As we all know, people often make a living by making the most of local surroundings. A small village by the sea depended on ______ to survive. Each year the villagers had to go farther and farther from shore to catch enough fish to ______ the population.

But as the villagers went farther away, they ______ a problem. Their usual ______ was to put the fish they caught in big tanks to keep them ______ until they returned home. But the fish grew inactive in the tanks, and many ______ before the boat could reach shore again.

After much ______, one villager ______ a solution. On their next fishing trip, they caught a ______ shark and placed it in the tank along with the fish. The shark ate only a few fish, but the rest swam ______ around the tank trying to keep away from the shark—and made it to shore fresh and healthy for the villages.

Sometimes a little fear is what we need to stay active and ______. People usually lose ______ and focus when everything goes smoothly and ______ best when they have a little anxiety or fear.

A little fear can be ______. Fear can hold a lot of people back and stop them from living life to the fullest. I understand that feeling of being afraid.______ there is only one thing worse than ______, and that is being afraid to begin. There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown ______ about them.

Dale Carnegie once said, “Inaction ______ to doubt and fear. Action breeds ______ and courage. If you want to ______ fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

My husband and I have little money lately. We haven’t _______ out for a while, so we went to a _______ last night.

When we saw the _______, we knew we could only afford to get a small pizza, so we would have enough money left for _______. Before long our pizza that was cut to 4 pieces arrived. My husband wanted to act like a _______, so he would like to put a piece of _______ on my plate. Unluckily it dropped onto the _______. I knew he would be _______ about others’ views on him. I told him. “Honey, don’t let other people _______ us. We still have three pieces left.”

The manager ________ this and came over with a broom (扫帚). He ________ the pizza and said he was ________ that the oven (烤箱) had been ________, or he would have brought another pizza for us. At the end of our meal he ________ to our table again to thank us for being here. Then he ________ us one coupon (优惠券) for a free small pizza. We were ________ because he could have chosen a ________ attitude when he saw the pizza we dropped during their closing time. Instead he chose to make sure we could left ________. My husband was going to give him tips for our meal that we had prepared, ________ the manager didn’t take them. To some people it might not be important, but to us it meant ________. Our rare treat of enjoying a night out was made more pleasant.

Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in the town, I wanted to have a rest before catching the train. I ________ a newspaper and some chocolate and ________into the station coffee shop. It was a cheap self-service place with long tables to ________at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor, ________the newspaper and the chocolate on the table and then went to get a cup of coffee.

When I came back with the coffee, there was someone ________in the next seat. ________was a boy, with dark glasses and old clothes, and ________bright red at the front. He had started to eat my chocolate!

Naturally, I was rather uneasy about him, but I didn’t want to have any ________. I just read the newspaper, tasted my coffee and took a bit of chocolate. The boy looked at me in ________. Then he took a ________ piece of chocolate. I could hardly believe it. Still I didn’t say anything to him. When he took a third piece, I felt more angry than uneasy. I thought, “Well, I shall have the last piece.” And I got it.

The boy gave me a strange look, then________up. As he left, he shouted out, “There’s something ________ with that woman!” Everyone looked at me, ________I didn’t want to quarrel with the boy, so I kept quiet. I did not realize that I had ________ a mistake until I finished my coffee and was ready to ________. My face turned red when I saw my unopened chocolate under the newspaper. The chocolate that I had been eating was the boy’s!