A few years ago, I was working in a small office. I noticed that even though the ________ of the organization was not huge, we often worked in different teams. While everyone was friendly, there was a(n) ________ atmosphere in the workplace culture.

One week, I ________ to make people smile, but I wanted to do it quietly, perhaps in the hope of inviting a sense of trust or playfulness in the office ________. So one evening, I wrote a few quotes that had encouraged me over the years. The next________ . I went to work a bit early and ________ posted them by the sinks and ________ in the office restrooms. Maybe someone else would enjoy the ________ as much as I had, and perhaps they might just brighten their day, I thought.

For the next few months, some of the quotes got ________ but I noticed that some remained. So perhaps others ________ them, too. Finally, I finished my job with that organization and went to work in another ________.

A few years passed, during which I got ________ from my former boss and ________ every so often. A few months ago, I was ________ to a meeting with my former team to hear how the project I had worked on was going. ________ I no longer worked in this office, I had really ________ working with them, and was happy to see them all again.

Toward the end of the ________ I went to the restroom, and the quote that I had written was still up in the same spot by the mirror! What a ________! It read “The real ________ of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new ________.”

Sitting on the park bench with his head in hands, a businessman was deep in debt and could see no way out,____if anything could save his company from bankruptcy(破产).

Suddenly an old man appeared before him. “I can see that something is  ______ you,” he said. After listening to the businessman’s troubles, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.” He asked the man his name, wrote out a ______，and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared as ______ as he had come. The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500，000, ______ by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world! “I can ______my money worries in an instant!” he realized. But _______, he decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the ______ to work out a way to save his business, he thought. With renewed ____, he negotiated better deals. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the ______ with the uncashed check. At the ______ time, the old man appeared. But just as the businessman was about to ______ the check and share his success story, a ____ came running up and grabbed the old man. “I’m so delighted I ______him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you. He’s ______escaping from the rest home and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller. And she led the old man away ______ the arm.

The businessman just stood there, ______. All year long he’d been occupied in buying and selling, ______  he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, no matter real or ____ that had turned his life around. On the contrary, it was just his ____self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.

Over 20 years ago, Hankerson was trying to call her sister who lived in Maryland. She had____to share her sad stories in life with her sister. But____dialing the area code 410, she____401. The mistake ended up____her to Mike from Rhode Island.

“ When she realized that she had called a wrong number, she made a sincere____. She   was well-mannered and very sweet. Then she____quickly,”recalled Mike.

After that, Hankerson called again a few more times over the next few weeks.Through their____, Mike learned that Hankerson, who lives in Delray, Florida, had been attempting to____her sister.

Hankerson said Mike came at a____time in her life when she and her husband got divorced (离婚). However, she said Mike always____her spirits. And she was so____because she could feel the great kindness and encouragement from a(n) ____stranger. Over the next few years, the two____a good relationship by phone, chatting about their____— Hankerson is the mother of two, and Mike, a father of three.

On the day before Thanksgiving, the pair finally____when Mike was on a trip to Florida with his wife and children.“Oh, it was a truly____day. It was really the happiest Thanksgiving for me,” Hankerson said. “It was full of____and sunshine. That really made my day.”

After their meeting, Mike____the photo of him and Hankerson on Facebook.   He also wrote, “ The____between people in this world is just a wrong number phone call away. It is really____.”