1 . Once there was a billionaire，who got a severe eye irritation(发炎)．He got a famous doctor to_____his eye.The doctor advised him to_____bright light for one month so he could heal naturally.Immediately the rich man_____all his windows，and replaced all the bright and colorful curtains with dull cloth.He also_____all the bright chandeliers(枝形吊灯)．In one word，he made all his house_____．

One month later，the doctor paid a visit to the billionaire to ask about the_____of his eyes.To the doctor’s_____，everything in the house had been made dark and dull.Then the doctor said，“Your common sense should have told you that you can buy a pair of_____to protect your eye from bright light_____spending so much money on all these things to make your house darker.”

The same phenomenon______all of us.We often see many______in others.We are very______to change the attitude and behavior of others which doesn’t______our own.

We have many likes and dislikes.______other people also have.But we are often interested in imposing(把……强加于) our opinion and thinking on others______we never made any error.Accordingly we want to______this world with our own rules and theory.

However，we______that other people who share this world equally with us also think in a similar way and______us to behave according to their wishes.Then who______your thinking？In order to bring about certain change in the people around us，first it is “we” that have to change.

______，any needed change can occur only when it starts with us.

2 . Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! It speaks ____than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more_____than we realize. In fact, non-verbal(非言语) communication takes up about 50% of what we really ____. And body language is particularly_____when we attempt to communicate across cultures. Indeed, what is called body language is so ____a part of us that it’s actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings occur as a result of it._____, different societies treat the_____between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having ____contact(接触)even with friends, and certainly not with ____. People from Latin American countries, ____, touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it’s possible that in_____, it may look like a Latino is_____a Norwegian all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving_____. The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as pushiness, will keep_____— which the Latino will in return regard as ____.

Clearly, a great deal is going on when people ____. And only a part of it is in the words themselves. And when parties are from ____cultures, there’s a strong possibility of_____. But whatever the situation, the best_____is to obey the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be_____.

3 . One of the easiest things in the world is to become a fault-finder. However, life can be _______ when you are not busy finding fault with it.

Several years ago I _______ a letter from seventeen-year-old Kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always _______ by things. People were always doing things that annoyed her, and _______ was ever good enough. She was highly self-critical and also found fault with her friends. She became a really _______ person.

Unfortunately, it took a horrible accident to change her _______. Her best friend was seriously hurt in a car crash. What made it almost _______ to deal with was that the day before the _______, Kerry had visited her friend and had spent the whole time criticizing her _______ of boyfriends, the way she was living, the way she related to her mother, and various other things she felt she needed to ________. It wasn’t until her friend was badly hurt that Kerry became ________ her habit of finding fault. Very quickly, she learned to appreciate life rather than to ________ everything so harshly(刻薄). She was able to transfer her new wisdom to other parts of her ________ as well.

Perhaps most of us aren’t as extreme at fault-finding, ________ when we’re honest, we can be sharply ________ of the world. I’m not suggesting you ________ problems, or that you pretend things are ________ than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are — ________ most of the time, and especially when it’s not a really big ________.

Train yourself to ＂bite your tongue＂, and with a little ________, you’ll get really good at letting things go. And when you do, you’ll get back your enthusiasm and love for life.