1 . A rabbit is running into its hole. You will ask, “What has this to do _________ language?” Well, when a rabbit sees something _________, it runs away. Its _________ moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this, they run too. They know that there is _________. The rabbit has told them something _________ making a sound. It has given them a _________.

Many _________ animals use this kind of language. When a bee _________ some food, it goes back to its home. It cannot tell the other bees _________ the food is by speaking to them, __________ it does a little dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.

Some animals say things __________. A dog barks (吠叫), for instance, when __________ comes near. A cat purrs (叫) when __________. Some birds make several different sounds, each __________ its own meaning.

But human beings have something that no animal has — a large number of words which have the meanings of things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform (告诉) other people __________ we think or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this.

No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow (然而) he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words.

2 . One day, a girl came upon a cocoon (茧), and she could tell that a butterfly was trying to hatch. She waited and _________ the butterfly struggle for hours to release itself from the tiny hole. All of a sudden, the butterfly stopped moving — it seemed to be _________.

The girl then decided to _________ to get the butterfly out. She went home to get a pair of scissors to cut open the cocoon. The butterfly was then easily able to _________, however, its body was swollen and its wings were _________.

The girl still thought she had given the butterfly a(an) _________, and continued to watch it, _________ that any minute the wings would enlarge and expand enough to support the body. _________ happened! The butterfly was unable to fly, and for the _________ of its life, it could only move by crawling around __________ with little wings and a large body.

Despite the girl’s good __________, she didn’t understand that the restriction of the butterfly’s cocoon __________ an important purpose. In fact, the butterfly had to __________ the struggle in order to make an escape. As butterflies emerge from __________ cocoons, the fluid from their body is forced into their __________ to prepare them to be able to fly.

Similarly, there are days when we __________ challenges, preventing us from moving forward. However, the challenges we face along the way are meant to test if we’re made of stronger __________, not to make us quit. They will __________ the best in us and make us fly. Anyone who refuses to make an effort, or gets the __________ sort of help, is left unprepared to fight the next __________ and never manages to fly off to his destiny.

3 . Romero is an 84-year-old man. He owes his _______ to his pet dog, Palomo, who took _______ to him after he got lost in the _______ for a week.

On November 27, Romero left his home for a walk, but he didn’t come back _______. His family wasn’t _______ at first as he used to walked to _______ villages and would be back a few days later. However, after four days, the man’s niece, Ramona, panicked and _______ it to the local authorities and a search party was put together.   

The police with trained dogs were brought in to _______ Romero. They searched the area around, but a week after his _______, Romero was nowhere to be found. That’s when the old man’s ________ dog, Palomo, was brought in as the last ________.

According to one member of the search team, the brown dog ________ them through hills and valleys and finally to the place in the desert where Romero had been ________. His niece told the authorities that Romero sometimes had poor memory and that ________ his getting lost on his trip.

The ________ weak man was rushed to the hospital where he spent two days getting back on his feet. One officer commented online that “Palomo ________ by the hospital door day and night waiting for the ________ of its beloved Romero. It is the unconditional love of his pet ________ allowed Romero to be ________ with his family”. A photo of Palomo staying by Romero’s side after he came back home was ________ along with these words.

4 . A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, but unluckily two of them fell into a deep pit(坑). All the other frogs _________ the pit. When they saw how _________ the pit was, they told the two frogs that they might as well be dead.

The two frogs _________ what the others were saying and tried to jump up out of the pit with all of their physical _________. The other frogs kept telling them to _________. Finally, one of the frogs paid attention to the comments, _________ considered them, and gave up. He _________ down and died.

The other frog continued to jump as _________ as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs _________ him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally __________ it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The frog __________ to them that he was a little __________. He thought they were encouraging him the __________ time.

This story teaches two lessons: First, there is power of life and death in the __________. An encouraging word to someone who is __________ can lift him up and help him make it through the day. Second, a destructive word to someone who is down can be __________ it takes to kill him. Be __________ of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path.

The __________ of words is great. It is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that __________ to rob another of the spirit to continue in __________ times.

5 . Working in a pet hospital, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound(爱尔兰猎狼犬) named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very _________ about Belker, and they were hoping for a _________.

I examined Belker and found he was _________ of cancer. I told the family we couldn’t do _________ for Belker but perform the euthanasia procedure(安乐死) for the old dog. Ron and Lisa _________ and told me they thought it would be good for six-year-old Shane to stay _________ Belker. They _________ as if Shane might learn something from the _________.

Before the procedure, Shane seemed so _________, petting the old dog for the last time, that I __________ if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker left the world __________.

The little boy seemed to accept Belker’s __________ without any difficulty or puzzle. We sat together for a while after my work, __________ about the sad fact that animal lives are __________ than human lives.

Shane, who had been listening quietly, __________, “I know why.” Surprised, we all __________ him. What came out of his mouth next __________ me. I’d never heard a more moving __________. It has changed the way I think and live.

He said, “People are born so that they can learn how to live a __________ life—like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?” The six-year-old __________, “Well, dogs already know how to love others, so they don’t have got to stay as long as us.”

7 . A 3-year-old boy who was lost in the woods for 3 days is now safe at home. But Casey told his parents that he was not _________ in the rainy, freezing cold woods. He said he was with a friend — a _________.

The child went _________ on January 22 while playing with friends at his grandmother’s house. When the other children _________ to the house and Casey didn’t, hundreds of people _________ the search. Then on January 24, someone called the police saying he heard a child _________ in the woods. The police then found Casey at night. He was in good health. After being _________ carefully by the doctor, Casey was sent home with slight _________.

Casey told the police that he had _________ with a black bear for two days and he called it his “ __________”. His mother told reporters that Casey did not say how he was able to __________ in the woods for three days. __________, she said, “He did say he had a friend in the woods, a bear, with him.” His mother __________ everyone who joined the search for her son. “We just want to tell everybody that we’re very thankful that you took the __________ out to search for Casey,” said his mother. “He is good. He’s already asked to __________ online cartoons.”

8 . John Clark was a postman. He was fond of dogs. However, when he was delivering letters (送信), he found that ________ dogs were his friends. One particular (特别的) dog called ________, who lived at No. 108 Turner Road, was one of John’s ________. Whenever John came near his ________ house, Spot would not lie in and ________ out on John, barking (狗吠) and trying to ________ his ankles(脚踝).

After a heavy snow ________ was freezing (结冰) that morning. The road was covered with ________. John was afraid of ________ down, so he ________ his bike and walked with ________ steps. Unfortunately (不幸地), John slipped(滑倒) on a patch of ice, which was opposite to No. 108 Turner Road. Spot ________ this as John together with his bike made such a big noise. Spot jumped onto John’s ________ and tried to bite his neck. Quick as a flash, John, ________ hands were full of letters, bit ________ on the leg.

John Clark said later, “It was the ________ thing I could do. I don’t approve of (赞成) ________ to animals, but that dog ________ had it coming. Since that day I’ve had no ________ at No. 108. Spot always hides round the ________ of the house when he hears me coming.”