On a cold winter day, I waited in line to see my hero, Jack Canfield, the author of The Success Principles, who was going to deliver a speech on his new book.
During his talk, Jack   41  his wallet, pulled out a hundred-dollar bill, and said, ‘‘Who wants this?”   42  shot up in the audience; people leaned forward to see whom Jack would   43 . But I jumped up, ran up the   44  to the stage, and grabbed the bill. As I was launching myself in the air,   45 raced through my mind — was I about to be humiliated(羞辱) in front of 800 people? Would they   46  security guards and take me from the stage?    47  my desire for bold （大膽的）action was louder than any   48 voice. As I got the bill from his hand, he said, “That’s it! We can’t wait for the   49  to come to us. We must take    50   to create what we want!’’
After his talk, I   51  to formally meet Jack and boldly asked for his personal e-mail address. Over the next months, I sent him emails   52  my points of view and dreams with him. He kindly e-mailed back lots of encouragement. But my life got busy   53 other things. I stopped e-mailing Jack.
A year later, my dreams had worn away. I thought Jack would inspire me into action, like a giant arrow that would show me the way.
I e-mailed him, and then again — but got no   54 . As I sat down at my computer to 55  my e-mails, I  56  woke up. What was I doing? I was waiting! Now I remembered the crowd, most likely   57  that hundred-dollar bill, while they sat glued to their chairs.
Usually we all have a “Jack” for whom we wait — whether it’s a person, a place or a thing. We   58  believe the gifts of life are just around the corner, and that everything will come in a(n)   59  way. So we don’t try. We  60 . But as Wayne Gretzky said，“You’ll always miss 100% of the opportunities you don’t take!” So I stopped waiting and started my writing career.
Now what are you waiting for?

When I walk through the streets of San Francisco’s business districts, white people stare at me as if I were a circus clown.
Their staring eyes don’t see that I get ____1____ A’s in school, or that I am a captain of the football team, or that I belong to ___2____youth organizations. All they see is that I am 6-foot-4, young ,black, and male-----a potential ____3____to them.
White men look at me as if I am up to no good, or as if they are ____4____to me. White women just look at me with____5____, say, sometimes they cross the street when they see my friends and me coming, or walk in the street and only get back on the sidewalk after we ____6____.
Many people come to San Francisco to get away from the stereotypes(成見) of the cities they were born and ____7_____ in. The majority of the blacks and Latinos who live in this city don’t have that luxury.
How can you feel at home when people are_____8_____telling you to get back to Africa or Mexico ----or just back to “where you belong”?
My way of dealing with this kind of thing has _____9_____over the years. In the past, when my friends and I would walk the streets and a hundred pairs of white eyes would look at me as if we were the lowest form of dirt, it would make us angry enough to hurt or ____10____them.
Now I’m more likely to use ____11____ to defend myself against those eyes. To women who clutch their purse in terror, I’ll say, “Man, I ain’t gonna do anything to you, I got money in my pocket!” My cousin has even started wearing a T-shirt ____12_____ in big letters, “NO, WHITE LADY, I DON'T’ WANT YOUR PURSE.” 
The most painful thing is when we get those___13____ stares from black people, especially elderly ones. I want o say to them, “We’re black too. Why would we do something to you?”
Usually I react more ____14____to all of this than a lot of my friends do. Some of them, so brainwashed, just think it’s part of life and that there is nothing you can do.
But for me, that’s not good enough. I just can’t stand it when every day a hundred pair of eyes tell you you’re not_____15_____.

My friend Jenny from Germany spent some time traveling in India. She   36  the country so much that she always got attracted to it. While there, she stayed with Leela, her friend who was Indian.   37  the gazes that she got as a foreigner, Jenny always had language problems. It was very difficult for her to   38  in this new environment and culture that had so many subtle (細(xì)微的)  39  from her own country.
One day, a   40  thing happened. Along with Leela, she went to visit an orphanage. All the children there were tiny; each one fell   41  between the ages of fifteen days to one-and-a-half years old.
After some initial(最初的)   42 , Jenny slowly went to the kids and sat beside them. After some time, one of the kids smiled at her. She felt   43  a little, and she was immediately   44  towards that child.
She slowly held the child and started singing a rhyme in   45 . The small child continued to smile and started   46  after her. The words that escaped the little mouth were much different from those that Jenny hummed, but the   47  was the same.      
Wanting to join in the   48 , another kid went up to Jenny and started humming the rhyme. They shared a million   49  together.
  50  Leela's eyes on her, she blurted( 脫口而出) an explanation straight from her heart: “See, I don't have                 
  51  problems here. We speak; we communicate!”
And she continued with her rhyme   52  she didn’t want to disturb the child’s smile.
That day, it was   53  for Leela and the others in the orphanage to see such a heartwarming scene. In that moment, she understood: we're all simply human, and we have the ability to   54 with each other; it's   55 , and comes from deep inside.

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On June 25, two days after our kidney transplant （移植） surgeries, my daughter-in-law, supported by her nurse and my son, walked into my hospital room in Seattle． There she was, the   36  of my kidney, smiling at the foot of my beD．That's when I realized the full    37   of "to give is to receive．"
This February,   38  her kidney function continued to decline, my daughter-in-law needed a kidney transplant to   39 ．I told her that it would be a（n）   40  to me to be able to donate a kidney to her． Immediately I was found compatible （相匹配的）, my   41  as a kidney provider began． After  42  some tests and exams with my personal physician, I flew to Seattle for   43  testing． Whenever I "passed" one   44 , I became more relieved．Then I received the phone call telling me I was   45 ． which made me very happy．   46 , the day arriveD．Before the surgery, I truly wasn't afraid; I just wanted the transplant to be 47 ．
I woke that evening, my son telling me that my left kidney was   48  in my daughter-in-law． A strong sense of   49  washed over me． It was one of the most _50  moments of my life．
A   51  later, I got an e-mail from my daughter-in-law, saying: "Happy One-Month Anniversary!" We did have something to   52    I wasn't affected much by the surgery, and more importantly, she felt like she had her   53  back．
Up to now, being able to see my daughter-in-law   54  one of my kidneys has been one of the greatest gifts I have   55  received．

I remember one Thanksgiving when our family had no money and no food, and someone came knocking on our door. A man was ___36____ there with a huge box of food, a giant turkey and even some ___37____ to cook it in. I couldn’t ___38___ it. My dad demanded, “Who are you? Where are you from?”
The stranger announced, “I’m here because a friend of yours knows you’re in need and that you wouldn’t accept __39__ help, so I’ve brought this for you. Have a great Thanksgiving.”
My father said, “No, no, we ___40___ accept this.” The stranger replied “You don’t have __41____.”, closed the door and left.
Obviously that experience had a profound impact (深刻影響) on my life. I ___42___ myself that someday I would do well enough financially _43__ I could do the same thing for other people. By the time I was eighteen I had created my Thanksgiving ritual (習(xí)慣). I would go out ____44___ and buy enough food for one or two ___45____. Then I would dress like a delivery boy, go to the __46____ neighbourhood and just knock on a ___47____. I always __48____ a note that explained my Thanksgiving experience __49____ a kid. The note said, “All that I ask ___50___ is that you take good enough care of ___51____ so that someday you can do the same thing for someone else.” I have received more from this annual ritual than I have from any amount of __52____ I’ve ever earned.
Years ago I was in New York City with my new wife during Thanksgiving. She was sad because we were not with our family. ___53____ she would be home decorating the house for Christmas, but we were __54_____ in a hotel room. When I told her what I always do on Thanksgiving, she got excited.
We packed enough food for seven families for thirty days and went to buildings where half a dozen people lived in one room with no electricity and no heat in winter surrounded by rats, cockroaches(蟑螂) and the smell of urine(尿). It was both an ___55____ realization that people lived this way and a truly fulfilling experience to make even a small difference.

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When I was a kid , my dad used to sing an old song , “ Pack up your Troubles,” while working in the morning . The song plays in my head often    36   I’m packing for a trip --- “ Pack up your    37   in your old kit bag and smile , smile , smile .” Lately , with regulations(rules)   38   daily , packing my kit bag with clothes and toothbrush seems   39  like trouble than fun , fun , fun .
For my friend , Vikki , though ,    40 to pack isn’t as important as whom to pack . She   41  her family and friends everywhere. Vikki took her mother skiing in Mammoth   42   she took my mother-in-law to Rome. Vikki    43   prayer cards of her loved ones and takes them with her wherever she goes. The    44   have the images of Jesus and pictures of a dead friend and “ in loving memory”.   45 , I’m not as sentimental(多愁善感的) about Vikki’s collection as she is , but on a trip two years ago , I    46  power of those prayer cards.
Larry and I were in Peru with Vikki and Bill . We had just finished    47  at a restaurant in Agua Calientes , when Vikki    48   a small card across the table to Larry and asked , “ Would you like to have your    49   with you tomorrow when you climb Machu Picchu ?” Larry was visibly   50   by the gesture and slipped the prayer card from his mother’s funeral into his shirt    51  . The next day , Larry had his mom with him indeed .
It was then I    52  the enormous happiness Vikki must feel   53   . With all the rules today about what    54  can’t bring on a flight , maybe we’d all be a little more   55  if we focused on the things we can bring and make sure they are what make us happy or at least smile , smile , smile .

It was a busy morning，about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital .I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am.
The nurse had him take a  36  in the waiting area, 37  him it would be at least 40Minutes 38  someone would be able to see him I saw him  39  his watch and decided， since I was 40  busy—my patient didn’t 41  at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound .While taking care of his wound．I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment
The gentleman said no and told me that he 42  to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his 43  .He told me that she had been   44  for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be    45  if he was a bit late. He replied that she   46  knew who he was，and that she had not been able to  47  him for five years now. I was   48   , and asked him，“And you  49  go every morning，even though she doesn’t know who you are?”
He smiled and said．“She doesn’t know me but I know who she is” I had to hold back    50  as he left.
Now I   51   that in marriages，true love is   52  of all that is. The happiest people don’t   53  have the best of everything；they just  54   the best of everything they have.   55  isn’t  about how to live through the storm，but how to dance in the rain.

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Stephanie McRae was used to driving in bad weather. Although  16 still beat the windshield of her SUV（運(yùn)動(dòng)越野車）, the worst of the day's storm seemed to have passed as she  17 her 11-year-old daughter, Maddie, home at 8:30 pm.
Maddie  18  in front, while two young kids sat strapped into their SUV  19 in back. Driving along the mad by a river, McRae, 39,  20 a terrifying sight: The road just ahead had been craved in and  21 . She stepped heavily on the brake. The SUV  22 into a flooded hole some 6 metres below, and was washed into the   23 , which the storm had turned into a   24 river 30 metres wide. Rocks and fallen tree  25 knocked into her SUV, making it upside down. The pressure blew out the window.
No one was hurt,   26 there was no way to escape either, The SUV was being  27 towards the middle of the river, about 400 metres away. McRae  28 helplessly and prayed aloud with Maddie: “Please, God, please, help us!” The SUV, submerged and   29  with water, came to a stop when it parked at an angle in a logjam（浮木阻塞）. 
It was Maddie who took control. Pushing her way out of the   30 back window, the slight but athletic Maddie  31 onto the top of the SUV, which had righted itself, and yelled to her mother to hoist up the younger children. Soon the  32 were crowded on the top of the SUV’s roof.   33 to hold on as the water swept over them. McRae caught hold of the two-year-old kid to her chest while holding the three-year-old on her leg. Both children were so   34 that MeRac wondered if they were all right. With her mother’s permission, the 11-year-old girl-Meddie got over lots of problems to ask for help in a   35 village and fortunately they were saved.