Do you let other people’ s bad actions change your good feelings? Do you let a bad driver or waiter make your day terrible? Your answer may be “yes”. However, your smart ________ to the actions is that you can smile (微笑) to them.

Sixteen years ago, I learned this lesson in a taxi in New York. It was the New Year’s Day. The roads were crowded. I couldn’t take a taxi ________ it got dark. We were driving fast on the road when a black car came out in front of ________. Luckily, our car stopped in time at the back of that car. I couldn’t ________ what happened next. The driver of the car turned his head around and started shouting bad words. But then here’ s what really made me ________. My taxi driver just smiled and waved (挥手致意) at the man. I said, “Why did you just do that? This man almost killed us!” He told me “The Law of the Garbage Truck (垃圾车)” . I will ________ never forget what he said next. He said, “Like garbage trucks, many people run around full of anger.” As their garbage gets more, they ________ a place. All they want to do is to ________ it. So when someone shows you the bad actions, don’t feel ________ , just smile, wave and move on. You will be happier.

I started thinking: ________ do I take others’ garbage and throw it to other people? Then I knew clearly what I should do.

In 1975 my father had just begun building his second hospital in the Himalayas. My mother and youngest sister were flying there to join him when their small airplane _______.

It was years _______ Dad fully came out of this period of darkness.

As I grew up, many people thought that being Edmund Hillary's son, I must have a strong feeling for ________   mountains. Well, I am, at the age of 48, a mountain man. I have been on more than 30 mountaineering expeditions. I have climbed Everest twice. I am _________   because I have all that my father taught me, too.

On one awful day in 1995, it was his   _________ that saved my life. I was in a group of eight climbers just below the top of K2 in the Himalayas. We had just another 400 metres left to climb. But the weather was going from bad to worse, and something didn't feel _________ .

At-that time I heard my father's voice inside my head: "Down. Go down. Don't let the others     _________ you to continue."

Then, from _________ , I heard the voice of a fellow climber. "Come up, " she called. "Use the red rope."

Again my father's _________ : "Don't do it. It's not __________ . "

Finally I told my climbing partner that I was __________ . He too was feeling unsure, but decided to go on ahead anyway.

As I headed down, I looked back at my fellow climbers who were all climbing toward the____________. Soon black clouds appeared between us, and I couldn't see them.

Fear makes you careful. As my father always told me, ____________ is not something that you should say no to. It is something you can   ____________ . I was the only one who had managed to   ____________ what had to be done. The seven above were killed.

Katie and Alice were twins. They were so alike that few people could tell them apart. They were best friends, but their ________ were not exactly the same. Alice liked sports better while Katie liked foreign languages better and she was good at French.

Once Katie ________ going to a summer camp in France. However, Alice wasn’t ________ it, so she refused. Katie was unhappy.

Two months later, Katie ________ Alice rushed to the airport to pick her up. To Alice’s surprise, Katie looked ________ different. When Alice asked Katie about France, Katie didn’t talk much. This made Alice a little angry because they used to tell each other almost ________. Over the weeks, the sisters communicated even less. It seemed that Katie was always busy talking with her French friends on the Internet and Alice was angry about that.

Soon it was their birthday. The twins used to talk all night long before the big day. That night, Katie came into Alice’s bedroom, saying, “I’m sorry that I haven’t ________ to you much recently. For a while, I thought my French friends were ________than my old friends. ________ I was wrong. You’re my sister, and you will always be my best friend.”

Alice said, “I’m sorry, too. It’s natural for twins to make new friends. I shouldn’t have been ________ with you.”