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For the next seven years, sit down each evening and write down ten things you are grateful for each day.
Better still, do this with partner or friend. Before we practice gratitude (感恩), we are in the dark and there
appears to be very little to be grateful for. Once we begin, a new light dawns, sometimes a brilliant light, a
light as bright as heaven itself.
To whom are you grateful in your life? Do these people know the full extent of your gratitude? Do you
realize how grateful they will be when you tell them? Gratitude is more important than an attitude; gratitude
is philosophy. The philosophy of gratitude being as a hope, grows into a belief, and finally becomes an
absolute knowing. It is a knowing that within any given situation-peaceful or painful or ugly-there is always
a gift waiting, waiting for to see.
If it appears you have nothing to be grateful for, it is because you are not allowing yourself to receive.
Just because you do not receive does not mean there is nothing to receive. On the contrary (相反), there
is always ____ and so there is always a reason to be grateful. Pray:"Dear God, teach me I am worthy to
receive, teach me how to receive, teach me gratitude". Gratitude is good medicine. One single serving of
gratitude is often enough to open the heart, energise the body, warm the bones, make your hair curl, put a
spring in your step, start you humming, and make you smile like a baby.
1. What's the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
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2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? Showing even a bit of gratitude
can make everything look fine, and it will be of great benefit to you.
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3. Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.
(Please answer within 10 words.)
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4. Do you agree with the author's opinion of gratitude? Why? (Please answer within 30 words.)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese.
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