1 . Last weekend I took a bus to New York City. As I took the window seat and wore headphones over ears, I almost didn't _________ an elderly man sitting beside me. The elderly man asked me a _________ question _________ the bus's WiFi connection, which turned into a two-hour _________.

We talked a lot about my dreams, my fears and my life. I _________ more with this stranger on the bus than I have with any friend or family member in months. Maybe it is because I am _________ to let anyone I know close to me. I was _________ that the stranger was not only deeply interested in getting to know me, but also just willing to _________ me to my greatest abilities. Instead of politely _________ his head when I __________   my major, he told me that my strong liking seemed to be psychology, but not the one I was __________   and that he fully understood my __________ for the failure.

This elderly man made me __________ the plans that I had made for my life. He helped me realize that my carefully __________ plan for the next five years of my life wasn't all that__________, but actually complex and filled with     __________ . Most of all, he helped me __________ the complex rather than stay away from it because of my fear for the unknown.

A few days later, he emailed me, saying, “I think you're __________ for great things whatever you decide to do.” The email, filled with __________   of encouragement made me realize that life is sometimes __________ but it is going to be okay.

Once, three men got     1     (lose) in the forest. They decided they would stay in the forest until they found     2     (they) way. The next morning, one man went to find some food. Soon, the other two men were surprised to find him back with a deer and asked how he got the deer. The man     3     (reply), “I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got a deer.” They both were slightly     4     (confuse) because he had no weapons (武器). A few days     5     (late), the second guy went in search     6     food and soon came back with a deer too. The other two asked how he managed     7     (get) the deer. His reply was     8     same as the first man′s.

Then it was the turn of the third guy to look for food. Many hours passed, and the third man holding nothing in his hands came back, with blood on his face. The other two asked him     9     had happened.     10     (look) at them, he answered, “I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got hit by a train.”

3 . “I have a letter for you,” my friend Kirsten told me on the phone. "I think it's from your mother. "I was ______ , since my mother had been dead for seven years.

A few weeks later Kirsten handed me the ______ dated Aug. 30, 2002. Around then I was preparing for my pilot course's final exam at the ______ school. The students finished the training on ______ days.

I was the first to ______ . My mother's letter ______ after I left. Kirsten picked it up from my mail-box, to keep ______ she next saw me. _______, a few days later, when it was her turn to leave, she ______ the letter among the piles of papers she ______ packed into boxes. It ______ there for a decade, during which my mother died. In 2013, when Kirsten ______ some dusty belongings from her flying school days, she ______ the letter.

It's been two years since Kirsten gave me the letter which I've ______ on my long flights. But I haven't ______ it yet. When I told some friends this, they ______ their heads. They said they wouldn't have been able to wait a second. Of course, I ______ how could I not? -about her ______ in the envelope. Surely, I think, she had written to wish me luck, ask about my life and tell me the news from ______ to make me at ease. However, for now it's ______ to look at her handwriting on the envelope, and to remember that until I open it, I know I'll hear from her once more.