A professor stood before his class with some things in front of him. When the class began, he picked up a very large, empty _________ and filled it _______ golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor then _________ small pebbles(鹅卵石) and put them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into _________ between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was _______. They agreed it was.

The professor next _________ sand into the jar and it went into the places _________ between the golf balls and the ___________.

He asked once more the same question. The students said, “Yes！”

The professor then took out two cups of _________ and poured the coffee into the jar.

“Now.” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar ____________ your life. The golf balls are the ________ things-your__________, your children, your health and your friends. If you lost everything else, only they would remain and your life would still be full. The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, your __________ and your car. The____________ is the small stuff(事务).”

“If you put the sand into the jar __________,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for __________. If you spend all your __________ and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

One of the students __________ her hand and asked what the coffee represented. The professor smiled, “It just shows that no matter ____________ full your life may seem, there’s always ______________ for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend. "

The other day, I had abruptly run out of printer ink just when I needed it. So I made a long   __   to the only store around here that

sells it. It was the ____ time to shop. The store was ____ with people and the wait at the checkout counter was long. I could see the ____ and impatience on the faces of the people around me. It was no better in the parking lot and I found myself in the middle of a ____ line of cars waiting to pull out on the highway.

As my car was moving forward ____. She was a young, thin woman with black skin and a ____ coat. She was holding up a cardboard sign that ____: “Homeless. Please Help!” I watched as car after car drove past and the drivers turned a ____ eye to her. As I came ____ a voice of the angel in my heart whispered in my ear and I quickly took up my wallet and pulled out the little ____ I had left. I stopped next to her, rolled down my window, and ____ put it in her hand. She looked at me with a small, sad smile and ____ “Thank You” before the honking（鸣笛）of the car behind me ____ me to drive on.

I drove away praying for her and ____ that the little money would help her even a little. Did my small act of kindness make a ____ for her? I don’t know. Did it change the ____ of the driver behind me? Probably not. Was it ____ in the eyes of the angel in my heart? Definitely So! In this life we all want to make ____ changes, but sometimes a small act of ____ is all it needs.

The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary( 保护区 )________ by charity is now open to the public by appointment only, where the wild horses live in freedom under long-lasting protection. I called ahead about stopping by to ________   some 2022 calendars. After discovering that the Choctaw pony( 乔克托小 马 ) Imagine, was May’s   calendar girl, along with her mother Tahiyah,   I was________, and   wanted to share a few more calendars with my friends, I sponsor(赞助) the pony Imagine annually, and have the________to name her.

“How many________ do you want?” asked Susan, the president, and executive director of the   Sanctuary. I thought for a moment,________ in the sunshine through the transparent glass roof of the office, where Susan and 6 staff members were busy________ the documents needed to operate the 11,000+ acres of ________   area for hundreds of horses. Through the bank of windows, I could see a     herd of horses off in the________.

“Four. No. How about five?” I replied, trying to do the ________ in my head on how much that would be. “Do you take a check?” “Oh, I forgot my checkbook!” I laughed. “Credit card?”

Susan straightened the small pile of calendars and________, “How about we give   you these     calendars? They are our perfect introduction to our mission of________the awareness of protection.”

________, I took a deep breath and bargained, “How about if I________ to the Hay and Cake Fund?”

We   both smiled. Such a clever exchange of ________! It is in ________   that we receive. We   gave for the sake of giving and any reward was unexpected.

We   even went to ________   Imagine. With   her distinctive markings, she was easy to ________.   She’s________ and is bigger than her mother now. She was happily grazing( 吃草 ) in the same herd I had________ while in the office.