The other day, I was witnessed a touching scene. At a pedestrian crossing, an old man hold a walking stick was struggling to cross. He had to take roughly ten small step to equal one normal step. The drivers were waiting patient for him to cross. Then a young gentleman going the opposite way pulled over but went out of his car assist the old man. People in the cars waved their appreciation as a pair gently made it to the middle where the young man knelt on one knee to provide the old man for a rest stop. He was in tears as I walked past because I saw the more touching moment in a year.

3 . When I was 16, I worked at a fast food restaurant. That was when I came across two new family ________.

One afternoon in the fall I went out to ________ boxes and flatten them for recycling. When I opened the ________, I found a little cat crying outside. He got a little wet because of the morning rain. I picked him up into the kitchen, ________ him and fed him water and food. My boss was ________ when seeing a stray cat (流浪猫) in the kitchen and asked me to take him out immediately. I quickly got some towels and a box and made him a little ________ and put him in my car. It was cold outside so it was ________ for the cat to stay in the car.

After work, I rushed to my car to ________ him. I found another cat scratching my car door to ________ her brother. So I picked her up too. I had to carry them into my house ________ because my mother didn’t ________ a cat. Our cat had died earlier that year and she was in ________ and determined that she would not ________ any cats.

I ________ the two cats in my room for four days. One day my mother caught me taking cat food into my room, followed me and ________ me. Seeing her, I was ________ but I told her I had no choice but to ________ them. I told her we could just keep the boy and find another ________ for the girl. She yelled at me that we couldn’t ________ them. I knew I had her ________.

My family had Penny and Rizzo for the next 15 years.

4 . I'm entering my eighth year teaching preschool. I've never got tired of it, because______ year is ever the same. Sometimes our school brings new staff and new students' families who are ______ with the purposeful aesthetic（美学）our school seeks for. So I am eager to show them around my classroom with the of ______ to help them sense our school philosophy ——supporting creativity, learning and ______ for children. Their nodding and smile make me feel it will be another ______ new school year.

All of the walls in my classroom start out very ______They are plain in color. All I will do is give students the great beauty in the physical environment with my philosophy. First, I arrange all the children’ s first names in a circle on the wall, ______ traditional number lines or alphabet order, which may make students feel discriminated. I like it when children see their names and have a sense of ______ to our class community. ______ I have a sign on our paper towel holder that is a ______ of how many paper towels we use, because we are showing our ______ to the Earth and will be starting with what we can do for the Earth within our classroom. I also have a small sign about our voice scale, which gives a ______ to distinguish indoor and outdoor voice level, and then I use the language all the time ______,“Shh — Let's bring our voices down to a Number 2 or 3. ”For the ______ part, the walls belong to the children, and the children will ______ the lively color and decorations in the room through their paintings to relieve their tension between lessons. The walls I place value on give an excellent way to show that students' well-being and the talent of art are valued.

Aesthetics of the walls affect their emotional responses. I am proud I can provide such a class community where my students feel happy, motivated and respected.

9 . I had watched our new refrigerator being delivered, and then I did what any child would do with a huge box - turning it into something wonderful. In my case, it was a _______ where I was going to help people.

Over the next few days, I readily _______ everyone I saw. Our dogs and cats, along with Grandma, made up the majority of my _______.

My box room _______ pretty quickly after that, but the dream stayed. _______, it went into sleep for a while. After graduating from high school, I couldn’t _______ to go to university. So I decided to work and take _______ classes instead.

Though years passed, my _______ didn’t. As I worked job after job, I always managed to set aside _______ time and money to take college classes at night. Over time, I received my first college ________. As my regular jobs ________, so did the amount of effort and funds I could spend on my university classes. Before I knew it, another college degree had been ________. And so it went, after working for years and ________ every part of education, I acquired my eighth and final degree. I ________ became a doctor as I had wished.

________ is a joyful lifelong process, and I managed to reach my goal over the years by taking one class at a time.

10 . I believe in the power of science fiction, not just for its capacity to turn dreams into reality, but also for its power to bond together those who share a common view of the future. For me, that’s true for my relationship with my dad. Some fathers and sons bond over sports, fishing or hunting, but my dad and I bond over Star Trek. We tried a trip to Disney World, but one of my earliest memories wasn’t Mickey, but a Klingon battle cruiser on the screen.

Over the years, nearly every setting and situation has become far away for my dad and me. When it’s warm at night, we’re not driving along some dark streets in Indiana, but going at a slow speed with stars dimly shining. Both of us are thinking of them, without needing to say a word. All these imaginations of other universes have together created a private universe for my dad and me.

Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, once said, “Science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.” A lifetime of science fiction has influenced more than just my relationship with my dad, but has also helped me shape my own hopes for the future. I’m now a science writer.

Yes, science fiction has made me into a “nerd” and it also has been a source of joy for my family, making me an optimist while enabling me to think critically about the danger of technology. Thank those authors who have shared their visions: the world and my family are better for it. Thank my dad, who is both the best storyteller and the best man I have ever known because he helped me realize the truth of Tennyson’s words, “For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”