2 . Yesterday was Mother’s Day. Unfortunately, my mother was not among the many happy mothers, as I couldn’t visit her this year. I made a________on the phone that I would go to see her as soon as possible. 

My mother always says that kids don’t need to________a national day to say they love their mums. However, I remember one year I________calling her on that very day, and the next morning she rang up to complain about it. 

If you________Thailand, you could hear the sentimental (伤感的) songs about mothers’ greatest love playing in public places a week before the holiday. Schools, especially, take this day very________. Back in my teenage years, I ________ there was once a Mother’s Day singing competition and my friend represented the school. She was so emotional while singing the famous song on Mother’s Day________ “Kah Nam Nom” that she almost didn’t finish the song. 

However, her deep connection to the song helped her to________third prize. After the contest, I asked her why she was so emotional________the song. She told me that while she was singing, suddenly she had the________that one day her mother would no longer be with her and every word in the song became heartbreaking. Every time I hear this song, it’s not my mother who________to my mind but a picture of my friend crying with a microphone in her hand. The image________vivid today. 

Last week, a colleague________an experience with me—every year on Mother’s Day, she has to attend a________ceremony at her daughter’s school. Every year the teachers invite mothers to the school for a big gathering in which students pay________with flower garlands (花环).

4 . Growing up in the USA, I always wanted to experience another culture. The _________ came when I was 15. After a few months of planning and _________, I was ready to spend the second semester of my first high school year as a(n) _________ student in Australia.

_________ in Perth was one of the most exciting moments of my life. I realized then that there was no turning back. The family I would live with was _________ me, and it would only be five days before the new school year. The _________ I attended was different from my school back in the States. I was quite _________ at first, especially never having been to a new school — even in the US. Everything went without _________, though. The teachers were welcoming and the students were friendly.

The most _________ time was travelling with other exchange students around Australia during our semester break. The few weeks we __________ together were full of amazing activities.

At the end of our __________ in Australia, we had three weeks to share our stories and help each other deal with leaving. It was only __________ that our last day together was filled with tears. We packed our camp, exchanged e-mail addresses and __________ together for a final good-bye. Upon coming home, an open mind was again important. Resettling home took time and __________, but at last I made it. All the while, I was thoughtful to letting my family and friends know how __________ I was to be home and how much I had missed them — though the experience is still unforgettable with me. So, if you have the opportunity to study abroad, you most certainly should.

5 . A professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. All students were_________ and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk. Once he was done with _________ the test to all students, he asked them to_________ the test paper and begin.

Students were ___________ to see that there was just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor told them, “I want you to ___________ about what you see there.” The students were___________ confused but got started with the test. At the end of the class, the professor collected all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. All of them___________ about the black dot and tried to explain its position.

Now, professor began to explain, “Here everyone_________ the black dot and wrote about it_________ no one wrote about the white paper. The same is with our lives. The white paper stands for our whole life and the black dot __________problems in our life.

Our life is a __________ given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate—our friends around us, the job that provides us with everything we need. However, we just focus on day to day ____________ like health issues, lack of money, poor relationships, but we seldom see that these problems are very small __________to everything we have in our lives.”

We should try to take eyes __________ our problems and enjoy each moment that life gives us. Be happy and live your life ____________.

6 . A 15-year-old student has been praised a hero. Because he had _______ the life of a man who had suffered a heart attack. Sheng Xiaohan hadn’t told students and teachers the story until the man _______ at the school to thank him.

Sheng said he was _______ home at 9:00 pm. after working late at school, when he saw people surrounding a unconscious man on the ground, with a man making _______ to pat (轻拍) on his back.

Then Sheng measured the man’s pulse (脉搏) and found it was _______. “I had learned first _______ since primary school. And the latest time was during military (军事的)_______,” he said. He thought the old man might have_______ a heart attack. Then he tried cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). He pressed down on the man’s chest _______, while asking another man to help with artificial respiration. Sheng kept doing CPR for about six minutes without nervousness until the ambulance ________, and sent the man to the hospital.

“I can’t stop or ask others to replace me in case of any ________,” he added. “During the process, he started to breathe again, which made me ________ to go on.”

Sheng said he didn’t feel tired during the ________, but afterwards his arms were ________. After the experience, he didn’t ________ it as an unusual thing, because he was always ready to help others.

7 . As my dad got a new job in southern Florida, we moved here from our old home, school, friends and everything. There were so many ________ for me. In a new school full of strangers, could I make friends? Would I ________? My mind was filled with ________.

Being shy and quiet, I read a lot. Loving books and reading helped me get excellent results. Teachers ________ me for that. But other kids disliked me getting top ________ and answering questions in class. I felt like a (n) _________.

Then one day, a tall strong boy in English class walked right over to me. He________himself. He said he was on the school basketball team. I ________ that he was the star player!

“Hey,” he said. “Do you think you could. ________ me? You do really well in English class.” I could, and ________ I would. From that moment on, life at school ________. Basketball players walked me to classes and. ________ me in hallways. As the team tutor (导师), I fit in. Nobody. ________ me anymore. I was thankful to be ________ enough to help the team.

I taught the guys about grammar. They taught me how to dribble (运球) a basketball. More importantly, they gave me the ________ to be myself and to be a short girl who really knew how to dribble a basketball!

8 . The opening and closing of the doors are the most significant actions of man’s life. What a_________lies in doors!

No man knows what awaits him when he opens a door._________ the most familiar room, where the clock ticks and the hearth glows red at dusk may harbor_________. The worker may actually have called and_________the leaking pipe. The cook may have been ill and demanded her passports.

There are many kinds of doors. Revolving doors for hotels, shops and public buildings. They are _________ the busy, bustling ways of modern life. Can you _________William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens skipping through a_________door? There are double doors, sliding doors, stage doors and glass doors. The_________ and mystery of a door lies in its quality of being hidden. A glass door is not a door at all, but a window. The meaning of a door is to _________what lies inside; to keep the heart in suspense.

Also, there are many ways of opening doors. There is the cheery__________of elbow with which the waiter opens the kitchen door. There is the sympathetic and awful__________of the dentist’s maid who opens the door into the operating room and, without speaking,__________that the doctor is ready for you.

The opening of doors has in it some flavor of the__________, some sense of moving into a new moment. Even in__________, the opening of a door may bring relief. But the closing of doors could be__________. A door closed brings__________to an end. And there are degrees of sadness in the closing of doors. A door slammed is a confession of weakness. A door gently__________may often be the most tragic gesture in life.

The opening and closing of doors is a part of the serious fluency of life. Life will not stay__________and let us alone. We are__________opening doors with hope, closing them with despair. Life__________not much longer than a pipe of tobacco, and destiny knocks us out like the ashes.

9 . Today, caring people across the country are finding creative ways to improve the lives of the homeless. These efforts _________ mental health services, and _________ haircuts a service offered by the Nashville Street Barbers.

The Nashville Street Barbers is a group of hairdressers who are “trying to make their community a _________ place one cut at a time.” The inspiring group was _________ in 2017 by hairdresser Caroline Lindner to help the homeless.

Since then, the Nashville Street Barbers has grown, _________ a $ 10,000 donation from the Hardee’s All Stars program and a growing group of _________ visitors. Linder believes that the barbers have developed so _________ because of the connections they’ve made with their visitors, who they treat just like paying customers. “I know most people are particular about their _________ and our workers are not different”, she told. “We had to prove and gain trust which _________ people to come back every Monday finally. What started as a one-person effort has become a city-wide __________ that now provides up to 80 free haircuts a week. Lindner even __________ to enlarge the program, bringing the Nashville Street Barbers to locations beyond the city. Until then, the team hopes to make a __________ through their inspiring story. “Our final goal,” they say, “is to __________ others around the world to start their own barbering communities and __________ their communities.” And now, we can see __________ there are many people following their steps.