____________ is not only the loneliest feeling, but the most difficult need to get ____________. But kindness always makes a difference.

7 . Maybe you’ve heard the saying. “A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high.” I’m sure that T. J. Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.

By high school, T. J. was the most celebrated troublemaker in his town. I met him for the first time at a weekend leadership retreat (活动). All the students at school had been invited to _______ ACE training, a program designed to have students become more _______ in their communities.

At the start of the retreat, T. J. was _______ standing outside the circle of students. He didn’t _______ join the discussion groups. But slowly, the interactive games _______ him in. The other students in T. J. ’s group _______ his comments. All of a sudden, T. J. felt like a part of the group, and before long he was being treated like a _______ .

By the end of the retreat, he had _______ the Homeless Project team. The other students _______ T. J. co-chairman of the team.

When T. J. ________ at school on Monday morning, he faced a firestorm. A group of teachers were ________ to the school principal about his being elected co-chairman. The very first communitywide service project was to be a giant food ________ . These teachers couldn’t believe that the principal would allow the important plan to stay in the ________ hands of T. J. Ware. Mr Coggshall ________ them that the purpose of the ACE program was to uncover any positive passion that a student had and reinforce (加强) its practice until true ________ can take place.

Two weeks later, T. J. and his friends led a group of 70 students in a drive to collect ________ . They collected a school ________: 2,854 cans of food in just two hours. The local newspaper covered the ________ with a full-page article the next day. That newspaper ________ was posted on the main bulletin board at school.

T. J. reminds us that a bird with a ________ wing only needs mending (愈合). But once it has healed, it can fly higher than the rest.

8 . One of the most inspiring quotes(名言) I ever heard was by Brian Tracy. He said: “The_________between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people_________many more times than unsuccessful people.”

I deeply understood the _________ of the quote soon after my first book was published.

I was living in Atlanta at the time and ___________ my first signing sale for my new book at the phoenix and Dragon, the largest bookstore in the city. Although a nice sign was placed outside the room ___________ images of both me and my book, The 9 Insights of the Wealthy Soul, not a single customer entered the room. _________ each minute passed, I became increasingly _________.

At 6:25 pm, just before the store’s _________, I began to get myself ready to leave. At that moment, just when I couldn’t fell any _________, a middle-aged couple walked into the room. I managed to ____________ my emotions and introduced myself and my book.

The couple turned the pages each other, and the husband ____________ to his wife. She then told me, “I think we’ll get the book.”

Despite the impulse (冲动) to jump ____________, and hold their hands to thank them for being my __________ readers, I realized the woman was trying to say something else.

“The __________ we’re buying it is that our son died two years ago,” she said. “Maybe your book will help us ____________ it .”

At that moment, I knew if I never sold a copy of the book, my four years of __________ had been meaningless.

Although I would have many more challenging years ____________ my book became a bestseller, this couple’s story was all the __________ I needed at that point to keep me __________.

Thanks to them, I would realize that the greatest of lives are made all in the same way : One challenge ... one challenge ... one difficulty ... one step ... and one small ____________ at a time.

9 . The first day of school we were challenged to get to know a new classmate.I_______around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.I found a little _______lady with a warm smile.

She said，“Hi! I’m Rose.I’m 87 years old.Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and heartily_______，“Of course!”“Why are you in college at such a young，innocent age?”I asked.She_______replied，“I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children，and then travel around.”“No，_______，”I asked.I was curious why she _______this challenge at this age.“I always _______having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.We became instant friends.

_______，Rose became a campus icon(偶像)and she easily made friends wherever she went.She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the_______from the other students.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet.I’ll never forget what she________us.“We do not stop playing because we are old;we grow old________we stop playing.Here are the secrets to staying ________.You have to laugh and find ________every day.You’ve got to have a dream.When you lose your dreams，you die.________ we have many people like this walking around!”she said.“There is a huge ________ between growing older and growing up.Anybody can grow older.That doesn’t ________ any talent or ability，”she added.“But growing up requires ________ the opportunity in change，having no   ________.The elderly usually don’t regret what they did, but regret things they did not do.”

One week after graduation that year，Rose died peacefully in her sleep.She taught us ________   that it’s never too ________ to be all you can possibly be.