2 . 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.

3 . 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________.

5 . Recently, a bride's(新娘的) "first look" photo with a dog is viewed thousands of times on Facebook. Earlier this month, Kristen and Duncan Dupree held their wedding ceremony in the city of Spanish Fort. The joyful________of the bride's "first look" then spread very________on social media. However, the________didn't capture(捕捉)Kristen and her soon-to-be husband then.________, the photo was of the bride and the couple's dog, Zeke.

The________of love was captured by photographer Perri Farlow as Zeke ran to meet Kristen and happily kissed her________he were the one to marry Kristen.

The couple later________that her family and friends were the only ones who________the moment on her wedding day, and knew how________the moment was for her.

"They all________after seeing my first look. We are all dog people and they knew the________I felt when seeing my boy!" Kristen said.

"Anyone who knows us knows how much we________Zeke. He goes________with us. Family beach trips, hunting camp weekends, boat days," she said. "He is one of the________dogs I've ever met, and he makes every trip relaxing and funny!"

"He is our best friend and there is no________about it," Kristen said of Zeke's________on the couple's wedding day.

Though Kristen was very________at the attention from the public, she said the love between her and Zeke was just as________as it looked.

"I didn't expect to receive so much attention. But Zeke________an important role in my life and that moment is so great for me," she later wrote on Facebook. "I'm really________to Perri for capturing it so perfectly. Thanks."

6 . In the process of celebrating my 60th birthday with a 60 day kindness challenge, I got the greatest birthday surprise from my daughters. When they asked me what I______ for my birthday, I said," please do a ______ act for someone in my   _____"They took it way______

They got in ______ with all my friends and family members and asked them to do the ______ thing I had asked of them, as my birthday ______. Then they asked them to ______ them after they had done their _______and tell them what they had done. They also asked their friends to do the same.

On my birthday,I was presented with a______ scrapbook(剪贴簿） filled with pictures and all the kindness acts written out in their own words,_______ me what they had done and how it made them feel.

The "acts" ranged from_______ frequent flyer miles(飞行积分） so someone could visit their mom, shortening showers' duration(长度）to help with the water _____, bringing an elderly neighbor coffee in the morning, stopping to buy a_______ person lunch, ______ at a Red Cross blood drive, to many, many other beautiful gestures.

I cannot tell you how ______ I was by this gift, and even more touched that their young adult friends would ______with such love and enthusiasm. I cannot ________a better gift. I share this story with the _______that many a beautiful "someone” passes on this idea. The joy of it is ______！

7 . We are changed, sometimes in unexpected ways, by the problems of life.

One day, William Osler, a beloved doctor, was _______ in one of Britain’s military hospitals during the World WarⅠ. He was called out of the wards during his daily _________to be given an important message. His own son had been killed on the_________of France.

Shocked by the news, he still came back to _______ his rounds. For a long time afterward he was _______ different. And those who knew him best said that he _______ as a doctor that day. The _______ note was gone from his voice and never again did friends hear the tune which he so often _______ as he went from ward to ward.

Though these things never _______, something eventually came to take their ________. Everyone noticed a new sympathy in his care of the soldiers who each day ________ in from the battlefield. Before, he had the professional ________of the doctor, so important to the practice of medicine. Now there was an added obvious note of a ________ sympathy, like that of a father for his son.

Like most people who have ________such losses, Osler must have spent a lot of time in great ________. But as he healed and mixed the loss into his life, it left him a ________ person.

Pain will do that. It changes us, often in unexpected ways. It can leave us angry and ________, or, as in the case of Osler, it can bring forth ________ such as sympathy or tenderness. The world is full of suffering. We can’t avoid it no matter how hard we try. But the ________ of life is one of our greatest blessings. It teaches us that the world is also full of the ________ of suffering.

17.

A．ruined

B．amazed

C．broken

D．relaxed

8 . As I held my father's hands one night, I couldn't help but notice their calluses （老茧） and roughness. His hands tell the story of his life as a ______, including all his struggles.

One summer, I remember, a drought （旱灾） hit Ontario, turning it into a _____desert. On one of those hot mornings I was picking sweet corn with my dad to fill the last ______ from the grocery store. Fifty dozen was all we needed, which _____took twenty minutes. That morning, however, the process didn't _____quickly. After forty minutes of aimlessly walking in the field, we _____needed twenty dozen. I was completely frustrated and _____. Dropping the basket heavily, I declared, "If the store wants its last twenty dozen, they can pick it themselves". Dad _____. "Just think, my little girl, only ten dozen left for each of us and then we're _____. "Such is Dad—whatever problem he _____, he never gives up.

____, the disastrous effects of the drought were felt all over our county. It was a challenging time for everyone, _____Dad remained optimistic. He _____to be grateful for other things like good health and food on our plates. Only then did I truly begin to _____Dad and his faith that guided us through the hard times.

Dad is also a living example of real ____. From dawn to dusk, he works countless hours to _____our family. He always puts our happiness _____ his own and never fails to cheer me on at my sports games _____his exhaustion after long days. His loving and selfless nature has encouraged me to become more sympathetic （有同情心的）and _____, putting others first.

Dad, the life _____I have learned from you will stay with me forever. You are my father, teacher, friend and, most importantly, my hero.

9 . One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I _______ that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, _______ he knew me. The man had a newspaper_______ in front of him, which he was _______ to read, but I could _______ that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my _______ the man was clearly puzzled by the _______ way in which the waiter and I _______ each other. He seemed even more puzzled as_______ went on and it became ________ that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the ________ . When he came out, he paid his bill and ________ without another glance in my direction.

I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had ________ . “Well,” he said，“that man was a detective（侦探）. He ________ you here because he thought you were the man he ________ .” “What?” I said, showing my ________. The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I ________ say he looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a ________ .” “Well, it’s really ________ I came to a restaurant where I’m known, ” I said.“ ________ , I might have been in trouble.”

10 . Life is full of miracles(奇迹). They come in all _______too. Most people only _______big miracles, but _______miracles are around us every day. They are reminders (提示) of how much life _______us and how much we can love too.

I _______one of these miracle reminders the other day as I was _______my disabled son to where he works part-time. The sky was full of gray clouds, but they didn’t _______me. I was singing along with the radio and enjoying my favorite activity: _______watching. I was keeping my eyes open for _______things that would lift my ________. So far that day I had noticed different kinds of flowers produce flowers along the two sides of the road, the ________green leaves of the year, and a dog sitting by its front door.

The best __________of all, though, happened just as I turned my car round. A young mother was waiting to cross the road. Her five-year-old daughter was ________by her side. In the mother’s arms was another daughter about two. As I got closer to the ________, the little daughter in her mother’s arms ________us, smiled, lifted her little arm, and began to ________at us. My son and I both ________and waved back at this little angel. Just then the gray clouds parted quickly and the ________broke through to kiss that little girl.

That miracle moment stayed in my heart the rest of the morning. May we all ________our own smiles and waves with everyone we ________in the world.