“Now,” Mrs. Virginia DeView said, smiling, “we are going to discover our professions.” The class seemed to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be        36  . “Yes, you will all be searching for your future  37 . Each of you will have to  38  someone in your field, and give an oral (口頭的) report.”
Each day in her class, Virginia DeView reminded us about this. Finally, I  39  print journalism. This meant I had to go to interview a newspaper reporter. I was extremely nervous. I sat down in front of him 40  able to speak. He looked at me and said, “Did you bring a pencil or pen?” I shook my head. “How about some  41 ?” I shook my head again.

Today I am known for my voice. Perhaps the greatest honor came when I was asked to read The New Testament（《新約全書》）on tape .
But it  21  a long time to believe such good things could happen to me. When I was a child, I stuttered（結巴）so badly that I was completely  22  to speak in public.
 23  when I was 14, Professor Donald Crouch came to my school. He was a retired college professor. English was his favorite subject and  24  was his deepest love. He held a book of poems as if it were a crystal,  25  pages as if uncovering treasures. When he heard that our school was teaching Shakespeare and other classics, he felt  26  for not being a part of our school sooner.
When he  27  that I not only loved poetry but was  28  it, we became closer. There was, however, one  29 -- Professor Crouch could not stand the  30  that I refused to read my poems to the class.
“Jim, poetry is  31  to be read aloud,” he said. “You should be able to speak those beautiful words.” I shook my head and  32 .
One day he   33  me .
After handing in a poem, I waited for his  34 . It didn’t come. Instead one day as the students had gathered together, he  35  me , “Jim, I don’t think you wrote this poem.”
I stared at him in disbelief. “Why,” I started,  36  flooding me. “of course I did !” “Well, then,” he said, “you’ve got to prove it by getting up and reciting it from  37 .”
By then the other students had settled at their desks. With knees shaking, I walked up to the front. For a moment I stood there  38  Then I began, and kept going. I recited my poem all the way   39 !
Afterwards, Professor Crouch encouraged me to read other writers’ poetry before the public. I discovered I did have a(n)  40  and found my classmates actually looked forward to hearing me recite.

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I was watching a TV series one night when I took in one scene. A young man was seeking his community votes, and people   36  wanted to know why they should give him their  37 . He took them to his house and on every   38  in his house was the word “Faith” pasted. People raised lots of   39  to find out why the word was pasted on his mirrors. He said, “My dad often   40  me to believe that as long as you have   41 , you should have faith. Every time you look into the mirror, you’re looking at yourself and see ‘Faith’.”
The   42  I learned from this is simple—faith is a living thing and in the same way we’re all   43  given 24 hours a day and we’re all given the same measure of faith. Faith keeps us going when things get   44 ! Why is some people’s faith stronger than that of others? Exercise! If we choose to exercise our faith, it will   45 ; but if we choose not to, it remains weak. Some people might   46  that they don’t have faith, but we all practice faith every day even if we don’t   47  it as a faith. Daily   48 , such as studying, investing or reaching for a dream, take faith.
Faith   49  hearing and doing. I made a decision yesterday—to   50  reading the newspapers full of too much sad and   51  news. Why? Because I  52  there was a drop of my mental state after reading the newspapers.
Faith, when it’s put to   53 , becomes a beautiful thing. It lifts your mental state to a higher place that   54  you to raise yourself up and declare, “Yes, I can.” So make the decision today to strengthen your faith by   55  it.

Not too long ago, a story that happened at Walt Disney touched me greatly. A guest  46 out of our Polynesian Village resort(度假勝地) at Walt Disney was asked how she  47 her visit. She told the front-desk clerk she had had a(n)  48 vacation, but was heartbroken about  49 several rolls of Kodak color film(膠卷) she had not yet  50 . At that moment she was particularly  51 over the loss of the pictures she had shot at our Polynesian Luau,  52 this was a memory she especially treasured.
Now, please understand that we have no written service rules  53 lost photos in the park.  54 , the clerk at the front desk  55 Disney’s idea of caring for our  56 . She asked the woman to leave her a couple rolls of  57 film, promising she would take care of the rest of our show at Polynesian Luau.
Two weeks later the guest received a  58 at her home. In it were photos of all the actors of our show,  59 signed by each performer. There were also  60 of the public procession(游行隊伍) and fireworks in the park, taken by the front-desk clerk in her own
  61 after work. I happened to know this  62 because this guest wrote us a letter. She said that  63 in her life had she received such good service from any business.
Excellent  64 does not come from policy(政策性的) handbooks. It comes from people who  65 —and from a culture that encourages and shapes that attitude.

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I was six when I joined my father's fields in Okla. By the time I was eight, I was helping Dad   36  old furniture. He gave me a cent for every nail I   37  out of old boards. I got my first real job, at JM's Restaurant when I was 12. My main responsibilities were   38  tables. At that age, it was   39  going to work and glimpsed at my friends run off to swim or play. I didn't necessarily like work, but I loved what working   40  me to have. Because of my job, I was always the first one to buy something delicious. This made me   41  .
Word that I was trustworthy and hard-working   42  around town. A local clothing store offered me credit despite my young age. I immediately bought an expensive coat and shoes on credit. I was   43  only 65 cents an hour, and I already owed the store keeper $90!
So I learned   44  the danger of easy credit. I paid it off as soon as I could. My first job taught me   45  and brought me a level of personal satisfaction few of my friends had   46 . As my father, who worked three jobs, once told me, “If you understand sacrifice and   47  , there are not many things in life you can't have.” How right he was.

Joe Biggs was a butcher. His shop was in a village in the beautiful south of England, and he  31  in it for many years while his father was there. Then when his father reached the age of 65, he stopped working in the shop, and Joe was alone in it, so he had to work  32 .
Joe worked five and a half days a week. His shop  33  at one o’clock on Thursday, and it was closed the whole of Sunday. Saturdays were the  34  days.
Most of Joe’s  35  came to his shop from the nearest town, but sometimes he got up earlier than usual in the morning and  36  into the city to choose meat. It was  37  there.
Joe had a big  38  in his shop, but he tried not to buy too  39  meat at a time, and to  40  it before he bought more.
One  41  a woman came into the shop at five minutes to one. “Sorry I’m late,” she said, “but some friends have just telephoned to say that they are coming to  42  tonight, and I need more  43 .”
Joe only had one piece of meat in the shop. He had sold all the others  44  in the day. He took the piece  45  and said to the woman, “This is 6.5 pounds.”
“That piece is too  46 .” the woman said. “Haven’t you got anything bigger?”
Joe went  47  the room behind his shop, opened the refrigerator, put the piece of meat into it, took it out  48  and shut the door of the refrigerator  49 , then he brought the piece of meat back to the woman and said, “This piece is bigger and more expensive. It’s 8.75 pounds.”
“Good,” the woman answered with a smile, “give me  50  of them, please.”

A long time ago, there was an emperor. One day he told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and 16  as much land area as he liked, he would give him the area of land he had covered.  17  enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and 18  as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He 19  riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. Even when he was 20  and tired, he did not stop 21  he wanted to cover as much area as possible. When he at last covered a large amount of land, he was exhausted and was  22 . Then he asked himself, “Why did I 23  myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only 24  a very small area to 25  myself.”
The above story is 26  to the journey of our 27 . We push ourselves very hard every day to make more 28 , to gain power or recognition. We neglect our 29  , time with our family and to appreciate the surrounding 30  and the things we love to do. One day 31  we look back, we will 32  that we don’t really need that much, 33  then we cannot turn back time for what we have 34 .
Life is not about making money. Life is definitely not about work! Work is only 35  to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life.

When 16-year-old Ella Fitzgerald stepped onto the stage to perform at Harlem’s Apollo Theater in 1934, she had no idea that her life was about to change. Her childhood had been    36 . After the death of her parents, Fitzgerald had been placed in a boarding school.   37 , the teachers at the school mistreated her,   38  she ran away. Homeless and orphaned, Fitzgerald was trying her best to   39  on the streets of New York City when she won a contest to perform during an amateur night at the Apollo. She had   40  planned to dance, but at the last second, she decided to sing her mother’s favorite song   41 . Her performance earned her   42  from several well-known musicians. Ella Fitzgerald went on to become a   43  jazz singer.
During a musical career that spanned six decades, Fitzgerald   44  more than 200 albums. She won 13 Grammy Awards, the last of which she received in 1990. She worked with some of the greatest American singers of the twentieth century, including Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her talent and charm   45  a wide range of listeners around the world. The worldwide   46  of Ella Fitzgerald helped make jazz a more popular genre.
Until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the United States   47  African American citizens the same treatment   48  white citizens received. Fitzgerald’s manager and her band   49  to perform at places where discrimination was practiced. They also decided not to perform unless they were paid the same   50  as white singers and musicians. Ella’s fight for   51  received support from numerous celebrity admirers, including Marilyn Monroe. Fitzgerald never took her good fortune for granted. She gave money to charities and organizations that contributed to   52  disadvantages children. For her many civic contributions, in 1992 President George Bush   53  her the Presidential Medal of Honor, one of the highest honors   54  to civilians.
In 1991, Fitzgerald gave her   55  performance in New York’s Carnegie Hall. Although Ella Fitzgerald died in 1996, the American “First Lady of Song” continues to live in the hearts and ears of music lovers worldwide.