On a trip to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a man, with a     beard and dirty hair, jumped up from a bench outside the restaurant and opened the door for us．Regardless of his     , he greeted us in a friendly way.
Once inside, my daughters whispered, "Mom, he    . " After we ordered our lunch, I explained, telling the kids to look     the dirt. We then watched other customers approach the restaurant but many     him. Seeing this rudeness truly upset me. The day I became a mother, I had determined to set a good     to my children. Yet sometimes when things didn't go right, being a good example was     . When our meal arrived, I realized I had left the car-sick pills in the truck．With the windiest trip ahead, the kids needed them, so I  myself from the meal and went to get them.
Just then, the "doorman" was opening the door for a couple. They rushed past him without even acknowledging his    . Letting them in first, I said a loud "thank you" to him as I     .When I returned, we talked a bit. He said he was not allowed inside     he purchased food . I went back and told my family his    .Then I asked our waitress to add one soup and sandwich.
The kids looked     as we had already eaten, but when I said the order was for the "doorman" , they smiled. When it was time to     our trip, I found the "doorman" enjoying his meal. Upon seeing me, he stood up and thanked me heartily. He then   out his hand for a handshake and I gratefully accepted. I suddenly    the tears in his eyes—tears of gratitude (感激) .What happened next drew great astonishment: I gave the " doorman" a    _ . He pulled away, with tears     down his face.
Back in truck, I fell into deep thought．While we can't choose many things in life, we can choose when to show gratitude．I said thanks to a man who had     held open a door for me, and also said thanks for that     to teach my children by example.

I once had a teacher whose husband died suddenly of heart attack．About a week after his death, she    some of her thoughts with a classroom of students．As the late afternoon sunlight shone    the classroom windows, and when the class was nearly over, she    a few things aside on the edge of her desk and sat down.
With a    look on her face，she paused and said，“  class is over，I’d like to share with all of you a deep    which I feel is very important．Each of us is put here on    to learn，share，love，appreciate and give of ourselves．  of us knows when this fantastic experience will   ．It can be taken away at any moment．Perhaps this is the God’s    of telling us that we must make the     of every single day.”
Her eyes were beginning to   ，but she went on，“So I would like you all to make me a   ：From now on，on your way to school，or on your way home，find something beautiful to   ．It doesn't have to be something you see．It could be a    of freshly baked  bread  floating  out  of  someone’s house，  or  it  could  be  the  sound  of  the soft    rustling(沙沙作響)the leaves in the trees…．Please look for these things， and     them，for at anytime it can all be taken away．’’
The class was completely   ．We all picked up our books and went out of the room silently．That   ，I observed many more beautiful things on my way home from school than usual．
Remember：Life is not    by the number of breaths we take，but by the moments that take our breath away．

A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She was      of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one appeared.
Her father, a cook, took her to the     . He filled three pots with      and placed each on a high fire. In one he placed carrots, in the second     , and in the last ground(磨碎的) coffee beans.
The daughter      waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he      the fire. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He      the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then he poured the      out and placed it in a cup.      to her he asked, "Darling, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee." she replied.
He brought her closer and asked her to      the carrots. She did and said that they were     . He then asked her to take an egg and      it. After pulling off the     , she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to drink the coffee. She smiled, as she      its rich aroma(芳香).
"What does it     , Father?" she asked.
He explained that each of them had      the same adversity(逆境), boiling water, but each reacted     . The carrot went in strong and hard but then it turned softened and weak. The egg had been fragile(易碎的), but at last its inside became     . The ground coffee beans were unique, however, after they were in the boiling water, they had      the water.
"Which are you?" he asked his daughter.
When adversity knocks on your door, how do you     ? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?

Most glasses help people see better, but a new invention from Japan may soon improve language skills and   language barriers instead.
High-tech Company NEC has   a device that it says will   users to communicate with people of different   .
Shaped like a pair of eyeglasses   without the lenses(鏡片), the computer-assisted Tele Scouter would   a picture-forming device to present almost real-time translations directly onto the   retina（視網(wǎng)膜）. The text, provided instantly      voice recognition and   programs, would effectively provide movie-like “subtitles” （字幕） during a conversation between two people   the glasses.
“You can keep the   flowing,” NEC market development official Takayuki Omino told reporters at Tokyo exposition (展覽會)   the device was on display. “This could also be used for talks     with secret information,” says Omino, stating that there would be no      for translators.
Each user’s   words would be   by microphone, translated, and be instantly   for conversation partners in   visual text and as audio delivered through headphones.
Users can still see their conversation partner’s face because the text is   onto only part of the retina—the first time such technology is used in a commercial product, according to NEC.
The company plans to put the Tele Scouter in Japan in November next year,    at the beginning without the translation mode.

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs      the pit. When they saw how      the pit was, they told the two frogs that they might as well be    .
The two frogs ignored what       were saying and      to jump up out of the pit with all of their physical strength. The other frogs       telling them to stop. Finally, one of the frogs       the comments, seriously considered them, and gave up. He       down and died.
The other frog continued to jump as     as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs shouted at him to stop the       and just die. He jumped even harder and finally      it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not       us?” The frog explained to them that he was       . He thought they were       him the whole time.
This story teaches two lessons: First, there is power of life and death in the       . An encouraging word to someone who is        can lift them up and help them make it through the day. Second,a destructive word to someone who is down can be       it takes to kill them. Be      of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path.
The        of words is great. It is sometimes hard to understand       an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times.

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
Cherish (珍惜) now no longer missed
John, a famous musician, took his priceless antique zither (齊特琴) and played it in the crowded subway station. The music coming from the zither was delicately（優(yōu)美地）streaming throughout the whole   . However, during the one-hour play, only six or seven people were truly   the charming music. John only got 52 dollars for his work that day.
However, in normal days, when John is about to hold a   , one ticket can be sold at more than 100 dollars and it is extremely   to buy a ticket even at such a high price. Therefore, later, many passers-by in the station that day felt deeply   for not recognizing the famous musician and missing such valuable but   music feast.
I have a very   friend who had totally changed after     that his wife came down with an acute (嚴(yán)重的) illness. He cooked by himself for the family and took a walk with his wife every day. Nonetheless（但是）, his wife still did not     to conquer the illness and passed away after three months. After that, he often sighed miserably that due to his past busy life, he had     a lot of beautiful time with his wife. But now, it is   to make up for it.
It is no use crying over spilt milk. We have    a lot of precious things in our life without knowing how to   them. Actually, I also missed something   before. The reason is simple: we had thought that we could still own them tomorrow.
Nevertheless, tomorrow is actually   reliable. There was a famous Buddhist monk (修道士) saying that in many people’s lives, they have only done two things: waiting and   . The result is that they were always too late to cherish     they had before they lost it. We would often claim to do something when we   , or when we have money or when we become old, etc. However, when we reach the   , we could no longer realize our   , because we have lost it by then.

I was late for the school bus and rushing to get ready. My dog, Tippy, got to the front door and lay down in front of it – his way of asking to be petted. I______his begging for affection (喜愛), and ran for the waiting bus.
______, that afternoon, when I came home, Mom said to me______, “Honey, I have some______news that I need to tell you. This morning, while you were at school, Tippy was hit by a car and______. I’m so sorry.”
“No! It’s not true!” I was______. I couldn’t believe her. “Tippy, come here! Come on, boy!” I called and called for him. I waited. He didn’t come. Feeling______, I wandered into the living room. I didn’t cry that night. I still couldn’t believe that he was______.
When I got off the bus the next day, the silence at home was deafening.   , my sobs (哭泣) erupted (噴發(fā)) like lava (熔巖) from a volcano. I couldn’t stop______. I hadn’t even petted him when I left.______could I have known that was my last chance? I cried until I felt empty inside.
Time passed, and against my will, I started to______some things. I realized what little control any of us have over what happens ______ a dog. We can do everything right, but______things can still happen. But good things can happen too. That’s______. The best way to deal with the hard times is to understand what you   and get them through when they come, and to remember that hard times always______.
I now deeply understand the “circle of life”. Everyone is born, everyone______, and that’s the way it is. If dogs never died, there would be no______for others like Belle – my new dog.
Best of all, I realized that Tippy______all of my old memories of him. And they come to me every time I call!

A man and his girlfriend got married. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, “I read in a magazine about how we can   our marriage. Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit   with the other. Then, we can talk about how we can   them together and make our lives happier together.”
The husband   . So each of them went to a(n)   room and thought about the things that annoyed them about the other for the rest of the day.
The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their   .
“ I’ll start,” offered the wife. She   her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill 3 pages. After the wife had read all three pages to her husband,     the husband seated, “I don’t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the   that you are. I don’t want you to   anything for me.”
The wife, touched by his honesty by his depth of his love for her and his   of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go     for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time seeking the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wonderful things before us?

I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living-room, my 12-year-old son looked up at me and said, “I __ you.” I did not ___ what to say, and I just stood there, looking ____ at him. My first ____ was that he _____need help with his homework. Then I asked, “What was that all  ___?”
“Nothing,” he said, “My teacher said we should tell our parents we love them and ____ what they say.”
The next day I called his teacher to __ more about what my son said and how the other parents had reacted（ 反應(yīng) ）. “Most of the fathers had the ___ response as you did,” the teacher said, ”When I first _____  that we try this, I asked the children ____ they thought their parents ____ say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble.”
Then the teacher ____ , “ I want my students to know that feeling love is an important part of _____. I’m trying to tell them it’s too bad that we don’t express (表達(dá)) our feelings. A boy _____ tell his father or mother he loves him or her.” The teacher understands that sometimes it is_____ for some of us to say something that is good for us to say.
That evening when my son___ to me, I took him in my arms and held ___ for a longer moment, saying, “Hey, I love you,  ____.” I don’t know if saying that made ____ of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good.

Most adults want to return to their childhood, because they believe how happy it is to be a child. But they forget that times have changed a great deal, and they never honestly change places with a child. Think of the years at _   __ ；the year spent living in   _fear of examinations and school reports. Every movement you made was _   _  by some adults. Think of the    _ _ when you had to go to bed early, you had to eat _     things that were supposed to be good for you. Remember how “gentle”   _ was given to you with words like “If you don’t do what, I say, I will…”.I’m sure you will _  _ forget!
_  __ , these are only part of children’s trouble. No matter how kind and loving parents may be, children often    _  from some terrible and illogical fears since they can’t understand the world around them. They often have such   _  __ in the dark or in the dream. _   __ can share their fears with other adults while children have to face their fears _   __ .
But the most _   __ part of childhood is the period when you begin to go out of it, the period when you go into _   _ _ .Teenagers start to be _   __ their parents and this causes them great unhappiness. There is a complete _   _  of self-confidence during this time. Adolescents pay much attention to their appearance and the _   _ _ they make on others. They feel shy, awkward and clumsy(笨拙的). _   _ _ are strong but hearts are easily broken. Teenagers __ moments of great happiness or black despair, _   _ _ through this period, adults seem to be more unkind than ever.