1 . What I love most about traveling isn’t seeing the famous landmarks or eating great food. It’s watching my mom gasp (倒抽气) at something ______and unexpected. In Yellowknife, it was the bright aurora (极光). In Japan, it was 3,000 cherry trees. To get to them, we had to travel great distances (距离) and______our trips just right. All of them were better because we saw them_______.

When I tell people how much I like to______with my mom they often feel_______.We expect parents to show their children the______. When children become older, things are______. They prefer traveling with friends. They no longer have to see the world through their______.

When I was little, my mother was my_______. She is responsible (负责的) for everything that makes me a good person. She’s kind and patient but she has little time to_______. So at 23, I booked two tickets to Yellowknife. We would explore the world as friends; I could______my mother to see the world on her own terms.

Our trips are not without______times. We’ve gotten on the wrong train, encountered (遭遇) wild animals, and even lost our passports. But I have never______any of the trips with my mother. Before our ______, I had no idea how much my mom loved the mountains. Most of all, I never knew how much I could______her as a friend.

2 . My daughter Beth bought me two beautifully carved wooden butterflies for my 56th birthday. I hung them in _______places on my walls. When I see them, those good memories will _______fill my mind.

My mom died when I was only 25. Beth had _______memories of her grandma since she was only 3-year-old. I tried to_______it by telling her stories of Grandma. Each time I did, I could see there was a little _______in Beth’s eyes.

One day when she was seven or so, we were _______on the playground. Beth suddenly said how much she _______not having her grandma around. I was _______and told her, “Grandma loves you very much. She _______over us from Heaven. Maybe she is now riding on the back of a_______to come down and get a _______look at us.” Just at that moment, a   butterfly appeared,   _______around Beth’s face and then flew away. We both laughed with our hearts _______of love and joy.

Since that moment, both Beth and I seem to _______butterflies like flowers. Whenever we are _______, they seem to fly around us, take a good look, and then fly away. Each time it _______ us of my mom’s love. When there are no _______of any kind during the coldest months, I can_______the two beautiful wooden butterflies. They make me realize that we are _______ in this life. Perhaps the best way to remember, _______, is to be a reminder of love yourself.

4 . 89-year- old Mrs. Adams was always dressed in full black and hardly left her house. Almost everyone in the neighborhood was afraid of_________ her. But 6-year -old Tim found the old and_________ lady used to look outside through her living room curtains. He_________ she longed for a friend to be happy. He found a perfect solution to_________ Mrs Adams one day.

Tim was on his way home when he_________ a little stray cat (流浪猫). He brought her home, fed her milk, and built her a little bed out of his shoe box. Tim was_________ to name her Kitty after thinking about for a long time. He_________ her under the bed in his room because his mother would be_________ if she found out what he was going to do with the_________.

The next day, Tim took Kitty in the shoe box. He stopped outside Mrs. Adams’ house and knocked at the door. The elder lady took her own sweet time__________ the door. Tim smiled, and Mrs Adams noticed one of his front teeth was missing. She burst out laughing__________.

“See! I knew you were not scary!” Tim said. “You look beautiful when you__________,Granny!“

“Of course, I’m not__________， little man! But what’s your name?”Mrs. Adams asked.

“I’m Tim!” he said proudly and__________ Kitty’s shoe box to her.“This is my pet, Kitty.I know you’re alone. She will surely keep you__________.”

Mrs. Adams’ smile suddenly__________.She asked if he came to give the cat to her__________.Tim nodded.

“I am thankful to you, Tim,”the older lady expressed her__________. "Everyone is afraid of me, and nobody__________ to ask me how I was doing. ” Mrs. Adams opened her arms.

Tim stepped forward to give Mrs. Adams a__________.

6 . Sixty-year-old Debora was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer after doctors found a tumor in her lung. As the mother-of-six received the____, she prepared for what she feared might be her last Christmas with her family. The mother was still____by the one person who was missing from her dinner table.

Jacob is the only one of Debora’s children who has____away from home. Since he began studying engineering 1, 500 miles away in California five years ago, the expensive distance has ____ that it has been rare for the student to fly home. “Coming back was____ difficult for me.” said Jacob. “Being a full-time student, it’s hard to come up with the money for ____.”

However, Jacob saved up and borrowed money from friends so he could fly home and____ her on Christmas Eve.

Jacob’s sister Becky filmed the____moment that Debora opened the door on December 24th and saw her son for the first time since her diagnosis. The heartwarming____shows Debora was excited as she hugged her son and declares it “the____Christmas ever”.

“When we received the diagnosis, it____me hard. Being so far away from all your loved ones during a time like this was almost unbearable,” says Jacob. “____very kind friend who lent the money at the last minute, I wouldn’t have been able to make it. I bought a ticket and decided to surprise my mom by____on Christmas Eve.” This story has a happy_____ : Debora has been monitored again and still shows no____of cancer and she is healthy again.

8 . I simply woke up one morning with a wish to return to Huntington and do something. It was hard to _________ my thoughts. The only person I knew there was my mother, and she and I didn’t _________. When I was growing up, I never felt _________ to her. She hardly hugged me or held my hand. At 15, I learned Mom had a rare disease. That may have explained her _________, but for a daughter who wanted to get her mother’s love, the fact couldn’t remove the _________ she had caused.

When I finally arrived home, I rang the doorbell _________. Mom opened the door, stone-faced. Despite that, I lived nearby and visited almost every day out of a sense of _________. When Mom’s condition became _________, I became her full-time caregiver. As Mom’s disease progressed, her _________ seemed to have changed. She became __________ and easy to communicate with. She spoke a lot about her younger days, as if she were __________ those days.

One day, in her room, she took hold of my hand. She’d never __________ me in such a way. She talked about some __________, including family and friends. As she spoke, she held my hand in hers with the love and tenderness (温柔) I’d __________ my whole life. Mom died peacefully a few years later. But I always remember the moment when she held my hand. And I never __________ my decision to stay with her when she was in need.

10 . My mother, Donzella Washington, 80, graduated from Alabama A&M University on Dec.6 with a bachelor’s degree in social work. Along with her ________achievements, she made history as the oldest ________ in the history of Alabama A&M University.

What ________ me most was the challenge my mother had accepted to ________ her stuttering (口吃) problem, which ultimately ________ her to begin taking speech classes more than a decade ago.

My parents had been living on a farm in California. My mother said that her ________ behind going back to school was my father, Jeff, who was her biggest ________. He was my mother’s No.1 fan. He supported everything she did, _________returning to school. Although my father did not have a traditional college education, he knew the ________ of gaining one. My mother wanted to finish her ________ in his honor.

However, my father ________ in 2010, and my mother ________ to Alabama to live with me two years later. The most challenging part was ________ her when she was missing my father badly. Those moments when she cried, all I could do was hold her and love her. I had seen my mother ________ from great sadness over my father’s death and ________ to achieve her education dream. And I was very ________ to be there to witness her final success.

Now, my mother says she is not slowing down so soon. She’s even ________ going back to school to obtain her master’s degree. She ________ to inspire and motivate others that. ________ is not a barrier. When it comes to ________ our dreams, it’s never too late to achieve them.