1 . People often feel upset because airline companies always lose their suitcases when they fly. It has never happened to me. But something even worse happened to my family recently.

About ten years ago my mum got a job _________ at a university in Thailand. At first she only went for six months. Later because she really liked it, she agreed to stay _________, so my father and I went to live with her in Thailand. We had a great time, but last year my _________ decided that they wanted to return to the UK. We had been there so long. So we wanted _________ a lot of things back with us-all the furniture from our house, in fact. So Mum and Dad went to a shipping company. Workers in the company took everything back in one of those big containers that you see on ships. The container looks like a big green metal box. The _________ put everything into it: the armchairs and sofas, the TV, wardrobes, desks, even all the rugs and curtains. Our whole house was inside that big green metal box.

We flew back to the UK and _________ for the container to arrive. About ten weeks later, we were having _________ one morning when a big lorry arrived outside our house. On the back was a big green metal box. We were so _________. The men _________ the box and started to take out our things. But they weren’t our things. The container was full of gym equipment. It was the __________ one. We were so sad. But the story has a happy ending. The men took the container and gym equipment away, and about two months ago our things finally arrived

2 . Imagine a life without arms or legs! You can’t hold anyone in your arms. You can’t walk anywhere with your feet. How would you last a day like that? Would you _________ at yourself in the mirror like Nick Vujicic, the 29-year-old Australian?

Nick was born without limbs (四肢), so life was not _________ for him. At school many students played jokes on him _________ he looked different from everyone else. No one wanted to be his friends, so he always felt _________.

However, he faced that bravely. He _________ to type and write with two toes (脚趾) at the age of six, and he could even surf and play golf. In college, he achieved great success and was among the _________ students in the studies. And he decided to do something special later in his life—to encourage others to work hard for their dreams.

Now Nick is one of the most popular _________ in the world. He travels to many countries and gives speeches about his stories _________ difficulties. “Living life fully is about looking at what you have, not what you don’t have,” he said. His _________ has encouraged millions of people.

“I tell people to keep on going up when they __________ and to always love themselves,” he said. “If I can encourage just one person, then my job in this life is done.”