For many years my parents subscribed to “Reader’s Digest”. Usually I enjoyed reading each issue(期) as much as they did. The _______ in the magazine I liked most was “The Best Advice I Ever Had.”

Even today, one of those best advice stories sticks with me and _______ a great lesson. Writing about his _______. Harry Fosdick—longtime beloved minister of Riverside Church in New York City— _______ a morning when his father was leaving the house. He _______ to Harry’s mother and said “Tell Harry he can cut the grass today, _______ he feels like it.” Then after a few steps the father turned back and _______ a meaningful suggestion: “Tell Harry he had better feel like it.” The reason why I treasure Fosdick’s father’s instruction is that many of us know what we have to do in our _______ tasks —we are told what to do, while the major _______ is that in many cases we delay action until we feel like it.

So think of the ________ that Harry’s father tells him that he “had better feel like it” when we must do the ________ things. Already, I am confident you could add a dozen similar ________ tasks and responsibilities to this list—possibly two dozen. If you ________ until you feel like doing them, tasks will become more difficult. Getting back to young Harry’s task, I can ________ that a small boy pushing the mower(割草机) with great effort back and forth, around flowers and bushes on this ________ day, wiping the sweat from his face until he got the job ________. Let’s be aware that this was one of those long ago mowers, ________ a motor, appropriately called “push mowers.” So the task is ________. Harry got the demanding job finished, because he knew that he “had better feel like it.”

________ you are to finish your task or do your work, you’ll have to feel like it. After you ________ feel like it you’ll surprisingly find it isn’t difficult to finish.

A professor was teaching his class. All the students were listening to his _________ with great interest. But there was one student whose absence of mind showed he was in a bad mood.

The professor took notice of this student on the first day _________ did not say anything. But when this _________ for a week, he asked, “You are _________ in spirits all the time. What is the matter? Have some trouble?”

“Sir, that...” the student said. “...something has happened in my past, _________ which I remain troubled. I don’t know what to do.”

The professor was a(n) _________ good person. He called the student at his house in the evening.

When the student _________ the professor’s house, he was greeted with a _________ welcome. The professor went to the kitchen and started making lemonade for his student. He _________ put more salt in the lemonade.

__________ the student had a taste of it, his mouth became sour. __________ this, the professor asked, “Did you not like the lemonade?”

“No, sir, this is not the __________. Just a little more salt in the drink,” the student said. “Now it’s useless. I will throw it away.”

The professor __________ his hand to get the glass of drink from the student. But the student refused, saying, “No, sir. If you add more __________, the taste will be fine.”

Upon hearing this, the professor became serious and said, “You are right. That’s what I want to __________. Just as salt cannot be taken out of the lemonade, those bad experiences also cannot __________ life. Adding more sugar can change the taste of lemonade. In a(n) __________ way, sweetness has to be dissolved (溶解) in life to forget bad experiences. I want you to take the sweetness in your life into __________ now.”

To his relief, the student __________ him and decided from then on he would not be troubled by the __________.

I dreamed of being a scientist at 6. However, I decided at 10 that I was going to be a teacher because I had a strong ________ for superpowers. As a boy, I could clearly see some of my teachers who had extraordinary (非凡的) powers.

There was an English teacher who could magically ________ her creative ideas to teaching. She helped us get a better understanding of the words by telling us stories and reading to us from books we would otherwise never pick up. It was even ________ that my teacher could see something invisible (看不见的). I was one of those who were shy to express my thoughts. Yet my teacher would notice me and the ________ message in her eyes suggested that she could ________ my mind. She had another superpower and she had a good knowledge of arts. She managed to improve our understanding of arts _______ her major was not art. Her lessons went _______ the textbook. I wanted to be one of those teachers with superpowers that made children feel safe and ______.

Being a teacher isn’t the easiest or the most _______ rewarding (有回报的) job. And there are even some risks — your knees can become worn out from years of carrying piles of notebooks up and down the school staircase, and your _______ can be impacted from too much talking. But _______ all that, there are those choosing to be teachers. To them, teaching is not just a job — it is a science, an art and it _______ love and devotion.

For three decades now, I’ve gone to work early every day with energy. Sometimes, my _______ students come to visit me. Their obvious love for me and unforgettable _______ of our time together are my rewards (回报). When I meet others who dream of having superpowers, I feel proud to _______ to the same group.