The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary( 保护区 )________ by charity is now open to the public by appointment only, where the wild horses live in freedom under long-lasting protection. I called ahead about stopping by to ________   some 2022 calendars. After discovering that the Choctaw pony( 乔克托小 马 ) Imagine, was May’s   calendar girl, along with her mother Tahiyah,   I was________, and   wanted to share a few more calendars with my friends, I sponsor(赞助) the pony Imagine annually, and have the________to name her.

“How many________ do you want?” asked Susan, the president, and executive director of the   Sanctuary. I thought for a moment,________ in the sunshine through the transparent glass roof of the office, where Susan and 6 staff members were busy________ the documents needed to operate the 11,000+ acres of ________   area for hundreds of horses. Through the bank of windows, I could see a     herd of horses off in the________.

“Four. No. How about five?” I replied, trying to do the ________ in my head on how much that would be. “Do you take a check?” “Oh, I forgot my checkbook!” I laughed. “Credit card?”

Susan straightened the small pile of calendars and________, “How about we give   you these     calendars? They are our perfect introduction to our mission of________the awareness of protection.”

________, I took a deep breath and bargained, “How about if I________ to the Hay and Cake Fund?”

We   both smiled. Such a clever exchange of ________! It is in ________   that we receive. We   gave for the sake of giving and any reward was unexpected.

We   even went to ________   Imagine. With   her distinctive markings, she was easy to ________.   She’s________ and is bigger than her mother now. She was happily grazing( 吃草 ) in the same herd I had________ while in the office.

In 1994 I was in the midst of a depression(抑郁症). When I was depressed, I _______. One day I was cleaning up the rooms and found a CD covered with dust. I wiped it off, put it in the _______ and started washing dishes. A man's voice, reading poetry, filled my house. The sound of the speaker's voice and the words of the poems reached something deep inside me. I stopped and _______.

I began to take poems into my life, not simply reading them, but developing rich relationships with the _______. I learned many by heart. They became my therapy and _______. Those poems made me wiser and healthier.

_______,   in the fall of 2008, poetry _______ me in a way I had never expected. I had put all my savings in a small, local fund. Two months later, the leader of the fund left me a message: “The financial crisis _______ our fund particularly hard. We've lost everything.”

I stood there, _______.

Suddenly I heard a poem, ________, called Kindness in my mind. It felt like the poem had been written for me ________, for this exact moment, like the perfect helper ________ on the scene at the instant of an accident. Kindness became my ________. I read it before going to bed, and at breakfast every morning. It reminded me that this was not a ________, but a path to sympathy, and I was not walking alone. Even now, I reach for Kindness several times a week to carry me ________ the heart of what really matters to me.

If you intend to use humour in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify(鉴别)shared experiences and problems. Your humour must have _________ with the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you _________ their situation and have the same point of view as them. _________ on whom you are speaking to, the problems will be _________. If you are talking to a group of _________, you may refer to the foolish methods of their secretaries; if you are speaking to secretaries, you may want to comment on their foolish _________.

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ meeting, of a story _________ works well because the audience all _________the same view of doctors. A man arrives in _________ and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees __________ accommodations(膳宿), beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very __________, polite and friendly until, __________ in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the __________, takes his food and walks over a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked __________. “Oh, that’s God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a __________.”

If you are __________ of the group who you are speaking to, you will be able to know the experiences and problems which are __________ to all of you and it’ll be __________ for you to comment on the terrible canteen(食堂) food or the __________ bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t try to cut in with humour as they will hate an outsider making bad     __________ on their canteen or their chairman.