1 . Perhaps the only test score that I remember is the 55 I got when I was in high school.

The test was the final for a course. I remember waiting _________ as my teacher Mr. Right passed out our papers one by one. It was a rather _________ test. I heard my classmates groaning(叹息), and I could tell by the groans that the scores weren’t looking _________.

Mr. Right put my paper on my desk. There in big red numbers, circled to draw _________, was my score, 55!

I lowered my head, and _________ the score up quickly. A 55 is not something that you wanted your classmates to see.

“The scores were not very good, none of you _________,” Mr. Right said. “The highest score in the class was a 55.”

A 55. That’s me!

_________ my sad look didn’t look so bad. I had the highest score. I felt a lot better.

I walked home alone that day with the low but high score. My father knew that I had a big _________ that day and asked me as soon as I got home, “_________ did you do in your test?”

“I got 55,” I said.

A __________ now stood on my father’s face. I knew I had to __________ immediately. “But Dad, I had the highest score in the class,” I __________ stated(陈述). I thought that explanation would make a difference.

“You __________!” my father replied.

“But it’s the highest!” I __________.

“I don’t __________ what scores others had, you failed. What __________ is what you do!” my father firmly(坚定地) said.

For years, my father was __________ that way. It didn’t matter what others did, it only mattered what I did and that I did it __________.

We often don’t understand the __________ of good parents until we ourselves stand in the parents’ shoes. My father’s __________ have carried me throughout life.

2 . There was a man who was going through hard times. His wife divorced him. He went bankrupt(破产) after only a year in business. Despite all of his hard work, ________ was all that he had seen. Struggling with this, he ________ everything behind and went into the forest. There, he ________ an old man who had lived there for a long time. He ________ his story with the old man. “Can you give me one good reason not to ________?” he asked the old man.

“Look,” the old man said, pointing to two plants. “Do you ________ that fern(蕨类植物) and bamboo there?” “Yes,” the man answered. “When I ________ the fern and bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. Within a short period of time, the fern ________ grew from the earth,” the old man went on. “However, although I watered and took care of the bamboo seed for years, it did not sprout(发芽). There was no sign of ________. But I did not give up on the bamboo seed and ________ looking after it. In the fifth year, a small ________ came out of the earth. And within six months, the tree grew a hundred feet tall.” The little bamboo tree had been growing under ground for the past four years, ________ a root system strong enough for its ground growth in the fifth year and beyond. If it hadn’t done this, it would not be as ________ as it is now. So you know, all the time you were ________, you were actually growing strong _______” the old man said.

5 . Some kids dream of being superheroes that can save our planet from evil but believe it or not, even a small kid like YOU can help save our planet.

When I was a _________ , my mom and dad would push me in a baby jogger. We would pick up soda cans while my mom and dad ran. Before I could _________, whenever I saw a can I would point to it. It was fun picking up cans. We ran a lot miles and _________ up many cans.

When I was five, I went _________ with my mom, dad, and a friend at Bastrop State Park. The first night we went for a bike ride. I _________ on my dad's bike. There was so much _________ that the road did not look pretty. The second day, when we went for a _________ along the same road, we picked up all the cans—about one hundred of them. The road looked much _________ when we went home.

I am now too _________ for the baby jogger. But I still pick up cans wherever we go, and my mom and dad still bring back cans from their walks. We ____________ the cans behind and inside our garage. When I was very young, we would ____________ the cans to a can cruncher in a store park. It was fun____________ all the cans crunching(压碎), but it was untidy.

Now we store the cans ____________ we get a lot of them, then we take them on our friend's big truck to the recycling place. One time, I sold 410 pounds ____________.

I have sold over 1, 000 pounds of cans, and I am only nine years old. I ____________ the world by making the roads, the lakes, and the trails prettier, and because all my cans are recycled.