Tom was an aged carpenter(木匠) who was near his sixties and prepared to left work. He came to his boss with his _______ to drop out of the house building business and live a more _______ life with his wife enjoying _______ of his life. He would miss the happy time in the company, but he had to _______.

The boss was sorry to see his best worker go and asked _______ he could do him a favor to build just one more house. Tom agreed, _______, in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He did the work _______ using poor materials.

_______ the carpenter finished his work and the boss came to _______ the house. To everyone’s ________, the boss handed the front-door key to Tom. “The house ________ you now,” he said, “my gift to you ________ your good work these years.”

What a ________! What a shame! ________ he had known he was building his own house, he would have done it all with ________! Now he had to live in the house he had built none too well.

So it is with us. Mostly we build our lives in a casual(随便的) way, complaining(抱怨) rather than acting, ________ to try our best. Then with a shock we find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized, we would have done it ________.

Think of yourself as the ________. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or ________ a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. ________ the saying goes, “Life is a do-it-yourself project.”

Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today.

I grew up in three cultures: I was born in Paris, my parents were from China, and I was_________mostly in America. When I was young, this was very _________: Everyone said that their culture was best, but I knew they couldn’t all be right. I felt that there was a(n) _________ that I would choose to be Chinese or French or American. For many years I bounced(弹跳) among the three, _________ each but never being wholly comfortable.

However, the _________ of trying on each culture taught me something. As I struggled to belong, I came to understand what made each one _________. At that point, I realized that I didn’t need to choose one culture to the _________ of another, but instead I could choose from all three. The values I selected would become _________ of who I was, but no one culture needed to win. I could _________ the cultural depth and length of my Chinese heritage, while feeling just as __________ about the deep artistic traditions of the French and the American culture.

So, __________ settling on any one of the cultures in which I grew up, I now choose to __________ many more cultures and find __________ to love in each. This wandering leads to the accidental learning that continually __________ my life.

As I work in music today, I try to carry out this idea — that the music I play, like me, doesn’t __________ only one culture. In recent years, I have explored many musical traditions. Along the way, I have met __________ who share a belief in the creative power that exists at the intersection of cultures. These musicians have __________ become my guides to their traditions.__________ them and their music I have found new meaning in my own music making.

As we struggle to find our __________ voices, I believe we must look __________ the voice we’ve been assigned and find our place among the tones of human expression.

Once upon a time there lived a cruel lion in a thick forest.All the other animals are________of him.One day the lion was trapped in a________trap and no animal wanted to rescue him.

A man________to come into the forest and saw the lion.The lion said,“I will die of________if I stay here.Please help me ________.I promise your kindness will be rewarded.”The man felt sorry for the lion and set him free.As soon as the lion got________,he let out a fierce roar.“I have been trapped in the cage for a long time.I am________.I will have to eat you,said the lion.looking at the man.The man was________.

However,he was clever enough to say,"Alright,you can eat me.But let's find someone and let him decide________ you are right in eating the person who has rescued you."

The lion was________that no animal would speak against him,so he________.Just then a fox came and the lion asked the fox to be the________.He said to the lion,"Sir,would you please________me how it all happened?"The lion was too________.He entered the cage and closed the cage door.The fox________bolted（将……闩上）the cage from outside.And the ungrateful lion was________in the cage again.

The lion asked the man for help again,but the man knew the lion wouldn't be________to him.He just walked away.

When we're________by others,we should be thankful to others instead of returning bad for________.If we do that,we'll be left to________the consequences（后果）.