Many years ago ,l was working at my job at a community college when a homeless woman came in. She began     as she lay on one of the sofas in the student rest room.    , she wasn't well. Without thinking too much I went next door to the Student Affairs office where I knew I could find        in the Lost and Found box. I     up a set of clothing and went back to my office,        I heard a colleague calling me. She told me that I should not     this person, as it would only lead to her wanting more help. I refused her      and went back to help the woman,  my co-worker's warning .
Two weeks later, while I was working, a very cute elderly man entered my      and asked to speak with me in private. Curiously, l gave him my full   and he told me that he had happened to hear my   with the co-worker about helping the    woman. He wanted me to know that it was always okay to help people and that was why he wanted to give me a     for $1,000. I burst into tears, because I     needed the money at the time, but also because I had never been     in such a way for helping someone!
We soon became good     and 10 years later he called me up suddenly and told me he wanted to help me     my first home! He     giving me $120,000 as part payment for my dream house in my home town. I asked him why he wanted to give me such a large amount of money and he said it was because I was a " giver"  and that I     it !  To make a long story short, l was able to buy the perfect little home for myself, all because one day I did not     to help a homeless woman.

The day    I was 3 years old       the beginning of my dream. On that day, after seeing the Capital Dancing Company performance, I    , “Mama, when I grow up, I’m going to be one of those.”
As I grow older, my    in the world of dance    changed, but that little girl’s dream of someday becoming a    in the company never left me. In 2005, aged 18, I received the phone making that dream come true: I became a member of the company.
When I looked        on that day now, I believe I stayed in a state of       disbelief until I was asked to rehearsal (排練). Though I was entirely excited with the offer, it did not come without      . Through the strict and hard rehearsal, I found it important to     myself to learning the skills fast with every bit of concentration(注意力集中). It is the extreme        to detail (細(xì)節(jié)) and stress on practice that help us      . Then comes a      show schedule of up to five performances a day, I found a new      of the words “HARD WORK”. The practice pushed me forward than I thought      . I learnt to make each performance better than the last. Besides, the teachers not only teach us skills but help us a lot in daily life when we are       in trouble.
Today, as a member and dance captain in the unbelievable company, I see a       that has encouraged not only       little girls but a wonderful company that       to develop and grow and encourage people every day to         their dreams.

I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people       I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a      person.
I think my       started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my      and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever        to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really       . It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n)     . I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I     to help. That was really a big       for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of       are still my best friends today. 
A bigger cause of my new       , however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my        . Every time I came into her room, she was so     because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never       her, so I took her place. She let me     that making others feel good made me feel good, too, when she died, I was      , but I was very grateful to her.
I think I am a much       person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not       these experiences. They have        me to care about other people more than about myself. I       who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of _____ and what color red is. It would be _____ to see again, but a (n) ____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would ____ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had ____.                                                
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a ____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with ___.
The ____ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of ____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I _____ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being ____, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. _____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was ____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words _____ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could ____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ___ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I ___ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my  ___. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, _____ on the average I made progress.

As King Parveez and Queen Shireen were sitting in their palace one day，a fisherman who was selling beautiful fish was brought in front of them. King Parveez decided to ____ a fish and gave the fisherman 4,000 dirham for it.
The fisherman was wild with ____. He thanked King Parveez and left.
Queen Shireen turned to her husband in anger and ____ him for paying so much for a fish. The king said that the fish was purchased and that there was ____ that could be done about it.
___，Queen Shireen insisted that the fisherman should be ____. She said, “We will ask the fisherman about the __ of the fish. If he answers it is female, we will say we want a male fish and if he replies it is male, we will say we want a female fish! Either way, we will be able to return the fish and have our ____ back.”
So the poor fisherman was called back and was asked the question.
Fortunately, he was ____ enough not to be caught out.The fisherman replied, “This fish is ____ in the sense that it is neither male nor female.”
King Parveez was so ____ by the wisdom of the man that he ____ a further 4,000 dirham to be paid to him. The fisherman thanked King Parveez ____， but as he was about to leave with the heavy bag of money, one of the ____ fell onto the floor. The fisherman ____ bent down to look for the coin.
“Look how greedy this man is！” Queen Shireen ____.“One coin has fallen out of his money bag and he searches for it instead of leaving it for some other poor ____ in the palace to find.”
The fisherman heard this ___ and said，“It is not out of greediness that I search for the coin but rather because it had the picture of __ King Parveez on it.I would not____ anyone to step on the coin.”

(2013·江西九校高三聯(lián)考)One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue，____ I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. Why I wish to buy only one pair is ____. I turned into the first sock shop that ____ my eye, and a boy clerk who could not have been more than seventeen years old ____. “What can I do for you, sir？”“I wish to buy a pair of socks.”His eyes glowed. There was a note of ____ in his voice.“Did you know that you had come into the finest place in the world to buy socks？” I had not been aware of that, as my entrance had been ____. “Come with me，” said the boy，excitedly. I followed him to the back part of the shop, and he began to haul down from the shelves box after box，____ their contents for my enjoyment.
“Hold on, young man, I am going to buy only one pair！”“I know that，” said he，“but I want you to see ___ beautiful these are. Aren't they wonderful？” ____ was on his face an expression of solemn and holy pleasure，____ he were revealing to me mysteries of his religion. I became far ____ interested in him than in the socks. I looked at him in amazement. “My friend，” said I, “if you can keep this up, if this is not ____ the enthusiasm that comes from novelty, from having a new job, if you can keep up this enthusiasm and excitement day after day, in ten years you will own every ____ in the United States.”
My amazement ____ his pride and joy in salesmanship will be easily understood by all who read this article. In many shops the ____ has to wait for someone to wait upon him. And when ____ some clerk does notice you, you are made to feel as if you were interrupting him. Whether he is ____ in deep thought in which he hates to be disturbed or he is chatting with a girl clerk, you feel like ____ for “being too rude”．
He displays no interest either in you or the goods he ____ to sell. Yet possibly that very clerk who is now so apathetic began his career with hope and ____. The daily grind was too much for him; the novelty wore off; his only pleasures were found outside of working hours. He became mechanical, he became incompetent, and then he saw younger clerks who had more zest in their work, promoted over him. He became sour. That was the last stage. His usefulness was over.

John and Bobby joined a wholesale company together just after graduation from college the same year.Both worked very ____.After several years, however，the boss ____ Bobby to the position of manager but John remained a(n) ____ employee.John could not take it anymore，handed in his resignation to the boss and ____ the boss did not value hard­working staff，but only promoted those who flattered (奉承) him.
The boss knew that John worked very hard for the years. He ____ for a moment and said, “Thank you for your criticism (批評(píng))，but I have a(n) ____.I hope you will do one more thing for our company ____ you leave. Perhaps you will change your mind and take back your resignation.”
John ____.The boss asked him to find out anyone selling watermelon in the ____.John went and returned soon saying he had found out a man selling watermelon.The boss then asked how much per kg and John just ___ his head. He went back to the market and returned，telling the boss $ 1.2 per kg.
The boss told John to wait a second，and he called Bobby to come to his office.He asked Bobby to do the ____ thing as he had told John to.Bobby went，returned and said，“Boss，only one person selling watermelon，$1.2 per kg, $ 10 ____ 10 kg.He has 340 melons in ____.On the table 58 melons，each weighs about 2 kg，____ from the South two days ago.They are fresh，red，and of good quality.”
John was very ___ and realized the difference between himself and Bobby.He decided not to ____ but to learn from Bobby.
My dear friends，a more successful person is better at ___，thinks more and explores in depth.____ exist in the daily details.For the same matter，a more successful person sees more and ____ so that he can find out an opportunity and catch it to realize his ____.If a person sees one year ahead while you see only tomorrow，the difference between the two is 365 times.How could you win?

A man and his girlfriend were married.All of their friends and family came to partake in the festivities and celebrations.In the ceremony，everyone could tell the couple's ___ for each other was true.
A few months later，the wife came to the husband with a ____，“I read in a magazine，a while ago，about how we can ____ our marriage，” she offered.“Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit ____ with the other person.Then，we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives ____.”
The husband ____.So each of them went to a ____ room and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other.Then they thought about this question and wrote down what they ____.
The next morning，they decided that they would ____ their lists.
“I'll start，” offered the wife.She took out her list.It had many items on it，___ to fill 3 pages.In fact，as she started reading the list of the little annoyances，she noticed that ____ was starting to appear on her husband's face.
“What's wrong？” she asked.“Nothing，” the husband replied，“____ reading your list.”
The wife continued to read ____ she had read all three pages to her husband，
“Now，you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists，” she said ____.
Quietly the husband stated，“I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are ____ the way that you are.You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and ____ anything about you.”
The wife，____ by his honesty and the 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，___ and annoyed.We don't really have to go looking for them.We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty，light and promise.Why ____ time looking for the bad，disappointing or annoying when we can see the wonderful things before us?

Nick was not the kind of boy I had expected to spend my summer with.I was hoping to have a ____  summer before my busy senior year，but my mother asked me to do her a ____.One of her colleagues needed a full­time ___.“You planned to volunteer at the local hospital，why not volunteer to ____ Nick instead？”Then she told me that this six­year­old boy was not a ____ child.
Nick was a lovely little boy who suffered from many disorders.Normal day­care centres would not ____ him.As a baby，he had serious ear infections which left him with equilibrium (平衡) problems.He couldn't ___ or run properly.I was hesitating (猶豫) ____ I was to take the job when my mother ____，“Don't you want to be a nurse in the future？I doubt if you even have the ____.”
Then I told her I was ____ for the job.
The day started at 7：00 am.Nick was my wake­up call！With so much energy and very little ____，he was quite a mix.
In the park，when he saw all the other children play on the jungle gym and swings (秋千)，the boy's face ____ up—how he wished he belonged to the group of his age！You would think it would be ____ to get a child to go down a slide (滑梯)．Believe me，it wasn't！It took time a lot of time.But with patience and support，Nick took one step up the slide each day.We worked together to face his ____ and gradually he got closer to taking the slide of his life.
Halfway through the summer，he ____ it to the top of the slide.With my arms ____ him tightly，we flew down the slide！I waited for his reaction.After realizing that he was safe and sound，he gave me a big ____ and asked，“May I go down again，alone？”I had never been happier in my life when I saw this little child climb the ladder and enjoy what other children ____ for granted.This ____ child taught me that being a nurse means respect，kindness and patience.

I was told just now in the hospital that I was having a Bell's palsy attack, a condition in which the face muscles tighten because of stress. During the long car ride home, all I could think about was my coming interview. But now I could not even    myself in the mirror and my lips was unable to open normally, surely all the other applicants would have the     I concluded.
However, I wouldn't let my own self-consciousness     me. Not now, not when I had   so hard for so long to be given this opportunity. This was the kind of position I'd dreamed of for all these years. “Mom,        me off on Jacob Street. I'm going to the     .”
“Honey, I don't think you should. You look...       ，” she said, ever so gently.
I knew she was    . But if I didn't, I'd always     if I could have gotten my dream job.
“No, Mom, take me there.”
      ， she took me where I wanted to go.
“Hello，” a gray­haired man sitting behind the large desk    me. “Miss Jenkins？”
“Yes. Please excuse me. I'm having a Bell's palsy attack. My doctor explained to me that it would last a few days. I came right from the     .”
“You're very    to come when you're in such a state，” he     ，after a pause.
He spent a few minutes looking through my     .“Is everything on here     ？” he asked.
“Yes, but I     to mention I type seventy five words per minute.”
“Well, you have an impressive background with related experience, you are  _ qualified. When are you      ？” he asked.
I took a deep breath and asked，“You're hiring me？”
“Not only have you got the skills I'm looking for, you also have the    .” He gave me a big smile.