I was ready to pay for my bananas at the grocery one night, when fear seized me. My wallet was gone. I could only have left it on the G9 bus, which was now speeding in the dark to some _____________ station.

The _________ moment was quickly followed by mental math. How much time and money would it cost to replace the ___________ of that little wallet? The credit cards, the driver’s license, the cash, all lost to the bus.

Two hours later, back at my house, I heard a knock on the door. My husband _____________ it while I was on the phone in the dining room. “Does Jennifer live here?” I heard a lady say. In my husband’s hand was my wallet, with not a penny ___________. She left before I could _________ make it to the door to offer my thanks.

After sharing the story online, I heard from someone, who _________ the lady as Erin Smith. Without _______, I called to thank her. She said she _________ my wallet on a bus seat. She ______________ that going to a stranger’s house was a ____________ move, but she decided to take the chance. “If I were in that ____________, I would want someone to try to find me,” she said.

This one stranger responded beautifully to my small ____________, but she actually wasn’t the only one. Right after Erin ____________ my wallet on the bus, she posted a picture of my driver’s license to an online forum(论坛), trying to see ____________ anyone knew me. No sooner did she leave my doorstep than I had emails from two women whose kids go to my son’s nursery and who recognized my face. I’ve never ____________ words with those moms beyond small talk, but they wanted to help. I read that people are more divided than ever, but that’s not how the people I ______________ tend to act.

__________, I feel blessed someone had wanted to help a stranger. Erin had gone ____________ what almost anyone would have done, finding my house on a bitterly cold night, and for that I was extremely ____________.

Our character，______，is a combination of our habits.“Sow a thought，harvest an action；sow an action，harvest a habit；sow a habit，harvest a character；sow a character，harvest a ______，” the saying goes.

Habits are powerful factors in our lives.Because they are consistent，often unconscious ______，they constantly，daily express our character and produce our effectiveness or ineffectiveness.

As Horace Mann，the great educator，once ______ it，“Habits are like a rope.We weave a string of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.” I personally do not agree with the last part of his ______.I know habits can be learned and unlearned.But I also know it isn’t a(n) ______ fix.It involves a ______ and a faithful commitment.

Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo Ⅱ were quite amazed as we saw the first men walk on the moon and return to the earth.______ to get there，those astronauts obviously had to break out of the huge gravity pull of the earth.______ energy was spent in the first few minutes of ______ in the first few miles of travel than was used over the next several days to travel half a million miles.

Habits，______，have huge gravity pull more than most people realize or would ______.Breaking deeply ______ habits such as delay，hesitation，impatience or selfishness that go against basic principles of human effectiveness ______ more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives.“Lift off” ______ a great effort，but once we break out of the gravity pull，our freedom ______ a whole new dimension.

____ any natural force，gravity can work ______ us or against us.The gravity pull of some of our habits may ______ be keeping us from going where we want to go.But it is also gravity pull that keeps our world together，that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order.It is a powerful force，and if we use it effectively，we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the cooperation and ______necessary to establish effectiveness in our lives.