Just a few months earlier I would never have _______ myself acting in a play in front of two hundred people. But when I got up on stage and face one of my greatest fears, I found a new person inside me, a much more _______, outgoing person who had been hidden, just waiting for the opportunity to come. If not for my teacher, Mrs. Sather, I might never have found that _______.

One day, Mrs. Sather _______   that our class was going to perform a play. “I need someone to play the lead part of Dorothy, “she said. ”Anybody want to try?“A few _______   hands shot up—mine, of course, was not one of them.

After class Mrs. Sather came to me. “Dallas, I think you would be the person for Dorothy.

You’re great at _______   things, so you won’t worry about lines, ”she said.

Mrs. Sather stared into my eyes as if seeing my inner self locked away inside. “I’d love you to give this a _______   for me. But if you really don’t want to, I won’t make you. It’s your _______. ”Mrs. Sather wanted me in this role. She _______   me. I realized it was time to ________   my shy cloak (披风).

In the end, when the audience stood and applauded, I knew I had really done it!

My brother and I were driving home together. We _______something interesting on the way. Because of the conversation, my brother took a _______turn.

Unfortunately, the turn took _______towards a bridge and we had no way to turn back. My brother _______the bridge toll (通行费 ) and drove on. He was _______frustrated by the mistake and the needless waste of $4.

When we reached an exit slip-way, my brother _______that a young guy pulled over to the side of the road. I was busy trying to _______which way we went next when my brother pulled over and asked the guy if he needed any _______. And he did. He had a flat tire and needed a wrench(扳手) to get it off.

My brother _______him a wrench, and then began to help him________ the tire. The young man said that this had been a ________week for him; earlier he had gotten into a minor car accident, and now this________flat on his way home from work. But he called us “breath of fresh air”, and kept ________us because he really would have been stuck________we hadn’t come along.

After we had finished the job he thanked us ________and pulled out $20 and ________to give it to us. “No,” my brother said. “We were ________supposed to get on that bridge. Yet we took a wrong turn. But now we know ________we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our mistake into an opportunity to________”

My brother’s reaction in the situation is a(n)________for everyone and we felt so good the rest of the day.

It’s not easy for me to forget the guy, whom I call Bean. For the past year and a half, I _____Bean almost every workday morning. In the beginning I ______ Bean. After all, he’s just a beggar on the freeway off-ramp (匝道) who ______ people at a stoplight that seems to always be red.

Over time a few things dawned on me. The first was that it was always the ______ guy at this off-ramp. The next was that he never actually ______ anything. He just danced and waved at everyone. Then ______, and perhaps the most important, was that he was ALWAYS ______. Some days he was dancing and playing a guitar. Most days he’d wave a cardboard at cars, smiling.

Bean slowly became part of my ______ routine(常规). I noticed this one day, only because he wasn’t there and ______ danced and waved at me. I ______ him. I worried something had happened to him. I ______ to look for him every morning as I came down the ramp to that red light.

One morning, after one of these ______, I was so relieved to see him that it was like the sun had come out after a week-long storm. I sat at the red light, watching his morning ______. I realized that I, too, was smiling and ______ myself waving back. Wow, something as ______ as a wave brought ______ to my whole day. I finished the drive to work that morning, feeling lighter and happier.

I ______ you now. Look around you. Look at your life, your surroundings, and ______ just your grocery store with eyes that truly see. What ______ lies in front of you. Do you have a Bean in your life you haven’t noticed yet? Watch for them. They will ______ your life in ways you can’t even dream.