1 . It was the night of the full moon, a time which always drives Java’s young people mad with excitement.

Fireworks were lit long before the moon _________. The big noise brought people out into the warm night to enjoy the interesting scene. Everywhere, there were the paper remains of _________ fireworks lying on the ground. Little boys _________ more and covered their ears as they waited _________ for the explosions.

The moon appeared above the horizon (地平线): huge, _________ ball high above the city, and the _________ filled with people, as Java began to enjoy one of the year’s greatest _________: “the Night of the Full Moon”, a festival (节日) that is especially popular with young people.

More and more young Javanese _________ together and walked slowly through the _________. Joking and chatting, they moved towards the mountain __________ the city. They continued to climb until they reached the old temple (寺庙) at the __________ of the mountain.

After they were inside the temple, they drank their water and ate their mooncakes — delicious homemade ones, __________ of dried fruit and nuts. Outside, on the mountain, young people __________ cross-legged in circles, chatting and telling each other jokes. And still, in their hundreds, more young people continued to make their way up the mountain to __________ the brightly shining moon.

By midnight, the fireworks had stopped __________ up from the gray city in the valley below them. But during the night, the sound continued to be heard from the distance.

2 . When my father was celebrating a milestone birthday, I pulled together a surprise gift treat he would never forget.

As he was _________ 60, I had a fun idea: What if I could get the _________ people had of him, put each one into an envelope—60 in total—and have him open them, one by one, on his birthday? So I wrote an e-mail to family and friends, _________my idea.

I sent the e-mail and waited. And then the _________ started coming in and I was very, very_________. There were so many memories, and they were all so lovely. They came from the 50s, 60s, 70s, from every decade (十年) between now and the day my dad was _________. They came from my mother, my siblings, my grandma, my dad’s friends from high school, his sister, my dad’s first boss, a colleague at his first _________, from people who hadn’t seen my dad in 40 years, from people I myself hadn’t even informed. They _________ them and handwrote them. They mailed them and e-mailed them.

The night before Dad's birthday, my sister and I _________ up late, putting everything together with some __________ . The next morning, after breakfast and __________ and cake, we gave the pile of envelopes to him. "Just one more thing for you,” we said.

It took him a long time to open them and __________. Each one was a brief ticket to another time, a leap backward over years and decades. There was a lot of laughter and a few__________, too.

I was kind of __________ when the project was over because it was great fun to collect these memories. It gave me a different __________ of dad.

3 . I was six years old. It was Halloween. The school was having its annual Halloween parade (游行) to _______ it. All the kids would march a few _______ through the neighborhood.

“Just buy him a costume,” my father said. “ It doesn’t cost much.”

But no, my mother decided, _______ it was my first parade, she would _______ me a costume: the mummy (木乃伊), my favorite scary character.

She _______ white rags (布片) and old towels and wound them _______ me, holding them in place with safety pins. Then she arranged the rags with toilet paper and tape. It took a long time, but I was still _______ enough to see the result. When she finished, I could _______ wait to look in the _______. I was a mummy! I moved back and forth in front of it ________.

“Oh, you’re very scary.” my mother said.

She drove me to school. We started our parade. The more I walked, the ________ the rags got. Then, about two blocks out, it began to ________. The next thing I knew was that the toilet paper was beginning to dissolve (溶解). ________, the rags became even looser and fell to my ankles, wrists, and neck and you could see my undershirt and under pants, which made me extremely ________.

“Look at Charley!” the other kids screamed. They were ________. I was burning red. I wanted to escape, but where did you go in the middle of a parade?

When we ________ reached the schoolyard, I was all wet, with a mess of rags and toilet paper pieces. The parents were waiting there with ________, starting to take photos of us. I saw my mother first. As she spotted me, she ________ her hand to her mouth. I burst into ________.

“You ________ my life!” I cried.

4 . It was about the third week in June last year. My 15-year-old son had already settled into his summer routine: Go to ___at 2 a. m. and wake up at 1 p. m. only to get back on his computer to play computer games  ___dinner.

It was the middle of the ___when the sound of his computer games woke me up again. I couldn’t  ___that anymore and decided it was time for him to get a summer job. I got on the computer and found a lifeguard certification class that ___the next day, and a company that ___teenagers to guard their pools.

From that day I woke him up at 8 a. m. every day for him to ___the class. At first, he continued to complain that I was ___his summer. But by the end of the week, he was actually ___going. He learned something about first aid, figured he really could ____someone from drowning, and got some ideas on how to  ____work for a living.

Two weeks later, he had a  ____as a lifeguard. He took his responsibility very  ____and never went to work late. This summer, he will be working fulltime at a pool. He says a lot of his ____don’t have jobs. And I say that is because their mothers didn’t try ____enough! Even if your kid is super  ____with finals and afterschool activities and doesn’t have time, you can ____job information for him.

Whether it is an ice cream store, a movie ____, or a summer camp, you can ask if they are hiring  ____for the summer. After your kid gets a job, pay attention to the ____to make sure he is never late.