1 . My first job was at a fast-food restaurant called Carroll’s in my hometown. One spring day my next-door neighbor _________ me to apply for work with her there, and I agreed to have a try.

One little _________ was that I wasn’t 16 yet, so I just changed my birth date on the application from July to _________. Luckily, they didn’t ask for any ID to prove my _________, because there were few applicants for the job. Both of us were _________.

The pay was _________, only $1.60/hour with no tips. I worked at the _________ and only boys were allowed to work in the kitchen. I got a chance to make milkshakes, though, which I considered kind of fun. I also _________ the relationships with all the other workers, who were mostly easy-going teenagers.

It was great to _________ different diners. The restaurant was located on a __________ entryway into town, so all kinds of people came in. One day a man in plain clothes __________ but ordered many signature dishes. When he came to my counter to check out, I was __________ to find he was my idol.

Besides __________ about my age, I also failed to inform the manager that I was leaving in June to attend summer camp, so my first job only lasted a few __________. It has been long gone, but the __________ in the restaurant remains a sweet memory of my life.

2 . Once there was a boy in Toronto. His name was Jimmy. He started drawing when he was three years old, and when he was five he was already very ________at it. He drew many beautiful interesting pictures, and many people _______ his pictures. They thought this boy was going to be ________when he was a little older, and then they were going to________ these pictures for a lot of money.

Jimmy's pictures were quite different from other _______ because he never drew on all of the paper. He drew on ______ of it, and the other half was always_______.

“That's very clever,” everybody said. “_______other people have ever done that before.”

One day somebody asked him, “Please tell me, Jimmy. Why do you draw on the bottom half of your pictures, ______ not on the top half?”

“Because I'm small,” Jimmy said, “and my brushes can't _______very high.”

3 . My great-grandmother, Winifred Hastings, got rich in a mining (采矿) town out West. But her _______ didn’t come from gold or silver, but from soup, steak, apple pie, and good coffee.

In the early 1900’s, Winifred arrived in Silver City with her husband. But he caught a fever and died suddenly. With the little money she had, Winifred decided to open a restaurant to _______ all the hungry miners in town.

The restaurant had only wooden boxes for tables, but business was very good _______. The miners _______ that Winifred was a great cook, _______ they ate in her restaurant every day.

One time, Winifred had a small accident in the restaurant. A fire started in the kitchen and her customers put it out. The town mayor walked in _______ there was still a lot of smoke in the room. “Winifred,” he said. “What are you cooking back there?” Everybody _______.

In 1905, Winifred got married again and moved out of town. On her _______ day in Silver City, a photographer took her picture. The picture is over my desk at home. It shows Winifred with about fifty miners standing in front of the restaurant. At the top of the photo _______ says: TO WINIFRED THH BKST COOK IN THE WEST. ________ YOUR BOYS.

4 . Keller is a first-grade teacher at Ellen Woodside Elementary in Greenville County, South Carolina. She was on her way home when she noticed a little boy _________ his bike down a busy highway.

The _________ of such a young child in the midst of all that traffic _________ her. So, she decided to _________ her car around. And when she did, she _________ the little boy was one of her former students!

Seven-year-old Cameron wasn’t out for a casual bike ride. He was on a (n) _________ mission(任务)to save his diabetic(糖尿病的)father who had _________ collapsed at home.

Cameron had tried calling 911, but didn’t know the code for his father’s phone. _________, he didn’t know how to place an emergency call from the phone. And when he tried seeking _________ from the neighbors, he __________ no one home.

So, the __________ little boy did the only thing he could think of. He hopped on his bike and __________ on the five-mile journey to his grandma’s house. Not only did Keller __________ him and stop, but also she __________ emergency services who were able to go to the home and assist Cameron’s father.

This teacher helped a student save a life and the whole __________ left Keller in awe. Both Cameron and his dad are grateful for the help they received in their time of need.

6 . For my daughter's 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didn't really have the ________ but we knew how much this band meant to her.

The night before she was like a ________ at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to ________ with us, because she couldn't ________ . On the night of the concert it was good to see her so ________ and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off.

Needless to say when they ________ after midnight, with T-shirts and lots of pictures of the band, ________ her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well ________ . This will be a memory she would never forget, and nor would we.

________ full of excitement from the night before, the following day they ________ to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I laughed, loving the fact that she had not ________   that quality as she grew up.

Later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a ________ each. On each present were the words "Because you are the ________ mum/dad in the world. "When we expressed our thanks and told her she didn't have to, we asked her why she had bought us gifts. Her answer was simply "Just because I love you."

This wasn't something ________ from our daughter; she had always given us gifts when she wanted to express her ________ , and each gift was always a welcome surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldn't have mattered, and it was the act itself and the feelings behind it.

9 . Pablo and Tiffany have been together for going on 12 years. It was a few days after Diego _________ eight that Pablo started noticing a strange _________ in the daily routine of his son. He started coming home an hour later than expected. Pablo asked him why this was happening so _________ and what he was doing after school. Diego told him he had an extra class he was _________. To double-check, his mother Tiffany found there are no classes like that being taught at school.

Pablo decided to follow Diego to _________ the mystery. The next day, when Diego was supposed to be out of school, he was waiting for him at a _________ distance, wearing unusual clothes with his neighbor’s dog. When the bell rang, Diego was the first one out the door. He seemed to be in a hurry and Pablo started following him to the _________. He _________ moved closer to Diego. This whole time Pablo had been able to follow his son without his being _________ that he was being followed, but something must have disturbed the neighbor’s dog as it __________ a loud bark. Before Pablo was even able to try and calm the dog down he heard Diego call out “Who’s there?”

Pablo knew there was no __________ in hiding anymore. While Pablo was giving a/an __________ of his presence, it was becoming more and more obvious that Diego was trying to hide something in the deeper parts of thick bushes. On the ground behind Diego was an old blanket with on it a couple of __________ foxes!

Diego began the story. When he was playing here a couple of weeks ago, one of his friends __________ fell on a fox. The fox didn’t __________ and all his friends quickly ran home, promising not to say anything to anybody. But he stayed a little longer and found these little guys.

He felt incredibly __________ because he was sure they had just killed their mother. But he couldn’t take them home or to the shelter __________ then they would have to admit what they had done. __________, he decided he would come by every day after school with food and to check on them.

Pablo’s tears __________ up and he decided they would take the little foxes home and care for them and further __________ they were ready to be released back into the wild.