2 . “If that little girl is causing that much trouble within your group of friends, I would simply stop her,” I said as Abby was about to set off to school. Abby listened carefully, as I continued. “If she causes any more _________ to you, I will go to your teacher to _________ her to never let her sit next to you.”

By this time, Allyson, my then eight-year-old daughter, had joined us, listening to every word too. Neither of my daughters cut in as I finished my _________. Then, as I was telling each of them what I thought _________, Allyson’s real words of wisdom (智慧) came about. “Mom,” she said. “I was just thinking maybe Abby is supposed to be that girl’s _________. Maybe Abby is supposed to let that girl see forgiving (原谅) and goodness through her.”

Hmmm, I had become a _________. And at that moment, I _________ that wearing the “Mother Hat” didn’t mean I was always right. In fact, I wanted to pull that hat over my face and _________ so that they couldn’t see my awkward (尴尬的) look.

“Yes, that’s a good point,” I said, forcing a _________ at my girls. “Abby, __________ this situation the way you think is right.” “OK,” she said before walking out of the door and off to __________. “Bye, Mom!” Allyson called, __________ her big sister out the door. I was left __________. In those following quiet moments I was lost in thought and felt __________ that my two daughters were little in height but big in heart. Sometimes our children have great lessons to teach us — if we’ll only __________.

3 . There was an old couple who had been married for 40 years. They loved each other deeply and went on dates together. Every time they went out for supper, the husband would order pie for dessert, which became their_________. Although the wife always_________ to order any, she would _________ the first bite of his pie every time.

But then the husband began to _________ a type of disease. He started to slowly _________ who his wife was. It _________ progressed to the point where he didn’t recognize his wife at all and became troubled by living with a stranger.

He moved out of the house and into a nursing home. She was _________. However, she thought of good _________to help him recover. She would visit him with items (物品) that he loved before, but he never knew who she was. Even seeing pictures of them together from their past _________ him.

One of the doctors __________ the wife to start taking him on a few dates like before, so that the husband could gain a new kind of familiarity with her. The wife __________ his suggestion. So she took him to a __________ they had been going to their whole lives and had dinner. Afterwards he ordered pie, and without thinking she stole the first bite of it. The husband looked angry, and was ready to leave. But __________he stopped and seemed shocked, and then started crying.

Everything had come back. His wife’s __________ made him get back to who he was. Tears came to his eyes once more. They moved back together and __________ their lives again.

5 . The photographs that Scilla took as a 16-year-old girl on the streets of London in 1955 stayed largely in her album (相册) over the years. Scilla is now 83, and her self-developed black-and-white photos have been brought back to life after they were discovered by a teenage photographer.

Over the past year, Philip Loveday, 16, has been revisiting his grandmother’s path across the capital to carefully rephotograph the pictures. His journey through time with a camera has been especially moving, because his grandmother, Scilla, has Alzheimer’s disease (阿尔茨海默症) and has lost many of her memories.

Philip took new photos that looked like the ones Scilla took long ago, and put them in a new album. Each page of Scilla’s old album was copied and put in the new one, with Philip’s new photos on the opposite pages. Philip’s mother, Catherine Loveday, said Scilla had been happy with the new album, which had “put her back in her shoes” as a teenager.

Philip said his mother showed him the album she had found at her mother’s house. Greatly absorbed in how modern London would compare to the city photographed by his grandmother, Philip and his mother began to make trips into central London. During the trips, they had the idea of retaking the photos.

Some of the places are similar, like Big Ben. Others show how the city has modernized. Unlike Scilla’s view of St. Paul’s Cathedral from the Thames, Philip’s retake has the Millenium Bridge. When Scilla photographed the John Lewis store on Oxford Street, it was a one-storey building — now it has seven floors. Philip had to use his imagination to recreate other sights. Scilla has repeatedly returned to her new album since receiving it. Philip said: “It’s nice for her to see someone taking an interest in those photos and going back over them, and also good for her to connect her past to where we are now.”

My mom only had one eye. I hated her. She was such an embarrassment.

She ran a small shop at a flea market, and collected old clothes and some other things to sell for the money we needed. Once during elementary school, it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed and wondered how could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ignored her. The next day at school, my schoolmates asked me, “your mom only has one eye?” and taunted me.

I was so angry with my mom and wished that she would just disappear from this world. So l said to my mom, “Why don’t you have the other eye?! If you’re only gonna make me a laughing stock!” My mom did not respond, I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, I felt so good to have had said what I wanted to say. Maybe it was because I was full of anger then and there, I didn’t think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.

For the words I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching at me in the corner of my heart. Even so, I hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty. I told myself that I would become successful in the near future and get out of that house for good, so I studied very hard. Later I got accepted by the Seoul University, I left my mother and came to Seoul to study. Then I got married there.

I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I am living happily as a successful man. I enjoy the life in Seoul because it’s a place that doesn’t remind me of my mom past. This kind of happiness was getting bigger and bigger, until one day someone knocked at my door. It was my mom! And still with her one eye! It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little girl ran away, scared of my mom’s eye.

I screamed at her, “Who are you? I don’t know you!”

After the funeral (葬礼), the neighbor gave me a letter saying, “My dearest son...

10 . What time will the dinner be?