Growing up, Mychal Threets fell in love with reading at Fairfield Civic Center Library (FCCL) in California. Now, at age 33, he is the supervising librarian of FCCL and has gained a _________ of more than 650,000 people who _________ watching the videos he posts about libraries on social media.

Threets was mostly home schooled by his mother. They spent hours at FCCL each day, so it became a _________ to him, he said. But he didn’t see many people who looked like him employed there and didn’t consider _________ a librarian until age 23, when he was hired to shelve _________ at a different Fairfield library. That’s when “my librarian _________ began,” he said. Threets took librarian education courses and worked his way up to the _________ he now holds.

About two years ago, he began _________ what he calls his “library joy” on TikTok and Instagram. He posts videos about being a librarian as well as _________ on using a library card, book recommendations, and stories about children who have discovered their love of __________ at the library.

Although the attention he receives for his posts can feel __________ at times, Threets is mostly encouraged that he has been accomplishing his goal. “I ought to __________ people how cool libraries are and how much library workers __________ their communities,” he said.

The __________ he has for young people is to remember to visit their own local library. When life gets tough, Threets said, you can always find a __________ in there.

If you have strong arms and feet, patience and a good temper, you might _______ a good waiter. You must start, _______, not in the restaurant, but in the kitchen, helping the chef, to learn how each dish is _______.

From this first step, you may enter the restaurant _______ a ''commis'' (厨助). But you won't be _______ to serve the customers yet. They will only let you do the bottomed jobs, _______the tables and carrying the plates. But all the time you must watch and learn with _______.

Later you may become ''chef de rang'' (a waiter in charge of a number of tables). You may even become a head waiter _______, if you have the right sort of personality and you are not _______ of hard work.

When Carlo Bianchi first arrived in London, he spoke only two words of English - ''please'' and ''Hello''. He ________ to get a job helping in the kitchen of a restaurant, and he spent what little ________ time he had learning English. He was a good worker and soon they ________ him a job in the restaurant as a waiter.

Every night, Carlo ________ to go home exhausted, but never too ________ to study the language for half an hour before going to sleep. And no matter how tired or ill he felt, he always wore a ________ for his customers. They liked him, and people came and asked to be ________ by Carlo.

Now, twenty-five years later, Carlo is in ________ of six restaurants, and he ________ to open a seventh shortly. So friends, in this world success never comes overnight. Start from the ________and make progress step by step with enough patience and ________ chances will fall upon you.

I always come across random acts of kindness in my life. Many years ago, I was _______Costa Rica when I found myself in an _______situation: my credit cards and bank cards went out of _________ abroad, and I only had $5 to my ________.

I had no way to get money. I didn’t know anybody in this country. I only knew basic Spanish, and besides the cash the only ________I had was a return ticket to my country in almost two ________. Back then, there was no such thing as mobile phones, and________email was very limited. To find help, I decided to go to the countryside . With the only coins I had, I _________the bus terminal(终点站）and found a village, which ________almost the exact amount. About 4 hours later, I arrived at Santa Rosa Abajo at midnight.

I knocked door to door,________in my very poor Spanish that I was a foreigner travelling in Costa Rica with no money but I ________to stay here for over ten days. I begged them for a __________－such as cooking , cleaning and looking after their kids, anything like that. Everybody _________, “oh my, but so poor are we that we have no _______ food or space. Maybe you can try the next ________.” And they’d point me to another house.

________, I arrived at a Chinese restaurant. The owner of the restaurant was very _________. She gave me food and called the Red Cross to come to ________me. With the help of the Red Cross , I spent my_________days in Costa Rica.

This is one of the best trips I’ve ever had, because I realized that when you’re in a position to be able to _________, it actually makes you feel happy.