1 . As I was a young boy, my family was very poor. I would often help do something for the neighbors to _____ a little pocket money.

One day I _____ on the door of an elderly woman and asked if she needed me to clean the yard. She asked why I was not in_____ and I showed her my worn _____, which no longer kept me warm. She allowed me to work in the yard. When I finished, she looked at me and said, “I suppose you want to be _____ now.” She then took out a jar filled with dollar bills and said, “I’m glad you’ve done a _____ job today but that is not something you should be doing again. I want you to _____ new clothes and get back to school. I also want you to come back to visit me with your report and I will _____ you when I see you have worked hard and have some good _____. Now reach out your little hands and take out as much money as you can.”

I put my hands in the jar and ______ so much money that it was ______ for me to buy what I badly needed. Later, I returned several times to see the old lady and she did just as she ______. She looked at my report and gave me a handful of dollars and some delicious food every time I ______ her my grade “A”.

I was twelve years old when I moved from that neighbourhood. I will never forget the huge ______ this wonderful lady made to my life with her ______. This is something I hope to do myself in this lifetime over and over again.

3 . Life is colorful. Sometimes it’s just like potato salad.

With three young children to bring up, my husband John and I were very _____. “Can we go on a picnic, Mum？” my six－year－old daughter, Becky _____. “Please. ” I had said no so many times in _____ months，and I decided the usual Saturday morning chore could _____. So to her surprise, I agreed her _____.

I prepared a few sandwiches and _____ a cooler with ice and drinks and called John _____.

My eleven－year－old twin sons loaded the cooler and the picnic basket in the trunk and off we went to spend some _____ time together as a family.

About the time I got the lunch _____ out on the table, John arrived on the ______. That was one of the happiest meals we ever shared together. John and the boys ______ rocks into the lake, Becky fed the ducks and I sat quietly at the picnic table，thanking God for blessing me with such a wonderful family.

That night as our children went to bed, I kissed their cheeks. As I walked out of the room it dawned on (逐渐明白) me that even the busiest ______ could become a picnic when it’s shared with the ones you ______. Even though kids have now grown up and ______ from home, I can still remember how I felt that day while sitting at the picnic table.

Since life is like potato salad, let’s make it a ______.

4 . Jane Jie Sun, CEO of Trip.com Group, Asia’s largest online travel agency, connects people with the best ______ the world has to offer—China’s Great Wall, Australia’s outback and Italy’s ancient ruins. She believes cultural experiences can ______ divides and conflicts, strengthen industries and create peace.

While ______ Peking University, Sun was invited to a program in the University of Florida, where she ______ managed to further her study, majoring in accounting. ______ her fellow students, Sun’s life pace was rapid(快速的). She bicycled 6 miles to the campus each morning, taking the ______ classes available so she could spend the rest of the day, and Saturdays, working to pay her education fees.

______, Sun recalls her UF days fondly. “I learned a lot from my experience in the USA,” says Sun.

“Many discussions I had at UF still influence(影响) my style of leadership today.______, I have developed appreciation of ______ other persons’ different arguments over a certain ______.”

“I try to put myself in other people’s shoes,” says Sun. “In a global market, you have to have a very good understanding of different people and ______ different cultures.”

Now as a mother of two daughters, she shoulders the______ as the CEO of what is now a $25 billion company and puts tremendous effort into her work.

“Some people ask me why I work so hard, but I feel that mothers are the best role ______ for children,” Sun says. “I show them that to work is actually to ______ yourselves, but if you double your efforts at work and being a ______, it is doubly rewarding.”

5 . The disease had slowed me down. Then my granddaughter sent a cat to me. Honestly speaking, I fell in love with the cute little thing immediately when I first saw her.

“I’ll _______ you Rainbow,” I said with a smile.

The next day I _______some cat food and two toy mice in a pet shop. Rainbow went crazy over those _______: she got them stuck under the desk or the sofa. Then she wouldn’t stop meowing (喵喵叫)_______ I got them back for her. She’d bring the mice to me and demand that I throw them for her over and over again- she never felt bored. She couldn’t feel the pain in my _______.

Rainbow always got into troubles. She kept knocking over my plants or _______ my cups. I had to deal with the “_______”. My back _______ with all the ups and downs of trying to keep up with Rainbow. But what was I supposed to do? I couldn’t bear the _______ of sending her away.

One day, I felt there was something wet on my cheek. Rainbow, licking me, wanted breakfast. “OK, I get the ________,” I said. I tried to lower my body to put her ________ in the bowl on the floor, expecting pain to spread from my back through my body. But it didn’t. I felt ________.

After she finished eating, I bent down and picked up her bowl without having to hold on to the desk. She looked up at me and meowed, as if to say, “See? I’m ________what the doctor ordered!”

Three years later, Rainbow still kept me moving and I began to ________ her play. I didn’t want a cat, but someone knew I ________one.

9 . My mother turned ninety. I knew I needed to find a senior _______ center. Not for her — for me. If I were at her age, I would want to stay in shape to _______ life, getting a lot of pleasure. Yes, walking in local parks was my _______, but I wasn’t so active as before.

I called a nearby center, “Do you have aerobics (有氧运动) classes _______ for seniors?” “Sure. Come and check us out! We start at 10 am,” the receptionist (接待员) replied and _______. The next morning, I went there. One part of me was _______ that the class was too easy, not doing me any good. The other part feared it was too hard for me to _______.

When I came into the room, a woman _______ me, “Oh, you’re new. Welcome.” Then the music started. The hour-long workout woke up the muscles I didn’t often _______ in daily walks, suiting me fine. I became a member there. My classmates ranged in age from fifty to ninety. Most gave the exercises their own ____________, doing as much or little as they could. ____________ no one kept score. Soon I learned physical well-being wasn’t the only ____________ there. During breaks, people chatted happily. Whenever some people were ____________ we asked around. Were they busy? Were they in hospital? Moreover, we signed cards for those who were ill.

I ____________ to be in good shape now as I’ve hoped. Still, I’m grateful for things more valuable from the class — close friendships and new social ____________.

10 . Are parents rational (理性的) about their children? No. Parents aren’t rational because _______ isn’t rational. Young people can understand this about romantic love, but they find it _______ to accept this part in parental love.

My eldest daughter’s _______ the other day brought this up. “Let me ask you something, Dad,” she began to control _________ patiently that every experienced parent knows.

“I sailed around the Mediterranean when I was seventeen,” she said. “I hiked through the Pyrenees. I’ve done rock climbing and deep-sea diving and slept in rainforests. Right?”

“Right,” I said, “So what?”

“So this,” she went on. “When I go to the corner drugstore to pick up some shampoo, why do you always tell me to be _______ when I cross the street?”

There is no satisfactory _________ a parent can give to this.

All I could say in reply was that when I was 50, my mother would _______ me not to drive too fast. If I were 80 and she were still alive, I would be getting the _______ warning. No matter what the age, a child is a child.

There is something else, too, that children find it hard to understand. When they are far away, there is nothing we can do about their _______. Parents try not to ________ about it.

But when the children are close, the old protective urge quickly________, and it doesn’t ________how far they have been or what experiences they have got through.

Most ________ happen round the corner, not in the rainforest. The most instinctive (本能的) act of almost every creature is to ________ its young, and this reaction stays for a lifetime.

In the parents’ mind, a child ages but does not ________.Rational? No.But if we were rational, would we want children at all?