1 . Do you find yourself pulling away from others, especially if you’ve experienced a deep disappointment? Maybe the most ______ thing most of us can do is to be with people when we don’t feel like being around anybody.

A man who lost his wife to cancer found himself wanting to be ______ . He dropped out of his community and ______ all of the activities he and his wife were used to for year. He ______ socializing at work and returned ______ home to an empty house after work. He turned down ______ from friends and co-workers.

His friends became ______ . One came by to visit and invite him over for supper the next evening. The two old friends sat in comfortable chairs by a ______ . The visitor extended the dinner invitation and ______ him to come, “You may need to ______ others to share your pain.”

The man responded that he felt better ______ staying with other people. “And ______ ,” he said, “it’s just too difficult to get out anymore.”

They sat in ______ for a while, watching the wood burn in the fireplace. Then the visitor did a(n) ______ thing. He took tongs (火钳) by the fireplace, reached into the fire, pulled out a ______ coal and laid down by itself on the earth. “That’s you,” he said.

The man sat in silence, ______ the red-hot ember. Neither man looked ______ as the once hot coal gradually transformed into a black lump. After some moments, the man said, “I get the ______ , my friend. I’ll be over tomorrow evening.”

We cannot ______ in any healthy way by ourselves. The leaf needs the branch. The branch needs the trunk. The trunk needs the roots. And the roots need the rest of the tree. We are ______ . And in that connection life and vitality (活力) are found.

When Coca-Cola was first sold in 1886, nobody thought it could be improved. Nearly a century later, in 1985, New Coke was introduced to replace the original recipe of Coke in order to rebrand the product amidst falling sales——Coke was losing customers to Pepsi, whose sweeter taste was finding     1    . Unfortunately, the Coca-Cola Company saw a significant drop in sales soon after the release of New Coke. Some customers just preferred the “classic” recipe. The old adage(格言), “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” seems to apply here.

Something similar is happening with A Bite of China, a     2     food documentary focusing on the stories, traditions and culture surrounding interesting regional dishes from around China. The first two seasons of the show saw great success. However, when the third season began last month, the reviewers were not so “sweet”. With an entirely new production team, Season Three steers away from(偏离) the show’s core focus on     3     dishes and towards intimate life stories, non-food-related subject matter and even product placement(植入广告).

In the first episode of Season Two, a teenager in the countryside collects honey high up in a tree. The scene is stunningly filmed, telling a moving story about the dangerous     4     to which people go to gather food for their families. In the third season, however, the focus is taken almost completely away from the food. In one of its most infamous episodes, DIY lipstick using questionable ingredients bought online is     5    . Viewer response has been swift and severe, with several commentators wondering whether it is still suitable to call the show a food documentary. The production crew have     6     the changes, claiming that the innovation is meant to keep the show fresh and interesting to an expanding audience. While this may     7     in part, to explain the show’s creative differences from previous seasons, it doesn’t     8     the show’s declining professionalism, which has led to some silly mistakes such as mixing up ingredients or confusing the correct names of regional dishes.

Innovation is generally     9     in industries big and small, but a winning formula that has popular     10     is not necessarily something that requires changes. Innovation is a tool often best used when a new direction is called for. By trying to reinvent the wheel, one might just end up with a flat tire. It’s time that A Bite of China took a page out of Coca-Cola’s playbook and returned to the classic recipe, where success has never tasted so sweet.

7 . When you travel, it’s inevitable (不可避免的) that things will go wrong. It doesn’t matter how _________ you are for the trip—accidents happen on the road, at hotels or _________ in the middle of the ocean. Often, it’s what happens next that _________ the most. No matter what happens, it can be a _________ turn in the journey or a bad thing.

During a recent long international trip, my youngest daughter’s airsickness struck again. We were _________ our choices after landing in San Francisco for an overnight layover (中途停留).

When we stood in the middle of the terminal (航站楼), not only _________ how to get to our hotel, but also discussing whether or not we should just turn around and go home, a pilot _________ us.

He quietly asked me if my 4-year-old was the passenger who had gotten _________ on the flight. I nodded, half afraid someone was going to tell us we now weren’t _________ to fly with her.

Instead, he __________ down to her level, opened up his bag and took out a pair of wings. While the captain was ________ her the wings, he kindly asked my young daughter how she was feeling. Like most young kids, sometimes she’s ________ about talking to strangers, but not this time. They __________ for 60 seconds, but in those 60 seconds, she went from feeling bad and __________ to walk around the airport to jogging to the airport hotel with a smile on her face.

As the captain walked away, she __________ and said, “He cared about me.” My daughter is still young, but she is old enough to feel __________ when a pilot wants to check in on her. In that moment, the pilot was exactly the right one to make her feel better about flying. He __________ our day by taking two minutes out of his.

It’s often the __________ stories that make the headlines, but small, heart-warming moments are still happening all around us. I’m __________ to all in the travel industry—and beyond—that take those few minutes to make a world of ________.

9 . George Prochnik would like the world to put a sock in it. He makes his case in a new book, listenning for Meaning in a World of Noise, Here he explains himself (using his indoor voice):

“We’ve become so accustomed to noise, there’s about almost a deep prejudice against the idea that silence might be beneficial. If you tell someone to be quiet, you sound like an old man. But it’s never been more important to find continuing quiet. Silence focuses us, improves our health, and is a key to lasting peace and satisfaction.”

“We need to excite people about the sounds you start to hear if you merely quiet things down a little. During a Japanese tea ceremony, the smallest sounds becomes a kind of art—the spoons making a light ringing sound on a bowl, the edges of a kimono（和服）brushing against the floor.”

“Dear people are very attetice（专注的）in almose every aspect of life. If two deaf people are walking together, using sign language, they constantly watch out for each other and protecet each other by paying steady attention to the other. They are connected yet also fully aware of their surroundings. Even deaf teenagers! We in the hearing world can learn from them. If we remove the powerful blasts（一阵阵）of noise, we become aware of an extraordinarily rich world around us—of little soft sounds and the sound of footsteps, of bird songs and ice cracking（开裂声）. It’s astonishing how beautiful things sound when you can really listen. ”

10 . My car sweeping past the green pastures(草地), I felt the cool breeze on my face,eyes closed. The breeze felt refreshingly_________and gave me a_________of newly defined freedom and happiness. The breeze suddenly came to a halt_________the car stopping due to a bit of traffic_________by the grazing of some cute lambs.

Climbing out of the car in excitement,I _________I was in a new world,_________my only companion was the sparkling beauty of nature all around me. Standing there, I_________understood the meaning of freedom! In this fast paced world,where smartphones are a(n) _________and life without internet might just be the next step to insanity(疯狂), we’ve _________the simple pleasures in life.

Just__________for a moment to ask yourself__________it’s been since you’ve just sat down for a while, doing absolutely__________yet feeling perfectly happy and contented!

People tend to find happiness in commodities or__________around them, but the perfect place to start searching for happiness is__________within you!

Happiness is like a__________. It can be spread to others, if only we are willing to splash (撒) a few __________ on ourselves! True happiness is said to be__________when we are the__________behind a person’s beautiful smile and immense happiness!

So the next time you see someone upset or feeling low,__________them a bit of your time and support. It doesn’t cost much, but doubles the happiness in your__________ !