One day，a man in rags begged from door to door along the street. With an old wallet in
his hanD. he was asking for a few coins to buy something to eat. He kept complaining（抱怨）
about his bad fortune and kept　36　why those who had so much money were never　37　
and were always desiring more.
"As far as I'm concerneD. if I had only enough to　38　and to wear, I would not want anything more.”
Just at that moment Goddess Fortune, who came down the　39　，saw the beggar and said to him, "Hi, I have wished to　40　you for a long time. Now, open your　41　and I will pour my gold into it. But I will do that only on this　42　：All that falls into the wallet will be pure gold; but every piece falling upon the 　43　shall become dust. Do you unde stand?""I see.”said the beggar."Then you should　44　！It's obvious that your wallet is a(n)　45　one，so don't to it too heavily,”said the Goddess Fortune.
The excited beggar could hardly 　46　 to have gold He quickly opened his wallet, anc
　47　of yellow coins was poured into it. The wallet grew heavier and heavier.
"Is that enough? Isn't it cracking?" asked Fortune.
"Never　48　．It's still strong enough now.，’answered the beggar.
The wallet was filled with so many coins that the beggar's hands began to 　49　. "A if only the golden stream would　50　forever! Just a little more，”said the beggar,“　51　just a handful or two.”
"There! It's full. The wallet will　　52　．”warned the Goddess, but the beggar reque teD.“It will　53　a little more, just a little more.”
One more piece was added and the wallet split. The　54　fell upon the ground and came dust, The greedy beggar had nowto　55　but his broken bag.

My sister and I grew up in a little village in England．Our father was a struggling ___36___， but I always knew he was ___37___．He never criticized us, but used ___38___ to bring out our best．He’d say, “If you pour water on flowers, they flourish．If you don’t give them water, they die.” I ___39___ as a child I said something ___40___  about somebody, and father said, “___41___ time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.” He explained that if I looked for the best ___42___ people, I would get the best ___43___．From then on I’ve always tried to ___44___ the principle in my life and later in running my company．
Dad’s also always been very ___45___．At 15, I started a magazine．It was ___46___ a great deal of time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a ___47__: stay in school or leave to work on my magazine．
I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision, ___48___ any good father would．When he realized I had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad ___49__ me to go into law．And I’ve ___50___ regretted it．I wanted to be a biologist, ___51__ I didn’t pursue my ___52__．You know what you want．Go fulfill it.”
As ___53__ turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national ___54__ for young people in the U.K．My wife and I have two children, and I’d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad ___55__ me．

In the doorway of my home, I looked closely at my 23-year-old son, Daniel. In a few hours he would be flying to France to   36  a different life. It was a transitional（過渡的）time in Daniel's life. I wanted to    37  him some words of significance. But nothing came from my lips, and this was not the    38  time I had let such moments pass.
When Daniel was five, I took him to the bus stop on his first day of kindergarten. He asked, “What is it going to be like, Dad? Can I do it?” Then he walked   39  the steps of the bus and disappeared inside. The bus drove away and I said nothing. A decade later, a similar   40 played itself out. I drove him to college. As I started to leave, I tried to think of something to say to give him    41 and confidence as he started this new stage of life. Again, words 42  me.
Now, as I stood before him, I thought of those 43  opportunities. How many times have I let such moments   44 ? I don't find a quiet moment to tell him what they have  45  to me. Or what he might   46  to face in the years ahead. Maybe I thought it was not necessary to say anything.
What does it matter in the course of a lifetime if a father never tells a son what he really thinks of him?    47  as I stood before Daniel, I knew that it did matter. My father and I loved each other. Yet, I always   48  never hearing him put his   49   into words. Now I could feel my palms sweat and my throat tighten. Why is it so   50  to tell a son something from the heart?
My mouth turned dry, and I knew I would be able to get out only a few words clearly. “Daniel,” I said, “If I could have picked, I would have picked you.” That's all I could say. He hugged me. For a moment, the world    51 , and there were just Daniel and me. He was saying something, but tears misted my eyes, and I couldn't understand what he was saying. All I was    52  of was the stubble（短須）on his chin as his face pressed   53  mine. What I had said to Daniel was   54 . It was nothing. And yet, it was  55 .

There once was a little boy who often got angry for unknown reasons and ended up quarreling with his friends. His parents felt   36  but had no idea how to deal with the matter.
In order to help the son, his father gave him a bag of   37  and told him that every time he   38  his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the   39  .
At first the boy felt puzzled at his father's words, but he did as he was told. The first day the little boy had   40  thirty nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks,   41   he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily   42  reduced. Three months later, the little boy discovered it was easier to   43  his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence. Finally the day came   44  the little boy did not lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the little boy now   45  one nail each day when he was   46  control his temper. The days passed and the little boy was   47  able to tell his father that all the nails were       48 .
The father took his little boy   49  the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the   50  in the fence. The fence will never be the   51 .When you say things in anger, they   52  a scar just like this one on the person to whom you lose your temper. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.   53  many times you say “I'm sorry”, the wound is still there. A mental wound is as bad as a   54  one. The hurt and pain caused by the   55  are deeper than those caused by the hand.

One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled (鋪瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is    1  .
Once I heard a bald man said, “Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair.” Once you’ve    2   what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will    3   make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different    4 , or forget about it and    5  the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have had a relatively    6  life, yet are essentially unhappy, while people who have suffered a great deal generally remain happy.
The first    7  is gratitude. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to    8 , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
The second secret is awareness. We should    9   that happiness is a byproduct (副產(chǎn)品) of something else. The most obvious    10   are those pursuits ( 追求) that give our lives purpose---anything from studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are   11   to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our   12   has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We need a spiritual faith, or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy is, it should    13  this truth: if you choose to find the   14   in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this    15   depends on your decision to make.

In a world where comparisons happen non-stop, it is difficult to look outside yourself and to ever be   36  with who you are. There’s always someone who’s a bit   37 . The only solution is to reach   38  and measure against what Warren Buffett calls your own inner yardstick. There is no more   39  measure for comparison than who your were yesterday, last week or last decade, when you were at your   40 .
Nothing useful ever comes from comparison to others. Either you see yourself as better than someone and you get   41 , or you see someone else as better than you and you feel like all your hard work is for   42 . It is a fool’s game. Not one of us is exactly   43 . The only direct and honest comparison is   44  yourself. Everything else is apples to oranges.
My opinion is that you are only   45  to compare yourself to someone else if their life  46  is the same as your own. Good luck finding that   47 . And one thing is for sure. No matter how hard you work and how dedicated you are, there will always be someone who can run a little faster, jump a little higher, score a little better or look a little nicer in a swimsuit. And if there’s not, you can   48  someone is coming up fast   49  you. So how can you always win in life? Become your best   50 .
Having an image of your most recent past limits is the perfect thing to   51  you to the next level. If you ran 7 flights of stairs yesterday, then do 8 today. Who   52  if the guy next to you did 15? It doesn’t make a bit of   53 . You are a more   54  person today than you were yesterday. Your own   55  is all you need.

After 21 years of marriage, I discovered a new way of keeping the spark (火花) of love alive. I started to go out with another woman. It was really my wife’s    26  .
The other woman that my    27   wanted me to visit was my mother, who has been a widow (寡婦) for 19 years, but the    28   of my work and my three children had made it possible to visit her only    29  . That night I called to invite her to go out for    30   and a movie. “What’s wrong, are you    31  ?” she asked. My mother is the type of woman who    32   that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign of bad news. “I thought that it would be    33   to pass some time with you,” I responded. “Just the    34   of us.” She thought about it for a moment, then said, “I would like that very much.”　
We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant, was very nice and    35  . My mother took my arm    36   she were the First Lady. During the dinner we had an agreeable    37   — nothing extraordinary — but    38   recent events of each other’s life. We talked so much that we    39   the movie. As we arrived at her house later, she said, “I’ll    40   with you again, but only if you let me invite you.” I agreed. “How was your dinner    41  ?” asked my wife when I got home. “Very nice. Much more so than I could have imagined,” I answered.
A few days later my mother    42   a massive heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do    43   for her. At that moment I    44   the importance of saying in time “I LOVE YOU” and giving our loved ones the time that they    45  .

I have always been an independent person, but I have come to know that being independent does not mean refusing help. I may still be   16  with asking for help, but I try to accept. Furthermore, I will even   17  help and when my offers are refused, I am   18  willing to walk away. And all these changes came from a disaster on an island.
Sometimes a person’s independence is a   19  of pride, daring, stubbornness and luck. I used to be too   20  since I was little. I was once a traveler who never asked for   21 , choosing instead to struggle with maps and signs until I found my way.
Then one day on the island of Koh Phangan, in Thailand, everything   22 . I was swimming in the ocean with Sean, my fiancé, when he was   23  by a box jellyfish(箱型水母). He   24 within three minutes, 25 years old. Yet when onlookers and travelers asked if I wanted   25 , stubborn pride and force of habit   26  me accepting. But two young Israeli women stayed.   27  my protest(反對), they were with me even when the police tried to cover up the   28  of Sean’s death. It was listed as drunk drowning to avoid hurting the   29  industry. The Israeli women   30  have walked away.   31 , without even telling me, they   32  their schedule rather than leave me behind.
  33  I didn’t realize it at that time, I would not have   34  the disaster without these great women. Actually, the person who needs help the most is usually the last person to ask for it. I have learned   35  is better than refusing because it not only helps you walk out of trouble, but also helps you know the real meaning of life.

Freda Bright says, "Only in opera do people die of love." It's true. You really can't love somebody to death. I've known people to die from no love, but I've never known anyone to be loved to death. We just can't love one another enough.
A heart-warming story tells of a woman  36  decided to ask her boss for a  37  in salary. All day she felt  38  and worried. Late in the afternoon she summoned the  39  to approach her employer. To her  40 , the boss agreed to a raise.
The woman arrived home that evening, finding a beautiful table  41  with their best dishes. Candles were softly glowing. Her husband had come home  42  and prepared a festive meal. She  43  if someone from the office had tipped him off, or ... did he just somehow know that she would not get  _44 ?
She found him in the kitchen and told him the  45  news. They embraced and kissed, then sat down to the wonderful  46   Next to her plate the woman found a beautifully lettered note. It  47_  "Congratulations, darling ! I knew you'd get the raise! These things will tell you how much I love you."
Following the supper, her husband went into the  48  to clean up. She noticed that a second card had fallen from his pocket. Picking it off the  49 , she read: "Don' t worry about not getting the raise! You  50  it anyway! These things will tell you how much I love you. "
Someone has said that the measure of love is when you love without  51 . What this man feels for his  52  is total acceptance and love,  53  she succeeds or fails. His love celebrates her victories and soothes (撫慰，減輕) her  54 . He stands with her, no matter what life throws  55  their direction.
Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa said: "What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. "And love your friends. Love them without measure.

Being on the road at 3:15 a. m. to drive 450 kms wasn’t in my plans for the weekend. I had been looking forward to a couple of  ____ days to prepare myself for the following busy  ___ .
My son, Simon, and his good friends were heading for the ___ . Due to the last- minute issue with transportation, I __  my car to ensure that everyone could get to the   point so that they could get together and enjoy their week’s ____ by snowboarding and skiing.
The only thing that  ____ to me on my journey was that no sooner had I ____ and said goodbye than I would make the trip ____，in total, a round trip of 900 kms in just 10 hours. Such a long drive in one day was frightening, __  as I was looking forward to relaxation
Simon and I ___，on our way，a little about his break and a whole lot of his school subjects. It was great to have this time with him as we ____ spent five continuous hours together，other than when we played Saturday cricket (板球).
On my return trip, I ____a strange sense of loneliness in some heavy morning ____. Within an hour it ____. I spent the next four hours listening to some CDs and enjoying the scenery. Surprisingly, after my long trip home I was    refreshed and energized even though I was physically exhausted. And I knew that I would have a(n) ____ sleep that evening.
A change ____ your environment, no matter how great, can provide you with the opportunity to _ something from different angles, as well as to be refreshed and energized
Now I’m looking forward to my next     event and many more opportunities to spend quality time with those who are important to me and make my life more rewarding.