Once upon a time there lived an old man in a nice cottage with a large garden. The old man was seen _______his flowers all the time. They were so well-tended（照顾得好） that every passer-by could not but ______for a glance.

One day a young man went by the garden. He gazed_______ the splendid garden, lost in admiration at the beauty of the scenery. Then, suddenly he ______ the old gardener was blind.   _______ ,the young man asked, “Why are you busy tending these flowers every day which you can’t _____ in fact?” The old man smiled and answered that I can tell you ____ reasons. First I was a ______when I was young, and I really like this job. Second, although I can’t see these flowers, yet I can ______ them. Third，I can smell sweetness of them. As to the last one, that’s _____

“Me? But you don’t know me,” responded the young man ______.

“Yeah, it’s _____ that I don’t know you. But I know everyone knows flowers and would ______ turn them down. I know the beauty of my garden will get many people into a good_______. In the meantime, it also _____ a chance to me to have a word with you here and to enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us.”

The old man’s ______ astonished me. The blind man grows flowers and _____them as a link of minds so as to make_____ enjoy the sunshine in spring. Isn’t it one kind of happiness?

I believe every flower has   ______ with which they can see the kindness of the man’s heart. The blind man grows flowers in his heart. Though   ______ to see the beauty of blossoming, he surely can hear the voice of it, I suppose.

I was a person who always felt desperate（绝望）before. Months ago my mom _____________ from a serious disease and had an operation on her brain. I felt the whole world falling down and I had no ______ what I could do to help her to reduce her __________. Whenever I was alone, tears welled up in my eyes.

Last month I _______ a valuable watch, which was an 18-year-old birthday gift from my dad. I couldn’t sleep for several nights for the reason that I felt__________about the loss.

There have been many __________ like these in my life. I could never know what to do with such tough matters __________ I read If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade by American author Dale Carnegie.

“When the wise man is handed a lemon, he says, ‘What __________ can I get from this? How can I __________ my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?’ ” he wrote.

I suddenly __________ that life is full of ups and downs, so I need to stay ___________ all the time. Now when I think of my past, I wish I could have handled things __________. When my mom was fighting for __________, I should have held her hands in mine, telling her things would get better instead of __________ and crying.

Several weeks ago, I participated in a campus singing competition. I didn’t ________a prize. If I had not __________ this article, I would definitely have felt __________ again. But instead, I smiled after the competition. I was pleased that in the end I had got some stage _________

Life is not just a bed of roses. There are thorns（刺）as well, but these thorns help us become__________ and strong. When life __________ us a lemon, let’s try to make a lemonade.

I walked into my daughter’s room as she was working on a science project. Normally, I would have been pleased about such a(n) _________. But this time, her project involved much sand. While she’d put sheets of plastic under her work area, the sand was _________ all over our new floor.

My daughter felt my displeasure and began to _________ herself. “I used sheets of plastic!” she responded irritably. I responded more _________. “But the sand is getting all over!”

“Where else am I supposed to do it?” she _________.

“Why didn’t she admit that she had done something _________?” I thought to myself. I felt my _________, thinking of what her life would be like in the future if she couldn’t _________ her mistakes?

My fear was translated into more anger, this time about how _________ it was to admit mistakes. We had a quarrel. She __________ her voice and said something disrespectful to me.

I wished this had __________ happened before. But my daughter and I were in embarrassment and felt terrible.

I thought that I needed a good __________ to respond to my daughter, so I went to my wife and asked how I should have __________ it.

“Sweetie,” she said, role-playing in the __________ with my daughter, “there’s a lot of sand here and we need to clean it up before it destroys the floor. How can I help you?”

That’s really a great way to deal with it: first identify the problem, next state what needs to be done and then offer to __________. It’s simple, right?