1 . A passenger started a conversation with a sniffling (吸鼻子) stranger, apparently due to the recent cold. “Look at me!” the healthy one said _______ , "Never a day's _______ in my life, and it owes to the simple food. Why? Because from the age of twenty, I lived an absolutely simple, regular life—no _______ nights, no extravagance (奢侈). Every day,   _______ , I went to bed regularly at nine o'clock at night and _______ at five in the next morning. I ate a _______ meal at noon and, after that,   _______ in the tennis club for an hour…”

“Excuse me,” _______ the sniffling stranger, “but what is the point?”

That kind of life _______ too much like being under a sentence. Some people can go overboard for a rigid routine. I once went on a near-starvation ________ just to drop a few pounds. In two weeks I ________ five pounds and the will to ________ . Self-discipline is important to be happy, but a rigid routine may not be the ________ .

Mark Twain gave some ________ about discipline. "Do one thing every day you don't want to do,” he advised. I think I can do that. One thing I've always ________ . One thing I always said I ought to do, but never made the ________ . We believe doing something that is important but we don't want to do is a price we pay for ________ . Call it a duty, or call it paying the price,   ________ that may be what it really is. And the other part is: leave some ________ to do something you want to do, too. Paying the price gets you where you want to go. Then having ________ along the way makes the journey worthwhile.