1 . Today I am known for my voice. Perhaps the greatest honor came when I was asked to read The New Testament《新约全书》 on tape.

But it _________ a long time to believe such god things could happen to me. When I was a child. I stuttered(结巴) so badly that I was completely _________ to speak in public.

_________, when I was 14. Professor Donald Crouch came to my school. He was a retired college professor. English was his favorite subject and _________ was his deepest love. He held a book of poems as if it were a crystal(水晶), _________ pages as if uncovering treasures. When he heard that our school was teaching Shakespeare and other classics, he felt _________ for not being a part of our school sooner.

When be _________ that I not only loved poetry but was _________ it, we became closer. There was, however, one _________ between us—Professor Crouch could not stand the __________ that I refused to read my poems to the class.

"Jim, poetry is __________ to be read aloud," he said. "You should be able to speak those beautiful words." I shook my head and __________.

One day he __________ me.

After handing in a poem. I waited for his __________. It didn't come.Instead, one day as the students had gathered together, he __________ me, "."

I stared at him in disbelief. "Why," I started to cry, __________ flooding me, "of course I did!” "Well then,” he said, "you've got to prove it by getting up and reciting it from __________."

By then the other students had settled at their desks. With knees shaking, I walked up to the front. For a moment I stood there, __________. Then I began, and kept going. I recited my poem all the way __________.

Afterwards, Professor Crouch encouraged me to read other writers' poetry before the public. I discovered I did have a(n) __________ and found my classmates actually looked forward to hearing me recite.

2 . With the development of the information technology, we are stepping into the new century. People’s topics, especially the young people’ s , are becoming more and more________, which older men never understand: the Internet and________life.

Just a few years ago, people________talked about what a computer could do to help their daily life. They considered it as a high - tech________for programming, to design machines, to control robots,________to make A-bombs ! At that time, PCs were very expensive and it was too dear to________one’s computer to the web. What’s more, it was too slow. So________people knew what the Internet really meant.

But today, things have changed greatly. The Internet times are coming ________, if you like to have a shot at succeeding in business today, you will have to succeed________ the web. ________ around and it seems as if about every company out there is in E-business

For ordinary persons, E-mail is taking the place of traditional ways of________letters. And young people keep in touch with each other by connecting their________to the web. They can express their________, either happiness or anger, sorrow or loneliness, to their web mates in chat rooms. Some________have found their “true love” on the Internet!

I cannot________ the Internet’s great devotions to our daily life in the world of tomorrow. The Internet can do________many things for us that we almost cannot live without it. Everything is________in the future, and no one can________what will exactly happen in years to come. But one thing is________: more and more people will come to know the Internet and will surely________themselves in his or her daily life.

3 . Mr. Jackson was blind from birth. He owned a fruit _______ on a very busy street. _______ he was visually disabled, he ran his business pretty handsomely. He could see nothing and he could only _______ the things within his reach. _______, he was able to handle it and was content with everything he had.

One day his son came to him. He told Mr. Jackson in _______ that he read in the newspaper of a _______ who could operate on his eyes and allow him to see. The father and the son traveled to the doctor and paid for the _______.

After the operation, the doctor asked Mr. Jackson, “What is the first thing you are _______ to see when I take the bandages off?” He replied, “I really want to see my beautiful _______ on my stand!”

The doctor and the son __________ Mr. Jackson down to the busy street where his fruit stand had been located for so many years. The doctor __________ unwrapped the bandages __________ he could lay his eyes on the beautiful fruit! Mr. Jackson was so full of __________ that he could finally see his life’s work — taking care of his fruit! After a few hours of __________ his beautiful fruit stand, he looked down the street both ways and saw there were quite a few fruit stands in both directions. He looked __________ the street and saw many other fruit stands. He spent so much time looking at other people’s fruit stands and __________ the competition that soon his own business __________.

From Mr. Jackson’s failure, we should know that everyone is a __________ individual with different fingerprints, DNA and thinking. What we need to do is just be ourselves and __________ everyone else to be who they are. Mind our own business and we should never be afraid of __________.

5 . The basic meaning of “pet” is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons. A pet animal is ________ as a companion, and we all need companions to keep as feeling happy. ________ pets offer more than companionship; they invite us to love and be loved. Many ________ feel their pets understand them, for animals are ________ to sense anger and sorrow. Often a cat or dog can comfort us ________ when human words don’t help. We feel loved, too, by the way pets ________ us for a home, for food and drink. Dogs ________, look up to their owners, ________ makes them feel important and needed.

A pet can be something ________ to each member of the family, another baby to the mother, a sister or brother to a(n) ________ child, a grandchild to the elderly, but for all of us pets provide ________ and companionship. It has ________ been suggested that tiny pets ________ be sent as companions to astronauts(宇航员) on space ships, to help reduce the stress(紧张) and ________ of space flights.

In this Plastic Age, when most of us live in large cities, pets are particularly important for ________.A pet in the family keeps people in ________ with the more natural, animal world. Seeing an animal give birth brings understanding of the naturalness of childbirth, and seeing a pet ________ helps a child to cope with sorrow. Learning to ________ a pet helps a child to grow up into a loving adult who feels ________ toward those dependent on them. Rightly we teach children to be good to their pets. They should learn that pets are ________ for us human beings,too.

6 . Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new _________ in high school.

_________, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts (选拔赛) for cheerleaders (拉拉队队员). She was _________ against very talented girls, and she knew it would be _________ for her to be selected. Two hours later, the _________ read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart sank as the list ended without her name. Feeling _________, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.

Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was _________. She moved on to English and history, and was relieved to find that she didn’t have any _________ with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to _________ math for the time being.

The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school __________. Mrs. Biden wasn’t as enthusiastic (热情的) as Jenna. “I’m sorry, but we have enough ________ for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.” Jenna smiled __________ and left. “Why is high school so __________?” she sighed.

Later in __________ class, Jenna applied herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much trouble. By the end of class, she __________ how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d __________ to try to fit in at her new school. She wasn’t __________ whether she’d succeed, but she knew she had to __________.

High school was just as her mom had said, “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond __________ a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the __________ fish you can be.”

7 . This afternoon after seeing my mom, I was driving home. I took the________that was more like a canyon (峡谷)drive with beautiful scenery. Suddenly I heard a sound and I knew a big________tire! I pulled to the side, but this was a canyon drive with not much shoulder________, and it happened to be around a curve (弯曲处)where people couldn't________me. That made it very________. Thus, cars       passed me________so that I couldn't get out. Within minutes I saw a car________at a distance behind me. The gentleman walked out,________help, and I walked out of the car very________, for the road was so narrow. He moved my car a bit out of the way while I was still talking to AAA(美国汽车协会).They said with all the________they gave me since I was in a dangerous place, they could send ________in 20minutes. The gentleman offered to look at my spare tire to________ it was OK before I ________AAA.

Before I knew it, he took it out and________to change the tire. By the time I finished talking with AAA, he had changed my tire!

I________him and he left. I saw in my________that the car just followed me, making sure I was OK. At the traffic lights, I got a chance to see the________family in the car—a beautiful young wife with lovely children in the back. They all gave me a big smile and________at me. I thought about what a role________for those young children to learn about service and sympathy. I thought how ________I was to be the receiver of such generosity.

8 . One young person, who was well educated, went for a job as a manager in a big company. The president did the final ________ .

He discovered the youth was ________ and felt satisfied. Then the president asked who paid for his school fees. The youth answered, “My mother did it. She worked as a clothes ________.”

The president requested the youth to ________ his hands. So the youth did. They were smooth. Then he asked, “Have you ever ________ your mother wash the clothes before?” The youth answered, “Never, my mother always wanted me to ________.”

“Go and clean your mother’s hands when you go back today, and then ________ me tomorrow morning,” the president said at last.

The youth felt his chance of getting the job was high, so when he went back, he happily requested his mother to let him clean her hands. However, his tears fell ________ he cleaned his mother’s hands slowly. It was the first time he had ________ that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled (布满皱纹的). After that, the youth didn’t say a word and washed all the remaining clothes for his mother________. That night, Mother and Son talked for a very long time, longer than any talk before.

The next________, the youth went to the president’s office. The president noticed the tears in the youth’s eyes and asked, “Please tell me how you ________ about helping your mother.” The youth said, “Number One, I know now what appreciation is. Without my mother, I wouldn’t be successful today. Number Two, by helping my mother, I realize how ________ it is to get something done. Number Three, I’ve come to realize the ________ of family relationship.”

The president said, “You are ________. This is what I’m looking for to be my manager.”

9 . On our way home from school my kid and I shared each other our high and low part of the day. My 12-year-old, Karington, told me her _________ for a classmate with special need. This _________ action brought my tears flowing.

Her story started with, “Mommy, I made a teacher _________ today.” I didn’t know why my first thought was a _________ one. I definitely shouldn’t have _________ her. The rest of her story went like this...

“There’s a boy in my class with hyperactivity (多动症). Everyone _________ him because he does strange things. Today he fell to the _________ I looked around and all these kids were laughing, so I walked up to him and _________ with him. The class stopped laughing. A _________ was walking by the open door and saw my __________. She walked into the room towards me, bursting into __________. She held me up and gave me the tightest __________ ever and kept saying what a __________ girl I was.”

My voice was __________ by a lump (梗) in my throat. Tears flooded my eyes; I __________ them so I could see the road. I couldn’t __________. How could I find the right words to __________ just how proud I was? She looked at me, saw the tears flowing and knew. I didn’t need __________.

There is not a thing my child could do that would make me much __________! Nothing is better than standing up for what is __________ and showing compassion towards others.