After the birth of my second child, Igot a job at a restaurant. Having worked with an experienced waitress for a few months, I was 1  to wait tables on my own. All went 2 that first week. When Saturday night came, I was luckily given the table not far from the kitchen. 3, I still felt it a little hard to carry the heavy trays(托盘).

    Before I knew it, the restaurant was full of people. I moved slowly, minding every step. I remember how  4 I was when I saw the tray stand（支架） near the tables; it looked different from the one I was 5 on. It had nice handles, which made it  6 to move around. I was pleased with everything and began to believe I was natural at this job.

    Then, an old man came to me and said,“Excuse me, dear, my wife and I love watching you work. It seems your traystand has been very 7to you, but we are getting ready to leave now, and my wife needs her 8back. ”

At first his idea did not get across.“What was he talking about!” Then, I got it. I had set my trays on his wife'sorthopedic walker(助步器). Istood frozen as ice, but my face was 9 . I wanted to get into a hole and hide.

    Since then, I have learned from many mistakes such as the one I just 10 , I have learned to be more careful and not to be sure of myself.

    Walt Disney came from America. When he was very young, his family moved from the city to a farm. 1 Disney was busy most of the time, he could still find 2to do interesting things. He spent much of his free time 3 pictures of the animals on the farm. He then. Began 4 stories about them. Later he even began taking artclasses on Saturdays.

    As he grew older, Disney's art5also grew. He began using a new way to tell his stories. To do this, he drew the same picture many times, changing each one a little. Using the camera, he took a photo of each drawing. Next, he put the film through a movie projector(放映机).

    As the pictures ran6 through the projector, the characters looked 7 Disney soon began to make his drawings into cartoons in this way. And the cartoons were just like 8.Walt Disney was9after many years of hard work. He became one of the world's greatest 10His cartoons still make lots of people happy every day.

    I did very1 at school. My headmaster thought I was simple and when I was 14, he said, "You are never going to be 2 but a failure."

    3 five years of low jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle­class girl. It was the best 4 that could have happened to me. I decided I wanted 5 something positive with my life because I wanted to prove to 6 that what people said about me was 7, especially her mother, who had said to me, "You have 8 in everything you have ever done." So I 9 hard with my writing and went to college. My first novel came out while I was at college.

    After college I taught during the day in high schools and attended evening classes at London University. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of 10 that job to write full time at a university. I began to feel proud of myself.

    Now I am rich and famous. But what does it mean? I just wish all the people that have put me down had said, "I believe in you. You will succeed."

    There was once a young man who began to feel self-satisfied after some small achievements.

    One day, the young man took a walk with a 1 man from the town. On the way the young man was bragging(吹嘘) about himself, 2 the wise man didn't say a word. When they3 a peak(山峰), the wise man asked, "Look down. What do you see?"

    "I see trees, houses and people as 4 as ants working in the fields," the young man said.

    "What do you feel?" the wise man asked.

    "Everything is 5 me. I feel I rule the world," the young man answered.

    The wise man said nothing. After a minute, he asked the young man to look 6 "What do you see this time?" the wise man asked.

    "I see 7flying around high mountains, the white clouds on the mountains and the blue sky above the white clouds," the young man answered.

Then he asked the wise man's 8.

    "I feel small and powerless," the wise man answered. "A person who knows to look upward can 9 understand his position(位置). When a person knows the blue sky is always overhead, he won't be so luck as to believe he rules the world."

    The young man felt foolish for his pride. From then on, he looked up at the sky and remembered 10 small he really was.

    Try to look upward when you feel too good about yourself.

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