5 . 23-year-old Taleigh Loven walked downstairs to her graduation party last October. She was _________ balloons, treats and congratulations from her family. What didn’t cross her mind was her _________ wearing the same graduation cap as she did. _________ him carrying a certificate with his name on it, she instantly burst into tears.

Mike Loven, 47, decided four years earlier that he was going to restart his study in Grand Canyon University, the _________ school his daughter had just been _________ to. A few weeks later, Mike was taking his first _________ course while Taleigh was getting settled in her dorm-with no _________ that Mike was a fellow freshman.

“There was no real reason for _________ it a secret from the family-I merely thought the _________ would be fun,” Mike said. “I work a lot and I’m always on my computer, so no one __________ knew that I was working on stuff for __________ all those years.”

The __________ part about the whole thing, Mike said, was during __________ midterm seasons when his family would constantly ask him for help with tricky school-related issues. He had his own __________ as well, but he couldn’t tell them. That, he said, __________ many late nights at the computer.

7 . My faith in human nature has never been so great as it was last weekend after our family get-together in the town of Vail.

On Saturday, we all went to the market right in the middle of the town. Near the end, we all _______ at the fountain near the bridge, and the kids waded (蹚水) around in the fountain until we _______ . This is one of the busiest walking streets.

After we returned to the hotel late in the afternoon, my 7-year-old son Ponder _______ that nowhere could he find his backpack, which _______ his Gameboy and his watch. After a thorough _______ we determined that he must have left it at the fountain.

Ponder has never lost anything. So we just take for granted that he needs no guidance on managing his _______.

He was upset, not about the Gameboy, but about the watch. “But Dad,” he said, through massive _______, “they don’t make that kind of watch anymore.” We were all very sad.

Our dinner reservation was at a restaurant just on the other side of the bridge, so I _______ him that we would not only search the area around the fountain when we went back for dinner, but we would also find the police and ask them if the backpack had been _______ .

As we exited from the parking garage, we could see the fountain as we walked down the long staircase. I saw something black ________ there, but it was right next to a woman standing by the fountain, so I could not ________ what it was or if it was hers.

“See it, Dad?” Ponder shouted. “Don’t get too excited because that may not be it,” I said. But that was it. It had been five or six hours since we left the fountain, and it was still there. There was no ID in it, and it looked like someone had looked through it and then set it right out where all could ________ it.

I literally ________ when we reached it and it was his! Everyone in our party was blown away by this “miracle (奇迹)”. In my wildest ________ , I would never have imagined that this could happen nowadays.

What a charmed life, eh? I believe this was a perfect lesson for a child in losing something important. . . lose it and feel the full ________ of that loss, and then to miraculously get it back.