A businesswoman got into a taxi in midtown. As it was the rush hour and she was in a ________ to catch a train, she ________ a quick way to reach it. “I have been a taxi driver for 15 years! ” the driver said ________. “You don’t think I know the best way to go?”

The woman tried to explain that she hadn't ________ to annoy him, but the driver kept________. She finally realized that he was too annoyed to be________, so she changed her ________. “You know, you are right,” she told him. “It must seem ________for me not to think you know the best way________the city.”

________, the driver glanced at his________in the real-view mirror, turned down the street she wanted and got her to the train on time. “He didn’t say another word the rest of the ride,” she said. “________I got out and paid him. Then he thanked me.”

When you find yourself________with people like the taxi driver, you will always try to________your idea. It can lead to longer arguments, lose job chances or________marriages. I have discovered one simple________extremely unlikely method that can prevent the disagreement or other difficult situations from________in a disaster.

The________is to put yourself in the other person’s shoes and look for the________in what that person is saying. Find a way to________, and the result may surprise you.

I am one of those rare people who had a perfect childhood. Everything I saw was new, wonderful and exciting. I was _______ whether it was rainy or dry, whether it was hot or cold, whether it was night or day. I just wanted to _______ all the things around me.

For me the only big _______ was that I was awake or asleep. When I was awake, I wanted to _______ the time just for playing with my friends. In school, we had many interesting activities and hobby classes, which _______ between singing, dancing and drama and drawing. My life was full of sunshine and happiness.

But I can’t _______ time. When I reached my teens, I started to realize there was a different _______ of life. I no longer had enough time for little things—discovering a rainbow was not _______ , looking at a giraffe in the zoo was normal, and _______ a building with 50 floors was not amazing. A rainy day was a ________ day because the traffic was slow, and the first day of spring ________ me of allergies (过敏). Life moves on again. The first day of the month is not just the beginning of a new month; it’s the time to ________ bills. Going to the supermarket is a ________ ; it is not just fun walking around, looking for things and seeing the people around me.

Life is a ________ in which everyone has many obligations (责任), but if everyone tried to see life through the eyes of a child, I am sure that every day could be ________ .

When I was young, each morning I woke up and would find my father nowhere around the house. He usually got up early before ______ and began cleaning the farmyard. In summer, he got up ______ earlier to water the flowers and vegetables in the garden. Once I helped my father to ______ weeds from the corn field. It wasn’t long ______ I felt very tired but the field ridge seemed ______. Finally I totally threw myself ______ in the field, feeling ______. My dad seemed to have ______ my mind. He came up and said, “Farming is tiring and really takes ______and sweat, but in ______ the sweet harvest will be worth the ______.” Encouraged by his words, I struggled to my feet. My father ______ and added, “Rome is not built in a ______, but it can be built in hundreds of days. So whenever ______ with a huge project, just break it into ______parts and then complete it one by one. Finally you will be amazed at your ______.” Hearing what he said, I was greatly ______ and continued removing the weeds from patch to patch. Believe it or not, at the end of the day, I ______ in weeding half an acre of the corn field.

Now I have tried different jobs and finally ______ down running a big restaurant. In my lifetime, my father’s devotion to his job and his special working methods can always encourage and guide me ______ all kinds of difficulties.