Henry lives with his 6-year-old child. He is often worried about his ________ with no mother to look after him. ________ the boy always tells his father not to worry. He can look after himself.

One day, Henry goes out for work, leaving his son ________. There is nobody else with him. Henry worries so much about his son. After finishing his work, Henry ________ home fast. When he gets home, he sees a bowl of ________ under the quilt. He is so angry, “Why do you make the quilt dirty? Who will ________ it?” It is the first time that he gets angry with his son.

“No, Daddy, this is ________ dinner. ” the boy says with tears in his eyes. To be sure his father can eat dinner when he gets home, he cooks ________ bowls of noodles: one for himself, the other for his father. He is afraid his father’s noodles will get cold, so he puts them under the quilt to make them ________.

Hearing this, Henry says ________. He just kisses his son on the face with tears.

Emily was a teenager and lived with her parents. She and her best friend, Kim, found out that their favourite band would give a concert in their town on Friday night. They really wanted to go, but they didn’t think their parents would agree.

Emily explained to her parents that she wanted to go to the concert with Kim, but they thought that she was too young to go without _________. Emily told Kim that she could not go to the concert, but her friend’s answer was a real _________ to Emily. Kim told her mum she would study with friends on Friday.

“I really do not want to be dishonest with my parents,” Emily told her friend.

“Oh, _________ acting like a little kid! Everyone lies,” Kim replied.

But Emily was not so sure. She thought that honesty was very important. Emily never felt comfortable lying, and her parents always told her that it was wrong.

On Thursday, Kim invited Emily over to her house to watch a movie after school. When they got there, Kim and her mother got into a fight. Emily realized that Kim lied to her mother _________ and her mother did not trust her. Emily had to go back home.

As she walked home, she remembered that Kim always told her how terrible her relationship with her mother was. Kim thought her mother did not understand her, but Emily thought maybe Kim’s mother was just _________ Kim being dishonest with her. Emily decided she would not lie to her parents about the concert. There would be lots of concerts in the future, but they were the only parents she would ever have. She knew it was better to honor them and help them because her parents trusted her, let her do _________ of the things that she wanted to do, and she really preferred it that way.