1 . Stephen Glenn is a famous American research scientist. He has made several very important medical ________. When a newspaper journalist asked him why he was able to be so much more creative than the average person, he responded that it all came from a(n)________with his mother that occurred when he was a child.

Stephen had been trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he________ his grasp on the slippery bottle and it fell, spilling(泼出)its contents all over the kitchen floor—a real sea of milk!When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of punishing him, she said, “What a great and wonderful________you have made! I have rarely seen such a huge pond of milk. Well, the________ has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes ________          we clean it up?”

Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said, “Stephen, whenever you make a mess like this, ________you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper order.” And together they cleaned   up   the   spilled   milk.   His   mother   then   said,   “You   know,   what   we   have   here   is a ________experiment in how to effectively carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands.”

Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without ________ it. “The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could ________ without dropping it. What a good________to him!” This famous scientist then remarked that it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid to make________. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just________for learning something new, which is, after all, what scientific________are all about. Even if the experiment doesn’t work, we usually learn something________from it.

5 . I’ve had some pretty serious issues with some people in my community recently.

As a result, I stepped away from them and did my best to _________ them. But the emotions that I felt from those events continued to _________ me and it began to destroy the relationships in other parts of my life. I ended up burning _________ with people I really cared about.

Yesterday, I was _________ to attend a conference of community because of a major work event. I was concerned about this event for days and it was pretty _________ when I first saw the people I _________ with at the conference.

Despite all of this, the strangest yet most _________ thing happened to me: there were no _________ between us and no one was holding anger against me. It was _________ that people have moved on from the events. There isn’t anything to ____________ anymore. I looked at them during the conference and ____________ in my head and forgave them. After doing this, I felt ____________ in myself.

Through my recent practice in compassion, I __________ more that when yon forgive others, you ____________ yourself as well. This important lesson on ____________ helps me to see things from a bigger view. I know people still cared about me during that time. I wish them the best life that they can have. And then, I move on.

6 . Dad’s comb was jade green. He bought it when he married Mum. Every night, he would smile, hand me the comb and say, “Be a good girl and help Daddy_______ it,   OK?”

I was more than happy to do it. At age five this ordinary task brought me such _______. I would excitedly turn the tap on, then brush the comb with a used toothbrush as _______ as I could. Satisfied that I’d done a good job, I would _______ return the comb to Dad. He would smile at me and put it on top of his _______.

About two years later, Dad_______his sales job and started his own wholesale business. I started primary school. That was when things started to change. He didn’t come home as much as he used to. And when he did come home, it was always late and I’d already be in bed. Gradually, I started to get _______. I stopped waiting for him to come home and going downstairs to _______ him. Today, I’m no longer a kid. I’ve graduated from college and got a job. Dad’s business has got back on track. Things are better now. Yet the _______ silence between Dad and me stayed.

Two days before my birthday last year, I didn’t expect my father to come home ________. As usual, I helped him carry his bags into his________. When I turned to leave, he asked me to help him brush the comb. After I passed the ________ comb back to him, he stared at it and________. But this time, I noticed something ________ . My dad has ________. He has wrinkles (皱纹)next to his eyes when he smiles, ________ his smile is still as heart- warming as before. The smile of a ________ who just wants a good life for his family. Dad carefully placed his comb on top of his wallet just like before.

After so many years, he still ________ his personal items in the same way. I guess some things never ________. And for that, I’m ________.

7 . On a bright sunny day, I stared my day off by volunteering at the L. A. Food Bank. My reason for volunteering at the food bank was to satisfy my need to help others and leave a ___________, however small a difference it is, in someone’s world. As I ___________ the food bank, there were lots of people there. The room appeared to be ___________ as people waited in lines to ___________ with coordinators (协调员).

Everybody volunteering began heading quickly to their given ___________ after checking in. Coordinators ___________ me to repackage donated food items (物品) from local food drives after being sorted and ___________ by other volunteer. When I ___________ the donated food items, each bag had to contain the correct amount of food items. As a team, we effectively worked similarly to a ___________ assembly (装配) line as the items continuously moved down the row to volunteers. My task required a lot of ____________ when trying to work swiftly with my hands while ensuring that items placed in bags were correctly ____________. Here I had a chance to communicate with a variety of people while improving my ____________ skills. We worked together as a team to ____________ that our task was going effectively.

By helping pack food items, I was able to make as significant impact on my community by helping people fight ____________ and giving them hope for a better life. After this experience, I feel a sense of ____________ within me which does not usually happen.

9 . My Chinese speaking experience

It’s one thing to learn a language, but it’s quite another when you finally get to use it.

On the _________from Venice to Paris, a group of girls sat around me. I realized that they were speaking Chinese, but at first I didn’t feel _________starting a conversation with the strangers next to me. If it didn’t _________well, I’d be stuck next to them for the rest of the flight.

As the food cart began to make its way down the aisle (过道)towards us, I finally found my _________. I _________to the girl to my left and asked, “Will you be having lunch?” in Chinese. She _________ her head and asked me in English, “You speak Chinese?” I _________ again in Chinese, “A little bit.” She nodded again and then returned to her magazine, _________ my effort to communicate with her.

Another time, at a dinner I sat next to a man who I knew spoke Chinese. I told him that I was learning Chinese, but could only _________ a little. When __________ me use the language, he suddenly began to speak __________ in Chinese. I didn’t catch him at all. I felt somewhat __________. I never __________ the chance to continue because the conversation returned to __________ as other people speaking English joined the table.

All in all, my experience has __________ me that I still have a long way to go in using Chinese.

10 . I’ve been taking a bus to school for years. I found that most passengers keep to themselves and no one ever has a ________ with anyone else.

About a year ago, an elderly man entered and said ________ to the driver, “Good morning!” Most people looked up, surprised and ________, while the bus driver took it for granted and ________ responded with a grunt (哼声). The next day the man ________ and again he said in a loud voice, “Good morning!” to the driver. Another grunt. By the fifth day, the driver finally agreed to accept the elderly man and greeted him with a little cheerful “Good morning!” Then the man ________, “My name is Benny.” The driver told the man he was Ralph.

That was the first time any of us heard the driver’s name and soon people began to talk to each other and say hello to Ralph and Benny. Soon Benny ________his cheerful “Good morning!” to the whole bus. Within a few days, his “Good morning!” was returned by a whole bunch of “Good mornings” and the entire bus seemed to be more ________. People got to know each other.

“If a ________ is someone who makes something happen, Benny was the one who took a lead in showing friendship ________ us,” I thought.

A month ago, something ________ happened and Benny didn’t turn up in the bus. Everyone began to ________ about Benny and lots of people said he may have passed away. No one knew what to do and the bus got ________ again. So last week, I started to act like Benny and say “Good morning!” to everyone and the whole bus cheered up again. I guessed I was the leader now. ________ Benny could come back to see what he had started really ________ a lot.