There’s an old Hebrew (希伯来人的) saying that if you “save one life, you save the world entire.”

Brooke Lacey, a 22-year-old university student from New Zealand printed 600 stickers (便利贴纸) with an up-lifting ________. “Please don’t take your life today” the stickers ________. “The world is so much ________with you in it. More than you realize, stay.” Since Lacey had to deal with a lot of mental issues herself, she ________ quite well what a message of ________could mean to someone like her.

To help those who may be________, Lacey placed the message around the city. She also got it done as a bumper (保险杠) sticker which she ________to her own car. While many may have overlooked it, it ________ saving a person’s life.       

One day Lacey ________ her car in her university’s lot and when she returned to her vehicle to leave, she ________ a note was attached to the windshield (挡风玻璃).Thinking she was in for a ________ over poor parking technique, she was instead surprised to find the note ________ meant to thank her for saving the writer’s life.

Lacey was a little lost and ________ for a brief moment, then she remembered her ________ bumper sticker. “I had these made so long ago, put one on my car and ________about them, until now.” she posted. “Whoever you are, I am so________you chose to stay today.”   You never know who needs this ________.

There’s no doubt that Lacey’s sticker was ________ because it inspired someone to choose life. Lacey’s story reminds us that one simple, thoughtful ________ can help save or ________ someone else’s day or even life.

It was a rainy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road. But my daughter Carolyn had _______ that I come to see something at the top of the mountain. So here I was, _______ making the two-hour journey through the fog. By the time I saw how thick it was near the peak, I’d gone too far to _______.

After parking the car, we walked along a path that was _______ with pine needles (松针). Gradually, the peace and silence of the place began to fill my mind. Then we turned a corner and I gasped (倒吸气) in _______. From the top of the mountain were _______ of flowers flowing across valleys. A mass of color-from the palest pink to the deepest yellow to the most vivid red-shone like a carpet before us. It looked as though the _______ had spilled gold down the mountainside. Who _______ such beauty? How? As we _______ the house in the center of the field, we saw a sign that ________ “Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking.” The first answer was: “One ________ - Two Hands, and Very Little Brain.” The second was: “One Plant at a Time, Started in 1980.”

I was so moved that I could hardly speak. “She started over 40 years ago,” I finally said, “probably just the beginning of a (n) ________, but she kept at it.” The ________ of it opened my eyes to the world of the possible. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a vision (愿景) and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have ________?” Carolyn smiled. “Start tomorrow,” she said, “________ yet, start today.”

We are often warned by our teacher not to waste precious time, because time _______ will never return. I think it quite _______. What does time look like? Nobody knows for we can’t see it or _______ it and no amount of money can _________it. Time is abstract, so we have to _______ about it.

Today we are living in the 21st century. We look upon time as __________. When a person dies, his life __________. Since life is short, we must __________ our time and energy to our study so that we may be able to __________ the people well in the future. Laziness is the __________ of time, for it does not only bring us failure but also __________ us other harm. If it is necessary for us to do our work today, let us do it today and not __________ it until tomorrow.