1 . As the youngest kid in the family, I used to be told, “No, do it this way.”I knew my family members were all trying to _______ me. But I didn’t like feeling _______ all the time.

One weekend, I went to help Grandpa with _______. Grandpa had flattened out one side of the green bush with a pair of shears(大剪刀) and told me to _______ the other side. He _______ to watch, but I didn’t do anything. I was _______ of doing it the wrong way. “I can do it by myself, ”I said. Grandpa said he would come back to _______ me. When he was gone, I _______ the big shears to cut the branches, but _______. I wanted to cry.

Then I took a pair of regular scissors and cut the bush. Little branches fell to the ground. I took a step back to ________ my work. The bush looked flat and neat on my side. Grandpa came back. He looked at the side he had cut, then back at mine. “Your side looks ________ than mine, he said.

I was ________. ”You mean my way isn’t wrong?“

”No. Your way works just fine,“ Grandpa said.

I was so happy my ________ was right this time. As I grew up I realized learning from other people didn’t necessarily mean having to always ________ them. It is okay to do things a little ________. Being different is fine.

2 . Experts worry that teen texting is out of control. Instead of _________, Kenny, 16, often _________ with his friends through the night. “You get a(n) _________,” explains the teen, who lives in Texas. “When I get a text, I’m itching (渴望) to _________ it even if I want to sleep.”

Garcia, a high school senior from Grand Kennedy, has also felt the need to stay constantly _________. We asked how many texts she sent and received each day. “I don’t know… maybe 1,000?” she answered. “It’s too many to _________.”

Dr. Dowdell, at Villanova University, says that many people expect to be able to _________ anyone at any time. “It’s very _________, especially to a high school student. But it reduces the time that could be spent studying, exercising, or just relaxing. Another _________ is, there’s no downtime.” And people need to __________—especially when we have so much to do.

So we decided to have Kenny and Garcia do an experiment. These were the __________: No phone for 48 hours. No computer or Internet either.

“Wow, it was completely __________,” Kenny joked. Though he was sad and missed his friends at times, he __________ “it had benefits.” __________ texting, he went to the gym and caught up on schoolwork. Garcia had an even more __________ result. “I loved it!” she said, “I was hanging out with friends and slept better too.”

3 . My dear girl, this is a letter for you to read when I am getting old.

The day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to be patient please, but first, try to ________ what I’m going through. If when we talk, I ________ the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt (打断) to say: “You said the same thing a minute ago...” Just ________, please. Try to remember the times when you were ________ and I would read the same story night after night until you ________.

When I don’t want to take a bath, don’t be ________ and don’t embarrass me. Remember when I had to run after you, trying to get you to take a ________ when you were just a girl?

When you see how ignorant (无知的) I am when it comes to new technology, give me the time to learn and don’t look at me that way... Remember that I ________ taught you how to do many things like eating appropriately, getting dressed and ________ life’s problems every day.

________ I occasionally lose track of what we’re talking about, give me time to remember, and if I can’t, don’t be nervous or impatient. Just know in your heart that the most ________ thing for me is to be with you.

And when my old, tired legs don’t let me move as ________ as before, give me your hand, the same way that I offered mine to you when you first ________.

When those days come, don’t feel sad... Just be with me, and understand me while I get to the ________ of my life with love.

I’ll ________ and thank you for the time and joy we shared. With a big smile and the huge love I’ve always had for you, I just want to say, I love you, my darling daughter.

4 . I was lucky because I found my lifelong career early in life-creating something meaningful with imagination and knowledge. Wozniak and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. In 10 _________ Apple had grown into a two-billion-dollar company with a well-known electronic product launched. We’d just _________ our finest creation, the Macintosh, and I had just turned 30. Then I got fired.

How can I get _________ from a company I started?

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to _________ the company with me, and for the first year or so things went _________. But then our visions of the future became _________ and eventually we had fallen out. When we had some words, our Board of Directors _________ him. And so at 30, I was out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, which was _________.

I really felt _________ for months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs (企业家) down-that I had dropped the baton (接力棒) as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to __________ for messing everything up. I was a public __________, so I even thought about running away from the valley. But something __________ me: I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that a bit. Consequently, I decided to turn the tables.

__________ as I was about my future then, it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a(n) __________ again. It freed me to enter one of the most __________ periods of my life.

5 . It started with a bit of discomfort on the head. Annoying as it was, I was _________ to take up my doctor’s time with such a silly complaint and have a wasted journey only to be _________ that it would heal by itself. Still, I turned to my laptop.

As soon as I’d _________ ‘online self-diagnosis’, the search engine provided over 11.5 million _________. On one site that provided free _________, I answered the questions and reached a description matching my _________. After clicking on ‘More Information’, I was shocked by what I’d never _________. The worst outcome was a brain cancer. I couldn’t be more _________.

I headed off to the doctor for what I thought would be a series of tests but which turned out to be a valuable lesson in not _________ everything you read online. It took him less than a minute to guess at and __________ head lice (虱子). I was __________ to know that I would be safe and sound, and horrified to know that my head was being occupied.

While a doctor makes a diagnosis __________ your appearance and medical history, a search engine relies __________ on algorithms (算法) according to popularity or numbers of key words and comes up with results which can be __________. One minute you’re under attack from a late cancer, the next you’ve just caught a cold. Time spent going to the doctor’s for __________ of mind suddenly seems fair enough.

6 . Martin is a certified personal trainer for more than 30 years. He recently ______ a nonprofit organization, Fit2Give, to provide free personal training to ______ communities. Not everyone can attend a group exercise class — some need a one-on-one ______.

“The trainers will be paid; that’s why we’re taking ______,” Martin says. “We’re paying for their certification and their ______ and their ability to establish a ______ relationship with someone.”

Martin’s own ______ to fitness started when he was young. Later, he was attracted to weights and started visiting the gym. “While I was ______ at the gym, a supervisor suggested I take the exam and become a trainer,” he ______. “They loaned me their book. I took the exam. I ______.”

Martin has been supporting people’s fitness goals, which brings Martin ______. He says one client who lost 100 pounds through ______ diet and exercise. “At her weigh-in, her family was there, and they came up to me in ______ and said, ‘We thank you so much. Our mom, she’s like a ______ person.’ It was ______ to me that not only had I affected her, I had affected her family. That warmed my heart.”

7 . “Do you mind if I join you?” A young man’s voice made me look up from my breakfast.

“That’s fine,” I said.

“It’s really crowded in here,” he said, flashing a nice smile.

Looking around, I realized there wasn’t one _________ table. As I watched the guy put hot sauce on his sausage, my mind spun with the _________ of my visit to a doctor the day before. I’d covered _________ through a snowstorm to see him, but he didn’t have answers to my problems.

My breakfast companion noticed me _________. “Traveling far?” he asked.

“Yes.” I hoped he didn’t have any more questions for me. He seemed nice enough, but I was in no _________ for small talk. I dipped my head back toward my plate and _________ my mouth with a bite of toast to signal the _________ of our conversation.

To my _________, the young man reached into his backpack and pulled out a notebook. He wrote as he ate. After a few moments of silence, I started to feel bad about _________ his words.

“Are you a writer?” I asked, __________ my voice.

“No ma’am,” he said. “I’m working on a list for my mom. She’s fighting lung cancer and I’m making her a smile list.” I could feel his __________ in the silence.

“I’m sorry to hear that,” I said, feeling even __________. “What is a smile list?”

“Oh, just little __________ to comfort her.”

“Would it be too __________ to ask you to read me some of your “smiles”?

“No, not at all,” he said. Then, looking down and scanning his notebook, he read:

● Watching the sunrise

● Finding a shiny penny

● Sharing a table at breakfast with a __________ lady

8 . In the summer of 2005, Kathryn Fumie was living in an apartment by herself for the first time. She needed to _________ how to cook for herself and do some cleaning. One day, she _________ to sweep the floor because the floor was so dirty that she couldn’t bear it.

Because of lack of enough experience, there was too much water left on the floor. When Fumie was walking quickly on it, she suddenly slipped and twisted (扭伤) her right _________. The pain was_________, and it was a terrible injury._________, a neighbor was available to call her an ambulance (救护车). When it arrived, a nurse _________ her during the 45-minute drive to the hospital and helped to keep her calm.

Fumie _________ she was extremely uncomfortable. “I kept asking the nurse if the injured right foot could be rubbed (揉). And I was just begging for a _________.”

The nurse calmly _________ that she couldn’t rub it. She said she wanted to save as much of the bone of the foot as possible, and that extreme pressure could __________ even more damage. Fumie said the nurse talked to her about what she was doing in her free time to take her __________ off the pain.

Today, she says she still feels __________ to the nurse. “I felt so lonely at that time. And she did make me feel like it was going to be OK.” Kindness makes our life more __________, and doesn’t necessarily __________ doing something great. Sometimes it is __________ things that matter.

9 . Every weekend in the summer, my father would take us to one of the splendid lakes. One _______ that I would never forget was a visit to Oneida Lake. After arriving there, we _______ the car of our picnic supplies and located the perfect picnic spot. Then my dad, sister and I ran into the splashing waves, leaving my mother behind to _______ the picnic.

My sister loved synchronized swimming (花样游泳) and started _______ skills. My father, being an athlete himself, was _______ in her show. With no one _______ me, I became bored and decided to swim by myself in deeper water. The waves were getting _______, but I didn’t care. As I took a. breath to try a dive, a huge wave _______ me. I choked and then a huge undercurrent swept me deeper beneath the waves. With the very thought of dying, a great sense of _______ flooded over me. I kicked my legs _______ but in vain, losing any hope for a breath. Suddenly, I felt a firm _______ on my arm and a pull to safety. It was my dad! He hugged me tightly and carried me back to the _______ where I could stand.

There was no _______, just a big smile because he knew I was all right. It turned out that my father had never taken his eye off me, _______ as he had the other eye on my sister! _______ his watching over me, protecting me and loving me, I would not become the strong woman I am today.

10 . Many years ago, a teenage boy named David arrived at a children’s institution in England. He was referred to me, a(n) _______, by his head teacher. David had lost both his parents and was understandably sad and _______. I met with him twice, but he _______ silent.

I recognized the limitations of psychology in _______ his deep pain but found that empathetic listening and shared activities like chess provided a safe space for David to _______. So we played every Wednesday afternoon in _______ and without any eye contact . I _______ to ensure he won once or twice, providing a sense of _______ and success.

Gradually, David began to _______. He arrived early and ________ participated in setting up the chessboard. It seemed as if he enjoyed my ________. I thought David needed someone to share his pain with, and he sensed my respect for his ________. Months later, I watched David ________ over the chessboard. Suddenly, he looked up at me and said, “Your ________.” After that, he started talking and making friends. He wrote to me about his bike rides and plans to get into university. Later, he really started living his own life.

David showed me how one can reach out to another person without ________, just with a hug, a shoulder to cry on, or an ear that listens.