1 . I remember when my husband started coaching the basketball team at a local high school in Richmond, California. He had a passion for sports and loved _________ with kids. Sitting in the _________ during the first game, I cried with joy as I watched him _________ with the students. He seemed to _________.

On the car ride home, we both realized that he has a _________ for teaching. Not just on the _________, but also in the classroom. He _________ a well-paid job in finance, and went back to school to obtain his teaching

_________. He landed a job teaching 8th grade US history to the amazing kids at Helms Middle School in San Pablo. He had found his _________. Little did I know that I would be in the __________, too.

My husband knows that I work for a software company that is __________ with 3D printing, and that’s usually the extent of his __________ in my profession. I was __________ when he asked me to be a guest speaker in his class that first year.

While I was planning my first __________ for his students, I asked myself, “What should I do? How do I integrate(融入) design, modeling and 3D printing into 8th grade US history?”

I __________ my friends, read the local teacher blogs and thought I was __________ to go. But during my first lesson a(n) __________ thing happened: I kind of failed. The end result, __________, was better than I ever expected.

At the end of the class, I asked the students how they felt about what they had __________ learned. They raised their hands and __________ answers and sought me out to more questions. When the bell rang, they thanked me for my time.

2 . I always had a dream. In it，I was a little girl again，rushing about，trying to get ______ for school. Deep inside I knew ______ it came from. It was some unfinished ______ in my life. As a kid I loved school, most of all I ______ to receive my diploma. That seemed more ______ even than getting married. But at 15，I had to ______ because my parents couldn't afford my ______.

Pretty soon I married and had three children. I thought，“There goes my diploma.” ______，I wanted my children to be educated. But Linda，the youngest，had a serious heart disease，which made it impossible for her to ______ in a normal classroom. One day，I saw an ad for evening courses.“That's the ______. Linda always feels better in the evening，so I'll just ______ her up for night school.” Linda was busy filling forms when the school ______ said，“Mrs Schantz，why don't you come back to school？”I laughed，“There's no ______！I'm 55！”But he ______ me and I attended class with Linda. Surprisingly，both Linda and I felt great there and my ______ steadily improved. It was exciting to go to school again，but it was no ______. Sitting in a class full of kids was ______，even if they were respectful. Whenever I was down，Linda encouraged me, “Mom，you can't ______ now！” Together we made it ______. Finally，I got my diploma with Linda and realized my ______ of years.

3 . Three years ago, I was working as a lawyer. For a year or longer, my work was beginning to suffer. I ____ got to the point where I couldn’t concentrate --- one of the early signs that something was _____. I kept forgetting things. Legal work is complicated, and you have to have a good ____ to do that work. So I ____ my job. I talked to my doctor about my family’s ____ of Alzheimer's; my father and grandfather had it. Then I was asked to do some tests. It ____ that I have early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Needless to say, my life has ____. My husband Dan retired soon after my diagnosis (诊断) ____ we spend a lot of time together. ____ going to work, I used to spend my days having lunch with my friends and _____ my mother. I could drive up to see her before I started getting ____. The situation wasn’t _____, but I’d had to turn around enough times that it frightened me. Now I ____ drive out of town. I stay in town.

I am an independent person, but now I have to ____ some of that independence. My husband and I mostly do the shopping together because I ____ the list.

Dan and I are enjoying life while we can. Some people are saving money for trips years down the road. We’re not _____, we take a trip every year.

The one thing I wish I could change is people’s ____ when I tell them I have Alzheimer’s. They shut down. I can still ____; it’s not like suddenly I can’t remember anything. This happened with my father. He was very ____, and he had lots of friends. When his friends learned he got Alzheimer’s, they wouldn’t come to visit him. I think people should learn more about Alzheimer’s and ____ that people with the disease can still socialize.

4 . When my wife, Jane, and I were 16, we were in the same class. About a week before Thanksgiving Day, we found out that our teacher Edward was having some ___challenges. We wanted to do something to help, so as a class we ___to gather food, clothing and gifts to ___his family had a good Thanksgiving Day.

When Jane told her family about our plan, her mother was ___. Together they searched their house for things they could ___. Her mother went to the kitchen, ___ a big turkey and saying, “Thanksgiving Day won’t be ___without a turkey dinner.” To this day, Jane remembers how moved she was by her mother’s ___.

Before making our ____, we said a prayer of appreciation for the wonderful ___ to help others. I will never forget the surprised ___ of our teacher and his wife when they ____ the door; their four children gathered around them as we handed out the gifts. It was a cold night; we all felt warm inside, ___.

Last month while I was in a meeting, my secretary informed me, “Your high school teacher Mr. Edward is wondering if you could ___ him a few minutes. He’s sitting in your office right now!”

I left my meeting and went to my office ___. My teacher and I hugged and began to ___ the last 42 years. He told me he ___ remembered that cold winter night when we brought the ___of Thanksgiving Day to his family. The food and gifts were certainly appreciated, ___what warmed his heart that night was to see a group of teenagers who understood the ___of Thanksgiving Day.

5 . My family often had a get-together with friends in my childhood. As I was small, there was always someone who would come up to mention my high _______ and ask, “What are you going to do when you _______?”

Well, it started out being a teacher or a hero. _______ it was a fireman, an artist … As I grew older my dreams of the future _______. When I was going to college, I was asked, “What will you major in?”, another question _______ to find out what I would be when I grew up.

By then I made up my mind to become a _______ programmer. So I was studying software for much of my life. I am _______ that I could realize my dream. The realization of my life purpose encourages me to help others to succeed in their own _______.

However, for many, there is a “_______” which goes around stealing our dreams and robbing us of the ________ mental state to achieve our ________. Sometimes, the thief will come as a parent, a relative, or a friend, ________ the greatest thief is just ourselves.

Usually when we are about to ________ the aim, a “small” voice inside will say, “You will never ________.” “Very few have ever done this successfully.” And on and on the “small” voice makes us ________ heart and fail.

Failure, ________, helps our dreams to come true. It is one of the most important ________ we have, because it teaches us ________ lessons. And, when we learn these lessons well, we are ________ for success.

There are no “overnight” successes, but with perseverance, they will come. So just don’t ________. Let dreams stay in your life.

6 . I was on my way to the library to do some studying for history class. That’s when I ____ my my friend and her family knocking on doors.

As I was standing outside one house my friend’s brother ____ past me and went to the ____ of the house. When the resident（住户） answered,I ____ him say,“Excuse me. Hi! I am raising ____ for my mom.She needs to have a surgery(外科手术)______ we don’t have enough money. Could you please ______ with a donation?”

The lady _______ him some coins and he said,“Thank you so much! God bless you.”Then he walked on to the next house.

I could see he didn’t have ______ and I also saw he had been crying.

Instead of going to the   ______ , I went to the bank,.I told them I wanted to ______ all my savings.The lady in the ______ said to me,“But, sweetie, I _____ you were going to use that money to get into university.”

I told her something else   _____ so she gave me the money. Then I walked to my friend’s house. They had only ______ nine hundred and sixty dollars, which wasn’t even a quarter of what they_______ I told my friend to take my money. When she saw it, she_______immediately it was my university money.

The idea of going to ______ had been a very exciting one for me----assuming I got accepted----but she needed the money _____ I did. Now her mom will be going into surgery in the next two days.

I hope all goes ____ for her and her family. My love and prayers go out to them.

7 . A woman professor was giving a lesson to her students on ________ management. As she raised a glass of water, everyone in the class _______ they would be asked the “half-empty or half-full” question.________, that was not the case. With a smile on her face, she asked the students, “How much do you think this glass of water weighs?”

Answers called out _______ from eight to twenty ounces (盎司).

She quieted the students down and then replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t ________. But it counts how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my ________. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb. In each case, the ________ of the glass of water doesn’t change, but the ________ I hold it, the heavier it becomes. Why?”

Lost in ______, all the students kept silent and listened to the professor carefully.

“Our stresses and ________ in life are like that glass of water. If we ________ our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will feel exhausted, even unable to ________.”

________ you have to do is put all your burdens down, as _______ in the evening as possible. Don’t carry them through the evening into the night; by doing this, we can get ________ next morning and are ________ to move forward. More often than not, life gets terrible when we ________ too much. And the moment you ________ your burdens, you’ll find yourself feeling so much more relaxed.

So rather than being upset and feeling ________ for yourself, start doing something about it. After all, life is too short to ________ yourself to anything that is not making you happy.

8 . We have all heard how time is more valuable than money, but is it ________ to have too much?

I________back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also ________a team sport. By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, and I had to do it __________

When I got into college, things ________ I suddenly found myself out of class before noon time. Because of all this __________ there was no sense of __________ to do my school work immediately. I was performing this action of waiting until it later became ________. Once that happened, I just kept________my studying further and further back in my day. Then I got to the point where I was__________really late at night to get my work alone.

One day I __________a former classmate of mine who was __________ a lot of money running a sideline(副业).Since his regular job was __________, I asked him why he just didn't do his sideline full-time. He said without the job, he would __________ have too much time and would just do what I did back in__________.He said that if he __________the job, he would lose his __________ to work and succeed.

So, try __________ your time with other work. This is why there is a __________ that if you want something done, ask a __________person to do it.

9 . Long ago, a rabbit built a big house, where he lived happily. He had ______ it so well that, when a heavy ______ arrived in autumn, which flooded (淹没) and destroyed nearly the whole forest and the ________ of many animals, his remained. Soon, one after another, the ______ animals came to his door, asking if they could ______ the cold days in his house. He let each ______ in, and the house was gradually filled up ______ it was full. This discomfort didn’t ______ the rabbit. Instead, he was happy because everyone else said he was _______. All the animals thanked the rabbit for offering them a place to live in winter.

In spring,   all the animals ______ and rebuilt their own houses. Seeing this, the rabbit jumped up and down so happily that he didn’t ______ that a fox was waiting for him. One of the animals who had spent the cold ______ in the rabbit’s house saw this, and called the rabbit _______, shouting at the rabbit to ________ escape into his house. Then the fox broke into the house, but the rabbit ______ to escape and run into the home of another friend. For a whole day, the fox ______the rabbit from one animal’s home to another’s,______ the rabbit always managed to save his skin, and was ______ all the time by the friends he had ______ help to in the winter. Finally, the fox gave up.

The rabbit felt very happy, not only for having escaped the fox, but also for having made so many friends in the forest. From the ______, he learned that helping others is helping himself.

10 . One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried ______ for hours as the farmer tried to figure out ______ to do. Finally he decided the animal was ______ and the well needed to be ______ up anyway, so it just wasn’t ______ it to rescue the donkey.

He invited all his ______ to come over and help him. They all grabbed (握起) a shovel (铁铲) and began to shovel ______ into the well. At first, the donkey ______ what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s ______, he was quiet.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked ______ the well and was ______ at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that ______ his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would ______ it off and take a step up. As the farmer’s neighbors ______ to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take another ______ up. Pretty soon, everyone was surprised as the donkey stepped up over the ______ of the well and ran off.

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The best way of ______ out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our ______ is a stepping-stone. We can get out of the deepest ______ just by not stopping, never ______! Shake it off and take a step upward!