This young man was very _______. He always continued to work through his break time and _______that those old folks were wasting time, having to _______several times a day to drink and chat. As time went by, this young man noticed that_______he worked through break time and hardly took a_______, those old folks were chopping the same _______ of trees as he did and sometimes did more. It was as if they worked through the break time as he did. So he_______ to work harder the next day. Unfortunately the_______ were even worse.

One day, one of the old folks_______ him for a drink during their break time. That young man________and said that he had no________ time! Then the old man smiled and said, “It is just a waste of effort to ________ chopping trees without re-sharpening your axe (斧子). Sooner or later you will ________ or be so tired as you have spent too much________.”

Suddenly the young man________that actually during break times while those old folks were having a chat, they were________re-sharpening their axes at the same time! And that’s how they could________ faster than him, yet spending less time!

What we ________is efficiency by making use of our skill and ability________. Only then can we have more time to do other things. Otherwise we will always keep saying ... I have no________!

“U—S—A! U—S—A!” Jeremy Holst, 16, screamed from the sidelines as the clock counted down. The timer buzzed (发出蜂鸣声), and he and his teammates stormed the rink (溜冰场) to _______ their goalkeeper--- but the next person Jeremy ran to was Kenny Kinsey, 17. “We _______ it! We won the bronze!” Jeremy said, giving him a high five.

It was March, and Kenny and Jeremy had _______ from New York City to Austria to _______ in the Special Olympics World Winter Games as part of a floor hockey team that _______ students with and without intellectual disabilities. “Our paths might _______ have crossed if it weren’t for this opportunity to _______ together,” Jeremy says._______, he goes to a private school at one end of New York City, while Kenny attends a _______ needs program at a public school all the way across town.

But the two boys got along very well from the very first ________ “We connected over our ________ of sports — and now we’re like any friends,” Jeremy says.

And that ________ just might have helped them bring home the bronze. “In a team meeting, Kenny spoke about how Jeremy and other team members had ________ him even more than some of his schoolmates,” coach Joseph Stewart ________. “That speech really brought the team together.”

The ________ in Austria was an unforgettable moment for all involved, but the biggest ________ these two athletes learned is more ________ than any award. “________ many differences among people, it just ________ that we can all find ________ to combine,” Jeremy says.

My 20-year-old daughter, Allison, living in Philadelphia, sent me a text the other day："I need socks and shampoo.”She was actually asking me to______those items for her, but I ______she was playing a cell phone game. I decide not to be a helicopter(直升机)______,because experience as a mother and professor has taught me how______that can result.

__, I prefer a more hands-off approach. From the time Allison turned 18, I no longer had any____ to know her work and life schedule.

But that's not what I ___ at Drexel University where I teach. Most of my students talk to their __ three times a day or more. One student's mother called because she didn't ____ from him for a few days. He was in the library so he______"hello". She doubted that he was drinking, and insisted on asking him to______a picture of himself. Holding a newspaper with that day's ____，he took a picture and sent it to his mother in order to ___ that he wasn't telling a lie.

I've always treated my students as independent beings. I tell them on the first day that I will not follow up with them on missing____or assignments. I am getting them to become independent thinkers, and take responsibility for their ____.

But their parents don't______them like me. I know a mother. She supervises(监督)her son too much. She hopes he will walk by the______，so that she can know what he is doing. Another mother checks her son's credit card daily. However, I never do that. My daughters only come to me with____things that need my decision, and I think that's because I give them space.

Many parents try to find if their kids are______from them. But we have to learn to respect boundaries(界限)，even when technology is so ____. So I am going to do my best not to be a helicopter parent.