In elementary school, my father told me, “It doesn’t matter what you’ll do when you grow up; the key is that it will make you pleased .________ is the whole point of life. It needs ________ and effort. Your mother loves to help people ________, so she became a nurse. I love reading and poetry, ________ I became a poet. We both find happiness in daily hard work”.

A few years later when I was in junior high, my head teacher ________ with me after school because I wasn’t ________. She mentioned some successful people in history during the conversation. Then she asked what my _______ was. I told her that I just wanted to be happy. She ________ for a moment and then she agreed with me.

When I was young, the letter that my grandma wrote to me had a line about “________ happiness in hard work”, which is my motto that still resonates (产生共鸣) with me today. I find some people hold the ________ that life should be easier than it is .________, I think, no matter what you ________, you mustn’t forget hard work, because happiness is hidden in ________.

Since I graduated from college, I have been devoted to passing all my knowledge to my students. I find happiness when my hard work is repaid by their ________ and love for me. Because of my contribution to ________, I won the Excellent Teacher Award this year and I’ll do more in the future.

There was a man playing the piano in a bar.He was a good piano player.People __________out just to hear him play.But one __________，a customer told him he didn't want to hear him just play any more.He wanted him to sing a song.

The man said，“I don't sing.”

But the customer was __________．He told the bartender(酒吧男招待)，“I'm __________ listening to the piano.I want that guy to sing！”

The bartender __________across the room，“Hey！If you want to get __________，sing a song.The customers are __________ you to sing！”

So he did.He sang a song.A piano player who had __________sung in public did so for the __________first time.And __________had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung the way it was sung by Nat King Cole!

He had talent he was sitting on！He may have lived the rest of his life as a no name__________player in a no name bar，but __________ he had to sing，he went on to__________one of the best known __________ in America.

You，too，have skills and abilities.You may not feel as if your “talent” is __________ great，but it may be __________ than   you think！And with persistence(坚持)，most skills can be __________．You may as well have no ability at all，__________，if you sit on whatever talent you possess！The better question is not “What ability do I have that is __________？”It is rather “How will I__________whatever ability I have？”