Standing on the top of Mount Tai, I watched the sun rising through the cloud and taking its place in the sky. I haven’t seen many ______, but I can feel that seeing one from the top of Mount Tai must be one of the best ways to ______ the beauty of nature.

When I left for China, the ______ of climbing Mount Tai had not even ______ me. I was going to China to ______ its language, history and culture and gain a better understanding of international agricultural trade between my country and China.

Now I have stayed in China for a few weeks. In Beijing, my group have, ______ friendship with many Chinese students. Through our broken Chinese and their ______ English, we are still able to teach each other about our cultures. We ______ that we are all just students working towards the same ______ of having careers, families and lives and trying to make the world better. Cultural differences seem ______—even the language almost completely differs from our own. But their daily lives are similar to our own routines (常规). ______, people worry about the same things we do here. They are ______ food safety, pay close attention to the government and feel the effects of the economic markets.

This ______ makes me realize how many cultures my country has in common with other countries around the world. More importantly, it makes me ______ for travel, and I am i looking forward to having more ______ to engage in cross-cultural communication and learning.

It is impossible to perform consistently in a manner inconsistent with the way we see ourselves. In other words, we usually act in direct ___________ to our self-image. Nothing is more difficult to ___________ than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

One of the best ways to ___________ those inward feelings is to have some “success” under your belt (在以往的经历中). My daughter Elizabeth has a ___________ to be shy and wants to hold back on new experiences. But once she has ___________ to a situation, it’s “full steam ahead”. When she was in first grade, her school had a candy bar ___________. Each child was given thirty candy bars and was ___________ to sell every one of them. ___________ I picked up Elizabeth from school she was holding her “challenge” and needed some ___________ encouragement. It was time for a sales meeting with my new salesgirl.

All the way home I taught her how to sell candy bars. I ____________ each teaching point with half a dozen “You can do it—your smile will ____________ them over—I believe in you” phrases. By the end of our fifteen-minute ____________, the young lady sitting beside me had become a ____________ saleslady.

At the end of the day, all thirty bars had been sold. She excitedly ____________ as I tucked her into bed that night: “Oh God, thanks for the candy sale at school. It’s great.”

Elizabeth’s prayer reflects the heart’s ____________ of every person. We all want to be winners. The next day Elizabeth came home ____________ another box of candy bars. She’d exhausted the ____________ of friendly neighbors, and she was thrown into the cruel world of the unknown buyer. ____________ I offered encouragement and a few more selling tips. And she did it. The experience ____________ two days of selling, two sold-out performances, two happy people, and one boosted (提高的)____________. How we see ourselves reflects how others see us.