1 . A few years ago, I visited my daughter Sandra and my granddaughters, Jocelyn and Hailey.

One evening I noticed Hailey was a bit unhappy. I asked her what the _______was and she told me that she had to go to bed so _______and she wanted to stay up with me. I asked her if she felt a little _______and she said, “yes” with a pout (噘嘴).

I asked her, “Do you know what Grandpa does when he is feeling sad? I go to my _______ place.”

“Where is your happy place, Grandpa?” Jocelyn _______aloud.

“My happy place is on the inside of your hugs (拥抱),” I replied. “It’s the best place in the world. Don’t ever _______the power of a hug.”

Extra big hugs were _______that night from two of my girls.

The next morning, Sandra was under a bit of pressure to complete an assignment (任务). She lost her _______.

Jocelyn said, “Mom, are you having a _______day?” Sandra replied, “I guess I am, dear. I’m sorry.”

Jocelyn said, “Would you like to go to Grandpa’s happy place?” With that ________her mother in her arms. “Grandpa says this is his ________place.”

After some ________eyes and a heartfelt “I’m sorry,” Sandra returned to ________with a big smile on her face.

I cherish (珍爱) my time with ________and it is good knowing that what is said with ________has an influence on them.

2 . Can you imagine what life would be like if there were no_________? You could not call _________ your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire _________ out in your house you could not _________ the fire department. If somebody were _________, you could not call a _________.

In our daily life we need to communicate with _________. We do this _________ by speaking to other people and listening to _________ they have to say to us, and when we are __________ to them we can do this very __________. However, our __________ will

not travel very far even when we __________, and it is thanks to the __________ of the telephone that we are __________ able to communicate with each other cleary __________ we were in the __________ boat.

The man who __________ this possible was Alexander Graham, a Scotsman, born in Edin-burgh in 1847. Bell, a teacher of visible speech who later moved to Canada. __________ all his spare time experimenting.  __________ enthusiastic（热情的）was he in his research for a means for sending speech by electricity that he left little time for his day-to-day work and at one time was almost penniless.