Larry is going to be a pilot. He wants to fly an airplane. But Larry is not a rich man. He doesn’t have an airplane. He has only a chair.

For a few minutes, everything is fine. The view from the chair is beautiful. Larry can     14     houses and trees below him. He is happy. He is flying.

The chair goes up very high. Larry is afraid. “I don’t want to go very high,” Larry thinks. “I want to go down a little.” With a small gun, Larry shoots ten balloons. Then something terrible happens. Larry drops the gun, and it falls to the ground. Larry can’t shoot more balloons. The chair goes up and up.

Larry is three miles above the ground. Airplanes are     15     over him and under him. Larry has a small radio. “Help! Help!” he says into the radio. “I’m flying in a chair, and I want to come down!” People hear Larry,     16     they can’t help him.

Larry flies in the chair for 45 minutes. Then the balloons begin to lose air. Slowly the chair comes down, and Larry is back on the ground. He is not hurt.

I love you, Mum and Dad!

Tears go out of my eyes when I talk to my parents on the phone. What are they doing when I call them? This is what I want to know most. I have supper at 5 o’clock in the dining hall. There is no need for me to _______ by myself, no need to wash the dishes. However, now it is the busiest time for my parents. Dad works from seven o’clock in the morning to nine o’clock in the evening. Therefore, all the housework is left to my mum. Besides her own job, she also has to work at the vineyard (葡萄园).

Every day she gets up at 4 o’clock in the morning, and then works till dark. One day I called her at 7:30 in the evening, and she told me that she was still in the vineyard and hadn’t had supper yet. Tears ran down from _______ cheeks (脸颊), and I was filled with _______. I promise her to study hard in the university, because I am her hope. I promise her to take care of myself, because I am important to her... I promise her so much and I just want her to promise me that she can take care of herself and dad because they are just like the blood in my body. I cannot _______ without them.

In my _______, everyone is common. We are willing to earn our living by our own hands. We are very happy to have the meal together on the New Year’s Eve. My mother has ever said that everyone in the family is important, no one can be absent (缺席的).

Mum has ever said that the _______ time for Dad and her is when my sister and I come back home. We play cards in the room, watch TV, do anything we like with dad and mum preparing delicious food in the _______. It is also the happiest time for me. At that moment, I could forget all the difficulties and unhappiness. The only thing I would like to do is to _______ the time with my parents.

Love, sometimes, speaks louder than words. Give your parents a call, and tell them you miss them...