2 . Lucy Flores spends her days teaching preschool students how to read and write. After _________, the 23-year-old girl goes home and does the same for her 43-year-old dad, Luciano Flores. “I was thinking to myself. ‘Since I can teach these _________ to read and write, why can't I teach my father that?’ _________, we started about four months ago,” says Flores.

Growing up in Mexico, Luciano's family had _________ resources. The school he _________ didn't have much to spare, either. So, after about first grade, he _________ going to class and started working to _________ his family. He began a _________ in construction he continues to this day.

“His work hardly requires him to sign things,” Flores says of her father. “But he told nobody around him that he didn't have the _________.” Unlike her dad, Flores received a good ____________ in school. Last year, she became the first person in her family to ____________ from college.

A few months ago, Flores gave ____________ her dad a shot. Though ____________ at first, he was excited to start to learn. “That first day, I told him to write his name, but he didn't want to do it in front of me,” she recalls. “He chose to sit at the dining room table ____________, because he didn't want anyone to see.” After four months of ____________ together for two hours every time, three days a week, both were done with work. Flores reveals that her dad can ____________ write his name and even read some articles on his own. Witnessing her dad's ____________, Flores feels really ____________.

Meanwhile, Luciano shares that he's eager to ____________ learning to read and write. According to Flores, they're planning a trip to a local library together. “He's never been to a library,” she says. “I’m just wondering his ____________ to seeing a library full of books.”

3 . Today, I went hiking with a friend of mine. The sky suddenly became covered with _________ clouds, so we started walking down the mountain with a(n) _________ step than usual. After a little while, we _________ a large group of children by chance. They were walking down the mountain as well. The path suddenly became _________ for a few moments before the group was well ahead and out of _________.

Left behind were a young boy and his _________. We slowed down for a bit to _________ with them about the weather before finally passing them. They _________ again when my friend stopped to tie her shoes. Suddenly, the boy fell. Fortunately, my friend _________ caught him as he was about to roll down the path. However, he got frightened and was __________ in his mother’s arms. He said that his __________ hurt and I could see the __________ on the mother’s face. I asked if I could help, with my friend__________ that I was a nurse and I could give the boy a quick __________ of his knee. Making sure that they needed nothing more __________ we continued on,I decided to leave the pair sitting on a rock.

I only took a few steps forward before feeling that there was more that could be done. I said __________ to my friend for slowing us down, then turned and asked the boy and his mother if they wanted us to __________ and walk down with us.I could see the relief (宽慰) wash over the mother’s face as she said “yes ” and immediately __________ up.

The __________ in New England had left the path covered with beautiful yellow leaves. Though we walked slowly, we talked __________ with the boy and his mother.

4 . In the evening, Kasi usually gets out of a park and returns home via Hilpher Road. That road has a very unique _________, with kids playing and people bargaining. One day she found a _________ just wandering in the lawn(草地) beside her house. His red coat made dull grass in the lawn _________. Kasi decided to wait for another fifteen _________ for the boy.

Then the boy sat on the bench. He was extremely _________, fear floating in his eyes. She clearly read the _________. After all, she had _________ been homeless. Her own eyes were filled with the memories of _________ times and tears rolled down from her pretty eyes. Yes, she once lived under a bridge where life was _________.

Then, she didn’t know how that fifteen minutes had __________. Still the boy was there. He was looking at a biscuit wrapper lying there. She stood up, wiped off her __________ and went to the boy and smiled. The boy got __________ and backed off and started crying. People in the park suddenly became very “__________” and ran to that boy, who opened up about Kasi. Everyone just got an opportunity to __________ Kasi and said unkind words about her existence. She needed to __________ immediately.

After reaching home, she could not __________ anything. So she put on her clothes and left. When she got to the __________, the poor boy appeared again. She was filled with a mixture of __________, but she could not help but start __________ those people. She immediately __________ the boy up and took him to her home. She decided to think of him as one of the family.

7 . A young man travelled by train. As it was ________ across a wildness (荒野) passengers looked out of the ________ idly and aimlessly. When the train came near a bend, it _________ and then an unadorned (简陋的) house came into ________. It was so clearly ________ the deserted landscape that everybody on the ________ turned to “admire (赞赏)” it. Some passengers ________ began a discussion about it.

The ________ man was also impressed by the scene. On his return he ________ the train at the nearest station and ________his way to the house. Its ________ told him that he was troubled by the ________ of the train, and he wanted to sell the house but ________would buy it.

Soon after the young man ________ thirty thousand dollars for the house, regarding it as a ________ place for advertisement (广告). It was facing the railway ________ where the train had to slow down and the ________ passengers would cast their eyes on the house to ________ themselves.

He managed to get close to some big companies and tried his best to let them ________ the advantage of the place for ________ . Finally the Coca-Cola Company took a lease on (租用) it and put up promotional signs. The young man was paid 180 thousand dollars for a three-year rent.

10 . My friend Janina is quite a fine poet. Several years ago, when she was first starting out as a poet, she and I were in a writing critique (评论) group together. Even then, her work showed _________. But she had one _________ that I found confusing. _________ in her longer poems, she’d often give two word choices separated by a slash (斜线). Occasionally, the choice was _________ — one word would _________ well, while the other would be simply wrong.

On one occasion, faced with the fourth set of slashed options, I told Janina about my _________ with her system. These were choices, I said, that she _________ to make for herself, however _________ she might find them, before bringing her poem to me for critique. She provided a reasonable explanation, so I didn’t _________ her further.

While the “either/or” approach may not be a great __________ to make poetry, it may be very helpful in __________ events. Often, we will have two or more events we will be doing at the same time. Typically, at least one of the events will __________ factors beyond one’s immediate control. For example, I was often disappointed at the __________ of an outdoor tennis match due to heavy rain.

Actually, that __________ can be greatly reduced through the schedule of a “Plan B” event — something that won’t be affected by something __________. As an actor, I often audition (试镜) for plays. Starting this fall, I won’t __________ for an audition without a Plan B in mind in case I’m not cast. The __________ will be relevant to theatre. So whatever __________, I’ll still be doing something with theatre. While this won’t completely __________ the disappointment I feel at not being cast, it should reduce it significantly.

A Plan B during times of potential __________ really matters a lot.