3 . A thief accidentally dropped a winning lottery ticket (彩票) at the scene of his crime, but he has been given a lesson in______. The man whom he robbed ______ the ticket and won the ￡25,000 prize. But the man managed to find the thief, and handed over the ______.

The robbery happened when Professor Sam was changing a tyre (轮胎) on a highway. A motorist, who stopped “to ______”, stole a suitcase from his car and drove off. The professor found the ______ and brought it home.

The next day, the professor saw the lottery ______ on TV and realized the ticket he had picked up won. He ______ the ￡25,000 prize, but he decided not to keep the money. He made an announcement on the radio, ______, “I’m trying to find the man who robbed me. I have ￡25,000 for him — a lottery ______. Please meet me.”

The professor received hundreds of ______ from people who were hoping to ______ him into handing them the money. But there was one voice he ______ and he arranged to meet the man in a park.

The robber gave back the ______ and burst into tears. He could not ______ what was happening. “Why didn’t you keep the money?” he asked. The professor replied, “Because it’s not mine.” Then he walked off, turning down the thief’s ______ to share the prize money.

5 . Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad. Instead of looking at nature, I _________ my e-mail. Instead of paddling an old boat, I followed my Twitter feed. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading four _________ each morning.

And that was the problem: I was acting _________ I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my head wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something _________—getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, since I’m not good at _________. But I was determined. I started by handing the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck: The cell phone signal at our cabin was worse than in the past, meaning that I couldn’t cheat. I was trapped, forced to carry out my plan. Largely _________ from e-mail, Twitter and my favorite newspaper websites. I had little way to connect to the world _________ radio —and how much radio can one listen to, really? I had no _________ but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

This experience has had a _________ ending — for now, at least. With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet. I __________ realized that it was me, of course, not the iPad, that was the problem.

I knew I had __________ when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the WiFi. “Don’t need it,” I said. __________, as we return to post-vacation situation, a test begins: Can I __________ when I’m back at work? And I don’t plan to give up my convenience completely. But I hope to __________ the temptation to check my e-mail every five minutes, which often leads to following my Twitter feed.

I think a vacation is supposed to help you rest your __________ to become more productive. Here I hope this one worked.

6 . The sun was shining brightly over our heads and sweat (汗水) was pouring off our backs and faces. We stood still without ______ any noise, all hot and tired. But everyone kept standing as straight as trees.

It was ______ most high schools give to new Senior One students-military training. We ______ four days in a closed environment. Although we couldn’t go home at night and the training was ______ and difficult, our humorous young drill sergeant (教官) with a funny accent was a real ______ of our days. We laughed at his jokes, sat in rows singing different songs and ______ him telling true stories about his life. He gave us the feeling that ______ and sweat were not the only things that military training ______ .

After this journey, we were more ______ than we had imagined and we were much braver than we had ______ . Girls who looked pale rested for a little while, then right away came back to the team. Boys who were being punished ______ to the playground at once and began to run. Sweat flowed down our faces when we thought about how to shout ______ than other classes.

Military training taught us perseverance (不懈) and determination. On the last day of our training, the confidence could be ______ on our faces. We shouted so loud that our ______ could be heard across the heavens. With eyes like burning torches (火炬) , we walked into the future. Now the sun is ______ at all of us.

7 . My father was a strong fisherman. He loved the sea and would stay out until he caught enough to ______ the family.

When we met ______ weather, he would drive me to school with his old track. And after we arrived, he would bend over and give me a ______ on the face and then tell me to be a good boy. I always felt very shy in front of so many other ______. I was already a twelve-year-old young man, but my father still kissed me goodbye!

Then on a rainy day I ______ to tell him my feeling. When we stopped at the school gate, the ______ big smile appeared on my father’s face. I ______ what would happen next. I ______ put my hand up and for the first time said “No” to him. The smile on his face immediately changed into a ______ look. He looked at me for a long time, and tears began to appear in his eyes. I was shocked. I had never ______ him cry! Then he said, “You’re right. You are a big boy... a man. I won’t kiss you anymore.”

Not long after that, my dad went to the sea on a bad day. Most of the ______ stayed at home, but not Dad, because he had a big family to feed. But after that day, be ______ came back. Later his boat was found with its nets half in and half out. He must have ______ a strong wind and was trying to save the nets.

How I wished I hadn’t ______ my father’s kiss! And from this I have learnt that we should take every chance with our family and friends as the last one in our lives. We can have ______ regrets(遗憾)by doing this.

8 . My wife and I moved into our home two years ago. We had a yard with a lot of ________. Very often when we have flowers, Denise or I would plant some between the rocks, just to add some ________ to the area.

Last summer, I found a tiny little plant in the yard that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise said she didn’t either.

We decided to let it ________ growing until we could find out what it was.

Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the ________ plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. I decided to ________ the weeds (杂草) around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something ________.The sunflower had not ________ where I saw it begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the ________.

That’s when I ________ that if a tiny little sunflower didn’t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the ability of doing the same thing. If we ________ ourselves like that little sunflower, we can reach where we ________ to go and get what we need for growth.

We need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the ________ to achieve our goals. Like the sunflower, it knew it had the ability to get over the rocks because it had ________ in itself that it would succeed. Stand tall like the sunflower and be ________ of who and what we are, and then the environment will begin to ________ us. We will find a way to go under or around any “rocks” in order to reach our goals.