He came from somewhere south of Italy. I didn’t know when or how he got to America, _______ maybe. But one evening I found him standing in the driveway, behind my garage, extremely _______, being all skins and bones.

“My name Tony Trivionno and I mow (WO) your lawn.” he said. It was hard to understand his _______ English. “I mow your lawn,” he said again and walked away. Yes, these depression days were difficult, but how could I _______ a person who had come to me for help?

When I got home the next evening, the lawn had been mowed, the driveway _______ and the garden weeded. _______, my wife assumed I had hired him. I told her of my _______ the night before. And we thought it strange that he had not asked for _______.

The next two days were busy, and I _______about him. But on Friday, I saw him, behind my ________again and busy around.

I managed to ________ some small weekly pay for him and each clay he cleaned up the yard and took care of any little ________. He was very helpful whenever there were any heavy objects to carry or things to fix in my factory.

“I want to be an apprentice(学徒),” he said one day. ________ we had a good Prentice school that trained laborers, I doubted whether he had the ability to ________ blueprints and micrometers (千分尺). Therefore, he took a ________ in pay to become an apprentice.

Many years later, I found him in our ________ meeting spot, much heavier than he used to be and taking on a look of ________. He was a millionaire now!

Tony came to America seeking the American Dream. But he did not find it—he ________ it himself. Tony didn’t begin on the bottom rung of the ladder. He began in the ________ Tony’s affairs were tiny, and all he had were 24 hours a day. He wasted none of them and ________ finally.

When life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. My experience that time just confirmed this statement.

I paced the crowded airport, sweaty and annoyed. It was two days before New Year’s Day, and my flight home had been ________ at the last minute. Now the ________ flight was delayed.

We ________ , finally, at a snail’s pace. I ________ my way down the aisle(过道)only to discover that I was stuck in the middle seat instead of the window seat I’d booked. I closed my eyes to ________ myself. The woman in the window seat ________ searched for something in her purse. A bag of food. She tried to open it, her ________ pushing mine.

I couldn’t hide my ________. “Do you want me to try?” I asked. I put all my frustration into wrestling with the bag but failed. The guy on the other side volunteered to try it. His ________ involved lots of biting but he got nowhere. The woman across the aisle offered to give it a ________ but in vain. The teenage boy beside her reached for the ________. Nope. How could this little bag ________ the five of us?

“The teenager said to the guy, You take one side and I’ll take the other.” Together, they pulled. We’d done it! The ________ of the bag said, “Now, I want everyone to have some!” When it was back to the woman only a single peanut rolled out. She held up the ________ bag and laughed.

On a trip where everything had gone ________, five strangers had given each other some New Year cheer in a most unexpected way. Hope my family would still be awake.

One day a famous painter painted a picture. He put it on exhibition with the title “Not for_______”. However, it was so beautiful a painting that whoever_______that exhibition asked the painter to sell that painting for whatever amount he would_______it. But he said, “I'm extremely sorry but I can’t sell this for any amount. I will sell it to only that person who will understand its_______.” Then, an old man came over and said, “I want to buy this painting and here is the_______in this small box for it.” There was a paint brush and colors in it. Then, he gave that painting to the old man.

All the other people asked the painter with_______, “Why did you sell it for a paint brush and a few colors to this old man? We were_______you a huge amount for this painting.” The painter said, “If you_______the painting, there is a man who is teaching a kid to paint with so much_______. So, the man in the picture is this old man and that kid is me. He is my teacher who taught me to paint and made me become what I am today just thanks to his devotion and________. And, the real value of this painting is just a paint brush which is________by my teacher as this paint brush is more________than your wealth. With this paint brush I can paint many more paintings.”All people understood and________the bonding(情谊) of a teacher and his student.

A teacher always gives his best wealth to his student in the form of knowledge, wisdom and art with a(n)________that his student will________make use of it.