Life comes in package. This package includes happiness and sorrow, failure and success, _________ and despair. Experiences in life _________ us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to _________ various situations.

Materialistic happiness is short-lived, but happiness achieved by bringing a smile on other’s face gives a certain level of _________ . Peace of mind is the main link to happiness. No mind is happy without_________ . We _________ the true worth of happiness when we are in sorrow. Sorrow is _________ due to death of a loved one, failure or despair. But these things are temporary (暂时的) and _________

Failure is the _________ to success. It teaches us to live and shows us a specific way. Success brings in money, fame, pride and self-respect. The only way to show our __________ to God for giving success on us is by being humble, modest and __________ to the less fortunate ones.

Hope is what keeps life going. Life teaches us not to despair even in the __________hour. Nothing remains the same in life, and we have only one choice — to keep moving on in life and be __________ .

Life teaches us not to __________over yesterday, for it has passed and is beyond our control. Tomorrow is __________ , for it could either be bright or dull. So the only choice is work hard today, so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.

One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor _______ the question papers, with the text facing down as usual.   _______   he handed them all out, he asked his students to _______ the page and begin. To everyone's surprise, there were no  _______  , just a black dot（点) in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the expression on everyone's face, told them the following:

"I want you to write what you _______  there.”

The students,  _______  , got started on the inexplicable(费解的) task. At the end of the class, the professor _______   all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them, with no  _______, described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been  _______, the classroom was silent, the professor began to explain:

"I'm not going to grade (打分)this. I   ________ wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the   ________part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our   ________   . We have a white paper to watch and  ________ , but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a  ________    given to us with love and care and we always have  ________ to celebrate: nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that  ________  our livelihood（生计） and the miracles （奇迹）we see every day.   ________   , we insist on focusing only on the dark spots: the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the  ________  relationship with people we work with, the   ________   with a friend, and etc.

The dark spots are very  ________   compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds. "

I visited my sister’s family yesterday. When I arrived there, my 14-year-old nephew looked quite ________. When asked about the reason, he said he was going to take an exam   I was not________after listening to his explanation.

I know it is common to ________ anxious thoughts before an examination or during the examination. Moderate(适度的) levels of stress________ us to work hard, overcome our limitations and give our best ________. However, when we are overly nervous, we may feel like a complete failure and see no________ in making an effort.

As a society which now believes firmly in________, achieving, and winning,we might________turn examinations into larger than life events. We seem to________ the fact that an examination is just something used to tell us how well we have learned a particular subject and where we need to improve in that specific subject. Whatever the________of an examination we have got, they cannot change who we are and what we will do in our lives. Therefore, ________we fail to perform well, we must ________ourselves that it is just one exam in our long life and it is not going to be the end of the world.

Comparing ourselves with others brings a lot of fear in our mind and prevents our________. Rather than thinking about either defeating others or getting defeated by them, we should________this unhealthy thought and make self perfection our long term goal.   Let’s always strive to________ourselves and realize our internal potential.