1 . Martin Henfield talks about some of his experience as a twin: when we were small my mother dressed us _______ the same clothes. That was bad enough and we didn’t like it. But when we went on our first camping trip, it was even _______. We were only ten years old, and while _______ went into their sleeping bags for the _______, we were not happy to snuggle inside a double sleeping bag my mother made for us.

At school our classmates _______ us Henfield One and Henfield Two, so people _______ even see our difference according to our initials because _______ of us were M. O. It was only when I went to _______ and began to have my own friends that I started to feel my own freedom of identity (身份).

Before I went to college, during my secondary school _______, I ________ a job on a building site. My twin brother, Mike Henfield, didn’t work. One day I asked my boss, “Can I have a week ________?” “Certainly,” he said. “But you won’t have the job when you ________ back.” I didn’t want to ________ the job. So on Monday morning, Mike went there in my ________, jacket and hat and he worked for me for one week. ________ of them knew the difference.

2 . The Messenger of Peace!!

A serious question was raised by a little girl. We met this little girl on our ________. She is very cute and ________. Her mother runs a tea shop and she also used to ________ her. We stopped at her shop for tea ________; she was very excited to see us and looked ________ So one of our journey mates called her and ________ tea with us. She smiled and sat with us and started asking questions. We were very surprised at ________ smart she was!

She ________ some good questions on peace & war. She said we all are human and we all have the ________ blood in our body so why do we fight? For a ________ we were silent. Because we didn’t have the right answer. But we had to give some answers. To know the answer, we are doing this journey. One of our journey mates said let’s come with us to know the answer ________ your questions. She said yes and started ________ on our cycle. We were very happy to see her enthusiasm and excitement. But we couldn’t take her with us. So we ________ her with a garland (花环) and peace doves. We also gave her some toffees (太妃糖) and peace pamphlets (小册子). She and her mother ________ were very happy and inspired. We were also very inspired by that girl. She gave us new ________ and thoughtfulness.

3 . In the back of my closet, there is a small cardboard chest that has followed me to every one of my new addresses. Until now, the only _________ contents in it are three wrapped _________ marked in my mother’s tidy handwriting: “Engagement”, “Wedding” and “First Baby”.

When I was three, my mother learned that she had advanced breast cancer. When I was seven, she had begun _________ a gift box for me. Inside, she packed presents and letters for the _________ of my life she was going to be missing — driver’s license, graduation, and every birthday until the age of 30.

My mother died ten days before our _________ birthday. That morning, when I turned 12 and she would have turned 49, I woke up early and opened the package _________ “12th Birthday”. A white card curling around the present _________: “I always _________ a birthstone ring when I was a little girl. Your Granny finally bought me one and I loved it more than I can say. I hope you like it, too.” I put on the ring and _________ her writing with my fingertip.

On the morning of my high school graduation, a __________ of pearls appeared as I opened the wrapped present. Her note read: “There seemed to be a __________ in my family that when girls graduated from high school, they received pearls.” I wore the pearls that afternoon as I took the stage to accept my diploma.

Year after year, my mother __________ forward in time to meet me. When I was a child, opening the next package felt like a treasure __________. As I grew older, her message met me like guideposts in a dark forest. If her words couldn’t point the way, at least they offered the __________ of knowing that someone had been there before and that I have been __________, wildly loved.

4 . Jenny was a little girl who was not very confident. She always lowered her ________ because she didn’t think she was beautiful enough all the time. One day she went to a shop to ________ a green bow (蝴蝶结). The shopkeeper constantly praised she looked very beautiful with it. Though she didn’t ________ that, Jenny was so ________ that she couldn’t help raising her head.

Jenny happened to meet her teacher when she went into the classroom. “Jenny, it’s ________ beautiful when you ________ your head,” said the teacher.

That day Jenny got the ________ from many people. She ________ it must be because of the bow. When she looked in the mirror (镜子), there wasn’t any ________ on her head. She must have ________ it when she went out of the shop and bumped against(撞到)someone else.

Self-confidence is originally (本来) a kind of ________, but many people ________ so much about their appearance (外表) that they lose a lot of ________. Poor or ________, pretty or plain, as long as you, raise your head, it can make you ________.

5 . Pooja Rani entered the boxing area at age 18 all thanks to her coach Sanjay Kumar. However, even with much _________ , Pooja felt shy to wear the boxing gloves. She also knew that her father would not _________ her taking up this “violent” sport. But Pooja went after her interest _________ anyway until one day when _________ came to her father—he discovered the truth and stopped her playing the sport.

“My father wasn’t _________ of boxing because he thought it violent. He didn’t _________ me playing other sports but boxing was a _________ no-go zone,” Pooja said. It then took six months of continuous _________ from Pooja and her coach Sanjay to _________ her father to change his attitude.

She won the National Youth Boxing Championship (锦标赛) in 2009, which ____________ her career on an upward path. She bagged back-to-back medals and was qualified for the Rio Olympics later. Unstoppable as she was, her wins came to a____________ for some reason. It took her a whole year to get back on ____________. Pooja returned in an impressive way, winning gold medals at the Asian Boxing Championship in 2019 and 2021. This ____________ her to be the first woman boxer to ____________ the title. Given the road she took to get here, for us, Pooja is ____________ the “queen of boxing”.

6 . Last summer, my fiance Eugeniu and I decided to drive to Provence for a holiday. The weather was beautiful, but then, about 700km into the journey, it suddenly _______. I’d never seen the sky go so dark; the rain was heavy. We _______ a tunnel and when we came out onto a _______, the visibility was so bad that we could hardly see a meter in front of us.

_______, we had the odd sensation that the car was lifting at the front. The next second, we were _______ into nothing. On the way down, Icould hear rock pieces hitting the car and my heart pounding to my chest. After that, there was _______

Our car ended up landing on a road below the bridge. We were still _______, but I was in shock. I hadn’t _______ what was happening and was still thinking about my holiday. I had no idea the bridge had _______ — thought it might have been an earthquake.

At first we shouted, but then stopped because we didn’t want to lose ________ and pass out. We tried calling an ambulance, but there was no ________ under the rock pieces. My leg was bleeding and I was too tense — because of the ________ I didn’t feel pain. My fiancé had broken his neck. Rescue workers eventually found us while saving a man whose van was ________ from another section of the bridge above us. We’d been down there for four hours by the time we were pulled out.

It was only afterwards in the hospital that I realized the ________ of the tragedy — 43 people had died. Before, we had focused on earning money. When we went on this holiday, I had lovely clothes and shoes in my suitcase, and they were all buried under the ruin. Maybe that was a sign that these things don’t really ________.

7 . My sales career was almost cut short by my parents. I was 11, a member of the Girl Scouts, and preparing to sell our first Thin Mints. Our goal was to sell at least 50 boxes each, which would make us qualified for the _______. I considered knocking on strangers’ doors and hoping to win them over.

But when I_______ my parents the permission paper to do this, they_______handed it back unsigned. They thought it was _______ that their child would ask neighbors for _______. I defended my case: The _________want delicious cookies!

Finally, they _______, and I hit the streets. Door after door, I found that the _________ basically sold itself and all I had to do was adding some extra charm with my silk ribbon. The Girl Scouts_________ me with a cup that had a thumb printed yellow smiley face on it. I felt __________ .

I went on to have a long career in sales. Now when I__________ that first adventure, what I see is a young girl who instinctively__________the most important thing about selling. It’s about __________ a service—bringing them the things they want and need, so that, in the best of situations, any product__________ itself as well as the cookies did. That’s why I still have that cup, which I keep as a ____________

8 . I grew up in a community of South Indian immigrants. Every auntie I know has a kitchen drawer containing a carefully _______ collection of yogurt dabbas. Dabba is an Indian word for “box”, but it refers to all manner of _______ too.

The reused dabbas _______ storing leftovers, religious offerings and pot-luck contributions. When I went away to university, my mom used to _______ food and send it to me with strict _______ to wash the dabbas and bring them home.

But just _______ every auntie cherished her dabbas, every uncle hated them. Whenever my father _______ about them, my mom would shoot him a look that would surely have killed a _______ man.

Now, I found my way to Halifax, where I’m a physician and have a family of my own. Like my mother, I’m also a(n) _______ owner of an expensive dabba collection, which I ________ with great enthusiasm. No matter how many glass, microwave-and oven-safe containers I have, no matter how beautiful and ________ they may be, I cannot stop collecting yogurt containers.

When I married my husband, an American from Boston, handling cultural differences is surely a(n) ________. The other night, I heard him ________ in the kitchen, and the next morning, I found my dabbas in the recycling bin. I narrowed my eyes a little as I ________ them out, washed them up and replaced them in their drawer. I was practicing my mother’s death ________.

9 . A sunny afternoon before Christmas, a little girl was decorating a box with a gold wrapping paper to put it under the Christmas tree. Money was tight, so the girl’s father _________ her for wasting almost all roll of that _________ paper.

However, the next morning the girl _________ the gift to her father. “This is for you, Daddy.” she said. He opened the box and found it _________, so he became angry again. “Don’t you know, that when you give someone a _________ it is supposed that there would be something inside it.” he said _________. The little girl looked at her father with _________ in her eyes. “Daddy, this box is not empty, I _________ it with my kisses, all for you.”

The father was extremely _________. He felt so embarrassed that he could just put his __________ around his little daughter and beg for her __________. For many years of his life the man kept that golden box near his bed. Wherever he felt __________ and downhearted he opened the box and thought of __________ that the little child had put into it.

Each of us have been __________ a present of unconditional love from our children, family, friends and God. It is the most precious __________ that anyone could hold.

10 . Tooth-fairy nights were always filled with expectation at our house. One such night, our daughter informed us that her loose tooth had finally __ .

“How exciting,” we told her. “Put it under your pillow____the tooth fairy will visit you tonight.”

“Okay,” our daughter agreed, carefully guarding her newly acquired prized____in a loose fist.

We reminded ourselves to check for her tooth once our____was over. However, when the film was over we ___forgot.

The next mooning, we were awakened by cries of____from our daughter’s room.“Mommty! Daddy! Come and see what the tooth fairy brought me!”

Astonished, my husband and I exchanged____glances. Quickly,   we____our way to our daughter’s room and found her sitting quietly on her bed,___out the window at a___.Her eyes shone with pure___.

As she was absorbed in the rainbow, I____under her pillow to “check for any other____that she may have overlooked.”

“Are you sure you felt all around when____your prize? ”I asked, and we watched as she carefully explored underneath her pillow.

“Wow! Two prizes! ” she said, proudly waving the dollar bill. “She must have overlooked during her first treasure ___ ."