3 . Ebron James isn't the first high school basketball player to go straight into the NBA, but he's probably the best. he has the body, skills and the basketball brain of an all-star (全明星球员). this _________ was on _________ as he scored 41 points to take Cleveland Cavaliers (克里夫兰骑士队) to a 107-104 win over the new jersey nets (新泽西网队) on march 28. Aged of 19 years and 87 days, James became the __________ player to score 40 or more in the NBA "it was by far James' best _________ ," said Cleveland coach Paul Silas.

Known to his friends _________ "the king", this was the day James earned his crown(王冠). but he was _________ from being a king during a childhood spent in the back streets of Akron, Ohio. _________ many other African-American basketball players, James' early years were a __________ . his mother Gloria was just 16 when she gave birth to him; he knows nothing about his father. Mother and son battled for everything from food to a place to live. __________ help from his grandmother and neighbors, James would __________ have died when he was young. this spirit of survival has served him well on court, forcing him to take any _________ he finds. "I _________ losing, I don't like losing," said James of his 41-point display. "I _________ the opportunity for us to win and I was _________ to capture it." at 2.03 meters, he is no Yao Ming but this didn't _________ him being first choice in 2003 NBA draft. This was __________ to his strength and skill, much of which he learned from high school American football.

Although he has a __________ brain, James has never had to concentrate on _________ . Some people think this is a mistake and say he should have gone to college to _________ his mind. but James is one of the lucky few who has found fame and fortune _________ a diploma (文凭). On the court, he is king.

4 . April Fool’s Day is a western festival. No one_________exactly when and how April Fool’s Day began. However, there are some stories about_________it came into being. One story_________like this: in the sixteenth-century France, the start of the new year was on April first. It was celebrated_________   much the same way_________it is today with parties and dancing into the late hours of the night.

Then in 1562, Pope (教皇) Gregory introduced a new calendar for the Christian world, and the new year fell on January first. There were some people, _________, who hadn’t heard or didn’t believe the_________in the date, so they_________to celebrate New Year’s Day on April first. _________played tricks on them and called them “April fools”. They tried to make them believe that something false was __________. In France today, April first is called “April Fish”. French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends'__________. When the “young fool”__________this trick, the prankster (恶作剧者) shouts “April Fish!”

Today Americans play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on the first of April. One     __________trick on April Fool’s Day is__________down to a friend’s shoe and saying, “Your shoelace is untied.” School children might tell a classmate that school has been canceled (取消). __________the trick is, if you fail for the joke the prankster shouts “April Fool!”

In Britain today, on the first of April, even__________newspapers, radio and TV programs tell big lies. You__________read a science__________showing that doctors have found a way to cure (治愈) AIDS,   __________you would probably listen to a piece of news about a UFO__________on an island.

6 . “Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you don’t ________, something good will happen some day.”

Mother was ________, as I discovered after graduating from college, I had ________ myself to be a sports announcer(播音员). So I went to Chicago to knock on the door of every station and was ________ every time. In one station, a ________ lady told me that large stations wouldn’t employ（雇佣） a person without ______ since I just graduated. “Go out of the town and find a small station that might give you ______,” she said.

I returned to Dixon, where I had finished my high school education and had ______ high school football. My father said that our town had built a store and wanted a man to ______ its sports department. The job sounded just ______ for me but I wasn’t hired.

My disappointment had ______ as if by design. “Everything happens for the best,” Mom ______ me. Dad lent me his car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio Davenport. The program director told me they had already ______ an announcer. After I left his office, I asked aloud “______ can a fellow get to be a sports ______ if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” ______, I heard the director calling. “Do you know anything about ______?” Then he asked me to ______ an imaginary game. It was easy, and I did it without difficulty. The director was ______ and told me I would be broadcasting a game on the ______ Saturday.

8 . Draper, the owner of a secondhand bookstore, was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelop fell from one. Inside was an undated _________and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was _________it, it meant the author had died.

Tears were welling up in Draper’s eyes. These were a_________woman’s last words to her child. He had to_________ Bethany. “Whoever it is will _________this,” he thought. “You wouldn’t_________a letter like that.”

He supposed if the_________ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he_________recognized the little girl’s face. Even if she’d since left the area, there might be someone in town who would recognize the_________.

He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the__________letter.

__________, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a(n)__________herself, was on Facebook about 10 miles away when a close friend messaged her to check out the __________. As she read her mother’s __________, which she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be__________ .

Gash was only 4 when her mother __________. Five years later, her family moved to a new home and the letter, put away in the pages of a book for safe keeping, was unintentionally __________ .

She remembers unpacking and looking for the letter, and then__________searching through everything in hopes that it was there. “That’s when I realized it was__________gone by now and I’d never see it again,” she said.

Draper__________the letter in person. He also brought her a children’s book for her son. Gash was greatly moved to have the letter back, and also touched by the stranger’s kindness.

9 . Morgan Anderson, who was terrified of flying, had forgotten entirely that she was on a plane. She and her mother, Rose Anderson, were busy doing something more important— ________ a man.

On December 13, Morgan and her mother were in the air on their way to Salt Lake City when an________ over the plane's public address system said the flight attendant was ________ any medical professionals aboard to help with an emergency. Rose heard the call and woke up Morgan, who had fallen asleep. Both of them were ________, so they had a job to do.

They ________ went to the front of the airplane, where they found a man who appeared to be in his 60s. He was senseless and looked very ________. He was in a worse condition than either Rose or Morgan had ________.

Rose has more than 30 years of ________ in nursing while Morgan just ________ from a medical school, so Rose took the ________. Following her mother's instructions, Morgan began to write down the________ supplies necessary in saving the man's life.

Thanks to Rose and Morgan's efforts, the man________ his senses. He told Rose and Morgan, who continued to look after him________ the plane landed, that he was on his way to visit his mother. The man was in a stable condition when paramedics(护理人员）________ the case after they landed.

The captain of the airplane expressed his ________ to the Andersons and gave them a discount off their next flight. "It's always good to have a happy ending," Rose said.

The emergency also provided Morgan with a chance to ________ what she had learnt in school to practice. Morgan said she appreciated the chance of being ________ to others.

Rose was always ________ and willing to help the other people. Having been greatly influenced by her mother, Morgan, who once dreamed of being an architect, ________ her mind. According to Morgan, it was her mother who ________ Morgan to step into the nursing field.