1 . A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, but unluckily two of them fell into a deep pit(坑). All the other frogs _________ the pit. When they saw how _________ the pit was, they told the two frogs that they might as well be dead.

The two frogs _________ what the others were saying and tried to jump up out of the pit with all of their physical _________. The other frogs kept telling them to _________. Finally, one of the frogs paid attention to the comments, _________ considered them, and gave up. He _________ down and died.

The other frog continued to jump as _________ as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs _________ him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally __________ it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The frog __________ to them that he was a little __________. He thought they were encouraging him the __________ time.

This story teaches two lessons: First, there is power of life and death in the __________. An encouraging word to someone who is __________ can lift him up and help him make it through the day. Second, a destructive word to someone who is down can be __________ it takes to kill him. Be __________ of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path.

The __________ of words is great. It is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that __________ to rob another of the spirit to continue in __________ times.

2 . Working in a pet hospital, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound(爱尔兰猎狼犬) named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very _________ about Belker, and they were hoping for a _________.

I examined Belker and found he was _________ of cancer. I told the family we couldn’t do _________ for Belker but perform the euthanasia procedure(安乐死) for the old dog. Ron and Lisa _________ and told me they thought it would be good for six-year-old Shane to stay _________ Belker. They _________ as if Shane might learn something from the _________.

Before the procedure, Shane seemed so _________, petting the old dog for the last time, that I __________ if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker left the world __________.

The little boy seemed to accept Belker’s __________ without any difficulty or puzzle. We sat together for a while after my work, __________ about the sad fact that animal lives are __________ than human lives.

Shane, who had been listening quietly, __________, “I know why.” Surprised, we all __________ him. What came out of his mouth next __________ me. I’d never heard a more moving __________. It has changed the way I think and live.

He said, “People are born so that they can learn how to live a __________ life—like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?” The six-year-old __________, “Well, dogs already know how to love others, so they don’t have got to stay as long as us.”

4 . At just 21 years old, Nija Charles is one of today’s most popular songwriters. She has ______ with Beyonce, Jay Z, Cardi B, Kehlani, SZA and many other today’s ______ music artists. She was even ______   in three Grammy nominations (提名) this year.

But just a few years ago, Charles was only another ______ in the crowd. Growing up in New Jersey, she was ______ into a musical family. “My dad’s a DJ. My mom is a dancer,” Charles recalled. “So growing up, I was always just ______ music.

Charles said her first introduction to ______ music was at age 13 when she asked her mom for a mini keyboard because she ______ to produce. “So she got ______ for me, and right then and there, I ______ banging (敲打) on the keyboard,” she said.

Charles continued to study music at New York University, where she’d make beats in her dormitory and _____ them online. Soon she ______ herself flying across the country on weekends. performing on stage and studying.

“It was very ______ . There were some classes I ______ had to skip. But yeah, it was just ______ management and I had to ______ and finish my homework before I got on the plane or do my homework on the plane and then write the ______ during the weekend. I make sure I studied hard ______ I could finish school that year,” she said.

Talking about her success, Charles said. “It’s ______ that my favorite artists are now the people I work with. Several years ago, I was at their ______ and now I’m in the studio with them.”

5 . People say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. That _________ comes to me as I _________the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed away in 1996. My father left the house _________my sister and me when he died a few months ago.

After Dad was_________, we looked around the_________house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we feel so _________at all the stuff left. Like so many of their generation, my parents _________everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious _________about what to abandon and what to keep.

As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every_________my parents ever saw, I also__________many hidden treasures. Mom’s pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it, __________ her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran(退伍兵)and a world traveler, __________ everything-from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the__________. The letters he wrote during the war__________his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I__________our old kitchen table, which brought back __________of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together.

I’m realizing all these things__________my parents’ life journey. Each time I go to the __________, I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I __________knew.__________, from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.

6 . During my second year in high school, I got sick and missed a few days. When I _________, I was greeted with two essays due, three days of math and history homework, plus several tests. _________ I went home from school that day tired, I had to stay up really late to finish them all.

The next day at school, I got a rude awakening: I’d totally forgotten to prepare for the _________ on Romeo and Juliet, which I’d take _________ my lunch hour! Worse still, I had _________ the in-class discussion and all the notes. When lunch came, I went to the English room to face my certain doom (厄运). All I could do was try to _________ on the questions I didn’t know.

As it turned out, I didn’t know the majority of the questions. I was just about to give _________ when my pencil accidentally fell and broke. Standing by the blackboard sharpening my pencil, I _________ down and there was the answer for the test! “What good fortune! I can kiss good-bye to all my _________ of failing the test!” My heart started beating, and my brain __________, “Yes! Read over the answers—quickly!” This was quickly followed by another voice, “No! You’ll get caught! My mind turning back and forth, Yes! No! Yes! No!...” This went on for ten of the __________ seconds in my entire life.

Finally, I decided to finish the test on my own, without __________! I was satisfied with my decision but pretty __________ I had failed the test.

The next day when I walked into the English room, my great joy of having been an __________ soul changed into a wave of doom as I saw my test paper lying face down on my desk. I knew what awaited me. I stared at it a few seconds before I got up the __________ to turn it over.

You can only imagine my __________ when I learned that I had passed the test! I have never in my whole life been so happy to see my __________ a C-.

My mom says the victories that __________ the most courage are won within. Now I know __________ what she means. Now not only can my conscience (良心) rest easy, but I don’t have to worry about getting caught and meeting a sad __________ like Romeo and Juliet.

7 . A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful _________, and knowing her husband could _________ it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the _________, her husband told her how _________ he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He _________a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and _________ a Bible. _________, she raised her voice and said to her husband, "With all your money, you give me a Bible?" She was so _________ that she left him.

Many years passed and the lady was very_________ in business. She owned two large companies. She __________ her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to __________ him. But before she could, she __________ a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions (财产) to her. She needed to come back and __________ things.

When she arrived at his house, sadness __________ her heart. She saw the still new __________, just as she had left it years before. With __________, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring __________ from the Bible to the floor and a __________ could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words "LOVE U ALWAYS".

__________ your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it's because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the __________ .

8 . My teacher Mr. Bush is the most positive person I’ve ever met. He has the ability to _________positiveness to young students.

He always smiles and never gets _________ at students. Once I met some _________ because I felt overshadowed by my brother, who seemed to be doing great in every way. Hopelessness _________ me whenever I was in a classroom. But that all _________ when I met my teacher for life, Mr. Bush. Having found out about my problems, he just kept _______ me. Because of Mr. Bush, my world was filled with _________ and power.

A few weeks ago, everyone in my class was feeling a bit _________ because of a bad day at school. But things got _________ after a close of Mr. Bush’s class. He drew a picture on the whiteboard that __________ a half-full glass of water. He then said, “Class, the point of view in which you look at things will __________ your feelings. Like this glass of water; some people see it and think ‘What! Only half a glass of water. How __________ I am.’ Whereas other people think ‘Wow, I’m so thirsty. Great! Half a glass of water for me!’ It all depends on the __________ you think.”

Mr. Bush’s __________ way of thinking always makes me feel glad and ________. I will always remember him.

10 . For the longest time, I had always wanted a cat. _______, my parents did not share the same_______. Every year, I would ask for a cat, but I always got the same answer “No”.

So I _______ year after year, hoping they would _______agree. Right when I was about to give up, my seventeenth birthday rolled around. My parents were _______against the cat, but my friends were a different story. On my birthday, they _______ with a wide- eyed ,_______cat named Bandit. At that moment, I was _______ with joy. My lifelong wish had finally come true! I knew my life was about to_______

To my surprise, Bandit is the most timid(胆小的）cat I’ve ever met. I didn’t know how to deal with his actions. Upset and angry, I________him loudly. But that didn’t ________ So then I tried, I regret to say this, forceful ________. Carrying him to the outside world as he meowed(喵喵叫）________ didn’t work, either. During all of this, he was closer to my mom. I felt angry. How could the one thing I loved most love my mom more? I thought over many ________ including: maybe she would speak the language of cats, or she was luring (引诱）him with a secret ________. I went to talk with her about it, excited and ________.

“I didn’t have a secret treat, dear. What I do have is ________,” my mom replied. Ever since then, Bandit has been ________ me to be more and more patient.

He has taught me to grow up. He has also brought my family________by leading me to talk with my parents. We eat dinner together at the table more often now, usually with a Bandit as the________.