3 . 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).

6 . A wise man was passing through a city. While he was walking, he ______ a coin on the road. He picked it up. Despite his simple life, he was satisfied and he had no use of that coin. So, he planned to donate it. ______, throughout the day he didn’t find such a person. Finally, he reached the ______ area and spent a night there.

Next morning, he ______ and was told that a king was going for his invasion of another state with his army. When the king saw the wise man, he ______ his army to stop. He came to the wise man and said, ”I am going to beat another ______. Thus, my state can be ______. So bless me to be victorious. ”

After ______, the wise man gave the coin to the king！The king was confused with this because he is already one of the richest kings! He ______ asked, “What’s the meaning？”

The wise man explained, ”I found this coin yesterday in your ______. But I had no use. So I had ______ that I would donate it. I walked around till the evening, but found no one to donate it to.

Everyone was living a ______ life. It seemed that they were satisfied with what they had. But today, the king of this state, still has the desire to ______ more and is not satisfied with what he already has. I feel you are ______ this coin. ”

The king realized his ______ and gave up the planned war.

7 . Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While _____ her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had an interest in medicine. At 18 she married and _____ a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a _____. Her husband supported her decision.

_____, Canadian medical schools did not accept women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study medicine at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to _____ her medical degree.

Upon graduation, Charlotte _____ to Montreal and set up a private _____. Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a busy doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte _____ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting _____ bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.

But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had ______ a doctor’s licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was ______. The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all­male board, wanted her to complete her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to ______ her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to ______ a licence to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte ______ to practise without a licence until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.

In 1993,77 years after her ______, a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman”．

8 . For me, becoming an Olympian was not developing a gift of natural athletic ability, but an act of will.

In the summer of 1979, I started _______ for the Olympic trials(选拔赛) to be held the next year.I felt happy as I made progress towards my big _______. But then in November, an _______ situation appeared. I injured my back and couldn’t move. I had to leave the _______. Everyone felt _______ for me. Everyone but me.

I never believed this would _______me. However, my _______ was slow. With only a few months remaining, I knew I would never make it _______ I did something. So, I started training in the only way I could in my mind.

I bought films of the world­record holders in pentathlon (五项全能运动).Sitting in a chair, I _______ them over and over.I lay on the bed and imagined the experience of ________ at the trials. Some people thought I was crazy, but I wasn’t ready to ________ yet. I trained as hard as I could without moving a muscle (肌肉). I ________ this practice with all my heart.

By the time the trials actually began, I had been ________ enough to compete. ________,as I walked across the field, I heard a voice on the loudspeaker announcing my name.I could hardly hold back my ________ as the announcer said, “Second place,1980 Olympic Pentathlon: Marilyn King.”

9 . Research has shown that two-thirds of human conversation is taken up not with discussion of the cultural or political problems of the day, not heated debates about films we’ve just watched or books we’ve just finished reading, but plain and simple _________.

Language is our greatest treasure as a species, and what do we _________ do with it? We gossip. About others’ behaviour and private lives, such as who’s doing what with whom, who’s in and who’s out—and why; how to deal with difficult _________ situations involving children, lovers, and colleagues.

So why are we keen on gossiping? Are we just natural _________, of both time and words? Or do we talk a lot about nothing in particular simply to avoid facing up to the really important issues of life? It’s not the case according to Professor Robin Dunbar. In fact, in his latest book, Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, the psychologist says gossip is one of these really _________ issues.

Dunbar _________ the traditional view that language was developed by the men at the early stage of social development in order to organize their manly hunting activities more effectively, or even to promote the exchange of poetic stories about their origins and the supernatural. Instead he suggests that language evolved among women. We don’t spend two-thirds of our time gossiping just because we can talk, argues Dunbar—_________, he goes on to say, language evolved specifically to allow us to gossip.

Dunbar arrived at his cheery theory by studying the _________ of the higher primates(灵长类动物) like monkeys. By means of grooming—cleaning the fur by brushing it, monkeys form groups with other individuals on whom they can rely for support in the event of some kind of conflict within the group or _________ from outside it.

As we human beings evolve from a particular branch of the primate family, Dunbar __________ that at one time in our history we did much the same. Grouping together made sense because the bigger the group, the greater the __________ it provided; on the other hand, the bigger the group, the greater the stresses of living close to others. Grooming helped to __________ the pressure and calm everybody down.

But as the groups got bigger and bigger, the amount of time spent in grooming activities also had to be __________ to maintain its effectiveness. Clearly, a more __________ kind of grooming was needed, and thus language evolved as a kind of vocal grooming which allowed humans to develop relationship with ever-larger groups by exchanging information over a wider network of individuals than would be possible by one-to-one __________ contact.

10 . Once upon a time there was great poverty (贫困) in a land. Three rich men were _________ together when they came to a very _________ village.

The first couldn’t stand seeing the poverty, _________ he took out all his gold and jewels and shared them among the villagers, wishing them all the best of luck, and he left.

The second rich man, seeing the _________ situation, stopped for a short time and gave _________ all his food and drink, since he could see that money would be of little _______ to them. He made sure that they each _________ their fair share and would have enough food to _________ for some time. Then, he left.

The third rich man, on seeing such poverty, _________ and went straight through the ____________ without stopping. The two other rich men saw this from a distance and commented with each other ____________ the third rich man lacked sympathy.

Three days later, they ____________ the third rich man, who was coming in the opposite direction. He was ____________ travelling quickly, but his wagons (马车), ____________ the gold and valuables they had been ____________, were now full of farming tools and bags of seeds.