When Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments __   he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to        so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just        to be a 2000-step process."
Rudolph was born prematurely (早產(chǎn)) and her        was doubtful. At age 4, she had a high fever,        her with a paralyzed leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had        on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a       . For the next few years she        one race after another but always came in last. Everyone told her to      , but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another.         this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.
When Bell invented the telephone in 1876, President Rutherford said, "That's an        invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?" In the 1940s, another young        named Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations,        some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947 — after seven long years of rejections! - He        got a tiny company in New York, the Haloid Company, to        the rights to his invention. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.
Character cannot be        in ease and quiet. Only        experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success       . You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience       you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace（熔爐）. A        is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS!

There was a wonderful old man who loved everything.
One day while walking through the woods, the nice old man      a cocoon（繭）. He        to take the cocoon home to watch its        from a little cocoon to a beautiful butterfly.
He softly placed the cocoon on his kitchen table and        it for days.
One day the cocoon started to move. It moved quickly! The old man felt        for the little butterfly inside. He watched it struggle（掙扎）and struggle! So he softly cut the cocoon with a knife so the butterfly could        more quickly. The butterfly broke free from its cocoon,        couldn’t move at all.
The old man didn’t know why and decided the        thing he could do for the butterlfy was to place it softly back into its cocoon.
He placed a drop of honey on it to        the cocoon, leaving the butterfly in its        state.
The next day he noticed that the cocoon was moving       . It struggled and struggled.        the butterfly broke free from its cocoon. Its beautiful wings were filled with wonderful colors! It took off! It was       !
That wonderful butterfly flew and flew till it was        out of the old man’s sight. What a       ! He shouted. But then he started to think. What did I do        at first? The old man went to the library and read every        he could find on butterflies and cocoons.
Finally the        appeared. The butterfly has to struggle while        the cocoon. That’s how it gets its strength（力量）. That’s just why they are created to        in order to be strong and beautiful.

When  I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My        took me by train or by car to a hotel by the       . All day, I seem to remember, I       on the sands with strange       children. We made houses and gardens, and        the tide (潮汐) destroy (破壞, 毀壞) them. When the tide went out, we        over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.
In those days the        seemed to shine always brightly        the water was always warm. Sometimes we left the beach and walked in the country,        ruined (毀滅的) houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were       in one's pockets or good places where one could        ice-creams. Each day seemed a life-time. 
Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good        is much the same as it was. I       like the sun and warm sand and the sound of _      beating the rocks. I no longer wish to        any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.       , I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.
Sometimes I        what my ideal (理想的) holiday will be like when I am       . All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about        who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make        sick on too many ices.

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was treated as the apple of their eyes.
One morning, when the boy was around two years old, the husband saw a       bottle open. He was       for work, so he       the wife to cap the bottle and put it in the cupboard. The mother,       in the kitchen, totally       the matter.
The boy saw the bottle and       went to it and, fascinated with its color, drank it all. It       to be a poisonous medicine meant       adults in small dosages. When the child fell down, the mother       hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was shocked; she was       . How would she       her husband?
When the       father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words. What do you think those four words were? The husband just said, "I       You Darling", which is totally       .
Yet, the father did the very right thing. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no       in finding fault with the mother.       , if only he had taken time to put the bottle away, this would not have happened. No point in attaching       . She had also lost her only child. What she       at that moment was comfort and sympathy from the husband. That is what he       her.
Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or who's to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know and miss out on the       in human relationships we could receive by giving each other support.

My name is Margaret. I have been a professional      for twenty years. I’m always      how sorrow and pain can bring such wonderful gifts as wisdom, patience and love.   , we often get so caught up in the daily necessities and routines that we      the very things that can bring us    and teach us many valuable lessons.
I was hired to      a very special lady. I was to prepare meals for her, make sure she took her medicine     , do light housekeeping, and provide transportation to and from the market and her doctor’s appointments. All of these      were important and necessary so that she could remain     . Our focus was just that -    her to remain living independently.
It was on a cold rainy night. She turned her little head and smelt her
pillow after she had      got into bed. I observed tears running from her eyes. She said, “It’s been such a long time since I’ve had      sheets; I love the      of fresh clean sheets. I couldn’t      the sheets myself anymore. Thank you so much for changing my sheets. ”
Such a simple      as smelling clean sheets brought such great joy to her life. That was the day I      unconditional care. The next day we sat down and      what was important to her, what she liked, and how she had done things all these years. I never knew how much I would enjoy and learn from her      her life experiences with me. She was the sunshine in my life.
I’m so      for the lessons I have learned - the lessons I almost     because I forgot to slow down to look and see the beauty that was right in front of me.

I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've      that the best way to do it is (to) let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully      today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never      while resting comfortably on their laurels (榮譽). The      is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!
I once      a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend      Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her      son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He      he was racing those cars around a great track, which in      was an imaginary circle around a golden statue. The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable      for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.
When his mother told him the time had come to      , the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this？”      to the Oscar.
“Sure,” he smiled. “It's yours.”
The horrified mother       . “Put that back immediately！”
Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me;       it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a       hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to     , rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.
You may have learned to let go of past       and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the      ？Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?
“I like the       of the future better than the history of the past，” said Thomas Jefferson. I     . After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.

I was on a plane that was about to take off when my phone rang. I felt something ______ had happened. It was my neighbor saying I needed to get to the ______ at once. She explained that she’d ______ my two boys, George, then five, and Mickey, then four, crying. At first, she had ______ it, but when the crying continued for a long time, she ______ something was wrong. So she came round and discovered my wife, Mary, lying on the ______ floor. She had been emptying the dishwasher ______ a live wire fell and touched her.www. .com
Mary was taken to hospital. When I arrived, doctors were trying to rescue her, but there was no ______. I explained to the boys that Mum had died; I felt it was important to be ______ with them. For a year I was in a suffering ______ of mind. I went through the activities of a father but inside I felt _____. www. .com
Later, I felt I had to honor my love for Mary by not breaking ______. She married me because I was a ______ man and I knew I had to carry on and actively chose to swim rather than ______.
We moved to another city but two years later, I was diagnosed with cancer. The anxiety that had been gone came ______ back—would my boys be left with no parents? ______, the disease was in its early stage and doctors could treat it in time.
______ everything happening to me, I realized merely thinking “why me” doesn’t ______. We have to learn to accept and adapt to the ______it has brought about. It is no use thinking about the past or being worried about the future. Instead, just focus on the ______.

Around twenty years ago I was living in York. ___ I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find ____ work.
I was ____ a school bus to make ends meet（使收支相抵）and ____ with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had ____ five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not ___ the job. “Why has my life become so ____?” I thought painfully.
As I pulled the bus over to ___ a little girl, she handed me an earring ____ I should keep it ___ somebody claimed it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.
At first I got angry. Then it ____ me -- I had been giving all of my ____ to what was going wrong with my ____ rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a ____ of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to ____ more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for ____ from a lady who was a director at a larger ____. She asked me if I would ___ a one-day lecture on stress (壓力) management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.
My ____ there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of ____ that I completely changed my life.

The other day I decided to come home early because it was such a beautiful day. The      were outside playing in my apartment complex (公寓大樓) and the ice cream truck was whistling its tune. As I       slowly to avoid an accident, I noticed a little boy       at the ice cream truck. He didn’t get anything and he walked away with a       look on his face. I asked the ice cream seller what happened and he said the little boy had no      . I had no cash on me so I drove to my building and went upstairs to       some cash. When I found it, the ice cream seller was       waiting but the little boy had      .
I went in the      I thought he might have gone and I saw a       getting out of her vehicle. I asked her if she had a little boy and she said yes. She then told me that she and her son had gone to the grocery store the day before and had       ice cream but she did not have enough money to buy        .
She quickly went into the        to get her son, and when she        several minutes later, I realized that he was not the         little boy I had seen. This boy was a bit older and his sister came out with him. I took them both to the truck and let them         out what they wanted.
I        told the mom it was not the same boy I was talking about. I        myself to the mother properly and         my baby-sitting services free of charge if she ever needed them. 1 couldn't find the original boy        but 1 hope he gets some ice cream soon.

Once a man came to a wise man’s house and said, “I have many bad habits. Which one of them should I        first?” The wise man said, “Never tell lies        always speak the truth.” The man        to do so and went home.
At night the man was about to go out to steal. Before setting out, he        for a moment about the promise he made to the wise man. “If he asks me where I have been, what shall I say? Shall I say I went out       ? No, I cannot say that. But nor can I       . If I tell the truth, everyone will start        me and call me a thief. I would be        for stealing.” So the man        not to steal that night, and gave up this        habit.
The next day, he        to drink wine. When he was about to do so, he said to himself. “What shall I say to the wise man        he asks me what I did during the day? I cannot tell a lie.” And so he gave up the        of drinking wine.
In this       , whenever the man thought of doing something bad, he        his promise to tell the truth at all times.       he gave up all his bad habits and became a very        person.
Telling the truth is a very good       . If you always speak the truth, you can save yourself from a lot of        and become a person whom everyone        and admires.
Make a promise: I shall always speak the truth.