1 . Kids love to go online. There is so much to explore and learn.     1     The answer to the question is as difficult as determining at what age a child can be left at home by themselves, since all children are different. Here are some questions to ask yourself to determine what is right for your child.

    2    

Of course when you are trying to determine if you can let him or her go online, your child has probably already said, “I’m ready; I can handle it.” But are they?     3     How would they handle the material if they ran across it by accident?

    4    

Does your child question other people’s actions? Do they easily believe anything that is presented to them? It is an important question to ask to determine if your child is ready to go online alone.

Have you taught them what the dangers are?

    5    . Have you explained to them that there are people out there that might want to do them harm? It is a dangerous world out there. If you are going to let them wander around in the online world, they need to be prepared for what they might see or run into.

3 . 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 found 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 opened 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 owner, 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 (评论) 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 met on Thursday night.

“Eventually 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.”

4 . When I was a little girl, my mom would say, “Half the fun of doing anything is sharing it with others.”     1    Friends and mates allow us to enjoy our successes and our joys, comfort us in our hard moments, and provide a mirror for us to learn more about ourselves. I’ve always looked at friends as the family we choose. They enrich our lives. As Robert Louis Steven once said, “    2    ”.

To be a good friend or partner, it’s important to be a good listener. Hear what your friend or mate has to say first rather than jump to conclusions or get defensive.    3     When they hear their words repeated back to them, it can help them to realize what they said was not exactly what they meant to say.

    4     You know the old golden rule, “Care for others the way you would like them to care for you.” The support of a friend during a tough time could make the difference between success and failure. Encouragement and confidence are the gifts that can help change a person’s life.

Take care, though, with whom you choose to have close relationship, for they can have a great effect on yourself – respect and life path. As someone once told me “    5     They will either take you up or down.”

I hardly remember my grandmother. She used to holding me on her knees and sing old songs. I was only four when she passes away. She is just a distance memory for me now.

I remember my grandfather very well. He was tall, with broad shoulder and a beard turned from black to gray over the years. He had a deep voice, which set himself apart from others in our small town, he was strong and powerful. In a fact, he spent a lot of his spare time read books. In short, he was the gentlest man I have never known.

6 . My son Tom taught me a beautiful lesson today. He is three years old and it is amazing hatching him grow up.

He called out to me today saying, “Papa, sit”. That usually means _______ everything and going next to him and sitting down to play with him. I did that, as he can be _______ and will not stop calling out until I _______. He was playing with beads (珠子), pushing a string through them, which is a great exercise to help _______ fine motor skills. Then, after he finished playing with the beads, it was time to put them back in the box that they are stored in. I saw him _______ pick up each bead, look at it _______ it were made of chocolate and then placed it into its box.

With over a hundred beads to go, I was getting _______. “What a long time it will take! Why cannot he _______ ten beads in one go and drop them in?” said my anxious mind. I noticed that he did this with as much_______ as he had while we were playing. I didn’t see any ________ between his play and his putting away the toy. Obviously he enjoyed both.

Then it suddenly ________ me that this boy was enjoying the whole ________. The journey was his goal. For him the ________ was in the game and after the game, not just in the fun part. What a great perspective: to live each moment as it is the ________ moment; to do each task as it is the most awesome task. Nothing else ________.

Looking at how ________ my son was putting beads into the box ________ me that the process was the goal. The joy of pilgrimage (朝圣) is not in getting there but in every ________ of the journey.

This is what living in the NOW is all ________. Tom, my son, was showing me that it was about thoroughly enjoying every moment with ________ love and peace.

7 . When I was a boy, our big family would sometimes gather(聚集) together at my aunt's tiny house over the summer. _______ from all over the country would come in to _______. The adults would sit together in the living room to _______ and catch up on each other's lives. The kids would be sent out into the front yard to _______ while dinner was cooking for all of us.

We would play a good old-fashioned game of tag(捉人游戏). I remember one of those times_______ I was the youngest and smallest of all the kids there so I got _______ first and couldn't catch anyone else. Hard as I ran after my brothers and cousins, they were all too _______ for me. I grew more and more _______

As I sat thinking how I could _______ this difficult game, a good ________ came to me. I aimed at one of my brothers. Unluckily, I ________ I got up with tears in my eyes. Then things started to ________ I saw one of my cousins whom I met for the first time standing there. She ________ to run but was going much slower than before. I ________ caught up and tagged her. Then she ________ to me and smiled, ''You'd better run! '' I ran off laughing ________ she turned and started to run after others.

Now I see how her act of ________ that day saved me from ________ and returned me to joy. Although we hardly ever ________ each other, we were family and she loved me. I always remember what she did for me and would try my best to share ________with everyone.

9 . As a kid, I remember that whenever my dad was repairing something, he would ask me to hold the hammer, just so we’d have time to talk with each other.

When I left for college, my dad would ________ me every Sunday morning. Years later, when I bought a house, my dad ________ it in the summer heat. All he asked me to do was help him dip (蘸) his brush and ________ with him. But I was too ________ those days to talk to him.

Four years ago, my dad was putting together a swing set for my daughter. He asked me to bring him a cup of tea and have a ________ with him, but I had to prepare for a trip that weekend.

One Sunday morning we were talking on the phone ________, and I noticed my dad had ________ some things we discussed recently. That morning since I was in a hurry, our conversation became ________. Later that day came a call. My father had had an aneurysm (动脉瘤) and was in hospital. ________ I flew back and on my way I was thinking about all the ________ opportunities to talk with my dad.

By the time I arrived, my father had ________. Now it was he who didn’t have time for a(n) ________ with me. After his death I ________ much more about him. All he ________ was only my time. And now I ________ that nothing is more important than my company with my dear parents.

（2）可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；

（3）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

I’m very glad to have received the letter you sent me last week. _______________________________

Best wishes.

Yours,

Li Hua