A teacher decided to let her class play a game. She told each child in the class to bring a bag with _______ tomatoes. Each tomato was the name of a person that the child hated. So the number of tomatoes in the bag would depend on(取决于) the number of persons the child _______.

When the day came, every child brought some tomatoes with the names of the people he or she hated. Some had two tomatoes. Some had three tomatoes. Some even had five tomatoes. The teacher then told the children to _______ the tomatoes with them for a week. Days passed, and the children started to complain(抱怨) _______ the bad tomatoes let out terrible smell(味道). Some kids had to carry _______ bags with five tomatoes. After one week, the children were very happy because the game had ended _______.

The teacher asked, “How did you feel?” The children started complaining about the trouble of carrying the heavy and smelly tomatoes. Then the teacher told them the _______ behind the game. The teacher said, “This is the same situation when you hate somebody _______ your heart. The terrible smell of hatred(厌恶) will _______ your heart. If you cannot stand the smell of the bad tomatoes for just ________ week, what will it be like to have it in life?”

One summer day when I was in high school, my father sent me to buy some tools for our farm. I loved nothing better than driving our family truck to do _________. But this time I was not so happy _________ my father had told me I would have to ask for credit (赊账) at the shop.

_________ is a proud age. The young men at that age want respect but not charity. I had seen many times that my friends were _________ when they asked for credit. We lived in a poor village, where _________ was needed seriously. I knew clearly how difficult it might be to make the shop owner believe me and get the credit.

At David’s Brothers shop, Buck David was talking to a farmer. After I finished _________ the things I wanted, I walked to him. “I need to put these on credit, ” I said to him _________.

The farmer gave me a _________ look. But Buck’s face didn’t change at all. “No problem,” he said in a relaxing voice, “I believe your father will _________ them in time.” Then he turned to the farmer, “This boy is James William’s son.”

The farmer nodded to me in a friendly way. At that time, I was __________ pride. James William’s son, these three __________ opened a door to an adult’s respect and trust.

That day I discovered that a good name of great importance. My father’s good name had won our neighbors’ respect for our __________. A good name, and the responsibility (责任) that came with __________ encouraged us a lot. They made us be __________ than we might be. We also wanted to be regarded as good people. __________ acting like good people for a long time, we became good out of good habits.

Once in a physics class, the teacher asked the students, “Who knows why we have brakes (刹车器) in our car?” After a few minutes of thought, students gave ______ answers. A student got up and answered, “Sir, to stop the car.” Another one said, “To control the ______ of the car.”

______, none of the answers were the same as the teacher’s. Then he said, “All of your answers are right. But in my opinion, the brakes in the car make us be able to drive _______.” Hearing this, the whole class was ______ because no one thought of this answer. The teacher went on , “______ our car has no brakes, how fast are we ready to drive? It is the brakes in the car that give us courage (勇气) to drive faster and make sure we get to our place _______.”

Similarly (相似地), there are many such brakes in our life. They seem to ______ us. For example, our parents may ______ us about our progress (进步) in life. Their questions or advice may be thought as “brakes” that ______ us down. But what if we see ______ as our supporters? Sometimes we have to stop, or even ______ so that we can take a big step.

In fact, we should be ______ for the “breaks” in life. Without these “brakes”, we could lose the ______ of rushing forward or get into danger. Therefore we need to ______ that “brakes” in our life don’t mean to push us back, but to make us move forward more quickly than before. Sometimes stop is for better progress.