1 . The day I met Hani Irmawati, she was a shy, 17-year-old girl standing alone in the parking lot of the international school in Indonesia, where I teach English. She asked if I could help her improve her English. I could ________ it took much courage for the young Indonesian girl to ________ me and ask for help.

“I want to go to a US university,” she said with confidence. I was surprised.

I agreed to work with her ________ a volunteer basis. For several months. Hani woke each morning at five and caught the city bus to her public high school. During the one-hour ________, she studied for her regular classes and finished the English ________ I had given her. At four o’clock in the afternoon, she arrived at my classroom, extremely ________ but ready to work.

When I met Hani’s family at their ________ little house, I realized they would never be able to afford the expenses of a US university. Hani’s enthusiasm was ________ with her language ability, but I was becoming more and more discouraged.

One day I received the announcement of a(n) ________ opportunity for a major US university. After reading the requirements, I knew Hani couldn’t meet the qualifications. I told her that there was only a ________ chance of her getting the scholarship and encouraged her to be more “realistic” about her dream. But she remained ________.

“Will you send in my name?” she asked.

I couldn’t ________ her down. I completed the application, with the painful truth about her academic life, but also with my ________ of her courage and perseverance.

Three weeks later, just before Hani went to Jakarta to take the Test of English Fluency, she received a letter from the scholarship association. She had been ________.

I leaped around the room, overjoyed and shocked. Hani stood by, smiling. I realized that it was I who had learned something Hani had known from the beginning: It is not intelligence alone that brings success, but also the ________ to succeed, the commitment (投入) to work hard and the courage to believe in yourself.

3 . Alia Baker is a librarian in Iraq. Her library used to be a meeting place for all who loved_______and liked to share knowledge. They _______various matters all over the world. When the war was near, Alia was   _______that the fires of war would destroy the books, which are more expensive to her than mountains of_______ . The books are in every language new books, ancient books, _______a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old.

She had asked the government for permission to move the books to a   _______ place, but they _______ . So Alia took matters into her own hands. _______, she brought books home every night, _______ her car late after work.Her friends came to ________her when the war broke out. Anis who owned a restaurant ________ to hide some books. All through The night , Alia, Anis, his brothers and neighbours ________the books from the library, passed them over the seven-foot wall and hid them in the ________ . Then nine days later, a fire burned the library to the ground. ________ , the books were kept in a safe place.

Now Alia waited for the war to ________ and dreamed of peace and a new library.

4 . I was about to explain the meaning of the word “gossamer (小蜘蛛网)” to my five­-year­-old students. We were learning a poem. I _______ because one of them was waving his hand at me.

“Yes?” I asked.

“Once I got caught in a spider web _______ I didn’t see it,” the boy said.

“That’s gossamer!” I shouted, nearly jumping up. “Gossamer things are hard to see.” Gossamer is also how I might describe the voices of _______ young children. I can only hear them when I am close enough. They are not the children speaking with ease. They are the children whose faces turn _______ if I call on them, or who whisper (低语) “I don’t know” even when they do _______. I don’t want them to _______. I want them to be comfortable being _______.

Shy children usually have less practice in speaking, especially when there are other more children _______ to talk. It’s a loud world. Though shy children may appear _______ to be in the background, they are losing opportunities to participate. Without practice, fear of speaking ________.

It takes about three weeks, a small bit of ________ each day, for each of my 17 students to learn a poem. So far, they have memorized more than five. And now, an obvious ________ has happened. The “shyest” children are as eager to read aloud as the ________ ones.

Practice is an excellent way to increase ________ of shy children while learning a poem. And it is practice that makes them enjoy the ________ of the language.

6 . It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were _______, we realized that only minutes earlier an _______ woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. _______ was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. _______ a lot of people stopped to help out.

While we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very _______ about what had happened to the elderly couple. He _______ to me, “Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of _______.” Seeing that there was a flower stall (摊位) at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn’t we _______ the lady a flower? It will make her feel better.” I was _______ that he’d come up with this wise idea. So we went over and told the flower seller ________ we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can’t take your money for such a wonderful ________.”

By now medical staff (医疗团队) had arrived, and were ________ the injured woman. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was ________ my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a ________ son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little ________.

7 . For long, a question disturbed a little boy. He couldn’t understand why his next-desk-pal (同伴) could rank 1st whenever he wanted to, while he himself _________to.

At home, he despondently asked his Mom, “Mom, am I more _________ than others? I feel I study as hard as him，but why do I _________lay behind?” Staring at him, she went _________, not knowing how to explain.

She felt an impulse (冲动) to say, “You are too _________. You are not really as hard-working as others...” .But she stopped, _________she knew her son was suffering from the pains of _________grades and rankings. She thought it cruel to add any additional burden to his son and was trying to find out a _________answer.

Time went by quickly, the son finished primary school. Although his studying was harder and better, he was still unable to _________his pal. To show her pride of him, Mom decided to take him to the sea. During the trip, she managed to give out an answer.

Now, the son no longer __________his rankings, because, with the 1st ranking, he was __________to Harvard University.

Back home in winter vacation, he was invited to give a speech to the students and parents in his high school. In the speech, he mentioned a(n) __________experience in his childhood. “When my mother and I were lying on the beach, she pointed to the front and said, ‘Do you see the seabirds flying for food over there? When the __________come near, little birds can escape quickly __________“clumsy” seagulls would take more time to complete the process. However, have you noticed birds that __________fly across the endless ocean are none other than “clumsy” (笨拙的) seagulls?’”