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  Last spring I was walking in a park. In front of me there was a mum and her 5-year-old daughter. The little girl was holding a string, which had a balloon at the other e___1.

  All of a sudden, a l___2 wind took the balloon from the little girl, I thought she would cry, But, no! As the little girl turned to watch her balloon rise to the s___3, She cheerfully shouted out “wow!”

  That little girl t___4 me something, later that day, I received a phone call from my friend ,he told me an unexpected problem, I felt like r___5 with, “Oh no, what should we do?” But remembering that little girl, I found m___6 saying：“Wow, that is interesting! How can I help you?”

One thing is for sure-life is always going to make us f___7 unexpected problems, However, how to deal with them is our choice, We can choose to be annoyed or i___8.

 No matter what the situation is, a “wow!” will always b___9 “Oh no.”

So the next time you meet one of life’s unexpected g___10. remember that little girl and make it a “wow!” experience. The “wow!” always works.

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One day Harvey’s wife was cleaning out a cupboard, “Look at all these umbrellas,” Harvey’s wife said to him, “There are eight and they are all b___1.” I’ll take them all to the umbrella shop and have them repaired,” Harvey said, “They are too good to t___2 away”

Harvey took the eight umbrellas to the shop and l___3 the there. The shopkeeper said, “They’ll be r___4 tomorrow.”

That evening Harvey went home from the office by bus as he u___5 did, He sat next to an old woman, She had an umbrella on the floor between the s___6, when the bus reached his stop, he picked up her umbrella and stood up.

“Hey” the woman said, “That umbrella b___7 to me.”

“I’m sorry.” Harvey said, giving it to her, “Please excuse me for taking your umbrella by m___8.

The next day he collected the umbrellas from the umbrella shop and got on the bus, As he sat down, a v___9 behind said, “ You have certainly had a s___10 day!”

He turned around and saw the woman whose umbrella he had almost taken the day before.

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Les Brown, a famous speaker tells the story one of his friends, a salesman. His friend was in t___1 with money because sales dropped by 60% Les asked him, “How many phone c___2 are you making a day?” His friend answered, “Twenty-five”

Les kept s___3 for a while, And the he gave him his a___4. “Double them,” he said, “Make fifty, or seventy-five, or one h___5.”

The salesman answered： “Aw, man. That’s too much, I’d rather w___6 and see.”

“Too much!” r___7 Les. “You tell me you are running out of money and then you say it’s too much, you know, one way for you to get back is to p___8 first. Then your sales will increase. How can you say anything is too much when you l___9 every thing?”

Today, many people say they have t___10, but in fact they haven’t touched the surface of their potential(潜力), Then , why not make a promise to achieve your personal best?

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When Mr. Smith got home from work, his flat would be clear and look as good as new, A d___ 1 dinner would be ready for him on the table. After dinner, the robot would wash the dishes, While Mr. Smith r____2 himself. Watching his favorite TV programs, Mr. Smith was very p____3 with his robot.

A few weeks later, however, things started to go w____4. The robot caught a virus(病毒)and c____5 a lot of problems, It no longer knew when it should cook breakfast and sometimes it woke Mr. Smith would find his breakfast in the washing m____6 and his clean shirts in the dustbin, while Mr. Smith was at work, the robot would move around the house and k____7 things over , when Mr. Smith got home, he would find his flat in a mess：food was on the bed, books were in the rice cooker, mirrors were b____8,and coins were spread all over the floor. Mr. Smith w____9 what he would do with the robot.

In the end, Mr. Smith decided to r____10 the robot to the robot shop. The robot was just too much trouble.

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Pearl Carson was shaken awake at 3:30a.m by a forceful pull. King, the family dog was trying to pull her out of bed. Then she s____1 smoke and heard the sound of fire from her parents’ room. Pearl’s screams(尖叫) awaked her mother, Fern. And father Howard, who had r____2 been in a hospital for lung disease, Helping Howard to a first-floor window, Fern told him to climb out and then ran to her daughter.

Still inside, King a____3 at Pearl’s window, making screaming sound, when running toward Pearl’s bedroom, Fern realized her husband hadn’t yet e____4, She make her way b___5 through the smoke and flames, f____6 King’s sound to where Howard lay still in the floor. Fern helped him get outside, King came out only after the other two were s__7

As day dawned, the Carsons saw that King’s paws were badly burned, and his entire body was burned too, His chain collar(项圈)had gotten so h___8 that it burned his throat, making it impossible for him to bark n___9, only after the seven-year-old dog refused food did they find pieces wood in his mouth and realized that King, who slept outside, had bitten through a wood door to w____10 his family.