2 . One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods_______she realized that she was lost.

Sitting on a rock and _______what to do, she began crying. After a while. She decided to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes.When it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. She opened the door and _______ stepped in. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out the door and back to the _______. Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a _______.

The girl’s parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy _______ that his mistrees（女主人）was in danger. He jumped _______ a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields. But he couldn’t find his mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a familiar scent (气味) as he lowered his head. He followed the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking _______ into the air, the dog _______ through the woods until he found the ________. But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much to his ________ , he saw his mistress’ blue shirt in the distance. He ________ over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was ________.

When she opened her eyes and________ her dog standing beside her, the girl said, “you ________me, Laddy, ” and she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents burst into tears of relief . That night Laddy had a heror’s supper: a huge meal of steak

4 . My wife and I moved into our home two years ago. We had a yard with a lot of ________. Very often when we have flowers, Denise or I would plant some between the rocks, just to add some ________ to the area.

Last summer, I found a tiny little plant in the yard that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise said she didn’t either.

We decided to let it ________ growing until we could find out what it was.

Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the ________ plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. I decided to ________ the weeds (杂草) around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something ________.The sunflower had not ________ where I saw it begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the ________.

That’s when I ________ that if a tiny little sunflower didn’t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the ability of doing the same thing. If we ________ ourselves like that little sunflower, we can reach where we ________ to go and get what we need for growth.

We need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the ________ to achieve our goals. Like the sunflower, it knew it had the ability to get over the rocks because it had ________ in itself that it would succeed. Stand tall like the sunflower and be ________ of who and what we are, and then the environment will begin to ________ us. We will find a way to go under or around any “rocks” in order to reach our goals.

5 . My son Joey was born with disability. The doctors _________ us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally—but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in _________ with the help of casts (石膏) and braces (支架). By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a problem when you saw him walk.

The children in our _________ ran around as most children do during game play, and Joey would _________ and run and play, too. We never told him the _________ that he probably wouldn’t be able to run as well as other children.

In seventh grade he _________ his mind to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He made great efforts and ran more than any of the others—perhaps he _________ that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. The entire team ran. _________, only the top seven runners had the chance to score points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make it.

He _________ running four to five miles every day—even the day he had a high fever. After school, I found him __________ by himself. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. The sweat __________ down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn’t run four miles with a high fever, either.

Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were __________. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had __________. He was in seventh grade—the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he shouldn’t __________ to make it. We never told him he couldn’t do it.

With the strong __________, you can achieve your dream.

6 . One Monday morning, while the children were enjoying “free play”, I stepped to the doorway of the classroom to take a _______. Suddenly, I _______ a movement of the heavy wooden door. This was the very door I _______ guided the children through to ensure their safety from the bitter cold. I felt a chill go through my body.

My legs carried me to that door, and I pushed it open. It was one of my kindergarteners who I thought was _______ that day. He had been dropped off at school late and was _______ to open the door.

He must have been _______ there for quite a while! Without a word, I _______ him to the hospital. He was treated for frostbite on his hands. He’d need time to _______, and wouldn’t come for class the next day, I thought.

The next morning, one of the first to _______ was my little frostbitten boy. Not only did he run in with ________, but his ________ could be heard as loud as ever! I gave him a warm hug and told him how ________ I was to see him. His words have stayed with me all these years, “I knew you would open the door.”

That cold Monday morning, he waited a long, long while for adults to ________. To a child, every minute feels like forever. He didn’t ________ to walk back home; he waited and trusted. This five-year-old taught me a powerful lesson in ________.

8 . After graduation I managed to work at a news organization. As I was new to the world of________ I was often sent to finish ________assignments, but I was eager to________myself in tough things. All I wanted was to make a ________ impression on my seniors.

I________a senior colleague named Joy to let me follow him to his meeting with a major leader. Joy________ me with recording the process on tape. It was simple, but I was ________. I. would learn a little about how inter- views were done.

After we got back to the office, Joy asked me to ________ the tapes for editing. To my ________, they were all blank! Was this going to cost me my job? Tears welled up in my eyes, with my hands   ________ I didn’t know how I’d face Joy. He had ________ me, but I’d let him down. I could imagine him angry at my________and asking me to leave.

When Joy ________ and asked me for the tapes, I________ and cried, apologetic and embarrassed. “ I think I saved them, but. . . ” I said. However, Joy, with a lot of ________as a journalist, had strange________on his face. He sat down and looked me in the eye. “You have to make ________to learn how you can do the job better next time, right?” he smiled.

I stared at Joy ________ . He taught me the most important lesson in my life: Mistakes are ________, and what we learn from them is what ________the course of our success.