1 . It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for all appointment(约会)at 9:30. The nurse had him take a _______ in the waiting area,_______ him it would be at least 40 minutes_________someone would be able to see him. I saw him_______his watch and decided, since I was_______busy—my patient didn’t_______ at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment. The gentleman said no and told me that he_______to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his_________. He told me that she had been_________for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be____________if he was a bit late. He replied that she __________ knew who he was, that she had not been able to __________ him for five years now. I was____________, and asked him, “And you__________go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?” He smiled and said. “She doesn’t know me but I know who she is”. I had to hold back __________ as he left.            

Now I __________ that in marriages, true love is____________of all that is. The happiest people don’t__________have the best of everything, they just__________the best of everything they have. ____________isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

2 . After their business trip, John and Mary returned, eager to see their lovely children. As they drove into their hometown feeling glad to be back, they noticed ________, and they went off their usual route to see what it was. They found a ________ in flames. Mary said, “Oh, well, it isn’t our fire, let’s go home.”

But John ________ closer and screamed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be ________ work yet, maybe there is something we could do.” “It has nothing to do with us,” Mary ________.

But John drove up and stopped and they were both horror-stricken to see the whole house in ________. A woman on the lawn was screaming, “The children! Get the children!” John ________ her by the shoulder saying, “Get a hold of yourself and tell us where the children are!” “In the ________,” cried the woman. “Down the hall and to the left.”

In spite of Mary’s disagreement, John ________ for the basement which was full of smoke and ________ hot. He found the door and two children. ________ he left he could hear some more sobbing. He ________ the two badly frightened children into ________ arms and started back asking how many more children were down there. They told him ________ more and Mary grasped his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s ________! That house will fall down any second.”

________ he ran into the smoke-filled hallway and at last he found both children. As he climbed up the ________ stairs, the thought went through his mind that there was something strangely ________ about the little bodies next to him, and at last when they came out into the ________ and fresh air, he found that he had just ________ his own children.

The baby-sitter had left them at this home while she did some shopping.

3 . Sudha Chandran ,a dancer from India ,had to have her right leg cut off after a car accident. It also _______her career path._______ she didn’t give up. In the painful months that _______,she met a doctor who had developed an artificial(人造的)leg _______rubber.After she had been fitted with an artificial leg ,so _______was her desire that she decided to go back to _______.

Sudha _______herself and knew she could make her _______come true,so she began her _______ back to the world of dancing—________to balance ,bend ,walk ,turn ,twist and twirl again.

________every public recital(公演) ,she would ask her dad about her performance. “You still have a long way to go ” was the ________she used to get. In January 1984 ,Sudha made a historic comeback by giving a public recital in Bombay. She performed in such a ________manner that her performance moved everyone to tears. That evening ,when she asked her dad the ________question ,he didn’t say anything. He just touched her artificial leg as a ________of praising her.

Sudha’s comeback was so heart-warming that a film producer ________to make a film about it.

When someone asked Sudha ________she had succeeded in dancing again, she said quite ________ ,“You don’t need feet to dance. ”________is impossible in this world. If you have the will to ________ ,you can succeed in doing anything.

4 . On a cold winter day, I waited in line to see one of my heroes, Jack Canfield, the co-author of the best selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series. He was _______ at Mill High Church in Denver.

Jack’s topic for the event was his ________, the Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. During his presentation, Jack reached for his _______, poured out $100 bill and said, “Who wants this?” _______shot up in the audience; people leaned forward to see whom Jack would ________. But I jumped up, ran up the stairs to the stage, and _______ the bill from his hand. As I was launching myself in the air, all sorts of thoughts ________ through my mind: “Was I about to lose ______ in front of 800 people? Would they call security and pull me from the ________?” But my desire for bold action was ________ than any of the other voices of ________.

As I took the bill from his hand, Jack ________ to me and said, “Yes! That’s it! We can’t _______ around for the opportunities to come to us. We must take action to ______ what we say we want!”

I remember the crowd, ________ desiring like that hundred dollar bill, while they sat _______ to their chairs. What were they waiting for?

For many of us, patterns of waiting and searching begin in childhood. We ______ the gifts of life are just around the corner, that anywhere is ______than here and that one day we will arrive and everything will be OK. So we don’t try, we give up, and we forget who we are. We are afraid to succeed, afraid to fail, and afraid to say we are _______. But as Wayne Gretzky said: “You’ll always _______ 100% of the shots you don’t take!”

5 . Germany is a highly developed country.Many people think its people lead a luxurious(奢侈的) life.

One day，my friend and I _________ a restaurant.We noticed that a young couple were having their meal.There were _________ two dishes and two cans of beer on their table.I wondered if such a(n) _________ meal could be fine and whether the girl would leave that _________ man.

As we were _________，my friend ordered more food for us.When we left，there was still about one third of the food we had ordered on the table.

When we were leaving，the young man spoke to us in English.We _________ that he was unhappy about us _________ so much food.“We paid for our food.It is none of your _________，” my friend told him.The young man was so angry that he _________ took his phone out and made a call to someone.

After a while，an officer from the Social Security Organization(社会保障组织) arrived.Upon knowing what had happened，he gave us a €50 fine(罚款)，which __________ us.

The officer told us in a __________ voice.“__________ is yours but resources(资源) belong to society.There are many __________ people in the world who are __________ hunger(饥饿)．We have no __________ to waste resources.”

Their attitudes to eating put both of us to __________.We need to correct our wrong __________.We are from a country which is not very rich.To save face，we often think we should order more than we can eat，which __________ our friends our generosity(慷慨)．We should realize that resources don’t belong to a(n) __________ person but they belong to everyone.We can’t __________ to waste them.

6 . An old man lived in a nice house with a large garden. He took care of his ________ all the time, watering and fertilizing them.

One day a young man went by the ________. He looked at the beautiful flowers, imagining how happy he could be ________ he lived in such a beautiful place. Then, suddenly he found the old gardener was ________. He was very surprised about this and asked, “You can’t see these flowers. ________ are you busy taking care of them every day?”

The old man smiled and said, “I can tell you four ________. First, I was a gardener when I was young, and I really like this job. Second, ________ I can’t see these flowers, I can touch them. ________, I can smell the sweetness of them. As to the last one, that’s ________.”

“Me? But you don’t know me,” said the young man.

“Yeah, it’s ________ that I don’t know you. But I know that flowers are angels that everybody ________. We enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us.”

The blind man’s work opened our eyes, and ________ our hearts, which also made his life ________. It was just like Beethoven, who became deaf in his later life and wrote many great musical works. Beethoven himself couldn’t ________ his wonderful music, but his music has ________ millions of people to face their difficulties bravely. Isn’t it one kind of happiness?

7 . After graduating from a famous university，Tom wished to find a good job. One day he got the   ______   in a newspaper that there was a post in a company. So he did some______ on the company first and then went to apply for it. While______, he answered the questions fluently. Tom was satisfied with his ______, feeling ______ that he could get the job. But at that moment, the manager’s phone ______. He picked it up, listened and nodded. And then he ______ around and said to Tom, “Sorry, I want to get some important information now. Please give me the book with the red ______ on that desk.” Tom looked around and found three books on the desk, so he walked slowly and carefully to the desk, took one and handed it to him ______. ______ the book, the manager hung up the phone and said, “Sorry, you are not the right person.” Tom was surprised and wondered ______. Then the manager explained, “There are three reasons. First, the moment you entered, I found the third button on your shirt had been ______. Second, the three books with covers of the same color are different, but you took one ______ asking me which I needed. Third, I was ______ the call. You should run to the desk to save time. These ______ showed you are not a careful person.” Therefore, Tom ______ the job.

Tom’s story reflects some people don’t ______ the details in our life. But it is the details that     ______. Not only should we ______ what we learn but also we should pay attention to the details, which sometimes can ______ determine our success or failure.

8 . I was 11 when you were born , and in your first few years I often looked after you, bathed and dressed you and took you out for walks. I have _______ memories of your childhood. Of _______ you up as a "rock star". Of watching you dance _______ nightclothes. Of your insistence that I make your school lunch _______ I put so much more peanut butter on your _______ than anyone else. Of the _______ phone call we ever had—•an echo of my own university years-when you wanted to _______ university and study dance.

Since we have grown up, I have lived through you, although you may not know it. You had the opportunity I so_______ wanted but never got — to train in the dancing art. I encouraged our parents to support you because 1 have always _______ how my life would be if they hadn't chosen a(n) ________ career path for me, their eldest child.

I know you have ________ to hunt for work and confidence, and that you probably wonder sometimes if you made the right choice. ________, I am happy for you and proud that I played some small role in helping you to ________ a dream.

There is a ________between us now. It has grown since I first left home, and in the ________ I missed your teenage years. That ________ me greatly. I imagine that you believe we have very little in common-----a ________ in the city and a biologist in West Africa-but in you 1   ________ some of my own dreams realized.

But beyond that, even at 12 or )3 I felt as much a mother to you as an older sister. So, on the rare ________ when we see each other, I want to know everything, from your worries, hopes to delights.

I wish I, as an adult, could hold you at arm's ________. I hope we can one day be sisters or friends again. I still make a tasty peanut butter sandwich for you.

9 . I always dreamed of becoming a full-time writer. After two years as a salesman, I _______ my job and made up my mind to realize my _______ .No one could tell me whether I would succeed or not.I rented a basement and _______ to write.I had so many things to write because the enthusiasm（热情） was _______ in my heart.

After a year or so, _______, I began to doubt myself.I found it _______ to earn my living by writing.None of my novels were _______that year.But I _______ to follow my dream--even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of _______.I believed anyone with a dream must learn to struggle for the ________.

During the hardest period of my life, a friend came to see me and tried to________ me, “Come to our company, ________ we will pay you 2,000 dollars a month.” 2,000 dollars was really a big fortune at that time.It would enable me to live a ________ life.As the money was dancing in my ________, something cleared my senses.Hadn’t I dreamed of being a writer, a full-time writer?

“Thanks, but no,” I said ________ , “I’m going to stick to writing.”

Again and again, I said to myself, “I will be ________.People will love my novels.”

________ my first novel was published in 1991.I had the kind of success that few writers ever ________.

Twenty years have passed, but the effect it had on my life has ________.Now I often   ________ the time working in that cold basement.I will say, “Anyone with a dream and persistence will be successful.”

10 . Jazz is a popular form of music. But no one knows exactly when it came into_________. In contrast to classical music, which follows formal European traditions, Jazz is _________ and free-form.

The _________ of this music are as interesting as the music itself. Jazz was _______ by American blacks, who were brought to the Southern states as slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long hours in the cotton and tobacco fields. This work was hard and life was _________. When a black died, his friends and relatives formed a procession to_________ the body to the cemetery.

A band often _________ the procession. On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the _________. But on the way home the _______ changed. Spirits lifted. Everybody was happy. Death had removed one of their members, __________ the living were glad to be alive. The band played ________ music, improvising on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes presented at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of Jazz.

Music has always been __________ in black people’s life. Coming mainly from West Africa, those who were brought to America already __________ a rich musical tradition. This music __________ on religious ceremonies __________ dancing, singing, clapping, and stamping to the __________ of a drum were important forms of musical and rhythmic __________. As these people settled __________ their new life in the plantations of the South, music __________ its importance. In the fields, they __________ work songs. Singing made the hard work go faster.