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Jack Baines is a self-made millionaire(百萬富翁，but his beginnings were very lowly. He was the youngestof eight children. His father had a        in a cotton mill (紗廠)but he was often 27 to work because ofpoor health. The family couldn’t   to pay the rent or bills, and the children often went     . After leaving school at the age of   ，Jack was    what to do when Mr Walker, his old teacher, offered to lend him £ 100 to start his own   .
It was just after the war F_aw materials were not enough, and Jack saw a   in scrap metal（廢棄金尾). He bought bits of metal and stored it in an old garage (倉庫).When he had built up a large amount, he sold it and   plenty of money.
Jack     working hard. After one year he succeeded in    the £100.
By the time Jack was 30 years old he had    his first million, and he wanted to    this achievement by doing something “ ”. With all his money it was      to build a beautiful home for himself and his parents. In 1959，“Baines Castle” was built in the    of the Lancashire countryside. It was one of the finest buildings in the countiy.
Jack has recently sold “Baines Castle” for £500 million,    Jack still can’t get used to     the good life. He can   be found drinking with the locals at the local pub (酒吧）.
“I remember being very    as a child, but never    as a child,” says Jack, “and I will never forget where I came from and who I am ”

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I have always lived in Canada, and traveled from Hamilton to Ottawa for work months ago. Arriving at the airport     , I had to stay in the      hall to spend my time. Without much else to do, I decided to go to the     store. As I walked around the store, 1      two American women having a     on a bench. It looked as if they had been at the airport for hours, and I felt anxious to do something to help them       their wait.
I          the store for a few moments, and went to buy a medium-sized toy which looked like a cartoon          . I asked the owner of the shop for a note and a         and wrote,  "When you get up ,I hope this gift will make you smile.  Have a good trip ! "
I walked      towards the two women and      the toy and the note next to them. Not wanting to wake them, I tried my best to make no    , but in my attempt to flee the scene. one of them woke up and caught me in the act. At first she looked    . Maybe she thought I was a     ! But when she looked at the soft toy and the note, she     up, as if she became a happy girl. " Is this for me? " she asked. I gave her a      smile and nodded.
She was         about the thing !  We talked more like old friends instead of     
     . I came to realize that we should care for each other and love each other although
we were from       places.

My teeth（牙齒）screamed. I couldn’t    them any longer. I finally      my fear of dentists(牙醫(yī)) and decided to get them fixed. But    ? I was a college student(大學生) and barely（勉強）   myself with part-time jobs.
Maybe I could    the worst one. I opened the Yellow Pages and called the first    within walking distance. The receptionist（接待員）told me to come right over.      I hurried across the school. I forgot the    in worrying about how I would pay the   .
In a few minutes I was being examined by a dentist who said, “Hmm!” as he examined my teeth. “Your teeth are in bad    .”
“I already knew that,” I   him and answered quickly to hide (隱藏) my   .
“But don’t worry. I’m going to fix them.”
“No, you’re not. I can’t    to pay you.” I started climbing out of the chair.
“You’re a student at the university, aren’t you?”
What   did that make? “Yes...”
“You’re going to graduate in a few years, aren’t you?”
“I hope so.”
“And then you expect to get a job, don’t you?”
“That’s my   .”
“Well, then you’ll pay me.         you concentrate (集中精力) on your classes and      the dentistry to me.”
I stared at him. He really      it. He calmly picked up his tools and fixed my aching teeth. From that day on, I saw him every week until I had good teeth again. After graduation, I got a job and      his bill in a few months.
In the 40 years following, I’ve learned to call this man a “woodwork angel.” They are strangers who appear out of nowhere when I need help. sometimes they’ve rescued me      danger or making a big mistake.
【小題1】  

My nephew’s 10-year-old son came for a visit one hot, July weekend. I persuaded him to 　　inside and joined him in a game. After　　for an hour, I suggested that we relax for a while. I fell into my favorite recliner（躺椅）to let my neck muscles relax. He'd slipped out of the room and I was catching a few 　　moments of peace and quiet.
"Look，Alice,” he said　　as he ran over to the chair where I was sitting "I found a kite. Could we go outside and 　　it?"
Glancing out a nearby window, I noticed it was　　outside. “I'm sorry, Tripper,.” I said, sad to see his 　　eyes. "The wind is not blowing today. The kite won't fly.”
The　　10-year-old replied, “I think it's 　　 enough. I can get it to fly,” he answered as he ran out to the back door 　　.
Up and down in the yard he ran, pulling the kite 　　to a small length of string. He ran back and forth，as hard as his ten year-old 　　 would carry him, looking back　　at the kite behind. After about ten minutes of 　　determination, he came back in.
I asked, "How did it go?"
"Fine，”he said, not wanting to admit 　　．“I got it to fly some”
As he walked past me to return the kite to the closet shelf, I heard him say under his breath, "I guess I'll have to wait for the　　．”
At that moment I heard another Voice speak to my 　　. "Alice, sometimes you are just like that. You want to do it your way 　　waiting for the Wind.”
And the voice was right. We usually want to use our own efforts to 　　what we want to do. We wait for the Wind only after we have done all we can and have exhausted（耗盡）our own　　 ．We must learn how to rely on Him in the first place!
【小題1】.

My father was an ill-humored man. I knew he loved me and his love was deep. He just didn’t know how to      it.
One evening we went out for a night on the town．We were sitting in an elegant restaurant that had a small but lively     ．When it played a familiar waltz tune I decided to      my father for a dance. “Dad, you know I’ve never      with you before. I begged you but you      wanted to. How about right now?” I waited for the     refusal．But instead, he considered thoughtfully and then said, “Let’s hit the floor and I’ll      you just what kind of moves an old guy like me can still make.” My father took me in his      and I felt overcome by emotion. As we danced I looked up at my father carefully but he     my eyes. “Dad,” I finally     , tears in my eyes, “Why is it so hard for you to look at me?” At last his eyes dropped to my face．“      I love you so much.” he whispered back．I was struck dumb by his    ．It wasn’t what I had thought．But it was of course exactly what I needed to    ．I had always known that he loved me. I just hadn’t understood that his vast emotion had      him and made him silent．“I love you too, Dad!” I whispered back softly．He stumbled （結(jié)結(jié)巴巴地說) over the next few words: “I’m sorry that I’m not open. It’s      for me, but just remember how much I love you.” When the dance ended I excused myself to the ladies’ room and during my absence      changed．When I came back, Dad sat in his chair      his body leaning forward, very pale．Everything was really too late．He was    ．
That night all I saw was his leaning body and pale face．But it’s a totally different scene that I     now．I remember his saying “I love you” and my saying it back．The three words      on forever long after we are gone．

The secret of success is what you say not what you think. Several years ago, I started representing a new service in the       . I started out like a wildfire and within     a few days I had reached stardom(明星的地位) within the company. About a year into it. I started to work with a young lady who always said the most     and defeating things I’d ever heard in my life.         , I found myself repeating the very same defeatism(失敗情緒), which       my sales dropping and my shining stardom fading away, and I couldn’t understand       .
At first, I       myself to say negative things about       , and then after some       ,
the tables turned and I began to     those things about myself. Before long, I had   51
myself into being a failure. Did it happen       ? No, it snuck(偷偷跑來) its way into my life; little by little. I’m sure you’re       what I did to get out of that hole that I dug for myself. I started to talk myself back into being       ; I printed lists of       things to say about myself, most of which was the exact     of what I felt about myself at the time.
In order to achieve anything in life, you have to       believe that you can achieve it; in order to believe that you can achieve you have to think it’s possible; in order to think it’s possible you have to tell yourself it is. Yes, it will take time for you to get to a place where you finally believe you can accomplish what you set out to achieve, but the first person you have to     is yourself. I dare you to write positive things down about yourself and start saying them to yourself every morning, at lunch and just before you go to bed for the next 30 days and see for yourself the     that it can make. You have nothing to       except the negative and that wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

I went to a group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday”, which was to make us more       the problems faced by disabled people. We were asked to “   a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some members,     , chose to use wheelchairs. Others wore sound—blocking earplugs(耳塞) or blindfolds(眼罩).
Just sitting in the wheelchair was a      experience. I had never considered before how      it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down, my      made the chair begin to roll. Its wheels were not     . Then I wondered where to put my     . It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest(腳凳) into     . I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of      for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary     .
I tried to find a      position and thought it might be restful,      kind of nice, to be      around for a while. Looking around, I      I would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I      the heavy metal wheels. I came to know that controlling the           of the wheelchair was not going to be a(n)      task.
My wheelchair experiment was soon    . It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the     , both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome.

Dear son，
The day that you see me old and I am already not in good health，have patience and try to understand me.
If I get dirty when eating，if I can not dress，have patience and remember the hours I ___ teaching it to you.If，when I speak to you，I ____ the same things thousand and one times，do not ____ me，listen to me.When you were small，I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story ____ you got to sleep.When I do not want to have a ____，neither shame me nor scold me.Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I ____，in order that you wanted to bathe.When you see my ____ little about new technologies，give me the necessary time and do not look at me with your mocking(嘲弄) smile.I taught you____ to do so many things：to eat good，to dress well，to confront life...When at some moment I lose the memory or the ___ of our conversation，let me have the necessary time to remember，and if I cannot do it，do not become nervous，as the most important thing is not our conversation but surely to be with you and to have you ____ to me.
If ever I do not want to eat，do not force me.I know well ____ I need to and when not.When my ___ legs do not allow me to walk，give me your ____，the same way I did when you gave your first ____.And when someday I say to you that I do not want to___ any more－that I want to rest forever，do not get angry.Someday you will understand.
Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived.Some day you will discover that，____ my mistakes，I always wanted the ____ thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you.You must not feel sad，angry or impotent(無可奈何) for seeing me ____ you.You must be next to me，try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you ____ living.Help me to walk，help me to end my way with love and ____.I will pay you by a smile and by the immense love I have had always for you.
I love you，Son.
Your father

I had offered to watch my 3?year?old daughter, so that my wife could go out with a friend.I was getting some work done in my study while she ____ to be having a good time in the other room.No problem, I figured.But then it got a little too ____  and I shouted, “What are you doing？” No response.I ____ my question and heard her say，“Oh...nothing.” Nothing?
I got up from my desk and ran out ____ the living room, where I saw her running across the hall.I followed and watched her as her little behind(屁股) made a quick____into the bathroom.I had her____！I told her to turn around.She____.I pulled out my big Daddy voice，“Young lady，I said turn around！”
____，she turned toward me.In her hand was what was left of my wife's new lipstick.And every square inch of her face was____with bright red! As she looked up at me with fearful eyes，I heard____ voice that had been shouted to me as a child.“How could you...You should know...How many times you have been____...What a bad thing to do...” It was just a matter of my picking out which old___I was going to use on her so that she would know what a bad girl she had been.But____I could let loose, I looked ____at the sweater on her.In big____  it said，“I'M A PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL(天使)！” I looked back up into her tearful eyes and，____seeing a bad girl who didn't listen，I saw a little angel full of____that I had come dangerously close to____.“Sweetheart, let's take a picture so Mommy can see how ____ you look.” I took the picture and thanked God that I didn't____the chance to prove what a perfect little angel she had given me.

Teaching second grade is always a challenge.Each student arrives at school with his own needs and difficulties.One year a student called Billy___me with his behavior as well as his academic requirements.He struggled daily with his ____emotions and often became angry or violent.I knew that，to make____progress，his emotions needed controlling.
One ____I tried to help Billy was to have him come directly into the classroom when he arrived at school.Billy's mom would____me to alert me to a particularly emotional morning at home.Then，I would focus on____his anger and calming him down before the other students arrived.
One week our class was studying____.I thought one way to bring learning into the classroom was to bring my dog Rocky to school for the day.
That day began as normal.I was preparing activities focused on dog themes____I was told that Billy had a ____morning at home and I might need to get him____.As I was talking to his mom，Billy____into the classroom.To Billy's____，Rocky immediately ran up to his new____，wagging his tail and licking Billy's face with doggy affection.Billy couldn't ____Rocky's charm(魅力)and began laughing as his anger melted away.
Throughout the day，Billy never left Rocky's side，feeding him，being gentle with him and even ____the other students while Rocky was sleeping.
Billy was known for doing anything he could to avoid____，but on this day he found a good dog story，“ Clifford's Puppy Days”，and read it to Rocky.How ____I was at the sight of Billy reading happily！My little dog was able to____Billy's day from one of anger and frustration to one of laughter，gentleness and ____.
That day Rocky more than helped me with my____；he helped to change the life of a child！After that Billy's behavior definitely improved.