3 . I know what courage looks like. I saw it on a flight I took six years ago, and only now when I look back can I _______ it without tears filling eyes.

Our flight _______ the Orlando Airport one morning. But immediately upon take-off, it was _______ that something was wrong. The aircraft was bumping (颠簸) up and down. All the _______ travellers looked around with knowing smiles. If you _______ much, you see these things and learn to act _______ about them. However, we did not remain calm for long.

Minutes after we were _______ , our plane began falling quickly. The pilot soon made a serious _______ . “Attention, please! We are having some difficulties. Our indicators show that the control system has _______ . We will return to the Orlando Airport. Our ________ will prepare you for a bumpy landing.” In other words, we were about to crash. Many travellers looked visibly ________ now. No one faces death without fear, I thought.

Then several rows to my left, I heard a woman’s voice, speaking in a(n) ________   conversational tone. All around, people cried. Many ________ . Finally, in this chaos I saw her talking to her child. The woman, was ________ at the face of her daughter, who looked four years old. The child listened closely, sensing the ________ of her mother’s words. The mother’s gaze (凝视) held the child so fixed that she seemed ________ by the sounds around her.

Finally, I ________ over and could hear this soft sure voice with the tone of ________ . Over and over again, the mother said, “I love you. Remember, whatever happens, I love you always.” Fortunately, our landing gear (起落架) held at last and our touchdown was not a(n) ________ .

However, the voice I heard that day never ________ .That mom showed me what a real hero looks like.

4 . Chris Person lost his wallet outside a Publix store.The wallet contained his license, credit cards, plenty of cash, and some gift cards. He _______ his pockets and the parking lot carefully but came up empty. He had completely become _______

The next day, two _______who Chris Person never met before drove to his home in Palmetto Bay. To his excitement, he was told that 15-year-old Lucas had _______the wallet in the parking lot by chance. Then he had decided to go with his father to Chris’s to _______it in person.

Chris became impressed with the _______the father had obviously passed on to his child,_______ because every note of the more than $ 1,000 in cash was still in the wallet. “They both refused my _______without any hesitation when I insisted they_______the money that was inside, and they said they just wanted to do the ________ thing-and they did, “Chris told CNN.“ The father intended to teach his boy the meaning of a selfless and ________ act by accompanying him for thousands of mile here. And I believe the boy will always make right decisions whenever he faces the same situation in the future.”

During their conversation, Chris learned that the warm-hearted boy liked rock and roll. Therefore, he was determined to do something meaningful to ________the boy for his kindness. The following weekend, Chris and his wife got a new surround sound system. Chris had been________that Lucas is very fond of ________,so he called Lucas up and asked if he wanted it. The boy was both________ and satisfied by the gift.

5 . I have invented robots that   crawl   (爬)   through   pipes   to   check   them   for   damage.   Two   of   my____________ allow cars to be used as power plants on wheels. My love of building things __________   when I was a kid. It wasn’t until I learned about Thomas Edison, though, that I really became excited about inventing.

When I was in fourth grade, our teacher gave us a ____________. We   had to write to a company and learn   about the   __________________   it made. Each student would then give a report in front of the class to finish the project   (课题). I____________ the Thomas A. Edison Company.

Soon after I wrote to the company,   our mailman delivered a _______________   to me. It contained a book about       the life of   Thomas   Edison.   How   I________________ reading   and   rereading   about   his   inventions!   The   ones   that impressed me most were movies, recorded sound and the electric light. Edison became my hero.

My dad noticed my interest in inventing and ____________   me. He showed me how to turn my ideas into plans and, finally into new things.

Together, my dad and I repaired radios and televisions. Once, I surprised my dad with a ________________   I made to adjust the brakes (刹车) of our car. Later, we found a similar tool in a store. That’s when I learned that______________ inventors often invent similar things. It is not ____________   for this to happen. I learned, too, that not all great   ideas work.______________ is a common part of the inventing process.

As my father and I worked together, I began to______________ that my dad was quite an inventor himself. His   guiding hands, combined with my _______________   in inventing, led me to become an engineer and inventor. But I am_______________ to Thomas Edison, too, for first lighting that bulb (电灯泡) inside me.

8 . Not being able to see someone you love for a long time is hard, but it does make a reunion (重逢) more special.

Owen and Stevie _________ several years ago at their school in Chicago. They became close friends and it seemed that nothing could _________ them. Unfortunately, their friendship was _________ three years ago when Owen and his family moved to Missouri. Owen and Stevie were _________ to keep their long-distance friendship. _________, it wasn’t easy not being able to see their best friend every day.

Recently, Owen’s dad was _________ for a business trip to Chicago. The two families naturally took advantage of this amazing _________ for a reunion. Instead of telling Stevie the great news, they kept the _________ from him. When the big day arrived, Stevie was _________ kept in the dark.

That day, Stevie’s mum __________ to pick him up early. Little did Stevie know that his best friend was __________ him in the back seat. When Stevie __________ his mum’s car with a basketball in his hand, Owen was hiding in the car. Yet the moment the door opened wide, so did Stevie’s __________!

“What are you doing here?!” Stevie said with a big __________.

“I’m __________ you in Chicago! That’s what I’m doing here,” Owen replied, then giving Stevie a huge hug.

“I feel like I’m dreaming,” Stevie said…

9 . In my teen years, my dad taught me things I’d need to know. When I moved out, I ________ him at least once a week, usually when something broke down in my ________.

But then, I needed him ________. My husband had most of the knowledge I ________. I don’t know when it happened but our ________ changed into six words. “Hi. Dad.” “Hi, sweets. Here’s Mom.” Dad knew I always ________ to ask questions about how to take care of kids.

I loved my dad, but I wondered if he had already ________ everything I needed to know. Two summers ago, my husband, kids and I moved in a lake house with my ________ for three weeks. Dad asked me to help him ________ the bulkhead(舱壁).

It was ________ labour. But as we put the new bulkhead together piece by piece, my dad knew ________ what went where. “Dad, how do you know how to build it?”

His heavy mallet(木槌)________ in mid-air. “I spent a summer building them on the Jersey Shore.” I thought I knew everything about his random ________. But I never knew this.

As he carefully explained how to use the circular saw, I realized that maybe it’s not that there’s ________ left to say. Maybe it’s just that I’ve spent my life asking him the ________ questions.

A few weeks later, I moved back. I called my parents. ________ answered. “Hi, sweets. Here’s Mom.” “Wait, Dad, how are you?” We ________ talking about his consulting job. To anyone else, it would sound like a ________ conversation between a dad and his daughter. But to me, it was ________. A new beginning. I spent the first part of my life needing to talk to my dad. Now I talk to him because I ________ to.