Someone said that encouragement is simply reminding a person of the “shoulders” he's standing on, the heritage he's been given．That's what happened 1 a young man, the son of a(n) 2 baseball player, was chosen by one of the minor league teams．Hard as he tried, his first season was 3 , and by midseason he expected to be removed 4 day．The coaches were 5 by his failure because he possessed all the characteristics of a superb(杰出的)athlete, but he seemed to have become 6 from his potential．
His 7 seemed darkest one day when he had already struck out his first time at bat．Then he stepped up to the batter's box again and quickly ran up two strikes．The catcher called a 8 and ran for a conference to discuss strategies．While they were busy, the 9 , standing behind him, spoke casually to the boy．
Then play 10 , the next pitch was thrown and the young man knocked it out of the park．That was the turning 11 ．From then on, he played the game with a new confidence and power that quickly 12 the attention of the parent team, and he was called 13 to the majors．
On the day he was leaving for the city, one of his coaches asked him what had caused such a turnaround．The young man replied it was the 14 remark the judge had 15 that day when his baseball career had seemed 16 ．
“He told me I reminded him of all the times he had stood 17 my dad in the batter's box,” the boy explained．“He said I was holding the bat just the way Dad had held it． 18 he told me, ‘I can see his genes in you; you have your father's 19 ．After that, whenever I swung the bat, I just 20 I was using Dad's arms instead of my own．”
A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor．They talked about the 1 topic-happiness．But soon their conversation turned into complaints about 2 in work and life．
To offer his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and 3 with a large pot of coffee and a variety of 4 －plastic, glass, metal, porcelain(陶瓷), som plain-looking some very 5 ．The professor told his students to help themselves to hot coffee．
When all the students had a cup of coffee in 6 ．the professor said："lf you have noticed, all the nice-looking 7 ．cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones．While it is 8 for you to want only the best for Yourbelves, that is the 9 of your problems and stress．The professor continued," Believe that the cup itself adds no 10 to the coffee．ln most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases it even 11 what we drink．What all of you 12 wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went 13 the best cups．Now 14 this：life is coffee, the jobs, money, and 15 in society are the cups9 which are just tools to hold and 16 life, and the different typesof cups we have don't decide, nor 17 the quality oflife．lf we concentrate only on the cups, we will 18 to enjoy the coffee in it．So don't let the cups 19 you…enjoy the coffee instead．"
At these words, the graduates looked at each other in 20 embarrassment．
