2 . I'm standing in a class of wild 14－year－old girls as they throw paper and howl with laughter. They won't _______to me.

I was 22 and I didn't know what I was doing. I never wanted to teach. I wanted to be a _________. But when I arrived in London, they were short of teachers. My_________ at teaching were hopeless. When the bell finally rang, I rushed to the _________ room, red _________anger. The other teachers weren't surprised. "That's 4B, the worst class in school," one said.

I was afraid of our next meeting, but I couldn't give up, because I needed the job. Therefore, I _________formal lessons._________, I brought topics for class discussions. One of the liveliest talks was about the arguments they had with their _________. They paid attention and shared about their families. Then I had them write about themselves. As time went on, their essays became a _________ between us. I think they __________ my interest in their lives.

The musical My Fair Lady was playing in the West End, but they had never seen a(n)__________ stage performance. I asked if they would like to see the musical. They thought I was __________. No teacher had ever ________ taking them out. A few weeks later, 4B and I were __________ in a theatre. They loved the music and the characters. It was the __________ of their year, and they talked about it for days.

Near the end of the semester, someone__________ on the door of the staff room. The two girls most unwilling to________ rules in 4B were there—with flowers. I was __________to know I had touched their lives, but they had also touched mine. When I returned to Australia several years later, I still wanted to be a writer. For the first time in my life, I stopped __________and started writing. My first story was __________, My Fair Ladies. Teaching wasn't the end of my writing career; it was the beginning.

3 . It was very late when I got out of the cinema. By the time the _______ended, it was 1 a. m. I walked to my car which was _______ across the street. When I arrived, I noticed something _______ the doors were unlocked. I had a quick _______ around the car and to my great _______, everything was undamaged, except that my _______ was gone. After a further search, I had to _______ the fact that it was gone, but I thought I was _______ because nothing valuable was taken.

The next day I got a _________ voice mail from a man. He said he had walked his dog in the morning and came across my ________ briefcase with my name and phone number on it. I called him back ________. He promised to ________ it. At first, I asked him to send it, but then I ________. Though we were in the same city, I didn't want to trouble him. I finally decided to go to collect it, though it probably wouldn't be ________ enough to go to a ________ house to pick something up.

I met the man and was greatly ________ to him. Words could not express my ________of this stranger's kindness. I think that there's so much ________ in the world and there are so many people who ________ their inner goodness through acts of kindness. It feels good to give kindness to others ________ it also feels nice to be helped by others.

4 . One day in January 2008, I was in my classroom when my teacher, Mrs. Prest, explained that people were sick and some were even ______ because they didn't have clean water. People sometimes ______ for hours in Africa just to get dirty water.

So I went home and ______ my parents to help. They told me I could do ______ housework to earn the $70 that I thought would build a ______. I thought that's all it would ______ to handle the world's water problem. I worked for four months to earn my ______ $70. Then I learned that it was ______ going to cost $2,000 to build a well in a place like Uganda. I also learned that the problem was much bigger than I     ____.

I started speaking to service clubs, schoolmates, to anyone who would listen to my ______ so that I could ______ money for my first well at Angolo Primary School in Uganda. That's how my little Grade One project ______ the Ryan's Well Foundation.

Now I have ______ my studies in international development and political science and I have graduated from the college, but remain involved (参加)with the Foundation as a Project Manager. I speak around the world on ______ issues and on the importance of making a ______ no matter who you are.

My ______ to anyone is that in order to make a ______ change in the world, you need to find something you really love and then you need to take ______. I hope my story is a ______ that we can all make a difference-it ______ each and every one of us.

5 . In 1982 Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He was out of the shipping lanes and floating in a life raft, _______ . His supplies were few. His _______ were small. Yet when three fishermen found him seventy-six days later, he was alive—much skinnier than he was when he _______ , but alive.

The thing that _______ my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, when there seemed no _______ in continuing the struggle, when he was suffering greatly, when his life boat was broken with a hole and after more than a week struggling with his weak body to _______ it, it was still leaking air and wearing him out to keep pumping it up. He was_______. He was thoroughly _______ . Giving up would have seemed the only wise choice.

When people survive these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their _______ that gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in ________ desperate circumstances give in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the ________ to carry on.

“I tell myself I can ________ it,” wrote Callahan in his account. “Compared to what others have been ________ , I’m fortunate. I tell myself these things over and over, ________ my determination to keep going.”

I wrote that down after I read it. It ________ me as something important. And I’ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed ________ off. And every time I’ve said it. I have always come back to my ________ .

So here, coming to us from the extreme edge of ________ , are words that can give us strength. ________ you’re going through, tell yourself you can handle it. Tell this to yourself over and over, and it will help you get through the ________ spots with a little more determination.

6 . In primary school, I _________ felt different or alone just for in a wheelchair. My life flowed like a river. I took part in lots of _________, like dance and music. I even went onstage in my wheelchair and performed dances and won prizes.

Then came the _________ for surgery (外科手术) that might help me walk. _________ I went into the operating room, I was hopeful and shut my eyes, and the world _________ around me. After my surgery, I was in so much pain that stepped into state of _________, shutting out everybody. I even _________ having the surgery and nearly gave up on my lifelong _________— walking.

My life began to turn back around when I went to an inpatient rehabilitation center (住院康复中心), along with my mom. At first, I didn’t _________ staying there, with all kinds of therapies (疗法) and doctor visits. There was so much I couldn’t do, like playing at the nearby playground when my dad and brother __________. What was worse, it was __________ to make friends.

As I felt better, things began to get __________. I made a good friend, and the playground became a harbor for my __________. I could paint pictures with my mind and bring characters to life. I was __________ puzzle pieces of myself and putting them back together.

Lately, I’ve been able to stand with help for five minutes straight. I feel __________ again and am dreaming big. I want to __________ companies to create role models for disabled kids to look up to — like maybe a disabled hero in a movie. I’ve also __________ the Just Say Hi campaign, which encourages everyone not to be afraid to accept and greet people who have a __________.

This journey has changed my life. It’s made me brave and __________. My message is: stay strong, stay determined, and don’t ever think your __________ are out of reach.

7 . For the past ten years, my dad and I have attended the same school--- he as an administrator and I as a student. Our relationship, in and out of school, has been totally unpredictable.

When I was younger, all that my dad said was doctrine （信条）and anything did I, _________, copied. We played games together, and stayed up late reading bedtime stories. I could__________ my dad taking me to school, running into him ________ during the day and riding home with him every afternoon.

As I grew older, we were not as _________as we used to be. He wasn't cool any more .He wore his socks too high, listened to _________ country music and laughed too loudly in front of my friends. He became a total embarrassment.

However, the _________ that occurred in school were even worse. The worst one happened in seventh grade. My dad came to our New Year party, __________as Donald Duck, guitar in hand, singing silly songs. Just kill me！ I wanted to run away.

This _________ continued into high school, but we somehow began to find a balance .Things started to ______around the time of my 10th-grade physics project. The ________was to build a wood bridge with the best strength-to-weight ratio（比率）. All the students and physics teachers __________ . So did my dad, the only administrator！ Embarrassed, as usual, I _________ the   scene._____________, later when I learned from my friends that my dad       _____ all competitors and won everyone's admiration, I found that mixed in with my__________was a touch of pride.

I had needed someone else to show me what I ________ in my dad. It wasn't the fact that he'd won； it was more than that. I began to_________ that we have many of the same values and sometimes the same opinions. No matter how much I had tried to________ him, he still influenced me.

I feel_________ to have such an unusual father. The ________ I have developed with my dad over the years has enabled me to look back and see how I’ve grown.

8 . Three years ago, I was working as a lawyer. For a year or longer, my work was beginning to suffer. I ____ got to the point where I couldn’t concentrate --- one of the early signs that something was _____. I kept forgetting things. Legal work is complicated, and you have to have a good ____ to do that work. So I ____ my job. I talked to my doctor about my family’s ____ of Alzheimer's; my father and grandfather had it. Then I was asked to do some tests. It ____ that I have early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Needless to say, my life has ____. My husband Dan retired soon after my diagnosis (诊断) ____ we spend a lot of time together. ____ going to work, I used to spend my days having lunch with my friends and _____ my mother. I could drive up to see her before I started getting ____. The situation wasn’t _____, but I’d had to turn around enough times that it frightened me. Now I ____ drive out of town. I stay in town.

I am an independent person, but now I have to ____ some of that independence. My husband and I mostly do the shopping together because I ____ the list.

Dan and I are enjoying life while we can. Some people are saving money for trips years down the road. We’re not _____, we take a trip every year.

The one thing I wish I could change is people’s ____ when I tell them I have Alzheimer’s. They shut down. I can still ____; it’s not like suddenly I can’t remember anything. This happened with my father. He was very ____, and he had lots of friends. When his friends learned he got Alzheimer’s, they wouldn’t come to visit him. I think people should learn more about Alzheimer’s and ____ that people with the disease can still socialize.

9 . It was Australia Day. We had spent the afternoon _______with friends. When we arrived home, the message bank on my mobile phone was flashing. It was our _______, Annabel, who had just been left at a boarding school over 500 kilometers away. Annabel’s _______ voice greeted us: “Hi, Mum and Dad, I’ve _______ my phone!” After just four days at school her main means of _______ had gone missing at an Australia Day celebration. We realized the chance of finding the phone were _______ for we hadn’t installed (安装) the Find My Phone app.

The next morning, my mobile beeped (发出哔哔声) loudly. When I replayed the _______ a kind voice announced that she had something that _______ my daughter and could I please call her back.

Annabel had _______ my number on the inside of her phone’s case — ________ thinking! “ I’ll take it to work ________ you see if anyone can pick it up,” she kindly offered after I ________ that my daughter was at boarding school and I lived a six-hour drive away.

After tracking the people I ________ who lived nearby, I was out of luck — no one was able to ________ the phone.

Later I decided to ask our angel (天使) to post the ________ to my daughter. But to my ________, this angel, who had already spent a busy day at work, was making a two-hour round trip on a Saturday night, especially to ________ a phone to a complete stranger.

I gave her ________ and she delivered the phone into the hands of my daughter. The only word of her explanation was: “I’ve got four ________ of my own. I know how a mother ________.”

10 . When I was in high school, the last person I wanted to be with was the foreign teacher. On one hand, I was unable to _______ what she said, so I did not know what responses I should give. On the other hand, I had no faith in the _______ of my English. To avoid making mistakes, I wrote down every word I intended to say and _______ all the words whose pronunciation I had not been sure of before _______ my hand to answer her question. In most of he cases, hardly had I made proper preparations when she brought another subject. _______ to express myself clearly led to a_______ sense of inferiority (低等).

_______, communication with a foreigner who came to visit my father in the last Spring Festival built my _______. Because of the comfortable and delightful atmosphere, I found it unnecessary to speak English totally _______ on grammar rules. I paid little attention to the grammar and even used gestures, pictures and objects to make myself easily ________. During the conversation, he frequently nodded to show his understanding of what I said, ________ encouraged me to express myself more ________. This experience made me ________ that the attraction of language is not only in some ________ literary works but also in the understanding between two common people with ________ mother tongues.

It is possible for native speakers to make some ________ in communication, let alone people who learn English as a foreign language. Besides a good ________ of vocabulary and grammar, there are more other actors for effective (有效的) communication ________ facial expressions and gestures. With this belief, I became more willing to ________ with foreigners and more communication further ________ my English. In this cycle, I gained the most precious fortune (财富) — confidence.