There was a man playing the piano in a bar.He was a good piano player.People __________out just to hear him play.But one __________，a customer told him he didn't want to hear him just play any more.He wanted him to sing a song.

The man said，“I don't sing.”

But the customer was __________．He told the bartender(酒吧男招待)，“I'm __________ listening to the piano.I want that guy to sing！”

The bartender __________across the room，“Hey！If you want to get __________，sing a song.The customers are __________ you to sing！”

So he did.He sang a song.A piano player who had __________sung in public did so for the __________first time.And __________had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung the way it was sung by Nat King Cole!

He had talent he was sitting on！He may have lived the rest of his life as a no name__________player in a no name bar，but __________ he had to sing，he went on to__________one of the best known __________ in America.

You，too，have skills and abilities.You may not feel as if your “talent” is __________ great，but it may be __________ than   you think！And with persistence(坚持)，most skills can be __________．You may as well have no ability at all，__________，if you sit on whatever talent you possess！The better question is not “What ability do I have that is __________？”It is rather “How will I__________whatever ability I have？”

Never be afraid to do good, but always fear to do evil. Several years ago, my husband and I were ______ through Italy and stopped in Venice for a couple of days. Anyone who’s ever been to Venice ______ about the maze-like(迷宫样的)streets and how easy it is to get ______ . On this particular day, we were on a crowded narrow street consulting our map when I ______ to look up and see a 4-year-old Asian girl ______ a red dress coming toward us on the other side of the street. As she looked around ______ , I knew this little girl was lost.

In the next instant, a tall man wearing a belted brown raincoat swept up beside her,   ______ her hand, and continued walking. Immediately, and without thinking, I ran across the street and ______ right in front of him. I pointed my finger in his face and ______ , “NO!” He was at least three inches taller than me and ______ built, but I was totally fearless. His mouth dropped open as he gaped at(目瞪口呆)me. He let go of the child’s ______ and I quickly pulled her to the side of the street as she ______ on walking.

About 30 seconds later, her parents ______ the corner. I’ll never forget the horrified ______ on their faces and how they were ______ when they saw her with me.

Sometime during my later years, I decided that I wanted to be someone who was ______ rather than harmful. I began to see ______ everywhere, which strengthened my ______ that there is more good than bad in this world.

I believe in ______ for the good and connecting with the inspiration that sometimes puts us in the ______ place at the right time.

When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the _______ side is as much interesting. It may be a d iscussion of the way to _______ in good health, or _______ about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to _______ damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text _______ the title. Therefore, the scissors would _______ before they start, _______ halfway done when I find out the _______result.

Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your _______. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be ________ up. But you know the future is unpredictable — the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left ________. Thus you are ________ in a difficult position and feel sad. How ________nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life ________ greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.

In fact that is what ________ is like: we are often ________ with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only ________ we get into another. The ________ may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I ________ remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual ________ may not be a bad one.