3 . In America, it is not polite to telephone someone very early in the morning. The time of the call shows that the matter is very ______ and requires quick reply. It is the same to ______ telephone calls after 11 p. m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he thinks its a matter of life and ______. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.

In social life, time ______ a very important part. In America, guests may ______ that they are not highly respected (尊重) if they get the invitation to a dinner party only three or four days before the party date. But it is not the ______ in a countries. In other parts of the world, it maybe ______ foolish to make an appointment too early because it is easy to be forgotten.

The ______ of time is different in different parts of the world. So misunderstandings happen between people from cultures that treat time differently. To be on time is valued ______ in American life. For example, if people are not on time, others may think they are impolite. In the United States, no one would keep a business partner ______ an hour because it would be too impolite. A person who is five minutes late will say a few words of explanation to show his apology.

5 . I was driving home after attending my uncle’s funeral. I took a canyon (峡谷) drive with beautiful scenery to process my ________.

Suddenly I heard a pop. I knew what had happened — a big flat tire! I ________ to the side, but this was a canyon drive with not much shoulder (路肩) ________, and it happened to be around a turning that people couldn’t see. That made it ________.

Cars were passing me fast. I couldn’t get out. Within minutes, I saw a van stopped behind me. A gentleman walked out, ________ a hand, and I dared to walk out very ________. He moved my car out of the ________ way while I was talking to the police. Since they couldn’t send ________ in 20-30 minutes, the gentleman took out my spare tire and started ________ the tire for me.

After the job was ________, I thanked him and he left. As we said goodbye, I ________ him to pay it forward. I saw in my mirror that the van just ________ me, making sure I was OK. At the light, I got a chance to see the ________ family in the van. A beautiful young wife with attractive children in the back. They all gave me a big smile and ________ at me!

I thought the gentleman had set a successful example for those young children to learn about ________ and passion.

6 . For many young Canadians, planting trees is more than just a job. It's a way of _________— and it could be catching on, thanks to a popular _________ by Leslie. While working for a logging company, the 29-year-old filmed herself using the _________ method that allowed her to plant 4,545 trees in a single day. She said that the work is truly _________.

Planting trees is not easy work, according to Leslie. Not only is it _________ tiring, but it also exposes laborers to the bad weather. "It could start the day off _________ and then minutes later, it will just be raining or snowing. You never know what to _________," she described. "There were some days that we were planting through a heat _________, so we had like 37-to-40-degree weather for several days straight and that was really _________."

So far, Leslie has planted a total of 372,290 trees in the past few years.__________, she's still nowhere near beating the Guinness World record. That honor __________ Kenny Chaplin, who once planted 15,170 trees in 19 hours. After 35 years on the job, he says he'd __________ it to anyone.

"I think every parent in Canada should __________ their kid out tree planting because it will turn them into a worker," he __________. "They'll learn how to work, they'll have __________ and they'll have money in their pockets."

7 . It surprised me — every time I saw Joe, he was smiling. It didn't _________ whether he had to stop at a stop light, or if he were the seventh person in _________ at the bank, and the service stopped just before he got there. Joe always smiled. It made me wonder why he seemed so _________ every day.

Having observed Joe with other people, I _________ something else also. Joe asked people how they were doing, and really seemed to listen to their _________ . If someone were hurting, he had _________ for him and kind words, and offered to _________ in any way he could.

It made me think. What if I tried to smile more? A(n)_________ of sorts began when I went to the grocery store. I smiled as I went up and down the aisles, and people I didn't even _________ smiled back at me. Some even __________!The little kid in the cart (购物车) who was giving his mother a __________ time saw me smile and __________ talking, and, you guessed it — he made a shy little attempt at a smile.

As I drove home, I was smiling. I__________ what I had just learned, and when someone passed me and gave me a(n)__________ , I smiled at him.

Now I know a smile is a small thing, but what if we were all to try to smile a few more times each day? Nothing in my life had changed, but maybe it had. What I had learned was that such a small thing could __________ not only my spirits, but also the spirits of those around me. So smile!

8 . When Susan was a high school student, her English teacher, Fred DiMeo, asked her to carry out a task: Recite (背诵) a poem in front of the whole class.

“I had a mild stutter (口吃), which tried the _________ of my classmates,” Susan said. The thought of _________ in front of the class and stuttering through the _________ was too much to bear. When the day of the recitation came, Susan, painfully shy and _________, recited the poem. Once she was done, DiMeo said something she’d never _________ before: that he liked listening to her voice. For the first time, she _________ that public speaking didn’t have to be a source of _________. “I think in his mind he just wanted me to _________ I have nothing to be afraid of,” Susan said.

Susan went on to graduate from high school and go to college. She never got to _________ thank DiMeo. Sometime after college, she managed to __________ a job as a trainer. The work made her know how big an __________ DiMeo had had on her confidence. “It’s so __________ to stand up in front of people and speak with them. And I do it all the time,” she said.

Susan recently found a way to __________ her teacher, and sent him a letter expressing her __________. “ You played a big role in my life,” she wrote. “I don't know where I would’ve gone if I felt like I had to keep my voice __________ because I was afraid of embarrassing (使尴尬) myself. ”

9 . I believe we can have a big effect on anyone with whom we come into contact. Some acts that we think ________ can shape others’ future. The simple words can sometimes ________ change someone’s life.

Years ago, that was what happened to me. I was the only ________ child at Blue Elementary School. From almost the first day there, I was ________ by other kids mainly because of my hearing aid. And I also had ________ with my school work. When others laughed at me, I thought of myself as a ________ boy who wasn’t smart enough to keep up with the class.

Mrs Jordan, my 5th grade teacher, ________ all of that with a simple sentence. One morning, she asked the ________ a question. I read her lips from my front-row seat and immediately raised my hand because I knew the answer. But when she called my name, I was ________. Here was an opportunity to ________ the teacher and showed her I was worthy of her love. Maybe I would even impress my classmates a little. I didn’t want to blow it. Despite my fears, I took a deep ________ and answered her question.

I will never forget what ________ next. “THAT’S GREAT, STEPHEN!” Mrs. Jordan ________ with sparkling eyes and a wide smile. I regained confidence and ________ a little taller in my chair.

From that day forward, my grades and speech ________ greatly. My popularity among my peers increased. It was all because the praise and encouragement Mrs Jordan gave me.

10 . Paen Long has had a dream ever since he saw a plane for the first time at the age of six. His dream was to _______ a plane. Last year, the 30-­year-­old man started building his plane _______. “I was afraid that people would _______ me, so sometimes I worked at night,” he said. It was a long time before he put his dream into practice. Paen Long tried to build his own plane, using the money he had _______ from running his own garage. He has spent three years _______ instructional videos in order to learn how to make a plane.

It took him a year to build his plane, using mostly recycled materials. The plane’s first _______ came at 3 p.m. on 8^th, March. Local villagers gathered excitedly to watch the plane fly._______, the plane only got 50 m in the air before crashing (撞击) to the ground. “When all people were looking at me, I felt very _______,” he said.

Although the first try failed, Paen Long remains _______. His next project is to build a seaplane. Paen Long thinks the plane will cost over $10,000. “I never feel ________ for spending all my money building a plane,” he said.

His wife, Hing Muoyheng,________ about her husband, especially as they have two young sons. However, she has no ________. “I don’t know how planes work and he doesn’t have any ________ to help him. He can only search for information himself,” she said. “I tried to ask him to ________ a few times because I was afraid, but he said he wouldn’t give up, so I have to support his ________.”