1 . When I was eleven years old, my life changed forever when I got a serious disease. My life was ________ with operations and treatments. I felt stressed because I was really uncertain ________ everything that was happening.

One day, I was receiving my thirteenth operation in the hospital. Being away from my friends and school was bringing me almost as much ________ as the operation itself.

During that hospital stay, I received a card from a volunteer. That simple ________ meant much to me and gave me hope again during my time of need. I’ll never ________ the way I felt after that small act of kindness. I started creating an organization called Cards for Hospitalized (住院的) Kids.

The charity began with a simple dream of giving ________, joy and magic to those kids. It later ________ a national organization that sent cards to over 5,000 sick kids at more than 50 hospitals across the country.

It is hard to believe that an act as simple as a card can do so much good, ________ it does. Seeing a picture of a child ________ one of our cards with a huge smile makes us keep this wonderful charity alive.

________ might provide medicine for these sick kids, but we provide that little bit of hope and magic that’ll go a long way.

Jenny lived in a small village. When she was a child, what she liked to do most was to watch the blue sky and enjoy birds flying freely in the sky. She always ________ that some day she could also fly like a bird.

When Jenny was in the fourth grade, her teacher asked her to write a passage about her ________. In it, she wrote that she wanted to become an air plane pilot in the future. However, to her surprise, her paper came back with an “F” on it. Jenny felt ________ and sad. In her heart, she didn’t want to ________ her teacher’s opinion. Why was it impossible? But the people ________ Jenny didn’t support her and told her over and over again, “Girls can’t become pilots; never have, and never will. You’re ________.” Finally, Jenny felt hopeless and ________ her dream.

Several ________ later, Mrs. Salton, her high school English teacher, gave the class a ________ about what they would be doing in the future. Jenny thought hard about it, “Pilot? No way! Artist? No talent! Waitress? I can do it.” ________ she wrote it down. What Jenny wrote surprised Mrs. Salton, “Is that what you are really interested in? I think you will be _________ to do something full of more challenges.” Jenny felt excited, but she was still ________ that she would be laughed at again. The teacher continued, “Everyone has their own talent. If you don’t go for your dream, ________ will do it for you.” Hearing that, with great courage she wrote down her old dream.

Mrs. Salton’s words ________ Jenny a lot. After ten years of hard work, Jenny’s dream came true. She became one of the first three women ________ in the world.

5 . Teenagers spend more time at school than with their parents. So communication between them can be ________. Parents spend all day working. They don’t come back home ________ late in the evening. They can’t almost ________ their children. And the problem will become worse ________ the parents work in another city. The parents and their children ________ have the weekends or holidays to spend all together. Sometimes they don’t ________ have a chance to communicate together all the year around. This is quite ________ because we know how important communication is to people, especially to children. As they grow up, they need to learn ________ to communicate with others. So, school becomes a (n) ________ place to help children.

School is where teenagers learn to read and write, ________ they can learn good manners from teachers. School is also the place where teenagers can learn lots of communication ________.

As teenagers, we’ve all ________ what school means to us. Our teachers usually ________ us how important it is to get information from others. The things we learn at school will help us ________ some important decisions in life later.

It’s sure that school will ________ help for our future. So, in school, we should work as hard as we can.

I am a middle school student. I like _____ very much. Pandas are my favorites, because they are cute. They _____ in China and are one of China’s important symbols. They _____ bamboo (竹子) for food. It’s their favorite. Today there are about 1,800 pandas in the wild (野生环境). And about 600 are in the _____. We should protect (保护) them.

When I am _____, I usually go to the zoo. And I go to _____ pandas first. Now I’m in Beijing Zoo _____ some of my good friends. Here are ten pandas. They are Meng Bao, Meng Yu and _____ other pandas. They are black and white. They are all very fun, _____ many people take photos of them.

Meng Bao and Meng Yu are about three ______ old. They arrived at their ______ home last year. They were born (出生) in Sichuan. ______ parents are Meng Meng and Mei Lan. ______! They are eating bamboo over there. How ______! I really like them and I     15     to play with them!

7 . A long time ago, there lived a wise man named Zun-Nun in Egypt. A young man came to visit him and asked, “Teacher, ___ do you dress so casually (随意地)? Nowadays, it is necessary to dress neatly (整洁地), isn’t it? Or how will people know you are really a ___ and wise man?”             

Zun-Nun smiled, took the ___ from his finger and said, “Young friend. I will answer your question, but first do one thing ___ me. Take this ring to the market. Can you ___ this for one chip (片) of gold?” ___ he looked at Zun-Nun’s dirty ring, the young man thought to himself. “How will I sell it at that ___?”

He offered the ring to the vegetable, meat and fish traders (商人) and others in the market. But ___ was ready to pay a chip of gold.

He told this to Zun-Nun and Zun-Nun said, “Now go to the gold ___ and show the ring to the owner. Don’t give a price. Just ____ how much he will pay.”

One hour later the young man was back with the ring, “Teacher, people at the market ____ didn’t know the value (价值) of this ring. The gold trader ____ me 1,000 chips of gold.”

Zun-Nun smiled. “That is the ____ to your question, my friend. Someone cannot be valued only from his ____. That ring was a gift from the king on my 60th birthday. There is only one ring like this in the world.” he said. “It’s very valuable. So never judge (评判) a book by its cover, young man. ____ yourself to make yourself valuable.”

9 . It was 8:00 am. A group of college students got out of my car to make a ________ in the park. As the driver, my job was to stay ________ so that I could send them if they need something.

I could have two or three hours’ free time, so I decided to go somewhere and do some ________. I found a beautiful park bench. I noticed that a man was sitting on one end, but there was plenty of ________ for more than two more bodies. Walking over, I sat on the end seat to have a rest.

The man on the other end looked at me but didn’t move. I quickly ________ that he may spend the night on the bench. His clothes were dirty, his hair was ________, and soon I caught a bad smell of body sweat. I looked at him and ________, and he smiled back with a mouth of blacked-out teeth.

We both sat there for over an hour quietly. I was reading. He was watching the video making. He then stood up, walked in front of me and bowed. In a little trembling (颤抖的) but clear ________, he said, “Thank you!” I looked up at him ________.

“For what?” I asked.

He looked at the ground, “Usually, people won’t even look at me, let alone sit by me. Thank you for treating me as a ________.

Hearing his words, I just sat there ________ because I really didn’t know what to say as he turned around and walked away quickly. I was shocked and moved at his words. I did ________ special to him. I just shared a ________ bench instead with a stranger to me.

To me, he was just someone who wanted a place to ________. That’s exactly what I wanted. There were no differences between him and me. I finally got to know that my actions truly meant something to this poor ________ man. So, treating others in an equal way can also make difference to the world.

10 . “Do you want to grow your own vegetables?” Mom asked. “Yes!” My eyes got wide. Mom smiled at my ________. She gave me a book on gardening and I carefully planted some seeds (种子) in the back yard.

After supper, I rushed to see how much they might grow. Nothing! My mouth dropped. “Someone stole my seeds!” Mom laughed. She said “Johnny, go and ________ the book.” I read the book and knew something needed to be done.

Early the next morning, I ran to the back yard. Everything looked the same, but I wasn’t that ________. As the book said, I lightly watered my seeds and stuck my finger in the soil to make sure it wasn’t too dry.

The next morning I raced to the garden again. No ________. “Why is it taking so long for the seeds to grow?” I asked. “Grow up!” I shouted. “Please, just grow,” I almost ________. Mom said as last time, “Read the book, and take care of them ________.” So I read again. I removed (除去) the grass from the soil and watered the seeds. That night I even ________ the little seeds and told them I was looking forward to seeing them spout (发芽) all the time.

Then one morning I walked out to my garden. I wasn’t ________ to see anything. To my surprise, a bit of green came into my eyes. “They grew!” I shouted! I could see little green ________ growing everywhere! I was so excited. “They finally grew! The book is ________. It took several days for the seeds to be in the soil before popping up.”