What's the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hardwork, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} suggest knowledge, love and luck. If you arrange (排列) the 26 English letters in order and use {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…… 26 for z, you can change an English word {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a number. So hardwork becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark. Knowledge: 11+ 14+ 15+ 23+ 12+ 5+ 4 + 7+ 5=96, love: 12+15+22+5=54, and {#blank#}4{#/blank#}: 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} of these words can give one a full mark. What about money? It can't, either.

    Then what else? Don't be worried. You can always find an answer {#blank#}6{#/blank#}a problem in your life, when you change your way of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} at things or doing things, or your attitude(态度). Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude: 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100, a full mark. Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most time people hope for a better life. It is possible that they will have a better life {#blank#}8{#/blank#} they change their attitudes. When you change your manner and become {#blank#}9{#/blank#} towards others, you'll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive attitude towards {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, you'll find it's also rewarding(有益的) though it has caused you losses(损失).

    A farmer was put in prison (监狱). One day, he got a letter from his wife. "I am worried about our farm," she wrote. It's time {#blank#}1{#/blank#} potatoes, but I can't do all the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} by myself." The farmer then had an idea. He wrote to his wife, "Don't dig the fields. This is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} my gold (金子) is." A few days later, the farmer got the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} letter. It said, "About ten guards (守卫) came to our farm. It {#blank#}5{#/blank#} they were looking for something. They dug our farm everywhere." The farmer wrote to his wife at once. "Now you can plant our potatoes," he wrote.