Mary and Donald Smith lived in the same building. Donald____a toy company. One day Donald gave Mary, the 4-year-old girl, a new toy. She played with it and said. “This is fun!” A few weeks later Donald gave her____toy. She played with it and then said. “I'm not____in this toy. It doesn't work.” For years Donald gave Mary new toys, and she gave him very good ____     about the toys.

When Mary was 13 years old, Donald showed her a new ball. Mary wanted to____the ball with small stones to make it ___.The company made this change. Mary's idea was a great success! The company sold thousands of the balls.

That Christmas, Donald gave Mary an ____gift. He made her vice-president (副总裁) of the toy company. She made $200,000 a year. Her job was to see____the new toys were fun. She worked ___three or four hours a day at her job, then she had to do her homework.

Today Mary works at a college. The little vice-president with bright ideas helps students think about their___.

On a raining day, I went to buy some aspirin. Upon entering a lady’s drugstore, I _________ that there was a keyboard on a music stand, leaning _________ the wall. Being a piano music lover and _________, I asked if the woman played. She nodded and added that she had been _________ lessons at age 60! I told her that it was very _________ that she was pursuing her passion to play the piano.

Then she asked me ___________question. “I have been playing for 8 years now,” I answered.

“Then you must play a song for me before you leave,” she _________. I thought she was joking and I simply smiled. At the end of the deal of the aspirin, she _______ me of our musical _______. She then showed me to an old upright piano in the living room, ________ asked me to play a song for her. I thought ________and decided to play David Lantz’s “Return to the Heart”, since she had so much passion for ________ and it was my soul-searching song.

I played the song to the best of my ability, and with my emotions ________ into it as possible. She loved it. __________ I was about to step out of the door, I heard a weak voice calling out, “Young man!”

I turned around. And there was an old lady __________ one little step at a time with the help of another woman. “I wanted to come out to __________ you for the beautiful song that you played. I have been very sick, and it’s very hard for me to ________ my bed, but your music made me feel good”, she said. With that, she turned around and walked __________ back to her room.

I was deeply ____________by her appreciation and felt a deeper understanding of the song. It served its purpose beautifully, returning to one’s ____________for peace and joy.