1 . I was required to read one of Bernie Siegel’s books in college and had a great liking for his positivity from that moment on. The stories of his untraditional _________ and the exceptional patients he wrote about were so _________ to me and had such a big _________ on how I saw life from then on. Who knew that so many years later I would depend on Dr. Bernie and his CDs again to _________ my own cancer experience?

I’m an ambitious _________, and when I started going through chemo (化疗), even though I’m a very _________ person, I lost my drive to write. I was just too tired and not in the _________ . One day, while waiting to go in for _________, I had one of Dr. Bernie’s books in my hand. Another patient _________   what I was reading and started a conversation with me __________ he had one of his books with him as well. It __________ that among other things, he was an eighty-year-old writer. He was __________ a published author, and he was currently __________ on a new book.

We would see each other at various times and __________ friends. Sometimes he wore a duck hat, and I would tell myself, he was definitely a(n) __________ of Dr. Bernie. He really put a __________ on my face. He unfortunately __________ last year due to his cancer, __________ he left a deep impression on me and gave me the __________ to pick up my pen again. I __________ to myself, “If he can do it, then so can I.”

2 . What no one ever tells college students is how little they’ll be prepared for the real world. Many graduates will not get the _________ they wanted and the one they do get will be different from what they dreamed about.

After graduating, I packed my bags and headed _________ to the big city for a well paying job with good potential (潜力). I hoped this would be my _________ to expand my professional experience and figure out what I was supposed to do with my life.

But I was _________ . Before I knew it, I was swept into the entry level job world: long hours before a_________, service calls from rude customers and repetitive work I wasn’t _________in. Having studied Psychology, English, and Sociology, I was supposed to be working in a job that _________ me to use my passion, not to _________ it. This was not at all what I had_________. So I decided to hand in my __________ .

Two weeks later I __________again and moved back to my college town. I found a full time job working with kids with special needs and began a part time __________ career. And I found out special needs kids are the greatest and that writing is__________and easy.

The key to __________ may very well be doing what you love. What you need to do is just to follow your heart and make a __________ to bring back your joy.

4 . Afraid to have a start, I was walking slowly into my first school in America. I had _______ a long way from India in order to join parents. They had been here for three years, and hoped America would help my future. My father decided that I would go to school here, so I found a local high school in my new town.

With _______ on one hand and fear on the other, I arrived at the classroom. Everyone’s eyes were on me as I entered the classroom. Without paying attention to them, I went straight to the _______ and asked if it was the right class. With a _______ voice, he answered, “Yes.” His voice comforted (安慰) me a little. He gave me a piece of _______ called “course requirements”, which I would never get in India. Then he asked me to choose where I would sit. I chose the _______   closest to the door instead of the corner where all of the boys were sitting. I didn’t _______ want to pick a seat. In India, the teacher _______ the seats, so I never needed to worry about that. I spent the rest of the class taking notes from the picture produced by the overhead projector (投影仪).

_______ it was my first day, I was confused (困惑的) about which hallway (走廊) to use, but I ________ to get to my classes without asking anyone. I was very confused about when I would have ________. It was noon when I went to my next class and the bell rang as I entered. I went through the normal process of asking the teacher if I was in the right class. Feeling ________, she said, “That is the lunch bell.” I felt a little awkward. Without another word, I headed for the cafeteria (食堂).

At the end of the day, I was on my way to the bus stop. I realized that all the ________ was like the difficulty I had to ________ to reach my goal. I ________ my bus and sat down inside happily. I said to myself: Today isn’t so bad.

6 . Luke is a cute dog, living together with me for five years. We get lots of_______in our area during the summer season. Many forests are badly_________by fires each year. That hot summer, not far from our shelter, a forest______________fire. It was July, and there had been a heat wave going on for three days.

Somehow, Luke rushed towards the forest. There was no longer any hope at that moment to wait for Luke to come back to the____________. In fact, I was waiting for firefighters to tell me that he had____________in the forest. Suddenly, a fireman burst into my office and____________me that Luke had succeeded in saving four cats who had been__________by the flames (火焰). I____________accompanied (陪伴) the fireman to the forest to get him back.___________we got to the scene of the event, we didn’t see Luke. Then we heard the________of a dog barking (吠) in the forest. I______________the barks was Luke’s. The firemen______________the tracks of the dog until they found him barking loudly by the side of an injured________. Thanks to Luke, four cats and a fireman were saved. This true story shows us that pets are loving and caring. We should love and__________them. Little animals can do__________things for humans.

7 . When you are a young active person with a clean bill of health, you never really expect to be hospitalized for two weeks. And you certainly never expect you will_______ it.

I was put in the _______ and then into surgery after I had been in a motorcycle accident a week earlier. At that point, a few thoughts had _________ my mind about possibly losing my leg, but the staff were all so_______ to cure me of my leg.

After almost a week at that hospital, I got_______ to a little hospital. The nurses there weren’t nearly so busy and they had more time to stay and_______.

One night when I couldn’t sleep, I got out of bed. Then a nurse saw me and she just gave me a hug and asked what was wrong.

“I’m_______,” I said quietly. She invited me to sit at the desk with the other nurses there.     One of them talked to me about university that wasn’t something I really wanted to _______right then, but I stopped crying _________, and ended up going to bed with a smile. Nobody had said anything in particular that __________ me down, but those nurses treated me with such ________ and love, which made me forget for a while why I was so upset.

It took lots of __________ for my leg to heal, but it did. I have quite a __________on the skin of my leg and I love it. It ________ me of the goodness in people that made a huge ________ to this dumb kid who went looking for ways to scare herself.

9 . We were sitting in the doctor’s waiting room when my father said something that _______ me, “Are you my daughter or my sister?” My heart broke as I stared at him. The doctor told us my father had Alzheimer’s disease (老年性失智症). It was a big _______ for me. I was facing a battle on two fronts, emotional and physical, and I was _______ for it. The disease didn’t take him away suddenly. Instead, it slowly _______ him. It made me sad to watch my father hide his _______ to read the clock.

As the disease continued to develop, his behaviors became _______. We had to face another painful fact — we could no longer provide my father with the level of _______ to keep him safe at home. He _______ to move to a skilled nursing home.

Babies are born helpless; parents keep on _______. Children grow up and learn that relationships are reciprocal (相互的). However, the parent-child relationship isn’t ________. The parents remain the giver, and the children remain the taker. That is the natural order of the world — ________ the child becomes the parents’ caregiver.

When a(n) ________ appears, we can do something to change the fact. ________, my father is alive and taken good care of in the nursing home. If he can get through the illness, then I can ________ it. I will give him everything he deserves (应得) to have as a great father. And we will be awarded (奖励) a(n) ________ future by doing our best.

10 . One night, a married couple got into a fight. It was common for them to stay in a war of _________ after such a fight. And this time was not _________. For most of the night, the couple had _________ each other and even as they were preparing for bed, not a word was said.

However, the husband started getting _________ because he would catch a flight at 5:00 a.m. the next morning. He was a heavy sleeper and _________ his wife to wake him up. Otherwise, there was a good _________ he would sleep right _________ the alarm.

In order not to lose his face, he didn’t speak with her _________, but wrote a piece of paper “Please _________ me when it’s 5:00 a.m.” He put the note on his wife’s pillow, __________ that his wife would for sure see it there. He then fell asleep with __________.

The next morning when he woke up, it was already 7:00 a.m.! He knew his journey was __________. He was filled with anger and was preparing to __________ his wife when he noticed a handwritten note beside his pillow, saying “It’s 5:00 a.m. — get up.”

Most of the time __________ you say something is more important than what you actually say. When you need something, do not let __________ get in your way of asking help the right way!