1 . The County Police Department posted on social media. It was meant to _______ five officers for their good work. One grandmother _______ one of the officers. It was Sweeney, the officer she and her family won’t forget.

Twelve years ago, on a hot day in July 2011, then-Detective(警探)Sweeney _______ an emergency call of a baby drowning. _______ he rushed alone to the _______ , in a home in Severn. They just pulled the baby out of the swimming pool, and he was no longer _______ .

Detective Sweeney knew he had to act quickly. He held Matthew and _______ first aid on the tiny boy. His efforts _______ . The 14-month-old boy survived, and they were all happy to see him smile again. After little Matthew’s _______ , they visited Detective Sweeney, and they posed(摆姿势)for a(n) ________ .

When Matthew’s grandmother saw Sweeney’s photo, she ________ the Police Department. There, she told the officials how Sweeney brought their baby boy to ________ , who is now a teenager.

After they heard the story, the staff in the office planned a surprise reunion. They ________ everything and then, as Sweeney entered the room, he was ________ . He never thought he would see Matthew again. Matthew was very happy to finally meet the person who saved his life twelve years ago. He knew that this man was the ________ he was alive today.

Everyone in the police station felt happy as they saw a reunion after twelve years.

2 . Respecting teachers has always been a tradition in China. Yang Shi was a philosopher( 哲学家) in the Northern Song Dynasty. One day, he and his_________ had different opinions on a question. To get a_________ answer, he went to visit Cheng Yi, the famous philosopher. At Cheng’s house, _________, the guarding kid told him that Mr. Cheng was meditating(冥想) in his room and asked him to go back. Yang _________ to leave, so the_________ boy left him alone and went in.

After a while, it began to snow_________. The little boy came out again and reminded Yang that Mr. Cheng might spend the whole afternoon_________. He invited Yang to_________ himself in the house to avoid the wind and snow. But Yang kept standing in the snow and waiting_________ in order that he could ask Cheng’s __________ on the question.

As soon as Cheng__________ meditating, the boy reported that Yang was waiting outside. When__________ this, Cheng came out to see Yang. When the door was opened, everyone was__________. The snow was more than a foot deep, but Yang stood still, __________ moving his feet. “__________ man, why are you so silly? You could have come again someday!” Cheng took Yang to the room at once.

“As a student…if I want to learn from the teacher…I should…of course…__________ wait outside…” said Yang, shaking with cold.

Cheng was very__________ and accepted Yang as his student because of__________ politeness and effort to learn. He taught Yang all his philosophical thoughts. That made a big__________ to Yang’s life. Later, Yang really learned a lot and made great__________ to his country.

3 . Dr. Smith of New York works at a center for children who can’t learn well. One day a father brought his son to him for________ at his office.

The father told Dr. Smith about his son. “My son has ________ in learning and can’t even play baseball. He isn’t doing well because he doesn’t try. I have done everything for him. I have even shouted at him. But nothing ________. ”

After Dr. Smith tested the boy, he ________ his father. He asked the father to sit in front of a ________ and then gave him a pencil and a piece of paper. There was a ________ on the paper. He asked the father to look only in the mirror and ________ the lines of the star with the pencil. The father made the same ________ anyone makes. Every time he ________ the pencil, it went the wrong way. The father’s face became red.

At this ________ the doctor shouted at him, “Hurry up! Why are you ________ so long? You can’t do such an ________ thing! You don’t know left from right!” These ________ made the father very angry.

“Now you can ________, can’t you?” The doctor said to him. “Your son has felt just like that all the time. You scolded (训斥) him too often, so he didn't try any more. He was afraid of making mistakes. ”

________ the father understood everything. He put his face down. Now he felt so sorry.

4 . For years I made the 9-hour trip from my home to my parents’ house in Boise. Like most people, I used the shortest and easiest_________. I drove fast mid stopped_________when I had to. We ate at fast-food restaurants, stuck to the freeways and_________the hours and miles. Road trips made us wish that we were_________but here. We arrived at last, tired and angry.

But then Banner, a sheep, was born and_________by his mama only days before a trip to Boise. That's why I found myself on the road with four kids and a baby sheep. We took the country roads to Boise out of_________—I had to stop every hour and let Banner_________his legs. The kids ran after him, and then one another before_________back into the car.

_________the world was racing by, we were not. We stopped to eat in local cafes because fast-food restaurants are__________on the country roads. Instead of driving to Boise in one__________like we always did, we stayed in a small hotel, which__________a long walk to look for a place to eat. Finally, we__________a restaurant which served delicious ham rolls. We explored side roads and looked out of our car windows at the changing__________of the countryside. Clothes were hung on the line; baby pigs followed their mother.

We__________arrived at my parents’ doorstep,__________and full of stories. Road trips__________forever after that journey. It opened our eyes to a whole new world. For us, a__________road trip is one long detour(绕行的路) after another. Because of a tiny black sheep, we’ve__________that detours often show the best part of a__________and the best part of yourself.