A man was spending his holiday in Africa. One day he ______ the elephants passing by on the road. To his great surprise, these large strong animals were being held only by a small rope, tied to their front leg. Clearly, they could ______ run away any moment. However, they did not.

Then he saw a trainer and asked him how that could happen that not a single elephant made an ______ to break free. The trainer explained, “When the elephants are very young, we use the ______ size rope to tie them, and at that time it is enough to hold them. Gradually they grow up, get ______, but they never try to get away, as they believe that the ______ will still hold them.”

The man was ______. These strong animals could break free any time, but they did not, because they believed that that was impossible.

Sometimes people ______ like elephants. They give up after the ______ failure. Remember that failures are part of ______. If we want to succeed, we should never give up, but try and try again, no matter how many failures we have experienced in the past.

Years ago, I lived in a_____ in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had _____ met, yet I could see her seat by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.

After several months had_____, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear_____ the dirty window. I would say to _____, “I wonder why that woman doesn’t wash her window. It really looks_____.”

One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, _____washing the window   on the inside. Late in the afternoon when I finished the_____, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a_____! Across   the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!

Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing her dirty window, _____all the time I was watching her through my own dirty window.

That was _____an important lesson for me. How often had I_____and criticized others through the dirty window of my _____, through my own shortcomings?

Since then, whenever I wanted to judge someone, I asked myself _____, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” Then I try to clean the window of my own world so_____ I may see the world more clearly.

Our group was about to board the plane. I was ________, not because of flying, but because of what waited for me in my destination (目的地). “I could turn around now,” I said to myself. “Nobody would ________ me, as there are options open to me.” But never have I turned away from adventure, so ________ the rest of the group, I got on the plane to Tanzania. Little did I know I would be ________ by the next weeks at that moment.

The travel was part of a university program. We did many exciting things there, but it was our time of ________ at a community center with poor conditions that stuck with me. It allowed me to truly ________ the locals ——playing with kids and visiting their homes. These experiences were ________. I found almost every aspect of their life looked nothing like mine. But ________ being uneasy and backing away, I learned to appreciate the ________, offering to try their clothes and learn their culture. The Tanzanians were so positive; seeing how few ________ they had but how happy they were blew my mind.

________, I was happy to return home after those weeks, but I was confident it wouldn’t be the ________ of my adventure. I knew I would ________ more lands, ________ people from various backgrounds, and continue offering people in need a helping hand, because seeing the smiles on their faces is a feeling that cannot be ________ by anything else.