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＂What can you do when you have done nothing but mess up(把……搞糟)your whole life long?" These were the ____________ I heard when I turned on the TV the other day. They came from one of the talk shows that are so   ____________ on TV these days. I started to turn the channel but the words I heard made me ____________looked at the speaker. He couldn't have been more than 18 years old,   ____________ already thought of his life as a useless waste.

I wanted to ____________ at him,"You are not dead yet!”

It is so ____________ that so many people can't get rid of the past or live in the present. There are people in their twenties who already think they have ___________ the boat to success and happiness.There are people in their thirties and forties who sit around ____________ that life has passed them by. I want to shout at them all, “____________!You are still young! Chances are everywhere!”

If you want a happy life,you   ____________ just think about your past mistakes. If you want joy and love in your life, you must ____________ them today.Never put off what should be chosen until tomorrow!

A new chance in life   ____________ before us every morning. We can live with hope starting at this moment. It doesn't matter how hard our   ____________has been.Our present can be full of joy and our future can be full of happiness. It doesn't matter ___________ we are eight or eighty-we can still make our lives wonderful. Life isn't over   ___________ your last heartbeat. Start today,then,to make your heart beat with joy and love.

Not long before, my daughter’s shoes were scratched (划破) with a knife. She burst into tears, so I took them to the shoemaker’s.

The young apprentice (学徒) glanced at the______and said, “Nothing I can do except______the upper.” His master looked at them and said, “If you______me, I will add more scratches on both the shoes.”

I was______and asked why. He explained, “As if the openings were made______for a special style.” I didn’t quite understand him,______I decided to leave the shoes.

Two days later I dropped by from work to______the shoes, only to find more scratches on each shoe, all the openings were patched (缝补) by soft red leather, the stitches (脚针) were twisted with the appearance looking more______and interesting than ever. I couldn’t help praising the master’s______.

Another time, my sister’s blouse was torn, leaving a large opening. My wife checked it______and then said, “Let me take it home and______it.

Three days later, seeing it again, I was greatly______at the torn part. It took on a look of a snowman made of flowery rags. I sighed with______“It’s amazing!”

“I was______by that shoemaker. Patches are supposed to be______, but a skilled craftsman (工匠) can make it take on a kind of perfection.” replied my wife.

Her______influenced me greatly: Perfection is______to achieve in life. Patches appear in the______of injury, disability or disease. Since you can’t change the existence of wound, you should not______people’s sympathy by showing the wound, which is meaningless. Just sew the wound by patches and provide a most beautiful flower on it, that is the______of life.

In present times, stress is one of the major causes of mental illness and physical illness. Stress is no _________ to us. Everybody has met and experienced it. It lives in our homes, workplaces, and _________ follows us wherever we go, in some form or other. But do you know why you can’t _________ it?

You get stressed because you _________ to get stressed. This is ridiculous (荒谬的), you might say. You’re right. Who would _________ that stress is a choice that we make? And why in the world would we choose stress? Well, it is because we do not realize that we’re doing that. It happens _________. Choosing stress is easy, but the other way around is a _________ task.

Most of us would take the easy _________, the path of minimum efforts. We’re under stress at times _________ we don’t do anything that we should do — just because either we’re __________ or we don’t have __________ in ourselves. When you don’t complete your task on time, and the __________ draws near, stress envelops you.

If you did your task or carried your __________ as it should be, then you would not be stressed. Choosing not to get stressed is like swimming against the tide. Initially (最初), it __________ effort because you are used to going with the flow of your __________ behavior. So we need to overcome our laziness and self-abasement to be stress-free.