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Years ago, a critical event occurred in my life that would change it forever. I met Kurt Kampmeir of Success Motivation Incorporation for breakfast. While we were ___ 36 ,Kurt asked me, " John, what is your 37for personal growth?

Never at a loss for words, I tried to find things in my life that might 38 for growth. I told him about the many activities in which I was 39. And I went into a 40 about how hard I worked and the gains I was making. I must have talked for ten minutes. Kurt 41patiently, but then he 42smiled and said, "You don't have a personal plan for growth, do you?"

"No, I 43 .

"You know," Kurt said simply, "growth is not a(n) 44 process."

And that's when it 45 me. I wasn't doing anything 46 to make myself better. And at that moment, I made the 47 : I will develop and follow a personal growth plan for my 48 .

That night, I talked to my wife about my 49 with Kurt and what I had learned. I 50her the workbook and tapes Kurt was selling. We 51 that Kurt wasn't just trying to make a sale. He was offering a 52for us to change our lives and achieve our dreams.

Several important things happened that day. First, we decided to 53 the resources. But more importantly, we made a commitment to 54 together as a couple. From that day on, we learned together, traveled together, and sacrificed together. It was a 55 decision. While too many couples grow apart, we were growing together.

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A Race Against Death

It was a cold January in 1925 in North Alaska. The town was cut off from the rest of the world due to heavy snow.

On the 20th of that month, Dr.Welch 36 a Sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious(传染的)disease mainly affecting children. The children of Nome would be 37 if it struck the town. Dr.Welch needed medicine as soon as possible to stop other kids from getting sick. 38 , the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage.

How could the medicine get to Nome? The town`s 39 was already full of ice, so it couldn't come by ship. Cars and horses couldn't travel on the 40 roads. Jet airplanes and big trucks didn't exist yet.

41 January 26, Billy and three other children had died. Twemty more were 42 . Nome`s town officials came up with a(n) 43 . They would have the medicine sent by 44 from Anchorage to Nenana. From there, dogeled(狗拉雪橇)drivers-known as "mushers"-would 45 it to Nome in a relay(接力).

The race began on January 27. The first musher, Shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at Nenana and rode all night. 46 he handed the medicine to the next musher, Shannon`s face was black from the extreme cold.

On January 31,a musher named Seppala had to 47 a frozen body of water called Norton Sound .It was the most 48 part of the journey. Norton Sound was covered with ice，which could sometimes break up without warning.If that happened，Seppala might fall into the icy water below.He would 49 ,and so would the sick children of Nome.But Seppala made it across.

A huge snowstorm hit on February 1.Amusher named Kaasen had to brave this storm.At one point，huge piles of sonw blocked his 50 .He had to leave the trail (雪橇痕迹)to get around them.Conditions were so bad that it was impossible for him to 51 the trail again. The only hope was Balto，Kaasen's lead dog, Balto put his nose to the ground, 52 to find the smell of other dogs that had traveled on the trail.If Balto failed，it would mean disaster for Nome.The minutes passed by.Suddenly，Balto began to 53.He had found the trail.

At 5:30 am on February 2, Kaasen and his dog 54in Nome. Within minutes，Dr.Welch had the medicine.He quickly gave it to the sick children.All of them recovered.

Nome had been 55 .

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Going to Mount Huangshan reminds me of the popular Beatles' song"The Long and Winding Road". ____56____is so breathtaking about the experience is the out-of-this-world scenes. The rolling sea of clouds you see once you are at the top will remind you how tiny we ____57____(human) are.

The hot spring at the foot of the mountain is something you must try after the climb. It will ____58____(undoubted) help you get refreshed! The amazing thing about the spring is that the colder the temperature gets, the ____59____(hot) the spring! Strange, isn't it? But that's how nature is - always leaving us ____60____(astonish).

What comes next is the endless series of steps. You can't help wondering how hard it ____61____(be) for the people then to put all those rocks into place. Though it is the only unnatural thing on your way up the mountain, still it highlights the whole adventure ____62____offers a place where you can sit down to rest your ____63____(ache) legs.

As the song goes, this long and winding road "will never disappear", and it will always stick in the visitor's memory. It sure does in ____64____(I).While you're in China, Mount Huangshan is ____65____must to visit!

My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.

My best friend Betsy's father was a manager at Hough Bakeries, which, at Easter time, ____41____little bunny ( 兔子 ) cakes for all its ____42____throughout Cleveland. It happened that the plant downtown needed eight kids for ____43____help during our spring break, for which I had no ____44____beyond listening to my favorite records. I'd ____45____minimum wage. I'd see how a factory ____46____. My parents thought all of this was a grand idea and called Betsy's dad with their ____47____.

Our ____48____in the factory were simple: Place cakes on a moving belt. Attach icing (糖霜) ears. Apply icing eyes and nose. ____49____bunny from the belt. This was _____50_____than it sounds. _____51_____a bit and the cakes pile up. As I told my parents at dinner that first night, it was all a little more high-pressure than I'd _____52_____.

Dad ____53____. The son of a grocer, he'd spent the summers of his childhood _____54_____food in Benardsville, New Jersey. This was the sort of work that made you _____55_____the dollars you earned and respect those who did the work, he told me.

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My husband and I just spent a week in Paris. ____36____So the first thing we did was rent a fantastically expensive sixth-floor apartment the size of a cupboard. It was so tiny that we had to leave our suitcases in the hallway.

The place wasn't entirely authentic，though. Unlike a normal Parisian apartment, the plumbing (水管) worked. ____37____Our building even had a tiny lift with a female voice that said, "Ouverture des portes," in perfect French. That is the only French phrase I mastered, and it's a shame I don't have much use for it.

Parisians are different from you and me. They never look lazy or untidy. As someone noted in this paper a couple of weeks ago, they eat great food and never gain weight. ____38____French strawberries do not taste like cardboard. Instead, they explode in your mouth like little flavor bombs.

____39____On our first morning in Paris, I went around the corner to the food market to pick up some groceries. I bought a handful of perfectly ripe small strawberries and a little sweet melon. My husband and I agreed they were the best fruit we had ever eaten. But they cost ＄18!

In France, quality of life is much more important than efficiency.

You can tell this by cafés life. French cafés are always crowded. ____40____When do these people work? The French take their 35-hour workweek seriously - so seriously that some labor unions recently struck a deal with a group of companies limiting the number of hours that independent contractors can be on call.

A．	Not all the customers are tourists.
B．	The quality of life in France is equally excellent.
C．	There was a nice kitchen and a comfortable bed.
D．	The amazing food is mainly consumed by local farmers.
E．	That's not the only reason the French eat less than we do.
F．	Our aim was to see if we could live, in some way, like real Parisians.
G．	The food is so delicious that you don't need much of it to make you happy.