1 . I believe in miracles (奇迹) because I’ve seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. “There’s a ___________ in my upper jaw,” she said, “I told my own dentist it’s nothing, but he ___________ I come to see you.”

Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would ___________ to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the ___________ of her mouth. A careful examination later ___________ that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer.

During her next appointment, I explained to her the ___________ of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, “I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just ___________.”

I thought otherwise. After considerable ___________ on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to ___________ me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon. She saw him, but as I expected, ____________ treatment.

About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and ____________.

“How are you?” I asked.

“I’m just fine, honey,” she responded ____________ high spirits. “When can I get started on fixing my dentures (假牙)?”

Surprised to see her at all, I answered ____________ “Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it.”

I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had ____________ nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness ____________.

I had read of such things happening, but had ____________ seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I’ve seen many others, because they keep getting ____________ to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are in miracle, ____________ through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to ____________ the miracles of one another.

Since my first miracle, I’ve come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is ____________ we choose to find it.

2 . I didn’t understand the power of forgiveness until I caused a serious car crash.

It was a clear night, oven-warm, full moon hanging low over the desert. On the way back from a party, Hannah and I decided to go for a   ________ . Hannah was my best friend, younger but much taller. “Hannah is a real ________ ,” My mom used to say. And   ________ enough, that summer she   ________ with a modeling agency（模特公司）.

Taking a turn too fast, I ________ a block of rock and,   ________ the car. We were seriously injured I cracked my cheekbone on the steering wheel; Hannah’s forehead was ________wide open on the dash. There is a(n) ________   amount of blood on Hannah’s ________ , a piece of skin hanging into her eyes. In the emergency room, my parents spoke _________; Best plastic, surgeon（整容医生）in the city. ________ of her modeling career.

What would I ________   to her? It is all my fault.

What her mother, Sharon, came into my hospital room, I started to cry, ready for her ________. She sat beside me and took my hand. “I nearly killed my best friend when I was your age, she said with a soft, ________ voice.

“I’m so sorry,” I said.

“You’re both ________,” she said. “The rest is window dressing. I ________ you. Hannah will too.”

Sharon’s forgiveness ________ Hannah and me to get back in the ________ together that summer. And we were able to ________ friends throughout high school, college and the rest of our lives. I think of Sharon’s gift of forgiveness every time I feel like ________ someone for his wrong doing.