In life, we will succeed and fail often for reasons that are entirely out of our control. For instance, we can be _________ nice and love someone deeply, and they may not love us _________. We can work harder than anyone else in the office and still not be promoted to management. We can eat _________ food, exercise and stay away from alcohol and cigarettes, and still get sick.

The bottom line is that life is not _________.

That is a bitter pill to _________ for many of us. As a result, some people shut down after being hit by even one unfair blow from life. They can’t handle the fact that our efforts don’t always get the results that we _________. But if we let life’s unfairness _________ us, we will never receive the beautiful blessings that life has in store for us.

For example, my first marriage _________ divorce (离婚). To me, it felt very unfair. However hard I had tried to be a good wife, I could not make the relationship work. I could have been _________ by that experience and decided that if one person didn’t appreciate me as a wife, then no one would. I could have ______________. ____________, I knew I wanted to be married and experience traditional family life. Then I met my present husband and now have a happy family.

What I’ve learned over the years is that we can do all the things that deserve a good result, but get bad things in return ____________. When life doesn’t go ____________ plan, we have to ____________ the result that we have been looking forward to and keep trying, and doing the right thing. Accept that life is neither fair nor easy. ____________ we remain confident, we can drive our unfair experiences away and use them for our benefit.

Many people are complaining that work and study are quite difficult at times. They need a method to relax. I have found that the best way to reduce ______ is to read a good book. It ______ me to escape from real life. It gives me a(n) ______ view on the world, and reading a book is a very ______ activity.

First, reading a good story is the best way to ______ about my troubles during the day. Many of the books I read have ______ plot lines(情节安排)，which attract me to the characters and action. When I am ______ reading, nothing in the outside world seems to exist any more. One cannot______in this dreamland forever, of course. ______for an hour or so a day, it is very calming.

Second, reading books can also give me a new way to ______ the outside world. Even a fictional(虚构的) book can have this ______. When authors write a book, they ______their ideas and feelings about how the world works. By ______ works of different writers, I find that I ______more about other people, and ______they think. This helps me to learn to ______ others just as they are.

Finally, the most ______ reason why reading is good for ______ is that it allows me to ______ the most amazing peace. For a devoted reader, it is ______ to go to a bright, beautiful place to read. You can just stay at home, sitting in your favourite chair. With the house being completely quiet, you can enter the peaceful world of knowledge and imagination.

In life, we will succeed and fail often for reasons that are entirely out of our ________. We can work harder than anyone else in the office and still not be ________. We can be incredibly nice and love someone deeply, and they may not love us ________.

The bottom line is that life is not ________.

That is a tough ________ to swallow for many of us. As a result, some people ________ after being hit by even one unfair blow from life. But if we let life’s unfairness ________ us, we will never receive the beautiful blessings that life has ________ for us.

My first ________ marriage felt very unfair to me. No matter how hard I had tried to be a good wife, I could not make the relationship ________. I could have been ________ by that experience. But I believed that I could be ________ married one day ________ I always wanted to experience traditional family life. And then, I met this kind, thoughtful, generous man.

What I’ve learned over the years is that we can do all the things that ________ a good outcome, but get ________ things in return instead.

When we are faced with life’s seeming unfairness, our ________ needs to jump in. When life doesn’t go ________ plan, we have to let go of the outcome that we have been ________ and keep trying, and doing the right thing. ________ that life is neither fair nor straightforward. And by knowing that if we remain confident, we can drive our unfair experiences away and use them for our ________.