It’s only after three weeks into a new job that I made a serious mistake. My boss called it “extremely embarrassing” in a company-wide e-mail, which he wrote because he felt he needed to explain that what I did was something _______ in the company should ever do.

I wish I could give a good excuse for what I did. At the very least, I wish I could _______ it somehow—_______ it on youth, inexperience or ignorance. Unfortunately, I’m _______, experienced and I know better.

_______ I work with some very kind people. For the past couple of days many of them have taken time to _______ by my desk and offer comfort, encouragement and support. Some have shared with me similar _______ they have made. Evidently I’m not the only “_______” person here.

One of the exchanges I had this week was with Lois, the much-honored, much-respected professional who _______ the desk right next to mine. Lois was completely __________ about her work, and to be honest I was a little __________ about how she would __________ to such an extremely embarrassing incident.

As I expected, Lois mentioned the __________ when she saw me the next day. She mentioned it directly, __________ with empathetic(感同身受的) consideration. She listened to my __________. Just as I was ready to express my regrets, she brought my self-pity to a(an) __________.

“It happened”, she said, “There’s nothing you can do to __________ that. It happened. But it’s over now. It’s __________, It’s in the past. You need to let it go, and move on.” And with that she returned her __________ to her work, as if to say, “We’re done here.” I beat myself up for weeks. At such times I need to remember those __________ words: It’s over. It’s done. Let it go. And mostly, move on.

You’re ready for your first day on a new job—until you arrive and find your new colleagues miserable. Is it ever OK to quit on your first day？Making a wise decision requires_________for a moment. Then you may find the key is to distinguish between challenges you should try to overcome and_________problems that are truly deal breakers.

More new hires are heading for the _________fast, employers and career coaches say. Two-thirds of employees have taken a job only to realize later that it was a(n) _________fit, and half of those employees quit within six months, say a recent Career Builder survey in the US.

Lori Cheek quit after a few days on a furniture-sales job several years ago. She was_________by dragging a suitcase loaded with heavy product manuals around the city all day on the subway to meet with clients, then continuing to work until 8 p.m. She quickly found what looked like a better sales job at a showroom nearby, selling stylish designer furnishings.

“it was the worst decision ever,” Ms. Check says. Her supervisor on the first job, who had spent time training her, was deeply disappointing, and one manager on her new job_________her even more. “At first sight she could not stand the way I dressed,” Ms Check says. She reluctantly toned down her jewelry, makeup and hair. To _________earning a reputation as a job-hopper, however, she stuck with the new position for almost a year. Looking back, Ms. Check wishes she’d stayed on the first job and tried to negotiate better conditions.

It isn’t wise to quit just because you don’t like the person next to you or have to do_________work all day long. If the boss is offensive, _________a bit. One intern at a Wall Street financial-services firm asked his boss, who seemed rude. “Are you just having a bad day, or are you always like this?” says Rebecca Zucker, a career and executive coach in San Francisco. The intern not only__________the exchange but earned better treatment from the boss, Ms. Zucker says.

__________, you’d better quit early if an employer tries a bait-and-switch—promising one job and assigning you to a different one, or going against other __________terms, says Chicago career coach Jody Michael. “if you are told you’ll be reporting to the CEO, but in fact there’s someone positioned between you and the CEO, that’s a __________,” Ms. Michael says.

Whatever the reason, it’s important to leave on as __________as a note possible, says Jill Tipograph, co-founder of Early Stage Career, a New York City coaching service for recent college graduates. “First and last__________are what people remember,” she says.

Christie Watson was only 17 years old when she walked into the room of a patient. Now, as a ______ , her 20 years in the sickroom has taught Watson that though knowledge of biology and chemistry is _______, the art of good nursing ______ pure kindness.

Watson never forgets two nurses. One nurse   _________tiny spoonfuls of yoghurt to Watson when she was ______ to hospital for an allergic reaction as a child. The other nurse sang Watson's newborn son to __ at 2 am, and then came back after her ______ had ended ——with a cup of coffee. That is ______ Watson spends the greater part of her career nursing seriously ill children.

Watson described washing the ______ smell from the hair of a little girl who was hurt in a fire, and her ________ to deal with mentally ill patients in her book. "A nurse's bones become ________with every serious case she _________ and there are too many,” writes Watson.

However, her hands always shake ______ she opens the doors to the operating room, which is a( n) _______ of the random nature of life to her. We can not know whose brake will _________ , and whose roof will fall down. We can't _______ and control them. But her kindness gives _________        to the patients and reduces their pain. Because of it, they can find joy in the most __ places where they have to stay. The ______ of a six-year-old girl with a serious disease __ to be the most high-spirited sound in the room.