1 . I have eyes that are said to be “cow brown, ” and my long fair hair is my best feature (特征) .I'm not overweight, but I'm not too _______ either. I'm relatively happy with my _______, but where did I get it?

Do I share the same features as some unknown stranger? _______ while walking down the street, I tried to _______ that stranger, imagining that one of the women I passed _______ possibly be my biological mother(生母) .

For along time I wondered what life would be like with _______. I was never _______ with my life. I just never _______ wondering what it would be like to have been raised by my biological mother. And the none day, I _______ a poem which compared adoption(收养) ____________ a seed that was planted by one person and then taken care of by another. The second person had ____________ the seed and made it grow to be tall and beautiful. I found that it compared perfectly to my ____________

Gradually I ____________ that my mom had made me who I am today. She did my hair for my first dance. She was there for my first heartbreak... She'd been there for ____________ that ever mattered. And I started to notice that we had the same silly ____________, the same attitude to life, and the same way of treating people.

Sometimes when we're out somewhere, people comment on ____________ we look alike, and we turn to each other and laugh, ____________ that she wasn't the one who gave birth to me.

____________ I may not know why I look the way I do, I know why I am who I am. The mom I have now is the ____________ one I ever could have hoped for, not only because she holds a huge amount of unconditional(无条件的) love, but because she has ____________ who I am today

2 . Another person's enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.

I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father_________me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is_________for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no_________ than tomorrow morning.”

My stepmother walked over to me, _________my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are_________This is not the worst boy at all, _________the smartest one who hasn't yet found an outlet(释放的途径) for his enthusiasm.”

That statement began a(n)_________between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my_________as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.

She changed many things. She_________my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father's career could be more__________and my brother and I could be better__________.

When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand__________and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I__________ it, and I saw how it had already improved our lives. I accepted her__________ and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of__________that great day I went to interview Andrew Camegie and received the task which became my life's work later. I wasn't the__________beneficiary(受益者). My father became the__________ man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.

What power__________has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one's purpose and is__________ strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible(不可抗拒的) force which poverty and temporary defeat can never________.

You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.

3 . A weak old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and a four-year old grandson. The old man’s hands _______and his eyesight was poor. The family ate together at table, but the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands made eating rather_______ Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass, often _______ spilled (泼洒) on the tablecloth.

The son and daughter-in-law became _______ at the mess (脏乱). “We must do_______about grandfather,” said the son. I’ve had enough of his spilled milk and food on the floor. So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There, grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family had their dinner at the dinner table _______. Since grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a _______ bowl. Sometimes when the family glanced in grandfather’s _______, he had a tear in his eye. Still, the couple always blamed him when he_______a spoon or spilled food. The four-year-old watched it all in________

One evening before supper, the father ________his son playing with small wood pieces. He asked the child sweetly, “What are you making?” The boy ________, “Oh, I am making a little bowl for you and mama to eat your food from when I grow up.” The words so ________ the couple that they were speechless. Then tears started to ________ down their cheeks. Though no word was ________, both knew what must be done. That evening the husband took grandfather’s hand and led him back to the family dinner table gently. From then on, the grandfather ate every meal with the family.

4 . When my son Zac was six months old, I noticed something wasn’t right. He would_______with toys with his left arm,_______ his right side wasn’t there. When I_______ him to see the baby nurse, she did her best to hide her _______ but suggested I see a doctor as soon as possible.

For the next four months, Zac and I paid _______visits to the doctors. Then, at ten months, Zach had a CT scan. The scan results showed that my boy had hemiplegic cerebral palsy(偏瘫性脑麻痹). I was _______

Soon, his doctor put   us in touch with an organization that_______children’s disability and develo-pment services. So years of treatment _______

Gradually, Zac began to set his own _______. When he was 11 months old, he began to crawl(爬） with his right leg dragging behind. He________at 19 or 20 months, and even though one foot was turned, it never ________him doing anything.

He played football when he was eight, ________starting athletics at 11, where he found his ________. As a para-athlete(残疾运动员), he has even represented his state six times at a ________ level. Then in 2011, he became the Australian long jump ________holder in the under-13 group. Today Zac’s favorite sport is________and he is training with the South Australian para-cycling team for the 2020 Paralympics in Japan. If I had been too ________ to let him play sport, he would never have had the ________ to travel,compete and meet amazing people from all over the world.

My parenting journey with Zac wasn’t what I ________ , but I am so ________ he chose me to be his mum. He is my most precious gift.

5 . When my teenaged son became seriously ill, terrible times for my family began. Our once-happy home became tense and ______. My husband and I were exhausted under the great stress of ______ my son. It was as if we forgot how to communicate—we couldn’t have a simple ______ without a fighting. Our marriage was on the point of breaking up.

One evening, my son and I were talking about _______ I recalled my first Valentine’s present from my husband, a kazoo (卡祖笛). I was ______ when I received it because I couldn’t get it to make a sound ______ I am a professional saxophone(萨克斯) player. However hard I tried, it just never ______ . The kazoo eventually got ______ and forgotten. But My son was interested and insisted on seeing it. After some ______, I found it.

“You couldn’t get a sound? What’s so ______ about it?” my husband asked, amazed. He grabbed the kazoo and ______. Nothing happened. Surprised, he tried again. Still there was no sound. Frustrated. he tried again,______ to produce a funny sound like an angry bumblebee(大黄峰) ______ in the mouth of a bear. We burst into laughter. My son took a ______ to play the kazoo. He did no better than us, causing more ______.

Seeing his face light up, we felt as if the gloom(黑暗) had ______ and a ray of sunshine was let in. It was the best ten ______ of the past couple of years. The mood stayed ______ for the rest of the evening. It didn’t solve anything. But this ______ with the kazoo proved to be a turning point that always ______ us that there are still things to laugh at and enjoy, and that we can still connect as a family.

6 . When I was 14 years old, I was angry and rebellious, with ____ regard for anything my parents had to say, ___if it had nothing to do with me .Like so many______,I struggled to escape from anything that didn't ____ my picture of the world. A brilliant without need of guidance kid ,I refused to accept any obvious __ of love. In fact I got ___ at the proposal of the word ”love”。

One ______       , after an extremely difficult day, I _____ into my room, shut the door loudly and fell down onto my bed heavily. As I lay down in the privacy of my ___,my hands placed under my pillow. There was an envelope and I pulled what was inside out, which read, To ___ when you're alone."

____ I was alone, no one would know whether I read it or not. So I opened it. It said, "Mike ,1 know life is ____ right now, I know you are upset and I know we don't do everything right .I also know that I love you _____ and nothing you do or say will ever change that I am here for you if you ever need to talk. If you don't, that's also ____ . Just know that no matter where you go or whatever you do in your life, I will always love you and be ____ that you are my son.I'm here for you and love you that will never_____ love you ,Mom."

Every night as I went to bed, I would put my hands under my   __ and   remember the ___ I felt every time I got a letter. During my teen years, the letters were the calm assurance that I still could be loved __ my anger and rudeness. Just before I fell __ I became grateful that my mom knew what I, an angry teenager, needed.

7 . Kim and I decided to go to see a new movie. We arrived a little early, _______ we were talking about our day. Then came a young girl, _______ by a man who we thought was her father. They sat one row ahead and about two _______to the right. _______ they began to talk, it was clear that the man was her father? and that their family was _______ hard times.

The young girl seemed mature （成熟的） _______her years. She encouraged her father, _______that everything would be okay and that she loved him. As they spoke, Kim’s eyes were filled with _______. He was thinking how _______ this father was to have the________and support of his daughter. The young girl reminded her dad of the ________times when they used to go to watch movies together, enjoying, talking,________and even crying. These were the times that she missed. She knew

It became________to us that they had chosen the early show because the ________were cheaper. They had bought a small box of popcorn and were sharing it ________. This young girl had saved her money to ________this daddy-daughter “date”.

The father felt________to his daughter, ________that things would go back to the way they were soon.

8 . Whenever I recall my childhood, there is one thing I remember clearly. My father used his ______ to let my mother_______ her parents who lived far away.There were just my younger brother and myself in the ______. One evening, our father came home and there was no ______, not even a piece of bread. My father had no money and he was as ______ as we were. My brother and I went to bed without having anything. ______ I knew from the expression on my father's face that he could not______ us be hungry for long. He left the house, and about two hours later he______ and woke us up. He had two small potato pies in his hands. I didn’t know where he got the money for the food but somehow he ______ to find a way. It was clear that he wanted to get his children ______.

My father did not eat and had ______ all day but he sat there and felt ______at seeing us eat. This has always stuck in my ______. At that moment, I felt ______ knowing that he tried his best not to let us ______. and he wanted us to know he was always there with us. In______ times. I think, it is important not to ______ weakness but strength. ______ the mother is the cement（黏固剂）that ______ a family together， then the father is the steel that strengthens that cement.

It is his values and ______ that have carried me forward and helped me deal with my own problems in life.

The day that you see me old and I am already not in good health, have patience and try to understand me.

If I get dirty when eating, if I can not dress, have patience and remember the hours I _______ teaching it to you. If, when I speak to you, I _______the same things thousand and one times, do not _______me, listen to me. When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story _______you got to sleep. When I do not want to have a _______, neither shame me nor scold me. Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I _______, in order that you wanted to bathe. When you see my _______little about new technologies, give me the necessary time and do not look at me with your mocking (嘲弄) smile. I taught you _______to do so many things: to eat good, to dress well, to confront life… When at some moment I lose the memory or the _______of our conversation, let me have the necessary time to remember, and if I cannot do it, do not become nervous, as the most important thing is not our conversation but surely to be with you and to have you ________to me.

If ever I do not want to eat, do not force me, I know well ________I need to and when not. When my ________legs do not allow me to walk, give me your ________, the same way I did when you gave your first ________. And when someday I say to you that I do not want to ________any more — that I want to rest forever, do not get angry. Someday you will understand.

Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived. Some day you will discover that, ________my mistakes, I always wanted the ________thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you. You must not feel sad, angry or impotent (无可奈何) for seeing me ________you. You must be next to me, try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you ________living. Help me to walk, help me to end my way with love and ________. I will pay you by a smile and by the immense love I have had always for you.

I love you, Son.

Your father

10 . I watch her and her mother decorate her college dormitory room. Everything is in place, _______ and arranged. I closely watch that which I would have in the past ______. I know that this time is _______. As half of her room has been nicely decorated, I begin to _______ that her room at home is no longer hers. It is now ours, our room for her when she _______.

I _______ myself thinking of when I held her in my arm for the first time in hospital. One day old, so _______, so beautiful, so totally dependent on her new _______. All thoughts went through my mind as I _______ her eyes, her nose and her mouth. Time passes _______.

She looks up now, catching me _______ at her, causing her to say to her mother. “Mom, Dad’s looking at me funny.”

The last few days, I touch her arm, her face — _______ that when my wife and I return home, she will not be ______ us. I have so much to say, but no _______ with which to say it.

She says, “It’ll be all right, Dad. I’ll be home from _______ soon.” I tell her she will have a great year but I say little else. I only hold on to our good-bye hug a little longer, a little _______.

My wife’ eyes follow her ______ she leaves us. Mine do not. I know that what she is welcoming is exciting and _______. I remember what the world looked like to me when everything was _______

When I walk to the car with my wife at my side, my eyes are wet, my heart is painful, and I realize that my life is _______ forever.