1 . My nephew Tyden and I were playing at a local amusement center. It was the kind of _______ where you get tickets for scoring points in the games and then cash them in for prizes.

Tyden won top prize of tickets, so we went to _______ his gift. I felt a little _______ because my loved one and I had our first _______ at this center and had exchanged little things from the showcase. I _______ a turtle and remembered my partner loved it. I asked the assistant behind the _______ if I could just buy the turtle without _______ . He said, “ _______, that isn’t a choice.”

I needed to _______ 350 tickets to cash the turtle in, so I ________ Tyden choosing his gift alone there. I had just bought game tokens(代币) when I heard Tyden’s ________ voice, “Auntie! Look!”

He pulled the turtle out from behind his back and gave it to me. My eyes filled with tears and my heart ________ with love. He had listened to that whole ________ and chosen to give the turtle to me ________ getting whatever he wanted.

I held him tightly in my arms, and told him how much I ________ him. I am beyond thankful to have the title of his Auntie.

2 . While high school does not generally encourage students to explore new aspects of life, college sets the stage for that exploration. I myself went through this______process and found something that has changed my______at college for the better: I discovered ASL-American Sign Language.

I never felt an urge(冲动)to______any sign language before. My entire family is hearing, and so are all my friends. The ______language were enough in all my interactions. Little did I know that I would discover my______for ASL.

The story began during my first week at college. I watched as the ASL Club______their translation of a song. Both the hand movements and the very idea of communicating without speaking______me. What I saw was completely unlike anything I had experienced in the______. This newness just left me______more.

After that, feeling the need to explore further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL Club's meetings. I only learned how to______the alphabet(字母表)that day. Yet instead of being discouraged by my______progress, I was excited. I then made it a point to______those meetings and learn all I could.

The following term, I registered an ASL class. The professor was deaf and any talking was ______. I soon realized that the silence was not unpleasant. ______if there had been any talking, it would have caused us to learn less. Now, I appreciate the silence and the ______way of communication it opens.

6 . He came from somewhere south of Rome. I didn't know when or how he got to America, _________maybe. But one evening I found him standing in the driveway, behind my garage, extremely thin.     

＂My name Tony Trivionno and I mow （割） your lawn. "he said. It was hard to comprehend his _________ English. "I mow your lawn, "he said again and walked away. Yes, these Depression days were _________，but how could I_________a person who had come to me for help? When I got home the next evening, the lawn had been mowed, the walks_________and the garden weeded._________, my wife assumed I had _________him. I told her of my _________the night before and we thought it strange that he had not asked for_________。The next two days were busy, and I ____________ about him. But on Friday, I saw him, behind my garage again and busy around.

I managed to ____________ some small weekly pay for him and each day he cleaned up the yard and took care of any little ____________. He was very helpful whenever there were any heavy objects to lift or things to fix in my factory.

＂I want to be an apprentice （学徒），”he said one day. ____________ we had a good Prentice school that trained laborers, I doubted whether he had the ability to____________ blueprints and micrometers （千分尺）.Therefore, he took a ____________in pay to become an apprentice.

Many years later, I found him in our____________   meeting spot, much ____________ than he used to be and taking on a look of____________. He was a millionaire now!

Tony came to America seeking the American Dream. But he did not find it-he ____________ it himself. Tony didn't begin on the bottom rung （横档） of the ladder. He began in the____________. Tony' s affairs were tiny, and all he had were 24 hours a day. He wasted none of them and succeeded finally.

7 . Tianwu has climbed Huashan more than 3,000 times in the past decade. He is a ________, transporting goods up the slopes on his back, for a living. But he is most ________ for his disability: He has only one arm.

He ________ his left am in an accident in 1992 at the coal mine. With two young children and parents to ________, he was working overtime that day when a pulley brake ________ after that he opened a store, but it went bankrupt from too many ________ sales.   ________ his hard work, he was left with nothing but debts. Then he heard about bearers for Huashan Mountain from a friend and thought it would be an ________ job.

His first job was to ________ 30 kilograms of goods to High Ladder: He had a companion who ________ mid-way, but he finished his job with ________ pain in his knees. But as he ________ experience through the years, he has developed his own ________ for climbing the mountain.

Now he carries 60 kilograms of goods up the mountain every day—1 kilogram more than his own body weight. ________, he makes three to four trip s each day to and from. “I ________ each step very carefully and have never had any accident in the past 10 years.” He said.

Being a bearer is a tiresome and dull job in many people's minds, but he enjoys himself. He appreciates and remembers the calligraphy ________ in the rocks and copies them. His favorite one is. “Though heavy snow falls down on verdant pines. the pines still stand ________.” He once said. “I'd like to stay here because the mountain pays my hard work ________.”

“I don't lament for my ________ days and will not fear the future,” He said. The painstaking job has given him a strong ________.

8 . Our lovely neighbors have a beautiful St Francis statue (雕像) by the gate on the side of their house. I’ve always loved to _______at it whenever I look out of the kitchen window. The other day I noticed it wasn’t there! I ________where it had gone! I hoped it was just moved and not stolen! I told Milan about its_________and he said he would ask the ________the next time he saw them.

Yesterday he_________Mrs “Neighbor” and mentioned the missing statue to her. He told her how much we loved it and hoped it hadn’t been________!She said that she had just moved it to the backyard________would bring it back right away! “Oh”, said Milan, “We’re just glad it’s________!” That evening we went out to sit in our garden and________that the statue was back in its old_________! Oh sweet neighbor! You are so kind and __________!

The next day we were out in the garden again planting ________, and realized that we had too many. We actually couldn’t_______where to put them all! I had to leave before we__________what to do with them. On my way out, I met Mrs “Neighbour” and________her for moving the statue back! But she said that the spot ________the statue lay was too bare(光秃秃的).

There were no flowers._________an idea went on in my head. I thought of the remaining flowers. She could have them, and she was sure to be________;

Now St. Francis______among beautiful flowers. I look out of my kitchen window again now and smile! The statue is__________more beautiful to me now.

9 . A Different View

At age 14, 15 and 16, the way we looked was the most important thing in the world to us. My friends and I wanted nothing less than perfection.

In high school, we joined the gymnastics team, and our ______ became even more important to us. We had no fat, only muscle. On the weekends, we would go to the beach, _______of our flat stomachs.

One summer day, all my friends were at my house ______. At one point, I was running back to the pool. I ______ on a bee, and while it was dying under my foot, it stung(蛰) me. I instantly started to feel ______. That night, I began to run a high fever and my leg and foot were red, hot and swollen. I couldn’t walk. I could barely ______. When my foot started to go numb, everyone became more ______. My foot was not getting enough blood. I had to go to the ______, and my leg hurt as if it were badly broken. I couldn’t move. All I could do was think about how soft my waist was becoming. That ______ me more than any concern over my leg.

That would all ______ when I heard the doctors mention possibly cutting off my foot. It was still not getting the ______ supply it needed. The doctors would have to speed up their treatment.

Never before had I had such great ______ for my foot. And walking seemed like a ________from the gods. Less and less would I want to hear my friends talk about ______ and who was wearing what. More and more I expected visits from other kids in the hospital, who were quickly becoming my friends.

One girl came to visit me ______. Every time she came, she brought flowers. She was recovering from cancer and felt she should come back and ______ the other patients.

She still had no hair, and she was swollen from medications she had been taking. I would not have given this girl a second ______ before. I now loved every inch of her and looked forward to her ______.

Finally, I was improving and soon I went home. My leg was still swollen, ______ I was walking, and I had my foot! When I would go back to the hospital, I often saw my friend. She was still visiting people and ______ good cheer. I thought if even there was an angel on this earth, it had to be her.

10 . I’m going to have a week-long holiday with my friends, Gino and Connie. I’m so ________ that I can hardly type, not only for the wonders in Hawaii, but also for the ________ of meeting my friends.

Isn’t it ________ how certain friends are important to us in our life? Five years ago, I got a job in a famous company and I ________ whether I was making the right decision or if it was really a job I ________. After all, my dream was to work at a magazine or newspaper. And yet I felt like ________ there somehow, though it wasn’t my dream job.

The company was ________ fast. Every week brought new partners, most of them around my age. I met Gino who had just started a week earlier. ________, we became friends and exchanged ________ and thoughts with each other. In this way, I soon ________ my loneliness. One month later, Connie joined the company too, another ________ person to turn to for help when I was ________.

It was two years ________ I got a job as a journalist for a local magazine. Gino and Connie no longer work there ________, either. But we still chat over Wechat twice a week on a ________ basis. I could have never thought, five years ago, that we’d travel together in Hawaii one day and develop lasting ________ .

The job that wasn’t my dream job turned out to be the best job I ________ have ever found. Most of the friends I have today came from that company. We ________ everything with one another. There were still times ________ I wondered what I was doing there and whether my writing dreams would ever come true, but ________, I can hardly imagine my life without those friends.

Now I can’t wait to see what is in store for us—who knows who we’ll meet.