1 . My father often works very hard. And he has_________to see a film. Here I’ll tell you_________about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work and_________ go home, he found a film ticket under the_________on his desk. He thought he_________to have not much work to do that day and_________ was quite wonderful to pass the_________at the cinema. So he came back home and_________finished his supper. Then he said_________ to us and left.

But to our__________ , he came back about half an hour later, I__________ him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about__________funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a__________came to my father’s and said that the seat was__________ . My father was surprised. He took out the ticket__________ looked at it carefully. It was Row17, __________ . And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her__________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3.   __________ ? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The__________of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, __________ , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

2 . I shall never forget the day when the earthquake happened. It was about 5 in the afternoon and I was _________ along the road to my daughter’s school. Our plan was to go_________ together. I stopped at a_________ to get some fresh fruit. We liked to have some fruit to eat after our swim. I was driving along a high_________ on my way to the school. _________ my road was another road which was built like a_________. I was_________ so I put the bag of apples_________ me and started to eat one. Suddenly I saw the cars in front of me start to_________ from side to side. I slowed down. Then my car started to shake! I didn’t know what was happening. Perhaps something had__________ wrong with my car. I drove a little more slowly and then I__________ the car and at the same moment the road__________ onto the cars in front of me. I found myself in the__________. I couldn’t move. My legs and feet were hurt badly and I couldn’t move them. All around me was__________. But below me I could hear shouts and a lot of noises.

Then I realized what had happened. I had been__________ an earthquake. For about two hours nobody came. Luckily I could reach the bag of__________，so at least I had plenty to eat. Then I heard people__________ towards me. A team of people had come to__________ if anyone was under the__________ road. I called out, “I'm here！” I heard a shout. Soon a stranger climbed to my car. “How are you__________？” he asked. “Not too bad,” I said. They didn’t get me out until the next morning.

3 . 1896,17-year-old Eintein went to Zurich to study physics .There he met Maric,a girl from Hungary .They studied in the same class and the same interest in physics brought to the two together and they became good_________.Before long ,they _________in love with each other.In 1903, when Einstein was 24,he married Maric,_________was four years older than he._________their marriage, Einstein _________himself to the research of the great theory of relativity(相对论)._________her husband more help,Maric gave _________her own work,and became a good wife and _________.She tried her best to _________ him whenever possible. She was sure her husband __________succeed.They often discussed the theory while __________outside or sitting together in the room.They__________ did that in their letters when one of them was __________from home.

In 1914,the Einsteins moved to Berlin and __________down there. At that time ,Einstein's theory __________to be correct and he became __________all over the world. Maric was very __________of her husband with his success. But it was not long __________the First World War__________. Maric as well as her two sons , who were on holiday in Switzerland, couldn't come back any longer.The war not only stopped Einstein's work __________ broke up the warm ,happy family. In 1919, Einstein and Maric had to get divorced.

4 . I used to live selfishly, I should admit. But one moment changed me.

I was on my lunch break and had _________the office to get something to eat . On the way, I _________a busker(街头艺人)，with a hat in front of him. I had some _________ in my pocket, but I would not give them to him, thinking to myself he would _________ use the money to feed his addiction(上瘾) to drugs or alcohol. He _________ like that type-young and foolish. _________ what was I going to spend the money on? Only to feed my addiction to Coca-Cola or chocolate! I then _________ I had no right to place myself above _________ just because he was busking.

I _________ and dropped all the coins into his __________, and he smiled at me, I watched for a while. As __________ as it sounds, I expected something more to come from that moment—a feeling of __________ or satisfaction, for example. But nothing happened. __________ , I walked off. “It proved to be a waste of __________ ,”I thought.

On my way home at the end of the __________, I saw the busker again and he was __________ . I watched him pick up the hat and walk __________ a cafe counter. There he poured the __________ contents into a tin collecting __________ an earthquake fund-raising(募捐) event. He was busking for charity(慈善)！

Now I donate any __________ I have to charity tins and enjoy the feeling of giving.

5 . I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early________of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to ________my parents.

At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked with ________at this work of natural art. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to her, “something else to ________!”Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father ever thought it a waste of time.

At that age, I always did something________to whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found________, I would plant a garden!

I planted some lily (百合花)seeds in the yard. But they failed to ________. I continued to sunflower seeds and roses. Wild ________joy, I found the first rose bloom (开花). One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off.________, I was touched by this land of wonder.

________, my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even________at me because he found it was ________to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother’s ________, I put her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were simply weeds________flowers.

Regardless of their ________, I kept on planting my garden and ________to enjoy the pleasure gardening. Plants make such good companions: they breathe, they bloom, they________to care and love.

It has been many years since I made my first garden out of my desire to ________my parent. Today I become known as Mrs. Greenthumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show which makes my parents feel very________. And now I could say it is my affection for________that makes me a real gardener.

6 . When Pat Jones finished college，she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could ________ she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America ________，so she got a job ________ an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish，________ she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn’t ________ much English.

A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream ________ a foreign language，you have really mastered(掌握)it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and ________ that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in ________.

One day，one of her ________ students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had ________ early and had slept ________.

“What does this have to do with your ________？” Pat asked.

“I dreamed all night，Miss Jones. And my dream was in English.”

“In English？” Pat was very ________，since he was such a bad student. She was ________ secretly jealous(嫉妒的).Her ________ was still not in Spanish. But she encouraged(鼓励)her young student. “Well，________me about your dream.”

“All the people in the dream ________ English.” the student said. “And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English.”

“But that’s ________，”said Pat. “What did all the people say to you？”

“I’m sorry，Miss Jones. That’s ________ I slept so badly. I didn’t ________ a word they said. It was a nightmare(噩梦)！”

7 . My job is to provide at-home services for the elderly and those who are disabled. My client (客户) was an 86-year-old woman who had been _______ cancer for the past four years. The last few months of her life took all her _______ but none of her joy in life.

Each day I appeared at her _______, she would ask, “Have you heard any good _______ lately?” I’m not good at remembering jokes and _______ had a funny story to tell her, besides it always seemed that the only joke that would come to my mind sound _______ to her.

Then, I got the bright idea to copy Grace’s Kid Stories that I _______ on my bookshelf at home. Every day I would have one more _______ thing to tell my wonderful friend. She would _______ quietly to herself, and my heart was________.

Today, her daughter told me she had ________ on Sunday. One of the things the daughter told me was that one of her mother’s last ________ was “Have you heard any good jokes lately?”

The daughter told her mother that she couldn’t ________ anything funny. Her mother replied that I always ________ with a joke and that she had ________ wailing for me to arrive with each new “joke”.

We ________ for a few minutes together, then I got on with my ________, but I couldn’t seem to down to work. Finally, I ________ the daughter and asked, “Would you like to hear today’s joke?”

I am grateful (感激的) to the stories for ________ me to make an old woman’s last days a little more ________. Goodbye, my old friend, I hope you continue to get a joke every day in heaven!

8 . 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?

9 . It was a great shock to me to discover that I had a serious disease. I had never been very well coordinated (协调)physically when I was_______. But things seemed to change when I went to university, at the age of 17, I started to _______ some sports.

In my third year at university, however, I noticed that it seemed to be difficult for me, and I fell over once or twice for no obvious _______ My father took me to the family doctor who led me to a good _______. Two days later, I went into hospital for examinations. I stayed in the _______ for two weeks, during which I had a wide variety of tests. But after all the _______, they didn't tell me what I had, except that I was a special case. However, they _______ it to continue to get worse. The doctor felt sorry because he could do _______ except giving me vitamins (维生素), I could see that he didn't _______ the vitamins to have much effect on my disease. I didn't feel like asking for more details, because the disease was obviously ________ .

I realized that I had a(n) ________ disease. It was a bit of a shock. However, while I had been in hospital, I had seen a boy who had leukemia (白血病) and he ________ died of that kind of disease. Clearly there were people who were ________ than me. At least my condition didn't make me feel sick, so whenever I felt ________, I remembered that boy.

The doctors told me to go back to university. I ________ doing the research I had started before going to hospital. My dreams at that time were rather hard to ________ Before my condition had been diagnosed (诊断), I had been very bored with life. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I ________ realized that there were a lot of worthy things I could ________. I began to make progress in my ________ and I got married to a girl called Jane, whom I had met just about the time my condition was diagnosed. That marriage ________ my life. It gave me something to live for.

10 . The Double Seventh Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival. Here is a beautiful story _______ it.

Long，long ago, there was a young man named Niulang(Cowherd), One day, he_______a   beautiful girl- Zhinu( Weaver girl)， the Goddess s seventh daughter. She had just run away from the_______ heaven(天国) to look for fun on Earth. Zhini soon_______Niulang, and they got married without telling the Goddess. Niulang worked in the field and Zhinu wove(织布) at home. They_______a happy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unluckily, the Goddess soon found out the fact and_______ Zhinii to return to heaven. After Zhini left， Niulang was _______upset. With the help of his magic cow,Niulang flew to heaven with his children to look for his wife. The Goddess discovered this and was very_______Taking out her hairpin(发簪), the Goddess created a wide river in the sky to separate(分开) the two_______. From then on, Niulang and Zhini had to live________ on the two sides of the river. However,their true love________ all the magpies(喜鹊) in the world, ________once a year tens of thousands of   magpies would fly up to heaven to make a bridge- the bridge of magpies for the couple to meet each other. At last, the Goddess allowed ________ to meet each   other on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month. That's________the Double Seventh Festival started. Today,   it is a great________for Chinese young people to express their love.