2 . I deliver (派送) meals on wheels every Friday. A week ago, I had the pleasure of _________ one of my customers. She was in her eighties and was very _________ and I always brought her lunch on Fridays. She looked _________ when she opened the door one day. She told me her phone was_________ and that she couldn’t receive the call from her doctor. She went to her neighbors, _________ they were not at home. She had _________to ask the mailman to help her, but he didn’t come for several days. She was _________ .

Having heard _________story, I took matters into my own hands. I called the phone company_________and made sure they knew that getting this phone__________was urgent (紧急的). I took down her phone number and her __________ just to make sure I could __________ later to see if the phone had been fixed.

She was so __________ that she was in tears,__________me for my help. I called the __________twice that day. They told me they had checked the phone line and got the phone__________. After that I called her every day to make sure she was__________ and didn’t need anything.

Just being able to help her in her time of__________filled my heart with such__________and happiness. It does not take much time or __________ to help a neighbor. Sometimes, all that is needed is a smile, a hug or a helping hand.

3 . Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite________through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)________life, so he and his wife did all the work and________made them do anything.

After some time, his wife died and________he didn’t want his children to________, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and________, and started to worry about his________when he died.

So he thought about this for a long time and he________his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve________all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and________the gold.”

And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to________and my children don’t know how to________themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”

So the neighbors provided them with________for some time.

Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the________so they did the digging themselves. They________one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.

So the brothers sat down and one________the other, “Do you think our father________us?”

But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the________is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the________we can become rich.”

So like all the other________, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.

4 . Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival takes place every year in late August or early September on the Lido in the historic Palazzo del Cinema, in Venice, Italy. Its main award is the “Leone d’Oro” (Golden Lion). Recently, a new award has been added, the San Marco Award for the best film.

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards are the most prominent film awards in the United States. The awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy Awards are nicknamed “Oscars”, which is also the nickname of the statuette（小雕像）. The name is said to have been born when Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said, “It looks just like my uncle Oscar!”

Berlin Film Festival

The Berlin Film Festival is one of the “A” festivals in Europe. The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the “Berlinale”, is held annually in February and started in 1951 after an initiative of the American, who occupied part of the city after World War Ⅱ. The jury（专家评奖团）always places special emphasis on representing films from all over the world, from the former Eastern Bloc（集团）Countries as well as from Western countries. The awards are called Golden and Silver Bears (as the bear is the symbol of Berlin).

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival is a famous international film festival. It has been held annually in Cannes, in the south of France, since 1946 with a few exceptions. Given massive media exposure, the Festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for movie producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the world.

The most famous award given out at Cannes is the “Palme d’Or” (Golden Palm) for the best film; this is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year.