Today we spent the morning going through our personal belongings. We were looking for items to______for free at a local park. Not just any items but things people really______. Our aim was not to find things we no longer______but things we use every day that would be______to others.

We packed these things______the box and added some small toys. We added a list of local addresses and phone numbers of local______agencies. Inside the box a simple letter was placed. It______: “Please take these items and know that your life is important.______are difficult but these days will pass. We share what we have believing that it will______. Use the food to nurture your______and use the blankets to stay warm. Be safe and know that the human______can overcome anything. Do not hold your head______for having a need to stay warm. Someday please do the same when you can.”

This kind______was not because the phone rang or for any reason. It was______because it was the right to do. We have often seen______people at the park where we left the belongings. I______that my wife had put her favorite green coat into the box. I asked if she was______about it and she just replied that it had a hood (兜帽). Her answer told me why it is I who love her. She liked the coat but knew the hood could______someone from the rain.

Who knows where these gifts of______will go? How many uses can a blanket serve______what it was designed to do? We never go back and see what happens. It is unimportant. The right things will find the right people and that is all that counts.

As someone who did not finish school, I think that it is so important to become a lifelong learner. And to _________ an endless curiosity about the world also counts.

Because of my dyslexia（阅读障碍）, learning through chalk boards, textbooks and exams did not work for me, so at school I would devote my youthful passion to _________. However, I broke my knee playing football and was forced to bottle up all of that _________ indoors. I found myself obsessed（痴迷）with the news, politics and global affairs—and so began my lifelong love of learning._________ my struggles at school, when I found my passion for the world, I realized that _________ I am interested in something, I can absorb everything about it.

Newspapers opened my eyes and _________ my mind in the way a_________ never did. As I became more informed about the world outside of school—and _________ upset by the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia—I felt a(n)_________ to do something. I wanted to give other young people an unbiased（无偏见的） and easy way of learning about the world around them, so they could __________ their own opinions and take a stand on the issues that __________ to them. As a result, Student magazine was born. I left school altogether and the magazine became my __________. I feel very fortunate that I was able to find __________ I was truly passionate about, gain confidence in my abilities, and build a love of learning.

My dyslexia has shaped Virgin（维珍商业帝国） right from the very beginning. It helped me think big while keeping our messages __________. The business world often gets caught up in facts and figures. While the details and data are important, the ability to dream, conceptualize and innovate is what sets the successful and the unsuccessful __________. The simple fact is that nobody ever learned anything by listening to themselves speak.

Horror blanketed the heart of the World War I soldier, as he saw his life-long friend fall in battle. Caught in a trench(壕沟)with continuous gunfire whizzing over his head, the soldier asked his lieutenant(中尉)_____ he might go out into the“No Man’s Land”between the trenches to bring his __ comrade back.

“You can go,”said the lieutenant, “__I don’t think it will be worth it. Your friend is __ dead and you may throw your own life away.”

The lieutenant’s words didn’t __ and the soldier went anyway. Miraculously he__ to reach his friend, lift him onto his __ and bring him back to their company’s trench. As the two of them tumbled in together to the bottom of the trench, the officer__ the wounded soldier, then looked kindly at his friend.

“I told you it wouldn’t be worth it,”he said. “Your friend is dead, and you are mortally__.”

“It was worth it, __, sir,”the soldier said.

“How do you mean, ‘worth it’?”__ the lieutenant.“Your friend is dead!”

“Yes sir,”the private answered. “But it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still__, and I had the__ of hearing him say, ‘Jim, I knew you’d come.’”

Many a time in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not really __ how you look at it. Take up all your courage and do something your heart tells you to do so that you may not regret not doing it later in life. May each and everyone of you be blessed with the __ of true friends.