The two teachers were sitting in the teacher’s room. For a moment there was           . Then one of them, Miss Smith said “I’m afraid I’d have to          him.”
“Now, Alice,” said her friend Mrs. Jackson, “is he such a terrible student?”
“That’s just the         ,” the other woman replied. “Tom is my best student. The problem is that he’s now so lazy that he never gets      done. He hasn’t handed me          of his homework for three weeks and I’d be surprised        he did now.”
    before had Mrs. Jackson seen Miss Smith look so unhappy. “Have you         with him about it?” she asked.
“Why should I? He knows he has to prepare his lessons and do his homework. I          that clear the first day for class. When the course started , he did so           that I considered asking the         to give him a scholarship (奖学金). But now he even          in class! I’ve never seen such a         in a student.”
“You should have a      with him. Give him a chance to tell his side of story.”
Miss Smith spoke to Tom and        all about it. He was studying all day and        most of the night in a factory to pay for his education. Of course he was tired in the      and sometimes could hardly keep       . Miss Smith soon arranged for him to have a       and he was able to give up his     and concentrate (集中精力) on his studies .

Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very     with everything he had. However, when he found his elder brother was     than him, he felt disappointed. So he     hard about how he could also be richer. Finally he got an idea. He started to spend less money on food and clothes to     some money to buy more land. Once he had enough money, he started     for land.
He     that on the neighboring land, there were some nomads (游牧民) living there. He bought some gifts and went to    their head. He presented the gifts to the head and told him the     of his visit. The head welcomed him, accepted the gifts and agreed to his     to get the land. The head told him that he could have the land     giving him anything. He can take as much land as he could     by walking through the land before sunset (日落). He should start in the morning and whatever distance he could travel during the    , he could have it.
The farmer became very     when he heard this offer. Now he could have lots of     without paying anything. He came     the next morning and started running, not walking,     he could cover the largest area. To reach his goal, he neither ate food, nor drank water, nor had any rest. He just continued    . Without eating, or drinking, or resting he just got very    . When he came back to the head in the evening, he     right on the spot. Sadly his son buried him in a piece of land about 6 x 4 feet.
Don’t be greedy (贪婪的) or you will     everything finally.

Once upon a time, there were two very good friends who lived together in the shade of a rock. Strange as it may seem, one was a　   and one was a tiger. They had met when they were too　  to know the difference between lions and tigers. So they did not think their　  was at all unusual. Besides, it was a peaceful part of the mountains, possibly　   the influence of a gentle forest monk who lived nearby. He was a hermit, one who　   　far away from other people.　
For some unknown reason, one day the two friends got into a silly　   . The tiger said, “Everyone knows the cold　   when the moon wanes from full to new! ” The lion said, “Where did you hear such nonsense? Everyone knows the　   comes when the moon waxes from　   to full! ”
The argument got stronger and stronger. Neither could　    the other. They could not　    any conclusion to resolve the growing dispute. They　    started calling each other names! Fearing for their friendship, they decided to go to ask the learned forest　    , who would surely know about such things.　
Visiting the　    hermit, the lion and tiger bowed respectfully and put their question to him. The friendly monk thought for a while and then gave his　    . “It can be cold in any phase of the　    , from new to full and back to new again. It is the wind that brings the cold, 　    from west or north or east. Therefore, in a way, you are both right! And neither of you is　    by the other. The most important thing is to live without conflict, to remain　    . Unity is best by all means. ”
The lion and tiger thanked the wise hermit. They were happy to　    　be friends.　

One evening, long after most people had gone to bed, a friend of mine and I         happily home through the          street. We had been to a music-hall and         about the people we had seen and heard in it.
“The show        him a star overnight, ” said my friend about one of them. “He was completely        before. And now thousands of people         him gifts and letters. ” “I thought him quite good, ”  I said , “ but not         thousands of letters . As a matter of       , one of his songs gave me a shock. It was too noisy. ” “What was that?” my friend asked me, “      it to me .” I began to sing. “Do be quiet. You will give everybody a shock and        them up for miles       , besides, there will be a policeman         us. ” My friend gave me a surprised look.
“Never mind. I don’t care. What is the matter?” I said and went on singing        the top of my voice .
Suddenly there came a policeman,       in front of me , his notebook       . “     , sir ,” he said , “You have a very good voice , if I       say so . Who taught you singing? I’d very much       to find someone who can give my daughter singing lessons. Would you be       to tell me your name and address? Then my wife and I would        you and we could discuss it .”

I grew up in a small town and the main entertainment was Friday night high school football. It was just a sleepy little town where parents wanted to raise their children away from crime and              of a big city, and where teenagers like me        leaving to find something bigger and better.
All that changed one summer night. My friend Lisa, Martin and Tyler held a party for my eighteenth birthday at Lisa’s house.       they kept handing alcohol to me I was pretty        . I asked Tyler to take me home. With some       , we made it out to his car and drove home. News came next morning. My friend Martin was       in a car accident. That night after Tyler and I left, Martin, who was       more drunk than me, got into his car and        towards the highway to go home. Driving on the wrong side of the road, he never saw the truck coming. The driver didn’t see him       to avoid the car. They hit head on. Martin died immediately, and the driver was thrown       the truck windshield（挡风玻璃）and died a week later.
Whenever I       back on that day, I can’t help thinking that it was my       to drink so much that night.       things would be different. I know Martin       the choice to drink and drive that night, but a part of me will always feel       for what happened.
I may not change the world with my story, but I do hope that by       my story I can make you       that you not only have a responsibility for yourself but also for others. Don’t ever think that your choices are yours       . Every choice is like a stone dropped into         water—each ripple (涟漪) represents someone who your choice       . That’s quite an influence, isn’t it?

WHEN John Gurdon was 15, he ranked last out of the 250 boys in his grade at biology. He also came in last for every other science subject. His teacher wrote in a      : “I believe he has ideas about becoming a      ; on his present showing this is quite foolish.”
Luckily, the teacher’s words didn’t       Gurdon’s love for science. He kept working hard. He went to lab earlier and left       than anyone else.
On Oct 8, 2012, 64 years later, the British professor       the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka had contributed to the research and therefore       the award.
Gurdon got the honor       his research into cells and cloning. When he was studying at Oxford, he did some       on cells. He took a cell from an adult frog, moved its      , and put them into an egg cell. The egg cell then       into a clone of the adult frog. His research       for the first time that every cell in the body contains the same genes.
At that time, many people       accept Gurdon’s idea. But later it helped to       Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first cloned mammal in history. It also led to important findings in the       use of cells. For example,       from someone’s skin can turn into any type of tissue in the body. This is good news for those       who have diseased or damaged tissue.
Gurdon always remembers the       he had when he was 15. He even put the report on his desk as a daily       to himself.
“When you have      , like an experiment doesn’t work, it’s nice to remind yourself that perhaps you are not so good at your job and the teacher may be      ,” he said.
However, the facts suggest Gurdon is pretty good indeed.

Debbie Macomber decided to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. She rented a typewriter, put it on the ____ table and began typing each morning after the kids went to school. ____ the kids came home, she moved it and made them dinner. When they were ____ she got it back and typed some more.
Debbie followed this ____ for two years. She had become a struggling writer and she loved every minute of it. One night, ____, her husband, Wayne, said, “Honey, I’m sorry, but you’re not ____ any income. We can’t do this anymore. We can’t survive on just what I make.” That night, her heart was ____. Debbie knew, with all of the ____ of keeping up a house, working 40 hours a week would ____ her no time to write.
Seeing her ____, her husband asked, “What’s wrong?” “I really think I can make it as a ____.” “All right, honey, go for it,” Wayne ____ for a long time and then said.
So Debbie returned to her ____ and her typewriter on the kitchen table, writing for another two years. Wayne worked harder and their kids went without vacations and wore hand-me-downs. But the sacrifice finally ____. 
Debbie sold her first book after five years of ____. Then another. And another. Until today, Debbie has ____ more than 100 books, many of ____ have become New York Times best-sellers. Over 60 million copies of her books are in print.
And Wayne? His selfless ____ of his wife paid off. He got to retire at 50 and now spends his free time building a private airplane in the basement of their 7,000 square-foot mansion. ____, Debbie’s kids also got a gift more important than several summer camps. As adults, they ____ what Debbie gave them was far more important — persistence and encouragement to pursue their own dreams.

A year ago, August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, but it was       for Dave to find work, and the price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at the risk of joining the millions of Americans who have       their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely       —$7,000, a legacy(遗产) from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. “It really made a difference when we were meeting difficulty.” says Dave.
But the Fusses weren’t the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to       unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were    by what the Hatches had done. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in      , it was more than $100,000.
It       nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $3 million—they were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm.
Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of     . They preferred comparison shopping and would go from store to store, checking prices before making a new purchase.
Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camps when their parents couldn’t       it. “Ish and Arlene never asked if you       anything,” says their friend Sandy Van Weelden, “They could see things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”
Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches       their farmland. It was the Hatches’ wish that their legacy—a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents—should       the whole community and last for generations to come.
Neighbors helping neighbors—that was Ish and Arlene Hatch’s story.

There was a Greek shopkeeper in a small corner shop in London. She taught me about the    of an act of kindness, which has motivated me to give.
On the day I went to that shop, I was     with a very high fever. I had been off work for days and I had       out of food. Because I had been working so hard since I had       to town, I also had no friends who could help.
So I went out to get some food.      , I would have gone to the supermarket, but on this      , I went into the Greek shop because it was closer. I      a few things, which revealed the    that I lived alone. Then I      them to the shopkeeper, who told me, “You are unwell.” I      rather shyly. She pointed at the things I was buying and     “I can make you a sandwich, so you don’t have to do it yourself.”
So, she made the sandwich and asked me to      a moment. She went in the back room and reappeared with a container of hot soup.” It will      you up,” she said with a smile.
What really warmed me up,       , was not the soup. It was her     that told me she cared. Her kindness made me feel cared for when I was particularly      .
And it      me. It made me want to be as      as the shopkeeper. I had been quite shy, but, from that day on, I did not let shyness prevent me from       random acts of kindness.
I was determined to       the joy… and I haven’t felt lonely since!