1 . Once a year, around the time when Christians celebrate Easter, Muslims celebrate Ramadan and Jews celebrate Passover, I often invite my 24-person team to a joyful and special dinner at my place. To _______ the needs of all my team members, I usually _______ different kinds of typical food from different religions.

I think this _______ reflects the wider philosophy of my science lab: we aim to be a _______ yet united group of people working in a global scientific network. My lab _______ people with different _______. One of the most obvious _______ is our religions. Yet when people _______ my lab, they gather together, first through their common _______ for science, and then as they get to know one another and enjoy spare time activities, we become a cohesive (有凝聚力的) team. I am ________ this cohesion (内聚力) and the new friendships in my lab, and do my best to encourage them.

I’m also really ________, while looking for new members. I interview many people before I ________ the right ones for my lab. They must be ________ capable of course, but it’s just as important that they’re friendly, interesting and interested in others. They should be prepared to ________ various points of view and cultures.

As the person in charge of the lab, I see preserving a variety of cultural backgrounds as an important part of my job. Such an accessible, varied and supportive ________ promotes new ideas and scientific breakthroughs.

A few years ago, the company I worked for sent my wife and me to live in New York for a year. I’ve always loved running, so I was really happy when I found out I lived next to Central Park. This meant that every morning I could go for a run before I went to work.

Because a lot of people had told me to be careful of robbers in the park, so usually I didn’t take anything with me. How could they rob me if I didn’t have anything? But one morning, my wife gave me a S 10 bill and asked me to buy some bread on the way.

It was a beautiful morning and the park was quiet with very few people walking or jogging (慢跑) around. While I was running through the park, another jogger knocked into me. He apologized and continued running. For a while, I didn’t think too much of it. However, when I noticed the wide path where I was running, I thought was kind of strange. The warning of robbers in the park occurred to me. ”It could have been a robber!” I suddenly became alarmed, so I checked my pocket and found that the money was missing. Without thinking twice, I ran after that jogger. I finally caught up and held him by the arm. I shouted, “Give me the $10 bill! Now!” I am not usually a hot-headed (性急的) person, but I got really angry this time. I couldn’t believe the robbery was actually happening to me. Filled with anger, I shook my fist at him. This seemed to frighten him. He quickly put his hand in his pocket and gave me the money. Then he ran away as fast as he could.

I bought the bread and went home. As soon as I got home, I couldn’t wait to tell my wife my story. “You won’t believe what happened to me,” I started with pride. She immediately stopped me, “I know, you left the money for the bread on the kitchen table.”

Looking at the money on the table, I stood there, shocked.

6 . When I was a boy growing up I cannot once ever remember either my mom or my grandmother wasting food. Anything we didn’t eat at one meal was __________, stored, and served as leftovers later on. I can remember my grandmother making a huge pot of brown beans with a large cake of cornbread. We would all eat until we were _________ but there was always about half of the beans __________. A few days later Grandmother would take those _________ out of the refrigerator, boil pasta, add parsley and __________ them all together into her delicious Pasta Fasule(意大利面食). And I also remember when I __________ my mom fry bacon for us in the mornings, she would always take the butter and carefully pour it into a container. Then she later would _________ it to flavor up (调味) so many other dishes.

I learned their _________ well and after I grew up I tried to never waste food myself. I always __________ the week’s meals ahead of time and only bought what was on my shopping __________ so nothing went to waste. Every meal went into our stomachs and any leftovers were later eaten by either myself, my boys, or my dogs. To me throwing food in the trash was just __________. All the work it took to grow it, harvest it, and prepare it needed to be __________ and not wasted.

I learned something else over the years, however: When it comes to __________ there are no leftovers. Each moment that you don’t live is __________ forever. Life cannot be saved. Life cannot be __________. Life has to be lived, TODAY!

7 . On a cold November afternoon, my mother and I were walking home from a pizza store. We were dressed warmly and equipped with the rented video we had been ______ to watch. I was feeling a little ______ as I was carrying our shopping, and decided to throw away something. So I was starting to walk towards the garbage can ______ I noticed a poor man walking out of the restaurant in front of us. He ______ over to another nearby garbage can and started looking around it.

I suddenly felt very guilty because I was about to throw away a new drink just because it was ______. I walked up to him and handed the ______ and some snacks over to him. The man looked up ______ and took what I gave him.

A huge smile ______ across his face and this caused me to feel indescribable satisfaction. I felt I couldn’t be happier ______ myself, but then he said, “Wow, this is my son’s lucky day!”

With that, he thanked me happily and started off on his bike, I ______ heard him whistling a song as he rode away.

I got a warm feeling inside. I now understand what is ______ by the saying “giving is getting”.

Although it only ______ a little action and a few words, I gained and learned more in those two minutes than I did in the rest of the month. Everyone in the world needs help, and everyone can ______ help and everyone will be helped by showing kindness.

The image of that man’s happiness caused by my small gift appears in my mind every ______ I have the chance to do something nice.

This is the ______ of charity.

When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be very difficult to let go of your anger. But forgiveness is possible—and it can be surprisingly     1    (benefit) to your physical and mental health. So far, research has shown that people who forgive can have more energy and     2    (good) sleep.

So when someone has hurt you, cool down first. Take a couple of breaths and think of something that     3    (give) you pleasure：a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love. Don’t wait for     4    apology. “Many times the person who hurts you may never think of     5    (apologize), ” says Dr. Frederic Luskin     6    wrote the book Forgive for Good. “They may have wanted to hurt you     7    they just don’t see things the same way. So if you wait for people     8    (say) sorry, you could be waiting a very long time. ”

Next keep in mind that forgiveness does not    9    (necessary) mean accepting the action of the person who upsets you. Instead, learn to look for the love, beauty and     10    (kind) around you. Finally, try to see things from the other person’s position. You may realize that he or she was acting out of carelessness.

9 . A person that’s enthusiastic, determined and prepared to hug life’s trials is a person we all want to be. If you want to be like that person then your first step is to always stay inspired. Taking the first step towards an inspired life is the most difficult part of the process, but after you take it you will never look back.    1    He/She is a person who wakes up every day more inspired than the next. Inspiration will lead you anywhere you want to go.       2    

●Inspiration breeds(培育) more inspiration. After you get a taste of the inspired life you'll never want to turn back. Wake up tomorrow morning inspired and watch your life change.    3    I’ll give you some names of people who have changed the path of history and I’ll let you determine if they were inspired. Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs,Mother Theresa.

●Inspiration leads to hard work. Hard work leads to success. Success will be much more difficult to attain if you care little about what you want to be successful in.

●    4    Mark Zuckerberg was inspired by the potential of a great social network. Four English musicians were inspired to create great music thereby creating the Beatles. Socrates was inspired by his own curiosity and ended up creating Western Philosophy as we know it today.

●Inspiration and genius(天才)—one and the same.    5    In fact, many who we consider geniuses today were nothing more than extremely inspired individuals.

10 . I could still feel the burning desert heat as I stood there on the platform. My suitcase was jammed between the doors of the train that was_________away from the station, and I was alone with a classmate I had_________merely 14 hours before.

We were in a_________country where I thought my fluent French would help me_________, but it turned out that we had transferred（换乘）trains in a Moroccan town where Spanish was the second language. Both my friend and I couldn't_________Spanish. The Arabic characters on the signs made us_________. We were lost. In those hours of_________helplessness, Annie and I sat on the ground, staring at the plat form.

_________, we started pulling our_________eyes away from the train plat form and out at the__________around us. How did I not__________the orange sand hills behind Annie' s head? Or the white skyline of Casablanca? The sky was completely clear, the air was dusty, but my god, it was__________. A woman sitting nearby__________at me, and I felt like the blanket of__________that was killing me had just lifted away. This moment—a__________comfort between complete strangers—helped me__________everything would be okay.

That day, Annie and I had the__________to disconnect from everything we__________, to see and soak in（沉浸在） everything around us. That day in Morocco, I came to believe that being__________is sometimes so much more__________than being found.