Once, a circle (圆环) lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around, looking for its _______ piece. It was not complete, so it could only roll (滚) very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine _______ the way. It talked with worms. It found lots of different pieces, but _______ of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on _______ for the lost piece. Then one day the circle found a piece and put it into _______. The piece fit _______. It could be whole with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. As it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to worms. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad _______ it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.

Sometimes we are perfect when we lose something. A man who _______ everything is poor in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something _______. He will never know someone is loving him or someone is giving him something he has always wanted or never had.

We couldn’t be perfect. But we must be brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, kind enough to share ________ with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us and then we can always have a wonderful time in our life.

Once upon a time, there was a mason who wanted to break open a large stone. But all he had were a small hammer (铁锤) and a small chisel (凿子) , and the stone was quite ________.

When he ________ his hammer and struck the first blow ________, he couldn’t knock off a(an)________, not even a trace of a chisel.   ________he didn’t take it seriously and ________to lift the hammer and knock again and again, one hundred, two hundred, three hundred... The big stone still didn’t   ________     any cracks.

But the stone mason still didn’t   ________ heart, he continued to lift the hammer and hit hard. Passerby people saw him working so hard ________achieving any results, but still kept working hard. They talked about it, and some even   ________ his foolishness. The stone mason didn’t care about it, knowing that although he had not yet achieved results in his work, that did not ________   there was no improvement.

He ________   another direction (方向) of the big stone and struck it, one hammer after another. ________whether it was the 500th or 700th hit, or the 1000th or so. The huge stone finally hit him in his final blow, cracked into pieces.

At this moment, a passerby saw him and couldn’t ________   but applaud. He looked_________   calmly and continued to knock on another stone.

The day was thankful Thursday. It’s a weekly _______ that my two little girls and I began years ago. Thursday has become our day to go out and do a positive thing.

My girls shouted “McDonald’s, McDonald’s” as we _______ along a busy Houston road. Suddenly I realized that almost at every crossing I passed through stood a beggar. And then it hit me! All these beggars must be hungry, too. Perfect! After we ate, I ordered _______ lunches, and we set out to deliver them. We would _______ the meals to beggars one by one, and tell him or her that we hoped things got better.

We gave our final meal to a small woman and then headed back home. _______, the light caught us and we were stopped at the crossing where this woman stood. I was _______ and didn’t know quite how to behave.

She came to our car, “No one has ever done _______ like this for me before,” she said. “Feeling uneasy, I said.” “So, when do you think you’ll eat your lunch?”

She just looked at me with her tired eyes and said, “Oh honey, I’m not going to eat this lunch.” I didn’t understand, but _______ I could say anything, she continued, “You see. I have a little girl and she just loves McDonald’s, but I don’t have the money. But you know what? Tonight she is going to have McDonald’s!”

I don’t know if the kids _______ the tears in my eyes, so many times I had questioned whether our acts of kindness were too ________ or unimportant to really matter. Yet at that moment, I realized the truth of Mother Teresa’s words: “We cannot do great things — only small things with great love.”