2 . There are many principles(原则) and values all people live by. The _________that I live by is honesty. I have always been taught that lying will just get me into more trouble than I might already be _________. Being honest is a _________ all people need to have and use to go _________ in life.

Ever since I was a little kid, my parents have _________ me to be honest _________ it is the right thing to do. As I got _________, I realized something very important that could _________ the way people take me to be a person. If just once you stop being honest and tell a lie, it will _________ change people’s opinion of you and their whole way of acting __________ you. When you tell a lie, you lose that person’s __________ forever or have to work your whole life to get it back.

It is my personal __________ to achieve great things in life and honesty will sure help me get there. For me right now losing somebody’s trust would be a truly __________ thing. Whatever you do for a living or __________ you live, honesty is something important for all of us.

Honesty gets you much higher in life than getting into more __________ like lying . Lying can __________ get you into trouble dealing with the government. Honesty is just as important to me as my family. Already, I know it is something that will __________ my future and my relationship with all people. It is something about myself that I hope to never __________ no matter what happens. Most of all honesty will help me no matter whether I’m at school, home or just __________ with friends. It is something I hope my children will also have and __________.

3 . One day, many years ago, when I was working as a psychologist at a children’s institution in England, an adolescent boy showed up in the waiting room. I went out there where he was ________ up and down restlessly.

Tim wore a black raincoat that was ________ all the way up to his neck. His face was pale, and he stared at his feet while wringing his hands nervously. He had ________ his father as a baby, and had lived with his mother and grandfather ever since. But the year before he turned13, his grandfather and mother were killed in a car accident. Now he was fourteen and in family care.

I looked at Tim. He was very ________ and depressed. He refused to talk to me. The first two times we met, Tim only sat hunched up in the chair without saying a word. As he was about to leave after the second visit. I put my hand on his shoulder. He didn’t ________ back, but he didn’t look at me either.

“Come back next week, if you like,” I said. I ________ a bit. Then I said, “I know it hurts.” He came, and I suggested we play chess. He nodded. After that we played chess every Wednesday afternoon, in ________ and without making any eye contact. It’s not easy for me to cheat in chess, but I admit that I made sure Tim won once or twice.

Usually, he arrived earlier, took the chessboard and pieces and set them up before I even got a (n) ________ to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my ________. But why did he never look at me?

“Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his ________ with,” I thought.

One afternoon. Tim took off his raincoat and put it on the back of the chair. While he was setting up the chess pieces, his face seemed more ________ and his motions more lively.

Some months later, I sat staring at Tim’s head, while he was bent over the chessboard. I was thinking about how little we knew about the healing process. ________ he looked up at me. “It’s your ________,” he said.

After that day, Tim started talking.

Maybe I gave Tim something, but I learned a lot from him. He showed me how one-without any words-can ________ out to another person. All it ________ is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, a sympathetic nature, and an ear that listens.

4 . When he was young, Emmett Diggs liked nothing more than boxing. He even ________ a national prize in 1961. ________ at age 45, he wasn’t able to move as usual. A doctor told him he had Parkinson’s disease (帕金森病). At first, he thought nothing of it until one day while cleaning the floor on his hands and knees, he found that he couldn’t get up without ________. After that, he began to feel ________ and showed no interest in doing anything. It was the ________ period Emmett had experienced.

One morning, Emmett’s wife, Patty, shared with him a newspaper story about a man with Parkinson’s disease who practiced a ________ training called Rock Steady Boxing (RSB), which ________ shadow boxing (拳击练习) with strength training.

So, Emmett decided to turn to John, the local program director, for help. When they first met, John ________ Emmett boxing gloves and let him take over a heavy bag. Just putting on the gloves brought wonderful ________ back for Emmett. When John said, “Hit the bag.” Emmett did as he was told. “It felt ________ as the bag was hitting back,” Emmett said excitedly.

Soon, Emmett ________ a regular RSB class of a dozen people who were dealing with Parkinson’s disease like him. Emmett’s boxing skills impressed them all and soon they became friends. Over time, the class became something of a(n) ________ group in which they could share their pains and hopes.

“I had thought Parkinson’s disease was going to ________ everything that mattered to me, ”Emmett has written. “________, it didn’t change my love for boxing and gave me a ________ to know a new group of guys who are optimistic and supportive.”“

5 . The sun was shining brightly over our heads and sweat (汗水) was pouring off our backs and faces. We stood still without ______ any noise, all hot and tired. But everyone kept standing as straight as trees.

It was ______ most high schools give to new Senior One students — military training (军训). We spent four days in a closed environment. ______ we couldn’t go home at night and the training was ______ and difficult, our humorous young drillmaster (教官) with a funny accent (口音) was a real ______ of our days. We laughed ______ his jokes, sat in rows singing different songs and listened to him telling true stories about his life. He gave us the feeling that ______ and sweat were not the only things that we received from military training.

After this journey, we were more ______ than we had imagined and we were much braver than we had expected. Girls who looked sick rested for a little while, then ______ came back to the team. Boys who were being punished ______ to the playground at once and began to run. Sweat flowed down our faces ______ we thought about how to shout ______ than other classes.

Military training taught us perseverance (坚持不懈) and determination (决心). On the last day of our training, the confidence could be ______ in our faces. We shouted so loud that our ______ could be heard across the heavens. With eyes like burning torches (火炬), we walked into the future. Now the sun is ______ at all of us.

6 . Do you know what will happen in the future? Life in the twenty-first century will be very ________ , I suppose. Many changes will take place, but ________ will the changes be?

As we all know the population in the earth is growing ________. There will be a great many ________ in the world and most of them will live ________ than people in the twentieth century.

Computers will be much smaller and ________ and there will be at least one in every ________. And ________ studies will be one of the important subjects in school then.

People will work ________ and they will have more free time for taking exercise, reading, watching TV and traveling all over the world. ________ will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to ________ countries for holidays.

There will be changes in our ________, too. May be no one will eat meat every day. Instead, they eat more fruit and vegetables without pollution. Maybe people will be ________. Work in the future will be different, too. ________ and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this, ________ people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

7 . Stephen Hawking not only changed the way people thought about science, but he also changed the way people viewed ________. Diagnosed (诊断) with motor neurone disease in his twenties, many of his scientific discoveries were made while his body was ________.

When Hawking studied at Oxford University, he had a ________ for being lively, humorous and popular. ________, during his final year at Oxford, he fell over for no particular reason. When noticing his speech (说话的能力) began to be ________, Hawking sought medical help. It was then that he was diagnosed with the disease. Doctors at the time gave him less than two years to ________.

Luckily, he survived. However, after his diagnosis, his ________ failed quickly. Throughout the 1960s, he required a stick to walk, ________ a wheelchair for many years. It was only by the end of the 1960s that he ________ accepted he would need a full-time mobility aid (助动器).

Despite Hawking’s poor health, he made some important scientific ________. It was in 1974 that he discovered what now is ________ as “Hawking radiation”. Later, in 1988, Hawking published his book A Brief History of Time.

It was his ________— focusing on what was possible rather than impossible — that defined (定义) his public image. His books made science easily ________ for a wider public. Hawking once said, "My advice to other people would be: ________ things your disability doesn’t prevent you from doing well, and don’t ________ the things it interferes (干扰) with. Don’ t be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.”

8 . My friend and I had just set off from Vancouver to do a five-day canoe (独木舟) trip in Bowron Lake Provincial park.

We’d been _________ the trip for quite a while — reservations at the park need to be   _________ months in advance (提前). I’d taken some time off work and my friend managed to spare some time for the adventure.

We were driving to Bowron Lake when our car_________ down. _________ , we were just outside a small town which had a little motel (汽车旅馆), where we met a kind stranger.

He gave us the _________ of a mechanic (修理工) in town. We called him and it _________that our car problem wasn’t a big deal to fix, but the mechanic needed to order a part that would _________ a few days to show up. At that point, we _________ our trip would have to be cancelled.

The kind-hearted stranger insisted that we _________ our trip when we mentioned the change of plans. He offered to drop us off at the lake, coordinate with (与……协调) the mechanic to __________ the car while we were gone, and then __________ my friend and me after we finished canoeing.

I still remember everything he did to help us, which was __________. It was a trip that would never have happened __________ he hadn’t done all he did, which helped us so much. It’s people like him that make me __________ to go out of my way for others who are travelling and __________ help.

9 . Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it _________ patience. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to _________   some action. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends staying home _________ .

Joining a club or group, talking to those who like the same things as you do is much easier. Or join someone in some activities.

Many people are _________ when talking to new people. After all, meeting strangers means seeing the unknown. And it’s human nature to feel a bit _________   about the unknown. Most of fears about _________ new people come from doubts about ourselves. We imagine other people are _________ us——finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don’t _________that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself as you are, and try to put the other at ease(轻松). You’ll both feel more _________.

Try to be self-confident even if you don’t feel that way when you __________ a room full of strangers. Walk tall and straight, look at other people directly and __________ .

If you see someone you’d like to __________ say something. Don’t wait for __________ person to start a talk.

Just meeting someone __________ does not mean that you’ll make friends with that person. __________ is based on mutual(相互的) likings and “give and take”. It takes time to develop friendship.

10 . A little girl created a perfect gift for her mother’s birthday. It was a drawing of a _________ on white paper with the words “For mom: love, love, love” decorated with hearts. She folded (折叠) her letter, but then she _________ it.

For most people, that would be the _________ of this story, but this story had a different result. James Carrell _________ the letter. He had just _________ his mother, wishing her a happy birthday. After he hung up, Carrell saw the _________ on the ground outside of a hardware store in Manvel. “I _________ it was a gift,” said Carrell. “I _________ it up and saw the flower and hearts. It really _________ me. “ Carrell thought the letter would __________ someone’s day and that maybe he could find the __________, so he posted it on the Internet. The message moved a lot of people, __________ one man.

“I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man’s __________,” said Carrell.

The comments included one from Robert Alvarado. He wrote, “I can’t __________ you found my baby’s letter.”   Carrell reached Alvarado to __________ the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally __________ on Thursday night, one day after Alvarado’s wife’s birthday.

“__________ the letter made it home,” said Alvarado. “We are __________ for what James Carrell did.”

We often forget the power of __________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a(n) __________ impression.