Two old beggars（乞丐）were sitting on a busy street corner of a big city. They watched _______ as a lot of people walked by without looking at them. Sometimes, a kind-hearted woman or a small child would _______ a few coins in the hats in front of them.

Today was not a _______ day for begging. The men were able to _______ enough for a big meal. As it was getting dark, they started to _______ their things.

Just as they were getting ready to leave, they _______ a man walking toward them. He was a _______ man—they could tell that from his fine clothes. The first beggar said to the second with _______, "He's coming our way！"The man stopped, _______ into his pocket and took something out. What looked like a piece of hard ________, wrapped（裹）in white paper, hit each of their waiting hats. The rich man turned and ________ his way.

"He could have easily left us a few ________ or a bill, but he laughed at us with a piece of rock candy, " said the first beggar. He looked at the offering ________. "There's no way we can ________ this-we have no teeth. "With these words, he picked up the thing and threw it away. Then he collected his things and ________.

The second beggar wanted to do the same, ________ a second thought made him change his ________. "I haven't had anything like this for ages, "he thought. " How ________ of that man to offer me something so sweet！" With that, he opened the white paper. To his ________ there was no hard rock candy inside. ________, a shiny white pearl（珍珠）worth thousands of dollars fell into his hand.

   I was fifteen months old, a happy kid until the day I fell. It was a(n)_______ fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched(缝合) the eyeball together where it was _______, leaving an ugly scar(疤) in the middle of my eye. The attempt _______, but my mother, in all of her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye was removed _______, my face would grow up badly distorted(畸形的), _______ my scarred, sightless, cloudy and gray eye lived on with me. As I grew, this sightless eye in so many ways _______ me.

I walked with my face looking at the _______ so that people would not see the _______ me. Yet my mother would say to me, at every turn, "Hold your head up high and _______ the world. If you hold your head up high, it will be OK, and people will see your ________ soul. " She continued this ________ whenever I was trying to hide.

Mother’s words were of great help for me to face the world ________. As a teenager, even though I tended to look down to ________ my shame, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people know me, they ________ me. In high school, I was ________ both academically and socially. I was ________ elected monitor. My mother’s words helped me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them ________ the intelligence and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn't see it on the ________.

Now I'm a happy wife and great mother. The message "Hold your head up high" has been ________ many times in my sweet home. Each of my children has felt its ________, and the gift my mother gave me has lived on in another generation.

   One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled（铺瓦的）ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is_____ .

Once I heard a bald（秃头的）man said，“Whenever I enter a room，_____ I see is hair.”Once you’ve_____ what your missing tile is，explore whether getting it will_____ make you happy. Then do one of the three things：get it，replace it with a different_____ ，or forget about it and_____ the tiles in your life that are not missing.

We all know people who have had a relatively easy life，yet are essentially unhappy_____ people who have suffered a great deal_____  remain happy.

The first_____ is gratitude（感激）.All happy people are ______ .Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to______ ，but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

The second secret is______ that happiness is a by-product（副产品）of something else. The most obvious______ are the pursuit that gives our lives purpose-anything______ studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have，the more happiness we are likely to______ .

Finally，the belief that something lasting for a long time goes beyond us and that our______ has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We______ a spiritual faith， or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy is， it should ______ this truth：If you choose to find the______ in every situation， you will be blessed；and if you choose to find the awful， you will be cursed. As with happiness itself， this is______ your decision to make.