One summer night, my friends and I stole into the Jordan’s backyard and started harvesting their sweet, juicy raspberries(树莓). We were enjoying every bite of the tasty berries when___________, Mr. Jordan came charging outside.

“What are you boys doing out here?” he shouted as my friends__________in all directions. He___________to catch one or two as they rushed past him, but they were too___________for the older gentleman to catch. Within seconds, the boys________into the dark of the summer evening. All except me.

However, speed was never my_________. I took the tongue-lashing(痛骂)that Mr. Jordan gave me as he marched me down the block to my house, where my mother__________and scolded me bitterly. My friends said they could     ______every colorful word she spoke from the darkness of our backyard, where they had gathered to celebrate their     ____ and to observe my capture(捕获).

They teased me about it for days afterwards,___________all I could do was complain about how________it was that I was the only one who had to pay the price. After about a week of this, I complained to my father about the inequity of the_________. Dad said, “You took raspberries without___________, and you get exactly the punishment you _________.”

“But what about the guys?” I asked. “They didn’t get _________at all!”

“That’s not my__________, nor should it be yours,” Dad said. “You can’t___________what happens to others. You can__________deal with what happens to you. You made a_________choice that night, and you were punished for it.”

Through the years I come to__________there is no guarantee that life will treat us fairly. That’s why we can’t get stuck in comparing our lives with the lives of others. Like Dad said, that isn’t our concern.

Mr. Jackson was blind from birth. He owned a fruit _____ on a very busy street. ______ he was visually disabled, he ran his business pretty handsomely. He could see nothing and he could only ______ the things within his reach. ______， he was able to handle it and was content with everything he had.

One day his son came to him. He told Mr. Jackson in _____ that he read in the newspaper of a ______ who could operate on his eyes and allow him to see. The father and son traveled to the doctor and paid for the ______.

After the operation, the doctor asked Mr. Jackson，“What is the first thing you are ______ to see when I take the bandages off？”He replied, “I really want to see my beautiful ______ on my stand！”

The doctor and the son ______ Mr. Jackson down to the busy street where his fruit stand had been located for so many years. The doctor ______ unwrapped the bandages ______ he could lay his eyes on the beautiful fruit! Mr. Jackson was so full of ______ that he could finally see his life's work—taking care of his fruit! After a few hours of ______ his beautiful fruit stand, he looked down the street both ways and saw there were quite a few fruit stands in both directions. He looked ______ the street and saw many other fruit stands. He spent so much time looking at other people's fruit stands and ______ the competition that soon his own business ______.

From Mr. Jackson's failure, we should know that everyone is a ______ individual with different fingerprints, DNA and thinking. What we need to do is just be ourselves and ______ everyone else to be who they are. Mind our own business and we should never be afraid of   the ______.

Why is setting goals important? Because goals can help you do, be, and experience everything you want in life. ______ just letting life happen to you, goals allow you to make your life happen.

Successful people ______ how their life should be and set lots of goals. By setting goals you are ______ your life. It’s like having a ______ to show you where you want to go. Think of it this way. There are ______ drivers. One has a destination in mind (her goal) which can be found on a map. She can drive straight there without any wasted time or wrong turns. ______ driver has no goals or destination or map. She starts off at the same time from the same place as the first driver, ______ she drives aimlessly around, never getting anywhere, just ______ gas. Of the two drivers, which driver do you want to be?

Winners in life set goals and follow through on them. They decide what they want in life and then get there by making ______ and setting goals. ______ people just let life happen by accident. Goals aren’t difficult to set — and they aren’t difficult to reach. It’s up to you to find out what your goals really are. You are the one who must ______ what to achieve and in what direction to aim your life.

Research tells us that when we write a goal down we are more ______ to achieve it. Written goals can be ______ regularly, and have more power. Like a contract with yourself, they are harder to neglect or forget. Also ______ you write your goals in a particular way you are able to make yourself continuously ______ situations that will bring you nearer to your goal.