1 . There are purple clothes, purple handbags, purple bicycles, purple furniture, even purple computers! So purple is one of the most ______ colors today. But in the past, purple was a very expensive and unusual color. Let’s take a look at the rich ______ of the color purple.

Some scientists believe that the first plants to appear on Earth over 500 million years ago _____ looked purple, not green. Plants today are green because ______ use green chlorophyll (叶绿素) to produce energy. ______ these early plants probably used something called retinal, which is a dark purple color.

During the time of the Roman Empire (37 BC-476 AD), it was very ______ to make purple dye (染料). The dye came from sea snails (海螺). But 10,000 dead sea snails ______ you just one gram of purple dye... as well as a very bad smell! This ______ purple dye was called Tyrian purple, and it was the preferred ______ of emperors.

In 16th century England, purple was ______ for the kings family members. Queen Elizabeth I’s clothes were purple, but ordinary people were not allowed to ______ the color.

In 1856, William Perkin, an 18-year-old ______ student, noticed something strange while doing an experiment. The chemicals he used to clean his instruments ______ with the chemicals he used in his experiment and produced a bright purple color. This ______ led Perkin to start a company using this chemical mixture to make purple dye. The dye was much ______ than sea snail dye. Thanks to Perkin, now anyone can afford to wear purple clothes.

2 . Mobile phones are now everywhere. They are a(n) __________ way for us to keep in touch with friends and family. __________, it is important to know that there are __________ times when you should not be using your phone, the most important of these being __________.

There is no reason why you should feel the __________ to have your mobile phone during class. Aren’t you at school to __________?You should not be sending your friends text messages or taking phone calls __________ you are in class.

In America students would never be __________ to use their mobile phones during class. Anyone, who __________ the rule world be kicked out of class at once. It is OK to have your mobile phone with you, but you must ____________ to turn it off. It is very ____________ to hear a lot of tones and ringing during class.

As a(n) ____________ in China, I have to deal with students using mobile phones every day. I have told my class to turn off their phones, but many students do not ____________. The desire to be ____________ all the time seems to be stronger than the desire to learn.

It’s ____________ to understand why it is so tempting to have your phone on during class. It won’t ____________ anyone when you’re sending a short text message, will it? But you may ____________ be hurting yourself when you do this. Sending a text message also takes your ____________ away from what’s going on in class, so you may miss something ____________. The next time you ____________ to send a message in class you should think again.

3 . Natalie Browning married the love of her life on June 27. Two weeks before the _________ day, her grandfather, Nelson May, had a stroke (中风) and couldn’t be at the _________. He dreamed of being able to _________ with her in her wedding dress. And since he was unable to travel to the _________, the bride came to him!

After the wedding, Natalie took a _________ from Virginia to Florida, where her grandpa lives. She _________ her wedding dress and did her makeup at the airport. Then she arrived at her grandpa’s _________ ready to dance with him in his living room. “For months he’d been so_________to dance with me on my wedding and I’m just so happy that I was able to _________ him that experience,” Natalie shared.

The video of their dance was __________ on Facebook, and it soon spread quickly. Natalie, the owner of a jewelry business in Virginia Beach, was so happy to have shared that __________ moment with her grandpa.

“I __________ a small business called Great Value that is centered on reminding people that they are deeply valuable,” she said. “I’ve been __________ to share that belief more in my own life and wanted my grandpa to know that he is very __________ to me. And even though he was unable to come to my wedding, the dance he so __________ to have with me was valuable too. So, we made it happen.”

4 . I can still remember it as if it were yesterday. I was a college freshman and had stayed up most of the ______ before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first ______ of the day my eyelids were feeling ______ and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. It wouldn’t ______ to spend a few minutes napping (小睡，打盹) before class, I thought.

BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my ______ beating wildly trying to find the cause of the ______. My young professor was looking back at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had ______ dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!” he said still ______. “I am glad to see everyone is ______. Now let’s get started.”

For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the ______ of my professor’s textbook alarm clock, either. It was instead from the ______ discussion he led. With knowledge and ______ he made the material come ______. His insights (洞察力，见解) were full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he ______ with were contagious (有感染力的). I ______ the classroom not only wide awake, but a little ______ and a little better as well.

I learned something far more important than not ______ in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, and do it with ______. What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Let your love fill your work. Don’t sleepwalk your way through ______. Wake up! Life is too _____ not to live it well.

6 . I had to work as a substitute teacher (代课老师) before finding a full-time teaching job. One day, I _________my first substitute job at a school. The _______ said that I had to arrive at school at 8:00 am when I would sign in.

As it was my _______ day at this school, I made sure of leaving plenty of _______ to get to school. I got up early so I _______ at the school at about 7:50 am. I sat in my car for ten minutes playing with my phone to _______ time. Then I walked into the teaching building and up to the reception (接待) desk at 8:00. When I told the receptionist my _______ , she shouted at me for being _______ and said that the headmaster was managing the class until I _______.

I said the email I received ________ told me to arrive at school at 8:00, but the receptionist said what I said was a(n) ________. I finally gave up trying to ________ with her, went up to the classroom, and took over the class from the ________.

During the ________, I was sitting in the office when the headmaster ________ and asked why I was late. I ________ that the email had given the wrong information. He said that even though that was what the email said, I ________ should have gotten to school before 8:00 am because that’s what ________ people do, in case something unexpected might happen.

The headmaster’s ________ had a strong influence on me, and then I ________ to become a smart person. Since then I have never been late for school.

7 . My phone rang and it was a number I didn’t recognize. When I _______ it, I heard my son’s _______ voice on the other end saying, "Mama, I got on the wrong _______ ." This was his first year in the middle school. I knew my little boy was very _______. After all, it was only his second time to _______ home. Since he normally had football classes, I would met him.

The phone wasn’t hung up, I could hear my _______ was speaking with the bus driver. I could feel his frustration (挫败). The tone of his _______ when he told the bus driver "I’m so sorry" was _______ . Then on the other end of the line, I _______ a calming response. The woman driver said, "Oh, honey, you don’t have to ________. It’s my job to get you home ________. And this is what I’m going to do. ” I’m grateful, ________ she was comforting (安慰) my son. I couldn’t help but think of the many other responses he could have ________. She told me not to worry. We appointed (约定) a place and then she went out of her way to comfort him.

When I arrived at the location we ________ on, the woman driver came over with my son and explained how she noticed he felt terrible and ________. My son had even asked her if he messed everything up. She tried her best to make him ________

Every day, I pray that there are people in our ________ and in the right places to watch over my ________ when I’m not there. And today it did happen. This ________ truly showed the love in her behaviors and care for my son. I won’t let her behaviors go unnoticed, so this story will be ________ with everyone on the Internet.

8 . As we all know, people often make a living by making the most of local surroundings. A small village by the sea depended on ______ to survive. Each year the villagers had to go farther and farther from shore to catch enough fish to ______ the population.

But as the villagers went farther away, they ______ a problem. Their usual ______ was to put the fish they caught in big tanks to keep them ______ until they returned home. But the fish grew inactive in the tanks, and many ______ before the boat could reach shore again.

After much ______, one villager ______ a solution. On their next fishing trip, they caught a ______ shark and placed it in the tank along with the fish. The shark ate only a few fish, but the rest swam ______ around the tank trying to keep away from the shark—and made it to shore fresh and healthy for the villages.

Sometimes a little fear is what we need to stay active and ______. People usually lose ______ and focus when everything goes smoothly and ______ best when they have a little anxiety or fear.

A little fear can be ______. Fear can hold a lot of people back and stop them from living life to the fullest. I understand that feeling of being afraid.______ there is only one thing worse than ______, and that is being afraid to begin. There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown ______ about them.

Dale Carnegie once said, “Inaction ______ to doubt and fear. Action breeds ______ and courage. If you want to ______ fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

9 . One day, two little boys were walking along the road. They overtook a woman_______a large basket of apples.

The boys thought the woman looked very_______and tired, so they said, “Are you going to town? If you are, we will carry your_______.”

“Thank you,”_______the woman, “You are very kind. You see I am weak and ill.” Then she told them that she was a _______, and had a lame son to_______.

She lived in a cottage three miles away, and was now going to the_______to sell the apples which grew on the only tree in her garden. She wanted the money to_______her rent.

“We are going the same way you are,” said the boys. “Let us have the basket.” And they took_______of it, one on each side, and trudged (艰难地走) along with________hearts.

The poor widow looked glad, and said that she hoped their mother would not be________with them. “Oh, no,” they replied, “Our mother has taught us to be kind to everybody, and to be useful in any way________we can.”

She then offered to give them a few of the ripest apples for their________. “No, thank you,” said they, “We do not want any pay for what we have done.”

________arriving at home, she told her lame son what had happened on the road, and they were both made happier that day by the________of the two boys.

The other day, I saw a little girl stop and________a piece of orange peel, which she threw into the gutter. “I wish the boys would not throw orange peel on the sidewalk,” said she. “Someone may tread upon it, and________.”

Perhaps some may say that these are little things. ________they are. But we must not wait for________to do great things. We must________with little labors of love.

10 . I was working at the toy counter of a “dime” store in Orlando, Florida. I was 15, and the year was 1952. I had to_______about my age to get a job, and I barely supported myself on the $25/week salary. But this was the South, and it was a time when things were_______for everybody.

It was a few days after Christmas, and we had a lot of dolls left_______on the toy counter, as well as many more dolls in a storage closet. My young voice trying to_______the passing shoppers to our sale didn’t seem to get anyone’s_______—shoppers continued to walk by, ignoring me.

Suddenly, a small girl walked by, and I handed her a doll. Her mother stopped to find out_______her daughter had this doll, and I explained our_______sale. The girl had stars in her eyes and nothing was going to make her_______this doll. I had made my first_______.

I continued, handing anyone walking by, ________their age, a doll, and soon I had the two________behind the counter rushing to ring up all the sales. I was feeling very________, and confident about the success.

Then I handed a doll to a small,________dressed girl. Her eyes lit up. I explained to her mother about the wonderful sale.________, her mother took the doll away from the little girl and handed it back to me. Quickly ________filled the little girl’s eyes as her mother explained gently that there was no________to buy this doll and apologized to her. I________her that this was a really good________, but the mother just shook her head.

Just then a well-dressed, middle-aged woman said, “Wait—let me________this doll for your little girl.” She took the doll from my hands and handed it________back to the little girl.