1 . Recently, I have experienced a thing. The______thing happened to me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day______I drove to go for a look in the country.

On the way back home, my______stopped. It was out of gas on a______road far from a town! I decided to walk until I found someone______could sell some gas. I had walked almost a mile______I finally found a house near the road. I was glad to see it because it was getting dark.

I knocked at the door and a little old lady with long white hair______. She said, I’ve been______for you here for a long time. Come in._____ is almost ready. “But I only came for some gas,” I answered. I couldn’t______what she was talking about.

“Oh, Alfred! Gas? You used to______tea,” said she.

I quickly explained that my car was out of _____, but she didn’t seem to listen to me. She just kept______me Alfred and talking about how long it had been since she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I went out of the house as fast as I could.·

Fortunately, there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed. When I told the man about my______, he said, Oh, that’s Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s strange, but she wouldn’t______anybody. She is still waiting for the man she was going to marry thirty years ago. The day before their wedding, he left home and never came back because of the war.

4 . Making friends is a skill, like most skills, it _________ with practice. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to_________ some action. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends staying at home_________. Joining a club or group, talking to those who like the same things_________ you do is much easier, or join someone_________ some activity.

Many people are_________ when talking to new people. _________ all, meeting strangers means seeing the unknown. And it is human’s nature to feel a bit_________ about the unknown. Most of fears about dealing_________ new people come from doubts about__________.We imagine other people are__________ us – finding us too tall or too short, too this or that. But don't forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself__________ you are, and try to make others feel at home. You'll all feel more comfortable.

Try to act self-confident (自信的) even__________ you don't feel that way when you__________ a room full of strangers. Try to look__________ at other people and smile and__________ something, don't wait for__________ person to start a conversation.

Just meeting someone__________ does not mean that you'll make friends with that person. __________ is based on mutual (相互的) likings and “give and take". It takes time to__________.

5 . I used to abandon myself to despair(绝望). Last year my mother suffered from a stroke(中风)and had a（n）________ on her brain. I felt my whole world turn upside down and I had no idea what I could do to help her to________her pain. Tears welled up in my________whenever I was alone.

Last month I lost a________watch, which was an 18-year-old birthday gift from my father. I couldn't fall asleep for a couple of nights because I felt unhappy about the________.

There have been many incidents like these in my life. I could never________how to deal with such tough things________I read the book If you Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade. The author said, "When the wise man is handed a lemon, what ________can he get from this? How can he________the situation? How can he turn this lemon into________?" he wrote.

I suddenly________that life is full of ups and downs, so I need to stay________all the time. Now when I think of my past, I wish I could have handled things________. When my mother was________recovery, I should have held her hands in mine, telling her things would get better instead of________and crying.

Several weeks ago, I took part in a campus singing________. I didn't win a prize. If had not found out this article, I would definitely have felt________again. But instead, I smiled after the competition. I was happy that________I had got some stage experience.

Life is not a bed of roses. There are thorns (刺)as well, but these thorns help us become________and strong. When life________us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

6 . We live in the surburb near the city. Last month Dad and I walked __ to our city's library. In the children's room, a librarian showed me a （n） _____ display （展示）case, saying "We're asking _____ to draw pictures to put in here. You can draw anything you want and bring it in here."

" I'd like to do that. " I said. I talked with Dad. We agreed to bring in my ______drawing.

Making that _____ was easy. Back home, _____ my eyes on a piece of blank （空白的） paper, I realized I didn't have many or any ideas! Finally, I thought, “Why can't I visit a __filled with good ideas?" That's how I started daydreaming about standing beside a ______castle, which was built from a magic mountain of things ： sea glass , marbles. . . After I _______inside, a crayfish _______ a flying saucer （飞碟）landed nearby. "Welcome," she said, “to your own made-up place to find ________ I’m Ms. Claw, your tour guide. " Then she led me through the   castle . While I was wondering whether I should draw it, ________ , next we came to an _____ door. Ms. Claw said, " This ends our tour. "   She _______ the saucer's roof and _____goodbye.

As I __ through the door, my daydream was over. That didn't _____： I'd already decided to draw the whole __ . I worked hard, finished my drawing and brought it to the librarian. A week later, Dad and I visited the library again. My picture was _____ in the display case's center. It wasn't _____ , but other kids told me how much they liked it. I could almost hear Ms. Claw say, "Drawing your daydream was a good idea and fun, too!”

7 . Telling the truth is a very good habit. If you _________ speak the truth, you can save yourself from a lot of _________! Here is a story of a man who did a lot of _________ things, but his promise to tell the truth _________ him.

Once a man came to a prophet（预言家）and said, “Oh, prophet, I have many bad _________. Which one of them should I _________ first?” The prophet said, “Give up telling _________ first and always speak the truth.” The man promised to do so and went home.

At night the man was about to go out to steal. Before setting out, he thought for a moment about the _________ he made with the prophet. “_________ tomorrow the prophet asks me where I have been, what shall I say? Shall I say that I went out __________? No, I cannot say that. But nor can I lie. If I tell the truth, __________ will start hating me and call me a thief. I would be __________ for stealing.”

So the man ________ not to steal that night, and gave up this bad habit.

Next day, he ________ drinking wine. When he was about to do so, he said to himself. “What shall I say to the prophet if he asks me what I did during the day? I cannot tell a lie, and if I speak the truth people will ________ me, because a Muslim is not ________ to drink wine.” And so he gave up the __________ of drinking wine.

In this way, ________ the man thought of doing something bad, he ________ his promise to tell the truth. One by one, he gave up all his bad habits and became a very ________ person.

8 . Driving home from work every day on a long winding country road, I passed a house where an elderly man sat on his front porch (走廊）.I had been _____ to him only when I first moved into my home. For these past fifteen years, I have _____ my window, waved, and shouted, "Hi, Charlie. " I felt _____ to greet him in this way because I couldn’t _____ going through a day without hearing someone say my name.I felt he also needed to hear his name _____ by someone else.

I used to _____ at his wife, too, when she was out walking their dog.She was a(n) _____ woman in a long wool coat, whatever the _____ .I didn’t know who she was, but I’d _____ and say "Hi, Grandma" and she’d smile and wave back.

But then came the day when she was not ______ walking their dog； instead, Charlie was doing so.I realized he was alone, and the desire to greet him grew ______ .My window was rolled down before I came around the corner, and ______ he was not on the porch, I’d shout to him, hoping that in his ______ he'd hear me.As long as there was a ______ on in the house, I felt that he was all right.

But that day came when he had to sell his belongings; Charlie’s pickup truck was for ______ on the front lawn.A few days later, a sign was ______ ,and I knew Charlie was gone.I still wave and ______ "Hi, Charlie" as I pass just as I did in the past.The house is dark now.

It is my ______ that all of us need to be greeted at least once a day and that we need to hear our names spoken aloud by another person, to know someone sees us and ______ the truth of our being.I believe it is our duty to greet each other each day, in this way to speak to that ______ .