1 . There’s a special bond between good parents and their children that is a beautiful thing to see.

They care about every________of their children’s life, from the tiniest issues to the biggest heartbreaks.

Elizabeth Bautista Boyd of Oklahoma is________to have such a father who still________and protects her, even though she is a grown-up 38-year-old working woman now. Boyd drove to work on a________winter morning, and the roads were frozen.________this, her dad did something amazing for her.

She________photos of her father’s act of kindness on a social networking website________by the touching words: “You guys…This is my dad. He’d driven to my company parking lot and waited for me to________, so he could salt the icy road from my________to the company’s front door. He did this to________that I, his 38-year-old daughter, wouldn’t________Oh! Love you, Daddy.”

The photos show her dad with a bag of salt,________spreading a path of salt across the icy road. This simple but________gesture of a father’s love for his daughter has________thousands of hearts online. In around 24 hours, it obtained over 70,000 reactions and over 76,000 shares.

Some________“What an amazing Daddy you have!” and one person wrote: “Definitely give him a huge hug, big enough for all of us.

2 . Anger is the most destructive (破坏性的) emotion. When you are ___, you make hurried decisions that you will probably regret. You will also regret careless language ____ without thought. What can be done to control anger and prevent it ruining our lives? Here are five ways that you can fight the cause of anger.

Firstly, you need to change your attitude to the way the world ____. You have to admit that sometimes things do go wrong and that people are always lovely. Try to ____ that ____ people do behave in ways that will make you both frustrated and angry. Secondly, don’t regard anger as a bad emotion. There are occasions ____ anger can be directed in such a way as to achieve great things. Thirdly, it is beneficial to stop trying to manage your anger. A good way of ____ anger is to identify (识别) the root cause. Taking ____ steps towards solving the underlying (根本的) problem will help you overcome feelings of anger. Fourthly, reacting angrily is a hard habit to break. But it is a habit, and habits can be ____. You need to learn not to respond at all. This way, your anger will not get the emotional ____ it needs to survive. Fifthly, don’t take the easy way when you get angry. You might say you feel better after an angry outburst, ____ that   is just the after-effect of the adrenalin (肾上腺素) your body released while you were angry. If so, it is much harder to stay calm, to walk away from conflict (冲突), or to take a deep breath and act ____. That, however, is ____ you must do if you are to stop anger from becoming your master.

____, you must recognize that anger is ____ you can control. Make changes to your lifestyle and attitudes, and you will find that you will turn angry much less often, if at all.

3 . When I was in high school, I spent most of my holidays going back to my hometown to enjoy life with my family. Being a member of my family _________ me happiness.

My brother was born when I was a senior high school student. It is _________ that children’s eyes are bright and _________. I looked at my brother’s eyes that _________ looked around the world, and I felt his curiosity about _________. He wasn’t even_________ to grab a bug and play with it. When he _________ the cuckoo (布谷鸟) call, he immediately learned to _________ it. And he would shake his _________ to learn how to fly like a butterfly. Before that, I never realized that a child’s ____________ ability was so amazing.

One time, my little brother ____________ the stones on the ground to look for the ants underneath (在······底下). He ____________ his snacks with the ants, looked up at me and said, “Sister, the ants are ____________!” He is learning to share.

As a sister who loves her brother so much, I came to realize the feeling of my parents’ ____________. I want to ____________ the best to my brother and accompany him while growing up.

4 . For my daughter's 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didn't really have the ________ but we knew how much this band meant to her.

The night before she was like a ________ at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to ________ with us, because she couldn't ________ . On the night of the concert it was good to see her so ________ and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off.

Needless to say when they ________ after midnight, with T-shirts and lots of pictures of the band, ________ her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well ________ . This will be a memory she would never forget, and nor would we.

________ full of excitement from the night before, the following day they ________ to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I laughed, loving the fact that she had not ________   that quality as she grew up.

Later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a ________ each. On each present were the words "Because you are the ________ mum/dad in the world. "When we expressed our thanks and told her she didn't have to, we asked her why she had bought us gifts. Her answer was simply "Just because I love you."

This wasn't something ________ from our daughter; she had always given us gifts when she wanted to express her ________ , and each gift was always a welcome surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldn't have mattered, and it was the act itself and the feelings behind it.

5 . Armed with sunscreen and locking my bike, I was ready. With a ______ heart, I was ready to ______ my life. It had been a tough year. I lost my parents. After a year of sadness, something had to change.

I make my living onstage as a motivational speaker. I teach people how to be ______. Thoughts are very ______, and you will prove what your mind expects, good or bad. I believed it all, because it always ______. Until it didn’t.

I ______ that, if it lasted any longer, the ______ that had been around me would never leave. The idea came to me on a Sunday: I would______ Pinellas County’s gulf(海湾) coastline, all of it. Spending endless hours walking where the water meets the sky would heal my hurt. I knew it. This was my Forrest Gump moment.

On my first day, the first thing I saw was the Skyway Bridge in the distance. I’d ______ that bridge every week for the last 15 years to visit my parents. A pang(一阵剧痛) of sadness shot through me, but it didn’t ______. Instead, I thought about what I’d survived.

On my second day, I was not sad, but not really happy. I slept straight through the night and ______ excited. For the first time in a very long time, I was more interested in what was in front of me than what was ______.

The final part of my exploration was the islands. When I got there, I needed to do something to mark the ______, so I got on my knees to write in the sand: “DONE”.

Looking back, it was the ______ word. Sure, I was done walking. But I was also done feeling like a ______. I was done with the darkness. I’d turned the corner.

6 . “I knew when I saw you, I wanted to take you home,” my dad says to me when I visit him one Saturday. There is a deep-seated _________ of a father seeing his daughter when she was born.

My father has Alzheimer’s (老人痴呆症). He does not _________ express in words, so the sudden accuracy of his words _________ me.

Another Saturday, he points to a photo of me and says, “She’s smart.” Does he know the _________ person, 30 years older, is sitting beside him? It does not matter. At that moment I can feel his _________.

Now I bring a spoonful of yogurt to his lips. With a _________ hand, he touches me and says, “You’re very good. Thank you.” He totally forgets it was he that _________ me in lifting a spoon to my mouth.

These words are all he can give now. But they make me understand more _________ my generous father.

His door was always _________. Drop-in visitors were welcomed with a drink. He would not ____________ to give money to a family member in need. In the community, he ____________ his time to preserve the historical buildings.

Time, advice, money. There were many ways he ____________.

And he gives, still. The ____________ has taken much from my father. What’s ____________ are his words. It’s ____________ for him to find the right word and say it out loud. Yet he keeps going.

7 . Earlier that evening, my mother called, telling me that my brother died in a car crash. I stumbled (跌跌撞撞地走) around the house _________ what to put into the suitcases. My husband, Larry, and I had been packing for moving to New Mexico. The house was in (a) total _________.

I tried to hold my tears. I _________ picked things up and put them down. I couldn't _________. What I'd heard on the phone echoed (回荡) through my head.

Larry phoned a few friends. _________, someone asked to speak to me. “If there is anything I can do, let me know.” “Thank you,” I replied. I didn't know what to _________.

The doorbell rang and I rose slowly for the door. It was Donna.

“I've come to clean your shoes,” she said. _________, I asked her to repeat. “When my father died, it took me _________ to get the shoes cleaned and shined for my father's _________,” she said. I hadn't even thought about shoes.

Shoes were gathered. Donna __________ herself on the floor and got to work. The love in the act __________ my tears. Watching her __________ on one task helped me pull my __________into order. Laundry first, I told myself. One by one, the jobs fell into place.

Now whenever I hear of an acquaintance's loss of a loved one, I think of one __________ task that suits that person's __________. If the person asks, “How did you know I needed that?” I'd reply, “Because someone did that.”

8 . Over Thanksgiving, we were considering how to _________ a chance to make our parents enjoy a happier life. We asked our dad if he would write down his memories and _________, just for us, about his childhood in the village and his _________ to the US in the 1950s and his life in a new country.

_________ to hear that, he set about writing _________. He spent the last four months _________ it, and when I went home last weekend to _________ my mom for her birthday, along with my brother, I was excited to find out that he had written about 100 pages already. Of course, it's not been _________ yet.

Recently one of the highlights was getting to read what he had written. It was so inviting and moving to read that I told him how much I _________ it. Hearing what I said, my dad's face lit up. Apparently, a sense of pride and __________ came out of his heart.

I think it is a great idea to ask an elderly person to share about their lives in writing-it is a kind of __________ both for them and for us sons and daughters. You know our parents are growing older and older, and they tend to share their life stories with us younger ones. But we cannot __________ enough time to listen to them. So sharing their stories in this way can also bring them __________ to content themselves.

Whether we have heard some of these stories or not before, I never realized how absolutely __________ this gift is--sharing memories and experiences from the __________ with a loved one.

9 . I developed a type of cancer when starting middle school. I couldn't walk well and wore a hat because my hair _________.I was teased and the teachers tried to help students _________ my situation, but in vain.

Middle school was harder because students have to _________ classrooms for every subject. Since I couldn't walk well, my teachers let me _________ class in advance to make it to my next class.

One day, I was resting against a wall when the bell rang.The classroom doors _________ open, the hallways were filled up with students. I took a deep _________ and struggled through the crowd. Suddenly,I was pushed by the crowd and lost _________,falling flat on my face. Class began again, and all the students _________ except me. I lay still on the floor,in pain and _________.I never wanted to go back to school again.

I had to make a(n) __________ : stay home or go to school. I closed my eyes, thinking about the children with incurable diseases. Unlike them, I had a chance of __________.Then I opened my eyes, telling myself my looks were __________,that my hair would regrow, and that I would walk again and decided to go to school the next day.

Surprisingly, the next school day went more smoothly than usual. I had regained my __________.Eventually my cancer went away!   I didn't choose my cancer or disabilities,but I __________ them.I stayed __________ to myself and that is what matters.