I was tired. I had been studying English for 8 years, but my spoken English was terrible. I went to English school every night. I _______ different textbooks and learned the grammar rules about them every day. But during the eight years, I hadn’t made any _______ at all!

Being tired of school, I searched the Internet _______ “Learn English” one night. Then I found an _______ English learning system.

Seven days later I started using the system to learn English. My life _______ from then on. I used the system every day. I was _______ to find that learning English in this way was so easy and interesting. No boring grammar rules. The articles were interesting and the stories were funny.

Then something amazing happened. One day I met an American man named James in a coffee shop. _______ thinking, I started to talk with him. My English words _______ automatically (自动地). It was hard for me to believe it. I could speak English so _______. I didn’t feel any stress or worry, and James understood my ideas and feelings. We talked for two hours without stopping. Then we exchanged emails and Skype IDs. We decided to talk to each other on the Internet every week.

My English has improved greatly now. I think there are ________ ways of learning English for us to use. You should stop using a way that doesn’t work and find out what is helpful to you.

Everyone wants to be _______. But failure (失败) is everywhere in our life. For example, we may fail in the tests. Sometimes when we are _______, we win. Others may fail. So almost everybody meets with failure. _______, different people have different ways to deal with the failure. Some people lose hope. They seem _______ that it is the end of the world. Others don’t take failure _______. They think that failure is the _______ step (步骤) to success. They will keep up and try _______ best to get the final success. It’s up _______ us to make a decision. Don’t feel sad. We may meet with more and more failures. But _______ we are hopeful to face them, we will become successful and our dreams will come true someday.

So, please remember: Life doesn’t always give ________ we want. But if we never give up and always do little by little, we will succeed one day.

I work in an adult school. Recently, I gave my adult class homework—to “go to someone you love and tell them you love them. It has to be someone you have _________ said those words to before or haven’t shared those words with for a long time”.

That doesn’t sound _________, but most of the men in that group were over 35 and were taught that expressing your feelings is not “macho（男子汉的）”.

At the beginning of our next class, I asked _________ someone wanted to share what happened when they told someone they loved them. One of the men _________ his hand. He appeared quite moved and a bit shaken.

He began by saying, “At first, I didn’t feel that I had anyone to say those words to. But as I began driving home, I knew exactly who I needed to say ‘I love you’ to. Five years ago,my father and I had a(n) _________ and never tried to deal with it. We hardly spoke to each other after that.”

“The next morning, I called my dad. When he answered the phone, I said, ‘Dad, can I come over tonight? I have something to tell you.’ I promised him it wouldn’t _________ long, so he finally agreed.”

“At 5:30, I was at my parents’ house ringing the doorbell. Luckily, Dad answered the door.”

“I took one step in the door and said, ‘Dad, I just came over to tell you that I love you’.”

“His face softened, his wrinkles（皱纹）disappeared and he began to cry. He _________ me and said, ‘I love you too, son. But I’ve never been able to say it’.”

“Dad held me harder in his arms and for a moment longer. I hadn’t felt that great for a long time.”

“Two days _________ that visit, my dad had a heart problem and ended up unconscious（昏迷）in the hospital. I don’t know if he’ll make _________.”

“My ____________ to all of you is this: Don’t wait to do the things that need to be done. Take the time to do what you need to do and do it now!”