1 . A boy walked into a candy store with his father and since he was just 6 years old, he was surprised by so many candies on offer. “It’s amazing. What should I _______?” he asked himself.

“Come on, son, we don’t have much _______. I have to attend an important meeting,” his dad said.

“These are all my _______ and I don’t know what to choose.” He picked up some bags and then put them _______ . He couldn’t make up his mind. “ _______, son, we have no time. I’m very _______,” his dad said. So the boy ran around the store _______ again. His eyes moved from one bag to another, _______   all of the sweets looked so good and he couldn’t make up his mind. _______, the dad had enough. He caught his son by the hand and they ________ the store empty-handed. The boy________. He wanted them all, but ended up with ________ because he couldn’t choose just one.

Some of us are that boy. The ________ is that candy store. We have a great number of choices available to us, but if we don’t make a(n) ________ about our jobs, education, relationships, marriage or other ________ things, we will end up empty-handed. Sometimes we worry about making the ________choice. What if we ________ the direction that we take and it’s too late to go back? We don’t have to ________ this. How do we ________ whether it is good or not if we don’t make a choice? The bigger ________ is that we make no decision at all and end up going nowhere and doing nothing.

2 . I had to work as a substitute teacher (代课老师) before finding a full-time teaching job. One day, I _________my first substitute job at a school. The _______ said that I had to arrive at school at 8:00 am when I would sign in.

As it was my _______ day at this school, I made sure of leaving plenty of _______ to get to school. I got up early so I _______ at the school at about 7:50 am. I sat in my car for ten minutes playing with my phone to _______ time. Then I walked into the teaching building and up to the reception (接待) desk at 8:00. When I told the receptionist my _______ , she shouted at me for being _______ and said that the headmaster was managing the class until I _______.

I said the email I received ________ told me to arrive at school at 8:00, but the receptionist said what I said was a(n) ________. I finally gave up trying to ________ with her, went up to the classroom, and took over the class from the ________.

During the ________, I was sitting in the office when the headmaster ________ and asked why I was late. I ________ that the email had given the wrong information. He said that even though that was what the email said, I ________ should have gotten to school before 8:00 am because that’s what ________ people do, in case something unexpected might happen.

The headmaster’s ________ had a strong influence on me, and then I ________ to become a smart person. Since then I have never been late for school.

3 . Max’s Best Friend

Max wasn’t feeling well one morning after a snow. So when it was time to walk his three year old dog named Cal, he ______ to a nearby field and let her out.

But then Max found himself short of ______ and decided to walk back to his car. The 58-year-old man was ______ a mild heart attack. After only a few steps, he ______.

For about an hour Max lay face-down in the snow, taking a quick deep breath for ______. His body ______ dropped to 32℃. Although he was almost unconscious(失去知觉的), he was still ______ of Cal running ______ him, barking loudly.

______, about 180 meters away, Cal found Mike, who was removing the ______ from a backyard ice rink (溜冰场) that he had made for his kids. She ______ to him barking.

“She was jumping back and forth (来回) at me,” Mike says, “going one way, ______ the other, as if to say ‘Come on. Let’s go’. But I didn’t know what she was ______ that for.”

The dog wouldn’t stop barking. Looking around, Mike could see ______ in the distance. So he ran with Cal back to where Max ______. Seeing that Max needed ______, Mike ran home to call 911, then returned with a blanket, ______ Max and waited for the medical aid. Max was taken to a local ______ and later sent to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He ______ eight days later.

“Without the ______ and Mike, I wouldn’t be here,” Max says.

4 . Last month, I slept through a flight from London to Beijing. Upon waking up, I was shocked to discover that I could no longer _______ my right arm and fingers. My arm just simply did not follow my brain’s _______ , as if it no longer _______ my body.

The doctor at the Sino Japanese Friendship Hospital _______ me to have suffered neural (神经的) injury. Aside from _______ that I see a physiotherapist (理疗师), he only told me, “Rest for two months first and come back for_______ check-up. ”

In that moment of _______ , a long-time family friend, who is an acupuncturist in Sichuan, _______to help. I started my acupuncture _______ the next day. I was sceptical at first, but my ________ was soon beaten by the results. After a few days, I could move my ________ Two weeks later, I could have meals using chopsticks. After a month, my arm and fingers were almost back to their ________ functions.

In that clinic, I heard many other patients’ ________ . One 11-year-old boy, who was born with ________ autism (自闭症), was treated at the age of three, and now he communicates quite ________ One lady, who suddenly became deaf two months ago, has just ________ her hearing.

I’m surprised at how these ________ needles can cure so many illnesses, many of which even big hospitals with expensive medical devices ________ with. Is it magic? No! But it is the right ________ of the Chinese tradition that brings ________ and happiness to friends here and farther.

5 . I was the only new kid in the karate (空手道) class. Everyone else knew a lot of the moves and had yellow or orange _________, standing for their levels.

I had a total beginner’s white belt and felt extremely _______ the whole way through the class. I tried my hardest to _______ along, but everything was much _________ than I thought it would be. _________, as I was putting on my shoes, I was thinking, “There is no way I am ever coming back to karate!” And that’s when I _________ Elizabeth.

“You did great!” I said. “I was so stupid!”

“That’s how I _________ at first, too,” she said. “If you want, I can help you _________.”

I agreed and since then we’ve been amazing friends.

Not very long ago, Elizabeth had to _________. I felt very sad after I heard about the terrible ________. Elizabeth and I had to come up with a _________. We were actually pretty _________ with our solution. Here’s what we did.

First, we asked my mom to take a(n) __________ of us together and help us print it out regular size and tiny size. We put the regular photos in special frames (框架) that we __________ with “Friends Forever”. Then, we ________ the tiny picture of us in half and put the half with the other’s face in our own locket necklace (小盒式项链).

So __________ Elizabeth lives miles away and I only get to see her __________, our Friends Forever picture frames and locket necklaces really do ________ with the “missing-you” part.

Being __________ from your friend doesn’t have to be as bad as it seems right now. Photos, __________, phone calls, e-mails, and great memories can really and truly make a friend seem closer than he or she is.

6 . Devoted to the development of his village, Keshav tried his best to find help from officers. In his contacts with the officers, Keshav _____ that if he had been as educated as those officers, he would be able to ______a lot more. It became clear to him that ______ meant power.

With this ______, he started night classes for the adults in the village in his living room in 1989. While __ the adults he realized that many of them didn't _____ send their kids, especially girls, to school. Keshav urged his students from the _____ school to send their children during the day to study. However, only three children ______on day one.

This did not _______ this farmer-turned-teacher. He _______ teaching these three students in the living room of his three-room house. As the number of students were not ______, Keshav stoned visiting each villager ______ and urging them to send their children to school

As there was no help from the authorities so far to build a ______. Keshav decided to hold classes for the village children at the church close to his residence _______the school was bulk. Soon, the response of residents from his village and the nearby oats was so ______that Keshav started working on his dream of _______a school He built the school on his 4-acre ancestral land, and as the ______of students slowly increased , the news ______     the education minister of the area. The minister then _______Keshav's   school and helped him to get it registered.

Now , the school has also received a "junior high school" ______ and is called -Keshav Inter College".

There are 1,320 students enrolled, including 670 girls.

7 . Sitting at a table in my school cafeteria, I looked around,slowly taking in everything. Student after student passed my____carrying that day’s lunch, but if you looked deeper,there was more to___.There was more than just theuniform they were wearing, or the way they had styled theirhair that day. There was a lot more hidden under the_______.

Catching the eye of a girl in my grade sitting at a nearbytable, I waved politely. She smiled___and then continuedto pick at the spaghetti in front of her. If I hadn't___recently that her mother was dying of leukemia, I would havenever___anything was wrong and I may not have been as_____and sympathetic, either. It suddenly____me thatwe judge others too quickly without knowing the whole story.

I have an incurable lung disease. No one at our schoolknows --- I don't show any noticeable____except for a fewcoughs here and there. I go about my day like any other kid,___with the realization that I have a___and terrifyingfuture.

Before that day when I decided to___the world witha new perspective, I__myself almost every day. Ithought only about myself and my heavy__.But I've now realized no one is______---- we just need to accept thewaywe are.

8 . One day a factory owner entered a foreign supermarket, when lady gave a warm smile and welcomed him. He was very moved, felt ________, and was not able to forget the warmth in her smile. He was ________ her as he was shopping; she was giving the ________ smile to all the customers who ________ into the supermarket.

The factory owner started ________ if she was ever fed up with (厌倦) doing the same ________ again and again, so he walked up to ________ and asked, “My dear lady, are you ________ of doing this job, and how long have you been doing this?”

The lady ________ and said, “No, sir, have worked here for the last 10 years and I ________ my job. The factory owner was ________ and asked, “Why have you stayed here for ten years, and why do you like your ________?” The lady smiled again and said, “Sir, because I am ________ my country.” The factory owner found this ________ He said, “You are serving your ________ by smiling?”

The lady said, “Yes, sir. As most of our customers are ________, they spend foreign currency (外币) here. So our country has lot of money and becomes ________. People like you who are happy with our services will visit ________ often and spend money in our country.”

Amazed at her attitude, the factory owner ________ her and went back to his own country. He worked hard to show the same attitude ________ his workers, and today his company is one of the best companies in the world.

9 . Bill White’s father is a lawyer. In his ______ time, he likes to get out in the country and take some ______ of animals.

For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his ______. But his father didn’t take Bill along with him ______ he was fifteen.

He and Bill drove to the farm ______ belonged to(属于)his uncle in the afternoon. They ______the night there, so that they could ______ out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.

It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm ______ the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn’t remember _____ he was. He turned over ______ and looked at the clock. It was 5 o'clock. Then he _____ that he was at the ______ and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got ______ quickly.

He ran downstairs. The others were already in the ______. Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It _____ good.

They ate breakfast quickly. They didn’t talk ______, because they didn’t want to _______up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle (保温瓶) ______ hot coffee and took some sandwiches _____ Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera _____ and started out.

10 . I went to India for a 2-week vacation to visit my relatives. We stopped on a red light, and as always, there were a lot of activities outside the cars near the _______ . People walked in between the cars_________ newspaper, water and a number of kids looked for a bit of charity from the car owners. It' s a familiar       ___________in most poor developing countries.

While we were_______for the red light to turn green, I noticed a man outside a couple of ___________   in front of ours trying to sell bottles of water. It's   _________   unusual at first. He was a man in his 40s with relatively ___________clothes. But he walked around in a strange way. He kind of     _________ his way around the spaces. He was blind.

Carrying a couple of water bottles on one hand, he _________   got to the outside of our car. Out of____________, my mum decided to buy one water bottle. As she gave the man the money, the light turned green. The cars behind sounded loudly and ____________   , trying to get ahead of traffic. Seeing this, my mum kindly told the man to     ____________the change. However, with his superior sense of touch, he quickly ______________ his shirt pocket and threw the money at my mum's__________________ . It was the exact change. The cars behind us were really getting out of control ____________we decided to go on our way.

I____________and even cried when I got home. Here's a blind man, born in____________trying to sell water bottles on the streets to make ends meet. He ____________ our sympathy. Life hasn't been       ______________ to him, yet he's giving it his best shot. I think that is what   ______________ is all about, facing life bravely.