1 . At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. The airline had announced her plane’s _________ and he said to his daughter, “I love you. I wish you enough.”

She said, “Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your _________ is all I needed. I wish you enough, too, Daddy.” They kissed good-bye and she left.

I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to _________ his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking. “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be _________?” “Yes.” I replied.

Saying that brought back memories I had of expressing my love and _________ for all my Dad had done for me. Recognizing that his days were _________, I kept telling him face to face how much he meant to me. _________, I knew what this man was experiencing.

“Why is this a forever good-bye?” I asked.

“I am old and she lives too far away. And the _________ is, her next trip back will be for my funeral (葬礼).” he said.

“When you were saying good-bye I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough’. What does that mean?”

He began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been _________ from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.” He paused and looked up as if trying to remember it __________. He smiled even more.

“When we said ‘I wish you enough’, we wanted you to have a life filled with enough good things to __________ you,” he continued and shared the following as if he were reciting it from __________.

“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest __________ in life appears much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your desire. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you __________.”

He then began to __________ and walked away.

5 . John had been on the road visiting customers for more than three weeks. It was coming up on Mother’s Day. He said to himself, “I’ll _______ Mom some roses.”

He went into the small shop and saw a boy _______ to the clerk. “How many roses can I get for six dollars, madam?” the boy asked. The clerk was trying to _______ that roses were expensive and carnation (康乃馨) was the best flower for mothers. Maybe the young man would be _______ with carnations.

“No. I _______ have roses,” he said, “My Mom was sick so much last year and I didn’t get to spend much time with her. I want to get something _______ . It has to be red roses because that’s her favorite.”

The clerk _______ John and was just shaking her head. Something inside John was _______ by the boy’s voice. He looked at the clerk and _______ mouthed that he would pay for the boy’s roses.

The clerk looked at the young man and said, “Okay, I will give you a dozen red roses for your six ________ ” . The young man ________ jumped into the air. He took the flowers and ran from the store.

John ________ his own flowers and had the clerk be ________ that delivery would include a note telling his mother how much he loved her. ________ he drove away from the shop, he saw the young boy walking down the sidewalk. He ________ him cross the street and enter a cemetery (墓地). The young man stopped by a small monument and went on his knees. He carefully laid the ________ on the grave and began to sob. John heard the young man speak. “Mommy oh Mommy, ________ didn’t I tell you how much I love you? Jesus please, find my Mommy. ________ my Mommy I love her.”

John walked back to his car, with ________ in his eyes. He drove quickly to the florist and told her he would take the flowers ________ .

6 . When I was little, I often helped my mother plant our family’s garden. In April, I would kneel by Mum’s side for hours, carefully digging holes and ______ seeds into the earth.

When I grew up, I was unwilling to do any planting. ______, my mother never said much about my decision until two years ago. I was leaving home when Mum ______ me.

“Would you please help me with the planting today?” she asked, I mumbled (咕哝) something along the ______ of, “Uh, maybe … I’ll see. By the time I left the house, Mum was already in the garden. She ______ for a moment as I walked past, and from the corner of my eye I saw a certain ______ in her stare. A few hours later, I decided to head back home to help her and felt very _____   for my selfless decision. But I was too late.

I ______ little about that day until nearly a year later, Mum unexpectedly ______ her friend Sara to cancer. She went to see how the two children were ______ the sudden loss. There Mum learned the answer. “Mummy made me my own garden,” Rachel said ______, leading her outdoors to see the masterpiece. Sara had decided to plant her children something that would ______ long after she was gone.

As I listened to my mother tearfully tell Sara’s story, I realized the true ______ of a garden. Our annual planting was about kneeling together, planting potential life and creating the best ______ together.

I won’t ever ______ the planting day again.

7 . I love planting trees. I feel happy when I am planting since I know that long after I am gone, these trees will ________ high above the land, providing oxygen for humans not yet born and ________ the carbon dioxide from the air.

Each spring, as I am ________, my mind goes back to a ________ I have of my grandfather, walking with him on the land, listening to his ________ and learning about nature. He often told a story which has been ________ in my mind all these years.

It was in the early 1900s, a man lost his wife and daughter to a terrible disease. Filled with ________, he decided to take up the ________ occupation of shepherd in the hills. He was about 55 years of age at that time, and as he ________ his sheep, he looked around and saw the land was ________. Then the old man felt he needed to do something to help the land ________, for it had once been a splendid green forest.

He collected some ________ of oak trees from other places, ________ watered them and cared for the young trees that sprouted the next year. For the rest of his life, he planted every day. No one knew his story until he was 90 years old. Yet he ________ to plant, perhaps only five trees a day. At that time, the hill had become a green forest, ________ as far as people could see.

8 . I had driven home to celebrate my 38th birthday with my mother. When I arrived, I found her sitting proudly at the kitchen table, a chocolate cake and two boxes wrapped in orange ribbon (丝带) in front of her. “Happy birthday!” she said, _________ at the boxes. “Open them.”

As she knows me _______ than anyone, she’d gotten me exactly what I wanted — running clothes. I hugged her and thanked her and proceeded (接着) to eat the cake.

“Too many _______,” I said, not really caring.

“You’ll run them off tomorrow,” Mom said.

Many adult children with a parent suffering from _________ memory will tell you there was one day that _______ to them that their relationship with their mother or father would be forever changed.

For me that day _______ two weeks later, when I drove back for another short _______. I came upon exactly the same _______: my mom sitting at the kitchen table; a chocolate cake resting next to two boxes wrapped in curly ribbon. The ribbon was green this time. That was the only _______. “Happy birthday!” my mom said.

I was totally confused. “What’s going on?” I asked. She smiled, “Can’t I celebrate my daughter’s birthday?”

This was no ________. This was real life, and since my mother clearly only wanted to make me ________, I pushed aside my fear and played my role as the ________ daughter. I hugged her, thanked her and ________ the clothes… I did not mention to her that we’d done all this two weeks ago.

My house is her world now. My mother and I have the ________ conversation roughly 10 times a day. ________, I consider it a pleasure, because every minute is new for her.

9 . My great-grandfather, my grandfather and my father are all farmers. My father expects me to become a farmer and_________them all but I don’t agree with my father.

Three years ago, my father took me to a(n) _________to visit one of his friends. His friend_________a small airline. It was the first time I had seen a_________airplane. After my father’s friend discovered I had never been in an airplane, he_________me to fly with them. When we took off, I felt very excited.

Since then, if I had time, my father’s friend would teach me how to fly.He even let me fly_________once. I wanted to become a pilot but to do this, I would have _________my father’s wishes.

At the age of 18 ,I had to tell my father what I wanted to do but I didn’t want to make him_______. As he walked ahead of me and followed, I didn’t know what I could say to help him understand my_________ for flying. I took my courage and said,“Father,I have something__________to tell you. I want to go to college and become a pilot, I have talked to the schools and they agreed to__________me financial(经济的)help.”I felt nervous in his__________. Then he spoke,“I was wondering when you would tell me. I have been__________money for you.” When I heard this, I couldn’t help____________ For the first time I really understand his____________love for me.

10 . My grandmother is the woman who plays a significant role in my life. It’s particularly _________ because this is the first year of my life that she hasn’t been with us, but she continues to _________ me in so many ways.

She was a(n) _________ grandmother. She was the _________ of our family. She grew up in an era when women were not expected to have _________, but having left school in her teens due to poverty, she worked day and night to _________ a business with my grandfather, managing to save enough money to send my father to a good school.

She was famous for her _________, so everyone loved her cakes. She always got involved in social life and _________, spending 50 years of her life working for their local village committee. She _________ good memories, saying how she would keep them in her mind and get them out whenever she wanted the pleasure of recalling the past. She wouldn’t focus on __________, though, saying that it “doesn’t do good to look back too much”.

We live in a time when women are __________ to have it all. My grandmother, born in the 1920s, had it all before it was fashionable. The __________, however, was that she never made it about her. She __________ her life to other people and kept positive because of it.

She __________ me to seek the good, not pay much attention to the bad and take an interest in something __________. Thank you, Granny.