I never really liked Nathan since he was a slowpoke in our band (乐队).In class, whenever he was asked a question, he would _______ a long time to answer and the whole class would get_______.Whenever he got an answer _______, the whole class would laugh.

One day, Mr. Kohler asked the_______ a question，“Who can tell what tone(音调)it is just by hearing the pitch (音高）？” Nobody raised their hands _______ Nathan. The moment I saw him, I _______ .I didn’t believe he could do anything _______ .Mr. Kohler also laughed. Mr. Kohler took a tuner out and he played a pitch. Hearing it, Nathan said, “E flat. “Mr. Kohler said, "OK, good. " Then he played _______ pitch. “F sharp,” Nathan said. The whole class sat in _______ .Mr. Kohler________Nathan by playing 2 pitches________ . “C and B flat,” Nathan said. Mr Kohler played 3 pitches. “G, A flat, E sharp,’’ Nathan answered. “Good ________! ” Mr. Kohler said.

All of us ________to his answers in __________. He guessed all the pitches correctly. That day I ________I shouldn’t judge(判断）by little things I see. I need to see the ________ things people can do. From that day on, I had a different opinion on Nathan. I ________ about all the things he was bad at and remembered the things he was good at. ________ I saw him, I said to ________, “That’s the guy that impressed(留印象）me. That’s the guy who shows a       ________ for music.

On a cold November afternoon, my mother and I were walking home from a pizza store. We were dressed ____ and equipped with the rented video we had been ____ to watch. I was feeling a little ____ as I was carrying our shopping, and decided to throw away something. So I was starting to walk towards the garbage can ____ I noticed a poor man walking out of the restaurant in front of us. He ____ over to another nearby garbage can and started _____it.

I suddenly felt very guilty because I was about to throw away a new drink just because it was ____. I walked up to him and handed the ____ and some snacks over to him. The man looked up ____ and took what I gave him.

A huge smile ____ across his face and this ____ me to feel indescribable satisfaction. I felt I couldn’t be happier ____ myself, but then he said, “Wow, this is my son’s lucky day!”

With that, he thanked me happily and started off on his bike, I ____ heard him whistling a song as he rode away.

I got a warm ____ inside. I now understand what is ____ by the saying “giving is getting”.

Although it only ____ a little action and a few words, I gained and learned more in those two minutes than I did in the rest of the month. Everyone in the world needs help, everyone can ____ help and everyone will be helped by ____ kindness.

The image of that man’s happiness caused by my small gift appears in my mind every ____ I have the chance to do something nice.

This is the ____ of charity.

We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things ______!” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe ______.

These comments may come from stories about us that have been _____ for years—often from ______ childhood. These stories may have no ______ in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical (操作机械的) skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations ______ my development? I was never ______ to work on cars or be around   ______. When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!

Six years later, ______, I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors,Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I ______ down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the ______ side, I wrote, “I have no Mechanical skills.”

Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life ______ and told him about my ______ performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “______ is it that you can solve complex mathematical problems, but you can’t solve ______ mechanical problems?”

Suddenly I realized that I didn’t ______ from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to ______. At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been ______ my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. ______ , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost ______ we choose.