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 . When I was in seventh grade, my parents asked a tutor to help me with math, which ended up raising my mark from a fifty to a fifty-five.

While normal people my age were ________ of spiders and that new ride at Wonderland, I became afraid of anything to do with ________. It only got ________ in ninth grade. Every report card I ________ was delivered with the comment: “Victoria needs to ask for assistance in class. ” But I didn’t ask for ________ , because I didn’t want to look like a(n) ________ person. Every question I had was something that the entire class ________ but I didn’t understand. So I turned to the mindset of not caring about anything and concluding that ________ everything would work out.   ________ , it didn’t

My math teacher called one summer morning to tell me I would spend the next three weeks at school, redoing the entire course so I could ________. As it turned out, I pass my math test.

I finally realized that I had let math ________ my life. There was really no ________ to be afraid of it-I just needed to face the music and be a bigger person! Gradually, my ________ changed, and I became more positive once I ________ my mathematic fears.

So I’m off to three weeks of summer school with three hours of math each day. Maybe next year I’ll be doing better because I ________ more often in the summer than the other kids at school

3 . For many years, Dr Freed was a doctor in our community. He often made _______ to almost every family living there. He knew all the children and their parents _______ by him. You would see the lights on at his clinic, late at night when someone was _______. He was always there for his patients.

But he was 80 years old now, and his life had taken a _______. He didn’t need to be busy about all the time any longer. He was lying in a wheelchair after a _______, which made him feel _______. He came to see me to _______ what he would deal with his uncertain future. As he _______ it, the biggest problem was that it was hard to examine patients if he could _______ move. He said, “________ is my life. If I give it up, what’s left for me?” My ________ was how to help him.

The key, I thought, was for him to ________ to see himself as an important part of the community. I ________ that he should write a book about his medical experiences if he was ________ to do it. He thought wring a book ________ was a good idea. “Maybe my role now is to pass on what I have learned to the ________ . Other doctors and my patients should know my value. ”said Dr Freed.

We can learn a lot from the doctor’s experience in ________ happiness through personal growth. First, it is that you’re never too ________ to do meaningful things. Second, making some ________ during each phrase of life is important. During older age, ________ of wisdom and experience is often a source of satisfaction.

4 . My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but would never run very well. The first three years of his life was _______ in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he has a problem when you saw him _______.

Children in our neighborhood always ran around _______ their play, and Joey would jump and ran and play, _______. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be _______ to run like the other children. So he didn’t know.

In _______ grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others, _______ only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the _______. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.

He ran four to five mile every day, even when he had a fever. I was _______, so I went to ________ him after school. I found him running ________. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He has two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept ________.

Two weeks later, the names of the team ________ were out. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had ________ the team. He was in seventh grade, the other six team members were all-eighth graders. We never told him he couldn’t do it… so he didn’t know. He just ________ it.

6 . 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.”

8 . Since our twins began learning to walk, my wife and I have kept telling them that our sliding glass door is just a window. The______is obvious. If we______ it is a door, they’ll want to go outside_______It will drive us crazy. The kids obviously know the_______But our insisting it’s______a window has kept them from______millions of requests to open the door.

I hate lying to the kids. One day they’ll______and discover that everything they’ve always known about windows is a_______I wonder if______should always tell the truth no matter the_______I have a very strong______that the lie we’re telling is doing______damage to our children. Windows and doors have______metaphorical(比喻)meanings. I’m telling them they can’t open what they absolutely know is a door. What if later in______ they come to a metaphorical door, like an opportunity of some kind, and______opening the door and taking the opportunity, they just______it and wonder, “What if it isn’t a door?” That is, “What if it isn’t a______opportunity?”

Maybe it’s an unreasonable fear. But the______is that I shouldn’t lie to my kids. I should just______repeatedly having to say, “No. We can’t go outside now.” Then when they come to other doors in life, and whether they are real or metaphorical, they won’t______to open them and walk through.