I strongly believe that we can have a great influence on anyone we meet. Some acts that we think _________ can shape someone else’s future. The right words at just the right time could _________ change someone’s life.

Years ago, that was what happened to me. I was the only _________ child at Blue Creek Elementary School. From almost the first day there, the other kids _________ me mainly because of my hearing aid and the way I talked. And I also had _________ with most of my schoolwork.

When the other kids laughed at me, I was sure that I was a_________ person. I saw myself as a boy who wasn’t smart enough to_________ the class.

Mrs. Jordan, my 5th-grade teacher, _________ all of that with a simple three- word phrase.

One morning, she asked the _________ a question. I read her lips from my front-row seat and immediately raised my hand __________ I was sure I had the right answer. But when she called my name, I was __________. Here was an opportunity to impress the powerful teacher and__________ her I was worthy of her love. Maybe I would even impress my classmates a little. I didn’t want to blow it. __________ my fears, I took a deep __________ and answered Mrs. Jordan’s question.

I will never forget what __________ next. Mrs. Jordan enthusiastically slammed her right foot on the__________ and with sparkling eyes and a wide smile she __________. “THAT’S RIGHT STEPHEN!”

For the first time in my young life, I was a star. I __________ a little taller in my chair.

From that day forward, my grades and speech __________ greatly. My popularity among my peers increased. It was all because Mrs. Jordan believed in me and wasn’t afraid to __________ it.

My job is to help clients find jobs and return to school for training. One day, a lady came to my office with a dream to become a registered nurse. However, her family did not _________. With young children to care for and her husband unemployed, she simply didn’t have the _________ to return to school.

It was clear that this lady had a(n) _________ for the nursing profession, so I encouraged her to realize her dream. I _________ her with necessary information to apply for nursing school. She left my office, and I never _______ whether she followed her dream or not.

Many years later, I was diagnosed(诊断) with breast cancer. I was _________ to hospital. The surgery was successful. It was, _________, very painful. Though I _________ myself on not being a bell ringer, one night the pain was so _________ that I had to call for a nurse. I rang the bell and waited for __________. A nurse came through the door and offered to help. I __________ thanked her for coming to my rescue. I said, “I am not usually like this.”

To my __________, she said, “Oh, I know that, Mrs. Bryenton.” It __________ that she was just the lady who I had encouraged to follow her dream years before. She subsequently(随后)returned to school for upgrading and later ________ nursing.

You never know what __________ your encouraging words will have on someone. It is amazing that many of my clients would __________ to say thanks to me. To this day, I am still ______________ by strangers in the street and reminded that I was instrumental(起重要作用) in __________ their life.

I truly believe we make a __________ by what we get, but we make a wonderful life by what we __________.

There was a very wealthy man who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted many physicians and was being ________ by several of them. He did not stop consulting a large number of_________ experts; he consumed heavy loads of_________ and underwent hundreds of injections(注射). But the _________ was more unbearable than before.

At last, a monk who was _________ to be an expert in treating such patients was _________ by the suffering man. The monk _________ his problem and said that he should concentrate _________ on green colors and not let his eyes _________ any other colors for some time. It was a(n)_________ prescription(处方),but he was desperate and made up his mind to try it.

The wealthy man gathered a group of _________ and purchased barrels of green paint and directed that every object his eyes were _________ to see should be painted green just as the monk had directed. When the monk came to visit him after a few days, the wealthy man's _________ ran with buckets of green paint and poured it on him since he was in red, _________ their master saw any other color and his ache would _________.

Hearing this, the monk _________ and said, "If only you had bought a pair of green glasses, which are worth just a few dollars, you could have saved these walls and trees and pots and all the other articles and also could have saved a large share of his _________. You cannot paint the_________ green. "

Let us change our_________ and the world will change too. It is _________ to shape the world. Let us shape ourselves first.