I will have a holiday next week and I can’t decide what to do． I have a lot of work to do         and this would be a good chance       ． But I don’t like         the holiday in such a way． I can work at home all the rest of the year．Last year I went       to the mountains .       there was beautiful， but it is too cold this time of a year. And it’s really        far to go for a short holiday． I decide 
    this isn’t a good time to       the mountains．But I      to go somewhere else．Perhaps this would be a good chance to go to the beach（海濱）．I like to go for walks       the seashore      the warm sunshine and watch the water． It’s only eight miles away and I could get there       about two hours． After thinking it      ，I am sure that this is a     time for the seashore than      .Oh， here is a letter       Jim． He       he is going to his house in the mountains for the     ，and he      me to go with him．    giving it some more thought， I wrote back to Jim and thanked him for that．

I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people        I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a       person.
I think my        started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my       and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever         to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really        . It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a (n)        . I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I       to help. That was really a big        for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of        are still my best friends today. 
A bigger cause of my new        , however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my         . Every time I came into her room, she was so       because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never        her, so I took her place. She let me       that making others feel good make me feel good, too, when she died, I was       , but I was very grateful to her.
I think I am a much        person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not        these experiences. They have         me to care about other people more than about myself. I        who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.

Today we spent the morning going through our personal belongings .We were looking for items to __      for free at a local park. Not just any items but things people really       . Our aim was not to find things we no longer        but things we use every day that would be        to others.
We packed these things        boxes and added some small toys. We added a list of local addresses and phone numbers of local        agencies. Inside the boxes a simple letter was placed. It       : “Please take these items and know that your life is important.      are difficult but these days will pass. We share what we have believing that it will matter. Use the food to nurture your         ; use the blankets to stay warm. Be safe and know that the human        can overcome anything. Do not hold your head        for having a need to stay warm. Someday please do the same when you can.”
This kind        was not because the phone rang or for any reason. It was        because it was the right to do. We have often seen        people at the park where we left the belongings. I        that my wife had put her favorite green coat into one of the boxes. I asked if she was        about it and she just replied that it had a hood (兜帽) . Her answer told me why it is I who love her. She liked the coat but knew the hood could        someone from the rain.
Who knows where these gifts of sympathy will       ? How many uses can a blanket serve        what it was designed to do? We never go back and see what happens. It is unimportant. The right things will find the right people and that is all that       .

Dear Seth,
You’re only three years old, and at this point in your life you can't read, much less understand what I’m going to try to tell you in this letter. But I've been thinking a lot about the life that you have ____ you, about my life so far as I ____ on what I've learned, and about my role as a dad in trying to prepare you for the ____ that you will face in the coming years.
Be thankful. You are at a wonderful ____ of life. You have still many wonderful stages of life, but they are not without their costs and ____. I hope to help you along your path by sharing some of the best of ____ I've learned. As with any advice, take it with a grain of ____. What works for me ____ not work for you.
Life can be cruel. There will be people in your life ____ won't be very nice. They'll laugh at you because you're different, or for no good ____. They might try to bully you ____ hurt you.
There's not much you can do about these people except ____ to deal with them, and learn to choose friends who are kind to you, who ____ care about you, who make you feel good about yourself. When you find friends like this, ____ them, treasure them, spend time with them, be kind to them and love them.
There will be _____ when you meet with disappointment instead of success. Life won’t always ____ the way you want. This is just another thing you’ll have to learn to deal with. But instead of letting these things get you down, push on, _____ disappointment and learn to persevere and to pursue your dreams _____ pitfalls. Learn to turn negatives into positives, and you’ll do much better in _____. You will also face heartbreak and abandonment by those you love. I hope you don’t have to face this too much, but it happens. Again there is not much you can do but to heal, and to move on with your life. Let these pains become stepping stones to better things in life, and learn to use them to make you _____.

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When I worked in a large city, passing by someone experiencing homelessness wasn’t an uncommon sight. The difficult situation of those I saw touched me       , and I often felt, “I would be one of them        the kindness of God.”
I felt forced to do something, and as a single mom and newcomer to my field, I decided to  __    a plan that fit my limited budget. I began by        five to ten dollar bills each payday, and during the week, passing        out to those I met on the street.
Though a dollar felt like a small       , I realized how      _ it was to give the gift of being seen: for me to recognize that those I passed by were people just like me.        we would joke a bit and smile together. On some occasions, I was able to        more. I’ll never know how and if the dollars       , but I know that the connections we made did.
One day after I had started this weekly practice, I had        enough to buy myself a new winter coat. With my recent purchase wrapped around my shoulders, I        that my old coat could still be put to use by someone who had little or nothing to        them from the cold. However, at that moment, I felt inspired to pass on this opportunity for       . I turned to the salesman who had helped me, and asked if he would feel        taking my old coat, walking to the corner, and offering it to someone       . Slightly taken aback, he smiled. “I will as soon as I get a break,” he said. “Thanks for your       .”
I can’t help but feel that my        with kindness have moved me to pass it on, and in this way, I feel I’ve helped more than just those I        by on the street. Kindness touches many hearts, and I am grateful for the way it has        mine.

Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small    in the backyard. I started thinking about doing a solo    somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out    and drew the 1,500-mile route along which I would be    from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I    my plans with my dad, he    as I thought he would. Because I get my adventurous    from him, he was all for it.
I had only been away from my    three days now, but there was an inner    going on inside of me. Part of me was homesick and doubting whether I    could make it. The other part of me was ready to      to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.
On the road, I met another      who was quite a bit older than I was. He had started his journey     by bike at the southern part of Norway and had just finished. I could tell he had a great sense of      . It encouraged me not to      .
As I listened to my      artists on my MP4 player, I pedaled (踩踏板) with my feet. There was      around me for miles.      , that wasn’t entirely true. There were mosquitoes--- millions of them. My arms were so dotted with      that they looked like a topographical map (地形圖). But, however      it would be, nothing could stop my advance towards the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.

A true apology is more than just acknowledgement of a mistake. It’s recognition that something you’ve said or done has damaged a relationship—and that you care enough about that relationship to want it ____ .
It’s never ____ to acknowledge you are in the wrong. Being human, we all need the art of apology. Look back and think how ____ you’ve judged roughly, said ____ things, pushed yurself ahead at the expense of a friend. Some deep thought lets us know that when ____ a small mistake has been made, your ____ will stay out of balance until the mistake is acknowledged and your regret is ____.
I remember a doctor friend, telling me about a man who came to him with ____ illnesses: headache, insomnia, stomachaches and so on. No physical ____ could be found. Finally the doctor said to the man, “____ you tell me what’s on your conscience, I can’t help you.”
After a short silence, the man told the doctor that he ____ all the money that his father gave to his brother, who was ____. His father had died, so only he himself knew the matter. The doctor made the man write to his brother making an ____ and enclosing a ____. In the post office, the man dropped the letter into the mail box. As the letter disappeared, the man burst into tears. “Thank you, doctor,” he said, “I think I’m all right now.” And he ____.

One of my fondest Christmas memories was also one of our family’s bleakest（最令人沮喪的）.We were just little kids, and on Christmas Day mom  us all around her to tell us,     , that there would be no presents because all we really wanted was to    for our daddy. He was very sick. I don’t remember anything else except four little girls surrounding my mother, crying       a miracle（奇跡）
At that very moment, someone     loudly on the door.      Behind him was a merry group of soldiers from the Army base where my father    as a minister. News had    that we were in trouble, and his colleagues knew we needed some     .
With all the excitement ,even my dad     in a blanket to keep warm , came down and sat in front of a roaring fire in our room to watch his children be     by good Samaritans（樂善好施的人）. The presents were unwrapped, and we girls      packages and found a doll each and four board games.
What is       to me is that I don’t even remember what sickness my father was suffering from.I     remember an evening of laughter and     There were no expensive toys but priceless moments of friendship and fun given by young men who knew that a family was having a(n) rough time . They gave their time and their attention to little children who needed to laugh.
The most important thing in life aren’t things. And what about the true spirit of holidays? I hope we all are able to remember a thing about the holidays that stirs(攪動(dòng))our heart , that isn’t really a thing at all, but the smile on a child’s face because we take a moment to hug or wipe away a tear.

I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such an attractive, fun-filled place are _________ than others. If so, you have some ________ ideas about the nature of happiness.
　　Many intelligent people still equate(同等看待) happiness with ________. The _______ is that fun and happiness have ______ or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is ________ we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more lasting emotion.www.zxxk.com
Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun ______ that help us relax, ________ forget our problems and maybe even ________. But they do not bring happiness, because their _______ effects end when the fun ______.
I have often thought that ______ Hollywood stars have a role to ________, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant _________ to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”.
But celebrities reveal(揭露) the ________hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.
The way people stick to the _______ that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actually _____ their chances of ever obtaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain ______ be equated with unhappiness. But, _______, the opposite is true: More times than not, things that lead to happiness _______ some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very efforts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, and self-improvement.www.zxxk.com

It was the end of my first day as waitress in a busy New York restaurant. My cap had gone away, and my feet ______. The loaded plates I carried ______ to be heavier and heavier. Tired and discouraged, I didn’t seem able to do anything  ______. As I made out a check for a family with several children who had changed their ice-cream ______ a dozen times, I was ready to stop. Then the father ______ at me as he handed my tip. “Well done,” he said, “you’ve _____ us really well.” Suddenly my tiredness  ______. I smiled back, and later, when the manager asked me how I’d like my first day, I said, “______!” Those few words of praise had ______ everything. Praise is like ______ to the human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And ______, while most of us are only too______ to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are ______ to give our fellows the warm sunshine of praise. Why-when one word of praise can bring such______?
It’s strange how mean we are about praising. Perhaps it’s  ______ few of us know how to accept it. It’s ______ rewarding to give praise in areas in which______ generally goes unnoticed or unmentioned. An artist gets admired for a glorious picture, a cook for a ______ meal. But do you ever tell your laundry manager how pleased you are when the shirts are ______ just right? In fact, to give praise ______ the giver nothing but a moment’s thought and a moment’s effort.