1 . When I was 25 years old, I had a big dream in my mind. I wanted to travel around Africa with my _______. So I left my hometown with great confidence and _______ in Cape Town, not really sure what to do next. _______, before my trip actually started, I _______ a kind, old Nigerian man. He gave me the best travel _______ I had ever received: “BE LIKE A STUDENT ON YOUR WAY AROUND THE WORLD.”

It sounded _______, but it really changed my idea about traveling. He helped me _______ that travel is about learning and observing _______. It's far too easy to go into a (n) _______ country and believe your ways are better.

“But if you study, ask questions, and try to __________ the locals, you'll have far richer __________,” he promised me.

When I was on my tour way to Cancún, I was __________ a tourist. I only stayed there for a week to see the __________ and places of interest and then left. The culture didn't __________ me. I left the cities and towns without really __________ anyone or anything that existed in those places to which I had __________ a visit.

This time, I made a promise to myself that I would be a __________ traveler. After seven months of __________ backpacking in Africa from Cape Town to Cairo, I realized that having a student-like mindset (思维模式) helped __________ my trip and helped me learn a lot, which __________ me more than any other trips ever did to me.

2 . 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.

4 . 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.

6 . I still remember the day when I was driving to the supermarket I own. When I came out, I found a boy _________ my car with a brush. I went over and patted (轻拍) him_________ the shoulder, which surprised him very much. In no time he began to _________ at me. So I was sure he _________ some money. From the shoes he was wearing I could hardly imagine how _________ he was. So I offered him a $1,000 bill. To my great surprise, he _________ to take it. When I was wondering what he was doing, he said, “ I was waiting here for 4 hours, waiting for you. Your _________ is so beautiful and I like it, but I don’t need that.” I knew he was mentioning the _________.

As he had refused the money, I offered to drive him around the town. The boy became so _________ that he got into the car at once, “Would you please drive me__________? It is only about 3 miles.” I thought maybe the boy wanted to show off to his friends and his family. __________ I stopped, he jumped out and ran into an old building, telling me to wait there for some time. Very soon he came out, saying to a little girl on his back, “Look at this beautiful car. I will buy you __________ someday.”

I noticed his sister had a pale face. __________, her legs were too thin, and she was unable to __________.

After that day I went to his home several times. And I got to know more about him and his__________. Poor as they were, the boy__________ refused my money, and said, “I can__________money by myself, thank you.”

Soon I __________my manager of the supermarket that a boy would go to__________here the next day.

No matter how poor we are, we would__________give in to ourselves.

7 . I believe honesty is one of the greatest gifts. I know they call it a lot of fancy names these days, like_________ or straightforward. And it’s still what_________ a man a good citizen. This is my secret, and I try to live by.

I’ve been in the taxi business for thirty-five years, _________ there is a lot about it that is not so good. Taxi drivers have to be rough and tumble(乱作一团) fellows to be able to take it in New York. You’ve got to be _________ to fight the New York traffic eight hours a day.

Because taxi drivers are tough, people get the_________ impression that they are bad. Taxi drivers are just like other people. Most of them will act as_________ fellows. You read in the papers almost every week_________ a taxi driver turns in money or jewels or like that people leave in their_________. If they weren’t honest, you wouldn’t be reading those stories in the papers. One time, I found an emerald(翡翠的) ring in my car. I remembered helping a lady with a lot of suitcases that day, so I went back to where I had_________. It took me almost two days to wait for her in order to return her____________ to her. I didn’t get as much as “thank you.” ____________, I felt good because I had done what was right. I think I felt better than she____________.

I was born and raised in Ireland until I was nineteen years old. I came to this country in 1913 where I____________ several jobs to earn a few dollars before joining the army in World War Ι. After being discharged(退伍), I bought my own car and have owned one ever since. It hasn’t been too easy____________, but my wife takes care of our money and we have a good bit____________ for a rainy day(一时之需). In all my years of driving a taxi, I have never had____________ with the public，not even with drunks. Even if they get a little headstrong(顽固的) once in a while, I just agree with them and then they behave themselves.

People ask me about tips. As far as I know, ____________ everyone will give me something, because most Americans are____________ generous. I always try to be nice to everyone, whether they____________ or not. I believe in God and try to be a good member of my parish（教区). I try to act toward others like I think God wants me to act. I have been trying this for a long time, and the____________ I try, the easier it gets.

8 . 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)！”

9 . There are things which I am thinking about, son: I had been hard on you. I called out_______ when you threw your things on the floor. At breakfast, I found fault, too. You _______ things. You put your elbows on the table. You_________butter too thick on your bread.

Do you remember that evening when I was_________in my bedroom, how you came in timidly (羞怯地) with a sort of_________look in your eyes? When I _______ up over my paper, impatient at the     _______, you hesitated at the door. “What is it you want?” I asked. You said nothing, but _______ and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms_______me with an affection. And then you went back to your________.

Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my________slipped from my hands and a terrible fear came over me. What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding ________. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I ________ too much from you. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, ________.

Tomorrow I will be a__________daddy! I will suffer when you suffer and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when ________words come. I have always been looking at you as a man. ________ as I see you now, son, lying asleep on your bed, one little ________ under your cheek, you are still a   ________. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulder. I have ________ too much, too much.

10 . It's often said that you can judge a person by looking at what's on their bookshelves. Well, when I asked myself this question a few years ago, I made a(n) _______ discovery. Pretty much all the _______ on my bookshelves were written by British authors, and there was almost nothing in translation from other _______. What a shame! So, I decided to begin my _____________ reading project.

But how could I find books from much of the rest of the world? I had to ask for _______. So in October 2011, I started my blog, and I _______ a short appeal (呼吁) online. Within hours, people began to _______. At first, it was friends and colleagues. Then it was friends of friends. And soon, it was _______.

Four days later, I got a(n) _______ from a woman called Rafidah in Kuala Lumpur. She said she loved my project, ________ if she could go to her local English-language bookshop and choose my Malaysian book and post it to me. I ________ accepted, and a few weeks later, a package ________ containing nothing but two books — Rafidah's choice from Malaysia, and a book from Singapore that she had also ________ for me. At the time, I was ________ that a stranger more than 6,000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never ________.

But Rafidah's kindness ________ to be the pattern for that year. Time and again, people went out of their ________ to help me. And books often came from ________ sources. A writer even emailed me an unpublished translation of his novel to me, allowing me to become one of the ________ people ever to read that book in English.

That year, thanks to kind strangers from the four ________ of the world. I read books from over 100 countries.