5 . My dad had been my hero while I was growing up. He had worked so hard all his life to ______ the whole family. He sometimes had a bad feeling that made him sometimes ______ me and my brothers, but he sometimes had a good ______. He shared something happy with us and showed us gentle laugh ______. Anyway, always knew that he loved me. Still, my father had been ______ in an old fashioned way and raised us in that ______ too. Therefore, I couldn't remember ever being hugged (拥抱) by my ______.

After my mom passed away, my father moved close to where I ______. I was so happy to have him close by. We often talked about life, but we still hardly, ______ and never hugged. Finally his health began to fail ______ and a few months later, brain cancer had taken him from us. I nearly couldn't breathe because of ______ and depression (沮丧). It was a cold morning and I was thinking I wouldn’t have gained just the _____ hug from him.

One day, I was standing by the window when suddenly my son opened his ______ and gave me a huge heart-felt hug. And just as he did, I heard my father's ______ deep inside of me say, “Joey, this hug is from me!” I ______ and the tears welled up in my eyes. At that moment, in the place where heart, mind, and spirit all met, I felt the love. I felt I had been ______ by my father. I still had a lot of things left to do and a lot of love ______ to share.

Life can seem very ______ but in truth it is very short. Never ______an opportunity to show your love. And always keep your heart and your arms ______ for a hug!

6 . Learning to Accept

I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. _______, he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was   _________ and ill.

My father was _______ a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness _______ all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is   _______. One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started _______ about life, and I told them about one of my_______. I said that we must very often give things up _______ we grow --- our youth, our beauty, our friends --- but it always _______ that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father ________ up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up ________! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn’t think of anything to say. ________, he answered his own question: “I ________ the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.

I was also ________ by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (愤怒的) at someone, I ________ remember his words and become ________. If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be ________ to give up my small irritations. In this ________, I learned the power of acceptance from my father.

Sometimes I ________ what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one ________

7 . Greenberg was a lucky guy to enter Columbia University on full scholarship. But just before junior year, Greenberg's____changed. One day his vision "____up" and later he was diagnosed (诊断)with glaucoma (青光眼). Then doctors operated on Greenberg's eyes. ____, the surgery didn't work. Greenberg was going blind. He was so____ that he refused to see anyone.

As Greenberg' s best friend, Arthur persuaded Greenberg to go back to Columbia and______to be his reader. Arthur read _____to him every day， taking time out from his own study, and Greenberg______scoring straight A's. Still, he was______about getting around alone and relied on his friend.

Then, one afternoon, Greenberg and Arthur went to Midtown Manhattan. When it was time to go back to campus, Arthur said he couldn’t_____him because of an appointment. Greenberg______They argued, and Arthur walked off, _____Greenberg alone in Grand Central Terminal.

Greenberg, who was completely______, stumbled (蹒珊)through the rush-hour crowd. He took a shuttle train west to Times Square, and then transferred to an uptown train. Four miles later, he _____at the Columbia University stop.

At the university's gates, someone______him. "Oops, excuse me, sir." Greenberg______the voice. It was Arthur's. Greenberg's first reaction was ___, but in the next second, he realized what he had just______-and realized, too, who had made it possible. _____, Arthur had been with him the whole way, using one of the most______strategies.

Blindness doesn't make Greenberg fail to appreciate the______of life. He always says he is the luckiest man in the world.

8 . In August 1999,Yuriko noticed that her daughter,Ayako,was looking thin and pale,_______ she insisted that the 22-year-old see a doctor.As they waited for the test results,the doctor________ gave Yuriko a note while her daughter wasn’t noticing.

In the restroom,Yuriko opened the note,“It is stomach cancer,“said the doctor.“Please________.There is no time.”

On September 21,Ayako had a(n)________.Three quarters of her stomach were removed.The doctor ________ the situation to Yuriko but the medical terms sounded like a foreign language.

Ayako was put on anti-cancer drugs,and over the next three months,she ________ from side effects,and lost seven kilograms.

Yuriko decided to do more to ________ her daughter.She read all kinds of books on cancer.As a single mother,she had no one to share her ________ with.

________ the difficulties,Yuriko was able to help her daughter.When Ayako started experiencing breathing difficulties,Yuriko ________ if it could be a side effect of the anti-cancer drug.She told Ayako’s doctor and he ________ to take her off the drug.

________,in November 2002,Ayako’s treatment came to an end.Although she felt her pain ________,Yuriko couldn’t forget how lost and ________ she felt during her daughter’s treatment.She wrote a letter to the local newspaper ________ the creation of a support group for cancer patients.

Phone calls and letters ________ her idea started pouring in.In December 2002,Yuriko formally ________ Ikkikai,roughly meaning “sharing the joy”,with the ________ of providing hope and information for people with cancer,and their families.

Ikkikai’s message has begun to ________.Yuriko says,“The simple act of talking to other people who understand your problems can make the greatest ________.I hope that more people would join in the group.”