I was watching a TV series one night when I took in one scene. A young man was seeking his community votes, and people      wanted to know why they should give him their       . He took them to his house and on every
    in his house was the word “Faith” pasted. People raised lots of    to find out why the word was pasted on his mirrors. He said, “My dad often      me to believe that as long as you have     , you should have faith. Every time you look into the mirror, you’re looking at yourself and see “ Faith”.
The    I learned from this is simple-----faith is a living thing and in the same way we’re all      given 24 hours a day and we’re all given the same measure of faith. Faith keeps us going when things get       ! Why is some people’s faith stronger than that of others? Exercise! If we choose to exercise our faith, it will       ; but if we choose not to, it remains weak. Some people might      that they don’t have faith, but we all practice faith every day even if we don’t       it as a faith. Daily       , such as studying, investing or reaching for a dream, take faith．
Faith       hearing and doing. I made a decision yesterday----to     reading the newspapers full of too much sad and      news. Why? Because I      there was a drop of my mental state after reading the newspapers.
Faith, when it’s put to     , becomes a beautiful thing. It lifts your mental state to a higher place that      you to raise yourself up and declare, “Yes, I can.” So make the decision today to strengthen your faith by        it.

It was a very cold evening. The old man’s beard was almost icy. He was waiting for a ____ across the river. The wait seemed ____. The old man sat on the ground waiting for quite a long time.
____, he saw several horsemen coming. He watched them silently and let the first one pass by without even asking. Another passed by，and then another, till the last rider came near the old man. The old man caught the rider’s ____ and said, “Sir, would you ____ giving me a ride to the other side?”
____ his horse, the rider replied, “Of course not.” But it was so cold that the old man’s body was almost ____. He could not get ____ the ground. The horseman helped the old man onto his horse. He took the old man not just across the river, ____ to the old man’s home.
As they ____ the old man’s house, the horseman asked, “Sir, you let several other riders pass by without even asking. Then I ____ and you asked me for a ride at once. Why? ____I had said ‘no’ and left you there?”
The old man looked the rider straight in the eye, and said, “I looked ____ the eyes of the other riders. I quickly saw that they didn’t ____. It would be ____ even asking them for a ride. But in your eye I saw ____. I knew that you would help me.”
The words ____ the rider deeply. “Thank you for what you’ve said,” he told the old man. “I hope I will never leave others ____ simply because I’m busy, and every American citizen does ____ in my heart.”
With that, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the US, turned his horse around and made his ____ back to the White House

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The story is told about what happened on a flight between a passenger and an air hostess. The passenger rang and told the air hostess (乘務(wù)員) that he needed a cup of ____to take his medicine when the plane just took off. She told him that she would___him the water in ten minutes.
Thirty minutes later, when the passenger’s ring for___sounded, the air hostess was in a hurry. She was kept so___that she forgot to deliver (送) him the water. As a result, the passenger was___to take his medicine.She___over to him with a cup of water, but he___it.
In the following hours on the___, each time the air hostess passed by the ___ she would ask him with a smile___he needed help or not. But the passenger___paid attention to her.
When the passenger was going to get____the plane, he asked the air hostess to___him the passengers’ booklet (意見薄). She was very____. She knew he would write down__words, which might result in the loss of her job. ___with a smile she handed it to him.
Off the plane, she__the booklet, and cracked a smile, __the passenger put it, “On the flight, you asked me whether I need help or not for twelve times__. How can I refuse your twelve sincere（真誠的） smiles?”
That’s____! Who can refuse twelve sincere smiles from a person?

A long time ago, there was an emperor(皇帝). One day he told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and    as much land area as he liked, he would give him the area of land he had covered.    enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and    as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He    riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. Even when he was    or tired, he did not stop    he wanted to cover as much area as possible. When he at last covered a large amount of land, he was exhausted and was    . Then he asked himself, “Why did I    myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only    a very small area to    myself.”
The above story is    to the journey of our   . We push ourselves very hard every day to make more   , to gain power or recognition. We neglect(疏忽，忘記) our    , time with our family and to appreciate(欣賞) the surrounding    and the things we love to do. One day    we look back, we will    that we don’t really need that much,    then we cannot turn back time for what we have   .
Life is not about making money. Life is of course not about work! Work is only   to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life.

One day my math teacher asked me to help him save backup copies of his work in the computer. I then realized I was able to      the grades for all of his classes. I showed him how to copy files from one disk to another and he      me.
A few days later he asked me to help him again, because he      how to do it. When I began to show this to him, some students in my class      and began to talk among themselves     . Later that day, at lunch time, I was      by several of them.
“Hey, could you help us change our grades in math? We’ll      you…”
I could not believe what I was hearing. I could get paid for something very   . “All right, I’ll do it.” The next day my math teacher      me to help him out. When he was not going paying attention, I began to change their grades from F’s to A’s.
I soon became very      among my friends. They began to treat me like a god with magical     . I began to change the grades of students. Word      quickly and I became very rich.
Everything was going fine     I was called into the headmaster’s office. When I got there, my teacher was mad, and the headmaster had an angry      in his eyes. “I have known you for three years now. I don’t want to      what your teacher said, but I’m afraid that I must. He has too much   ,” he said. “do you have anything to say      yourself?” he asked.
“No.” I said finally. I did not realize how serious my actions had been. I had violated the      of my teacher and the headmaster. And there was no way     . I was forced to leave my school. That was a good      for me.

A man wanted to make an investment. An idea struck him: “Why don’t I plant a small mango tree and enjoy the benefits when it grows into a big one?” So he went to the    , bought a small tree and took it home. To the pride of his family, he     it in the center of his     .
He read everything about      a mango tree. He got up early every morning, for he was determined to supply the tree with all the necessary nutrients. He watered it,      it with manure（糞肥），and took good care of its leaves by removing those      ones. He made sure the tree received enough care.
Many times he sat and      the beauty of the growing tree while dreaming about the      mangos that the tree would     . His mind was always filled with the wish to taste the first fruit of the tree.
Years went by     …Now, he had a big tree with its leaves shining and healthy, its bark（樹皮）healthy and hard. It was a big attraction      it decorated his whole garden.
Then one day he noticed a small bud（花蕾）,which in a couple of days grew into a beautiful     .Now he could hardly wait for the fruit, so he started to      his supply of nutrients and care. Then one day the tree let out its first product—a small green fruit. The man was so     .
He waited for a few more weeks till the fruit grew in     .The day came when he decided to      the first fruit of the tree. He      the tree, picked the fruit and then came his     .The fruit was not like what he expected. It was hard, big and round. He was puzzled. He was sad.
Seeing this, his      came and asked him what happened. He told them that the fruit from his tree was not what he wanted. When the neighbors heard this, they did not know whether to      or comfort him, for what he planted years ago was not a mango tree. We can only reap（收獲）what we plant.

Frank laughed as he tried to tear at the wrapping paper on his birthday present. He was so     ! Finally, he would have the coolest pair of name-brand basketball shoes.
All the guys on his team were wearing the name-brand shoes of a popular basketball   _, Chuck Hart. While Hart was   for his poor sportsmanship and infamous   , he was a great player. In fact, Frank wasn't thinking about Hart’s behavior; he had only expected to see Hart’s      on the side of the box. The first indication that something was      came as he tore away the last piece of paper. Not Hart’s. The new shoes were the name-brand of another player, Robert Ryann, who was      for his amazing work in the community.
Frank’s hands      ; his heart stopped. It wasn't that the Ryann shoes weren’t nice, but what would his friends think ?
They were the wrong shoes and Frank would be      by the other players. When he looked up into his dad’s eyes, however, Frank decided he     not tell him. “Thanks, Dad. I was really hoping for shoes,” Frank said as he pulled the shoes out of the box.
The next morning his dad drove him to school. When they      in front of his destination, Frank slowly opened the car door. Just then, his dad stopped him.
“Hey, Frank, wait a minute, look…” his dad said      ,“Frank, I know those aren’t the shoes you had hoped for, but I saw the names of the two guys and made a（n）     . The guy whose name is on those shoes,” he said, pointing down at Frank’s feet, “is someone I      . Do you know how often Ryann has found himself in     ?”
“No,” Frank said.
“Never. He’s never talked back to his coach or started a fight, and he’s a team player. You could have acted like a (n)      when you didn’t get the shoes you wanted, Frank ,      you were polite and made the best of it. You have such a good      , like the guy whose name is on these shoes. I’m hoping that someday, your name will be on the coolest pair of shoes I’ll ever see.”
When Frank looked down at his feet, he saw the shoes      . His dad had used his mind and heart to give the son a thoughtful      .

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A feeling of excitement overcame me as I looked around the stadium.
At 5:30 pm, two hours before game time, I walked into the locker room (更衣室）.My     of school, music and what I planned to do on Saturday night were       with the simple aim to beat the football team across the field from us tonight.
Approaching my locker (衣物柜），I noticed my teammates       .Some rested on benches, staring up at the ceiling       it were a film of the opposing team’s play. Some seemed a bit more       , using the time to tell jokes. A few stared at the field,        what will happen in 120 minutes.
Our coach, Tony Severino, came out of his office at 6 o’clock He told the team how       this game was for the season, between two of the state’s top teams _ my school and our opposing team, Liberty High School. His words gave the team impulse (沖動）it needed to       .
At 7:10 pm, warm - ups finished, we went over the game        and discussed what we needed to do for the next three hours. The sound of the national anthem (國歌)         that we were only minutes from the action. Our coach usually made a final         . But tonight was different. On this clear night he         looked around the room at all the players and shouted, “Let’s go and get them” Even         the “get” came out of his mouth, we were already         our way out of the door.
Outside, a few young fens reached to touch our hands, eager to be a         of our school’s winning tradition. When I smiled and         my hand, the young feces lit up as if they had just met Superman.
Seconds later, the team ran onto the           ，moving as a mass of blue, in front of a packed stadium. We enjoyed a noisy         from fens and the fight song played by our school band. Breathing in the         of one of the biggest game of the year, I felt we were sure to win. I told myself, “This was what it was all about” and         that it was for moments like this that I loved high school football.

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When I was in primary school, I got into a major argument (爭論)with a boy in my class. I can't    what it was about, but I have never forgotten the    I learned that day.
I was    that I was right and he was wrong—and he was sure that I was wrong and he was right. The    decided to teach us a very important lesson. She    both of us up to the    of the class and    him on one side of her desk and me on   . In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could    see that it was black. She asked the boy what    the object was. "White," he answered.
I couldn't believe he said the object was white,    it was obviously black! Another    started between my classmate and me, this    about the color of the object.
The teacher told me to go to stand where the boy was standing and told him to come to stand where I had been. We changed   , and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I  answer, "White." It was an object with two    colored sides, and from his side it was white.    from my side was the color black.
My teacher taught me a very important lesson that day: You must    in the other person's shoes and look at the     through their eyes in order to    understand their view.

The True Story of Treasure Island
It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination. ____, recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.
Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived  ____ for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a    . With him were his American wife Fanny and his son   ___.
Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long      over the hills. They had been ___ _ this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days  ____. To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some ____.
One morning , the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert __ that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of ___ . "What's that?" he asked. "That's the _ _ treasure," said the boy. Robert suddenly _ ___something of an adventure story in the boy’s _ _ . While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the _ _ a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate(海盜)?
Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the __ __ of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to   ____ such a man in a story. _ __ Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was _ ___.
So, thanks to a___ ___ September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of greatest _ ____ stories in the English language.