2 . My father often works very hard. And he _________ goes to the movies. Here I’ll tell you a(n) _________ story about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work, and _________go home, he found a film_________under the glass on his desk. He thought he _________ to have not much work to do that day and it was quite wonderful to pass the _________ at the cinema. So he came back home and_________finished his supper. Then he said _________ to us and left.

But to our_________, he came back about half an hour later. I asked him what was the__________. He smiled and told us about the funny thing that happened at the__________.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a __________ came to my father’s seat and said that seat was hers. My father was__________. He took out the ticket and looked at it carefully. It was Row17, __________. And then he looked at the seat. It was__________. So he asked her to show her ticket. She took out her ticket at once and the seat __________ on it was Row 17, Seat 3.

Why? What’s the matter with all this? While they were__________, suddenly the woman said, “The__________ of tickets are different.” So they looked at the tickets more carefully. After a while my father said, “Oh, I’m __________, I made a mistake. My ticket is for the__________ a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words he left.

4 . We have, like in many more countries, refugees(难民)in our country. Through the years I have tried to   _________ without pay by teaching women our country's language as one of their _________ . They have to learn the language, and also our culture, for example, what to_________when they have to go to the doctor, or how to express what's_________in such a place like a farm.

Only by_________the language will they be able to join in our society. Once a year, just before Christmas break, all the women from different countries make delicious food which are _________ for us all together.

Many _________ I have noticed that it seems _________ for women to accept any help than men, probably   _________ the children that they have to raise.

Problems with the kids __________ happen due to being in a __________ country with a different culture and another __________ . The women often miss their homes very much and feel __________ , because they have to get used to this life as __________ as possible. I have seen the __________and pain in their eyes. It is so good to give some comfort(安慰)in one way or another, even just to be there for them. And it is really __________when you make friends.

They and many more new, people are trying to __________ up their new homes in this new country. Will we be able to get them out of __________ , for everyone? And nowadays, though at times their lives look almost broken, I __________ it won't always. Because wherever we __________ , we are together, as we are citizens of the world.

6 . There was once a young ballerina (芭蕾舞演员) who had taken ballet lessons all through her childhood. She wanted to be a first-class _______ but she wanted to be sure that she had the talent (天才). When a ballet company came to her town, she went to the backstage after the performance and spoke to the ballet master.

"I want to be a _______ ballet dancer but I don't know if I have the talent," she said. "Dance for me!" The master asked. After a(n) _______ or two, he shook his head and said, "No, no, no, you don't have what it _______ to be a great ballerina."

The young woman went home heartbroken. She _______ the ballet shoes into the closet (柜子) and _______wore them again. Instead she got _______, had children. When the kids were _______ enough, she took a part-time job and worked as a cash register at a corner shop.

Years later, the _______ ballet company came to her town. She ________ it and on the way out, she ran into the same old ballet master who was then in his eighties. Then she asked, "There is just one thing that ________ has worried me. How could you tell me that I don't have what it takes to be a great ballerina?" "Oh, I hardly looked at you when you ________. That's what I told ________ of them who came to me," he said.

"But... but, that's ________! What you said years ago has destroyed my ________ , I could have been a great ballet dancer!" she cried.

7 . When Pat Jones finished college，she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could ________ she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America ________，so she got a job ________ an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish，________ she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn’t ________ much English.

A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream ________ a foreign language，you have really mastered(掌握)it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and ________ that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in ________.

One day，one of her ________ students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had ________ early and had slept ________.

“What does this have to do with your ________？” Pat asked.

“I dreamed all night，Miss Jones. And my dream was in English.”

“In English？” Pat was very ________，since he was such a bad student. She was ________ secretly jealous(嫉妒的).Her ________ was still not in Spanish. But she encouraged(鼓励)her young student. “Well，________me about your dream.”

“All the people in the dream ________ English.” the student said. “And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English.”

“But that’s ________，”said Pat. “What did all the people say to you？”

“I’m sorry，Miss Jones. That’s ________ I slept so badly. I didn’t ________ a word they said. It was a nightmare(噩梦)！”

8 . When two ninth-grade students found smoke coming out of the back of their school bus early Tuesday morning，their bus driver knew just what to do. Thanks to her _______ thinking，more than 50 students’ lives were _______.

While _______ a group of 56 students to their middle school in Duncan，South Carolina，on Tuesday，Teresa Stroble noticed the heavy _______ rising from the back of her bus. She _______ pulled the bus over，evacuated(疏散) the students，and radioed the transportation office to ask _______ to call 911. Firefighters arrived at the scene shortly after the fire began and quickly _______ the fire，which CBS News reported was so _______ that people driving by were able to feel its heat inside their cars. Parents of the children on the bus were _______ the fire，but thanks to Stroble，the news they received was all ____________ not a single child had been hurt.

Since then，Stroble，who has been a bus driver for seven years ____________ also works as a teacher’s assistant(助教)，has been ____________ for her brave actions. “We are so ____________ of our bus driver，” headmaster Scott Turner told local CBS News. “She was ____________ .She also kept the students calm. She made sure they were safe. She didn’t leave the bus ____________ they all left. She is our ____________ today.”

The local fire department is still unsure what ____________ the fire，but some say that this 1995 ____________ has been known to have wiring and electrical problems. ____________ ，we’re so happy that Stroble was able to ____________ on her feet and keep everyone safe and sound.

9 . A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did know she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was_______of fighting and struggling. It_________that as one problem was solved a new one arose.

Her father, a_______ , took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high_______. Soon the pots came to a(n)_______ In one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and in the last he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil,_______saying a word.

The daughter sucked her teeth and_________waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He _______the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in another bowl. Then he ladled(舀) the coffee out and placed it in a mug. _________ to her, he asked," Darling, what do you see?"

"Carrots, eggs, and coffee." she replied.

He brought her closer and asked her to ________ the carrots, she did and noted that they were __________. He then asked her to take an egg and ________it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip(啜饮) the coffee. She ________，as she tasted its rich aroma(香味).

"What does it mean, Father?" she __________ asked.

He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity(逆境)，boiling water, but each reacted __________The carrot went in, ________and hard. But after being subjected to (服从于) the boiling water, it softened and weak. The egg had been fragile( 易碎的). Its thin outer shell had ________its liquid interior(内部), but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were__________，however. After they were in the boiling water, they had ________the water.

“ ________ are you?” he asked his daughter.

When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot an egg or a coffee bean?

10 . I was driving to a business meeting and, as usual, I was planning in my mind what I was going to say. I came to a very ______ crossroads where the stop light had just ______ red. “All right,” I thought to myself. “I can beat the next light if I ______ ahead.”

Suddenly my thought was broken by an unforgettable ______. A couple, both ______, were walking arm-in-arm across this crossroads with cars running by in every direction. The man was holding the hand of a little boy, ______ the woman was ______ a baby in her arm. Each of them held a white cane(手杖), ______ for clues (线索) to guide them across the crossroads.

I was moved. They were fighting ______ one of the most feared handicaps (缺陷)—blindness. “Wouldn’t it be ______ to be blind?” I thought. My line of thought was quickly ______ by what I saw: the couple was not walking in the crosswalk, but into the ______ of oncoming cars. I was ______.

But I didn’t see an accident. Something ______ happened. Every car in every direction came to a stop almost ______. Suddenly a driver ______ his head out of his car, shouting, “To your right. To your right!”

Without a stop, the couple changed their ______ and followed the coaching. ______ their white canes and calls from some concerned people, they ______ it to the other side of the road.

Take time to ______ and you will really see something wonderful around you.