2 . If you walk around the Rahway Trail(小路) in the South Mountain Reservation, you might spot more than leaves, trees and squirrels. Fairies(精灵) might live among the leaves. Small _________ are hidden in the tree trunks and branches — a surprisingly _________ sight in an otherwise normal-looking forest.

The fairy homes were not built by _________ creatures, but by volunteers. The idea came from a woman named Therese Ojibway, who 10 years ago _________ her son, who has autism(自闭症), to have a safe space to _________ in nature.

“So, she _________ this Rahway Trail, now known as the Fairy Trail, and started leaving fairy homes _________, so that when they came, he had something they could look for and over time she _________ filling it up even more,” said Julie Gould, one of the trail keepers.

Ojibway and her son moved out of the area a few years ago, but their fairy trail _________. Gould and Kelly, officially asked to become the “Makers and Keepers” of the trail, __________ to build little wooden homes for the fairies with volunteers.

Kids visiting the Fairy Trail can spend hours __________ the nearly 100 tiny homes, but __________, they might not see fairies. “We don’t always see them since they’re __________,” explained Kelly. “But really you should see when they ride on the backs of the squirrels... So for us to be able to provide __________ for them is just wonderful.”

Still, kids __________ to see the fairies — and sometimes they’re convinced they have. If they don’t, it is __________ a day well spent out in nature. “This is really about a magical __________ when you come here… it touches your hearts, and it gives you a sense of imagination, __________ and creativity,” Gould said. “That’s how we get paid. We get paid when we get to __________ with the children, who come here and it made their day. This is just a __________ place for them.”

4 . Last year, Doctor Steve Lome came to truly understand what it means to be at the right place at the right time. During a half-marathon, he found himself in the position to ________ not one, but two runners. Things had been going ________ up to that 3-mile mark, but that’s when Steve noticed a (n) ________ runner named Gregory.

Gregory had just reached the peak and was ________ to see that he would run downhill for a bit. This was the last thing he ________ before he became senseless. Meanwhile, Steve saw this happen, and he could ________ it wasn’t a simple fall. Steve stopped immediately to perform CPR (心肺复苏术). Once it was ________ that Gregory was doing well and the medical team took him away, Steve continued the race.

The rest of the race itself was ________ but when Steve crossed the finish line, his life-saving ________ was needed once more. A man named Michael began to feel dizzy moments after crossing the finish line. Then, just like Gregory, he ________.

“I never expected something like that would happen to my life, let alone in the same ________,” Steve said. The ________ of this entire situation is truly remarkable. If Steve had not ________ to help Gregory, he would have crossed the finish line much sooner than Michael, ________ he wouldn’t have been around to save him, too. Thankfully, the events had a happy ________. Now the three remain good friends.

5 . One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without ______.

On September 11th, 1958, Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from ______, she put him in my lap, saying, “I promised you a gift and here it is.” What an ______! I turned four years old a month earlier and non e of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I told it stories. I ______ it over and over how much I loved it!

One morning, ______, I found its bed empty. My doll was ______! I cried for it. Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a ______. For several days, I heard mum and Dad whispering such words as “______”, “pitiful”, and “dying”, which sounded ominous (不吉利的).

Christmas was coming. “Sally, don’t expect any presents this year” Dad said, pointing at the socks I ______ in the living room. I’d never seen him cry before.

The phone rang early on Christmas ______. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it. From my bedroom I heard him say, “What? He’s all right?” He ______ and shouted upstairs. “The hospital said we can bring Richard home!”

“Thank god!” I heard Mum cry.

From the upstairs window, I watched my parents ______ out to the car. I had never seen them so happy. And I was also full of ______. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there _____. But I knew they were not empty: they were filled with ______!

8 . I’ve had many opportunities to experience living in a foreign culture. But my first experience came in an ______ place — my own country. When I was 20, I got an internship (实习职位) in New York City. It was my first time to ______ outside of my home state of Texas.

With my moving north came culture ______. I grew up in a big city in Texas. But it was no comparison to the tightly ______ New York with their 8 million citizens. I was used to life at a ______ pace; New York moved fast. The saying is true — this city never ______. I had to adjust.

My first reaction was fear: I feared I would ______ at my new internship in the 54-storey office building; I feared I would get lost on the subway; I feared that the locals wouldn’t have ______ for my frequent moments of confusion. My fear ranged from reasonable to silly. But I ______ my fears and kept trying.

I learned quickly never to ______ a New Yorker always speaks English. New York is home to people of all walks of life, from all corners of the world. At weekends, I would spend hours ______ along Canal Street in Chinatown — the closest I’d ever been to an Asian country.

“By the end of my internship, I was a little older, a little wiser and_______ of big city life. I hated the skyscrapers, tourists and the high price I had to pay for a cheeseburger and fries. But I had ______ too. I was quicker, smarter and more independent. I knew I would ______ that feeling of having the world right at my doorstep. It was good ______ for the life of travel I’d soon begin.

10 . Mom looked at the awards banquet (宴会) invitation as though she had received ________ news. Her lips tuned down at the edges and her eyebrows twisted together as she read the paper again. “Baby, it might be a ________. Sometimes they accidentally send these things to the wrong people.” She spoke with apology in her voice.

The year before I’d started kindergarten, my mom bought pre-school workbooks. She began my education with ________ that was visible in her smile but only ________ shouting. Her voice and face made me think I had done something very ________. So, whenever she tried to teach me anything, from writing ABCs to tying shoes, I was ________ by the process of learning.

Mom expressed her ________ about me possibly having a learning disability to the teacher. But I made it through kindergarten just ________. Then fist grade. My ________ progress was never a topic of conversation. I had no idea where I ________, below average or smart .I didn’t care. I just ________ doing all the worksheets and activities. I wasn’t ________. I wasn’t crying. I wasn’t frustrated. ________ I wasn’t bringing home gold starred medals, either.

At the awards banquet, I sat by my best friend, ________ all through the meal. But Mom looked like still expecting bad news. The further we got into dinner, the ________ she became. All the subject awards were given out, but “Rebecca” was still not celled. I caught my mom’s ________. She was near tears.

The over-all achievement medals were given out last Mom’s head ________ in her hand. She ________ over to me “T tell you what. Let’s go get some ice cream and forget this whole thing. Sweetheart.” Seconds later, “Overall achievement for first grade—Rebecca!”

I ________ heard my name because I was thinking about ice cream. Later I returned with my medal, still not understanding its ________. I had outperformed every first-grader at my school that year, and I was smart! I asked, “Can I still have ice cream?” My mom nodded, crying and laughing at the same time.