1 . Six years ago when I was told that my father suffered from dementia(痴呆), everything changed overnight. Until then, I was loved and lived with little _______. My father became a child who needed round-the-clock _______ for everyday activities. _______, we learnt that the best way to deal with him was with patience and_______.

Our family started_______more time and activities together——Sundays were set aside for a drive, a park visit and dinner at a restaurant. Each _______ gave us the chance to connect as a family.They were special to my father and gave him great_______. It was also a time of _______—— I found myself tested in different ways and found perseverance(坚毅) that I didn’t_______ I had.

By December last year, my father’s condition became more________. Unable to deal with his illness, we were ________ to send him to a centre for dementia care.

We brought my father home in February when he got ________. The next month, the government advised us to stay home because of COVID-19. I was worried that he would miss his walks and would get________ if he had to stay home all day long, but when we explained the________to him, he understood. Perhaps it was because he knew his family would ________ with him.

2 . When I was a little boy, my parents and brothers would often play cards in the afternoons. It was a (n) ________ way to pass the time and after watching countless games, I started to ________. I was only five but I learned________ and was soon winning as often as I lost. When I started school, I found out the hours of playing cards had made me good with ________. I was getting full marks on my math tests until high school when I ________ they had a thing called Algebra   (代数) . I was ________to see letters mixed in with the numbers and I struggled to ________ it. Then one day I opened a Calculus (微积分) book. One look was all to know that I would not major in math.

Instead I found ________ studying literature, history, psychology, and philosophy, which all put me on a path that I am ________on today: it is a journey of learning all I can about life and________ . One thing I did learn was that love has its own unique math that isn’t logical yet makes________. In the Calculus of Love the more love you________, the more love you have. Sharing sorrows means subtracting (减去) them. Sharing________means multiplying them.

Love like life is often more than we can ________. But our soul can. May you choose it, share it, and learn it. Only then will your life add up ________.