3 . There were once two brothers who lived on the 80th floor. On coming home one day, to their _________ they found that the elevator wasn’t working, and they had to climb the stairs to get home.

By the time they reached the 20th floor, they were very _________, and decided to _________ their bags and come back for them the next day. When they had _________ to the 40th floor, the younger brother started to complain(抱怨). But they continued climbing,   _________ all the way to the 60th floor.

They then realized that they had only 20 more floors to climb, and decided to _________ quarrelling and _________ climbing in peace. They arrived home at last. Each stood _________ waiting for the other to open the door. It was then that they realized the _________ was in their bags which were left at the 20th floor.

This story is a symbol of how we __________ our lives. Many of us live under the expectations of our __________, teachers, and friends when we are __________. We seldom can do the thing that we really __________ and we are under a lot of pressure,   __________ by the age of 20 we decide to lighten the __________.Being __________ of the pressure, we work enthusiastically (热情) and have high hopes. But by the time we’re 40 years old, we begin to feel unsatisfied and __________ complaint and criticism(批评). Reaching 60, we realize that we have __________ left to complain about and we began to walk the final stage in __________ and calmness.

The bright side is that your dream can come true at any moment! __________ you’re on the20th, 40th, or even 60th floor or not, wake up to your dream and live it!

4 . Years ago, in a small fishing village in Holland, a young boy taught the world about the rewards of unselfish service.

Because the entire village lived on fishing, a volunteer rescue team was needed in case of _______. One night, the winds _______ hard, the clouds burst and a strong storm overturned a fishing boat at sea. The _______ were in trouble and they sent out the SOS. The captain of the rescue rowboat team sounded the alarm and the villagers quickly gathered in the town square, _______ the sea. When the team started their rowboat and fought their way _______ the wild waves, the villagers waited nervously on the beach, holding lamps to _______ the way back.

An hour later, the rescue boat reappeared and the hoping villagers ran _______ the volunteers. Falling on the sand, _______, the volunteers reported that the rescue boat could not _______ any more passengers and they had to leave one man behind. Even one more passenger would have surely overturned the rescue boat and all would have been ________.

Anxiously, the captain called for another volunteer team to ________ the survivor. Sixteen-year-old Hans stepped forward. His mother grabbed his arm, ________, “Please don’t go. Your father ________ in a shipwreck (海难) 10 years ago and your older brother, Paul, has been missing at sea for three weeks. Hans, you are all I have ________.”

Hans replied, “Mother, I have to go. ________ everyone said ‘I can’t go, let someone else do it’, there will be ________ going to help. Mother, this time I have to do my duty.” Hans kissed his mother, joined the team and ________ into the night.

Another hour passed, which seemed to Hans’ mother like a ________. Finally, the rescue boat came into sight in the distance with Hans standing up in the bow (船首). Cupping his hands, the captain ________, “Did you find the lost man?” ________ able to control himself, Hans excitedly cried back, “Yes, we found him. Tell my mother it’s my older brother, Paul!”

7 . When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad. Like most English children I learned French _________ school and I had often been to France, so _________ speaking a foreign language to people who didn’t understand _________. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to _________ a nice easy holiday without any _________ problems.

_________ wrong I was! The misunderstanding (误解) began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my American friend Danny a _________ and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking lost and asked _________ he could help me. “Yes,” I said, “I want to give my friend a ring” “Well, that’s _________.” he exclaimed (惊叫), “Are you getting married? But aren’t you a bit __________?” “Who is talking about marriage (婚姻)?” I replied. “I __________ want to give my friend a ring to tell her I’ve arrived. Can you tell me __________ there’s a phone box, please?” “Oh!” he said, “there’s a phone downstairs.”

When at last we did meet up, Danny explained the misunderstandings to me. “Don’t worry,” she said to me. “I had so many __________ at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use differently in meaning from us British. You’ll soon get used to __________ funny things they say. Most of the __________ British and American people understand each other!”

8 . Recently, I have experienced a thing. The______thing happened to me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day______I drove to go for a look in the country.

On the way back home, my______stopped. It was out of gas on a______road far from a town! I decided to walk until I found someone______could sell some gas. I had walked almost a mile______I finally found a house near the road. I was glad to see it because it was getting dark.

I knocked at the door and a little old lady with long white hair______. She said, I’ve been______for you here for a long time. Come in._____ is almost ready. “But I only came for some gas,” I answered. I couldn’t______what she was talking about.

“Oh, Alfred! Gas? You used to______tea,” said she.

I quickly explained that my car was out of _____, but she didn’t seem to listen to me. She just kept______me Alfred and talking about how long it had been since she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I went out of the house as fast as I could.·

Fortunately, there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed. When I told the man about my______, he said, Oh, that’s Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s strange, but she wouldn’t______anybody. She is still waiting for the man she was going to marry thirty years ago. The day before their wedding, he left home and never came back because of the war.

9 . My father worked in Japan for an oversea office of the New York Mercantile Exchange. So my family stayed there for 13 years. When my father retired, my family_________ to America. I had to start my new school life and study with my new classmates who shared no _________ life experience with me. They had no room to_________ for a newcomer because most of them had grown up together. I found myself left out. I had little_________ of making friends though I tried hard. I _________for the first few weeks in my new school. To deal with it all, I began _________in my diary every day. I wrote as if my life depended on it. I could not stand the loneliness, _________I wrote it down in my diary.

One day, my teacher, Mrs. Smiths, came to me and asked me the reason why I always sat there writing. I lied that I_________ writing to playing. One week later, Mrs. Smiths gave us a writing assignment. I was_________ that I could now participate in something I knew I was good at. So I worked on the essay __________ and handed it. I thought it was the best chance for me to be __________ by the class. The next day, Mrs. Smiths called me up to the__________   of the classroom. I stood before my classmates and I got__________ . Was I in trouble? Did I do something wrong? Then Mrs. Smiths told the class how much she __________ all the work that went into the essays and everyone had done a great job. But, she said, one student__________   as an excellent writer. That student was me! The class clapped their hands wildly and Mrs. Smiths handed me my paper, with the following__________ on it, “You are a very excellent writer. You__________ your essay with your true feeling and creativity. Please keep on writing and share your__________ of writing with the class.”

Mrs. Smiths helped me feel a sense of__________ and a way to go through the hard transition in my life. She helped me gain__________ in myself that stayed with me beyond my school life.