2 . Jim and his sister May walked in the street, and then they noticed a pet store. It was a very small pet store that didn’t have many __________. The owner of the shop, Mr. Smith, greeted Jim and May when they __________. May said, “We would like to buy a dog.” “Ah, well, our shop is not very __________, ” Mr. Smith told her. “So we only have two dogs to choose __________.”

They asked Mr. Smith to __________ them the dogs. Mr. Smith took them to see the two dogs. One was a big Bulldog named Buster. The other was a tiny Chihuahua named Teacup. May wanted Teacup, __________ Jim wanted Buster. They walked outside to __________. They couldn’t agree on a dog. May __________ they race home for it. The one who __________ the race could choose the dog.

Jim agreed , and then told May her shoelace(鞋带)was loose. When May _________, he ran off to get a head start. Jim ran as __________ as he could because he really wanted that Bulldog. When he looked back, he found May was so __________ behind that he couldn’t even see her. Jim finally got home. He was __________ but happy. He knew he was the __________. May arrived a few minutes later. She congratulated him and they __________ the pet store together. However, when they arrived they ________ saw Teacup. They asked Mr. Smith where Buster was.

Mr. Smith gave them a(n) __________ that a few minutes after May and Jim left , two boys walked in and bought Buster.

Jim looked at May, and she couldn’t help smiling. Jim __________ and turned back to Mr. Smith. “Sometimes you win the __________, but not the prize!” Jim smiled sadly. “We’ll __________ the Chihuahua, please.”

4 . He’s an old cobbler (修鞋匠) with a shop in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me: “I have no _______. Take them to the other fellow on the main street; he’ll _______ them for you right away.”

But I’d had my _______ on his shop for a long time, and knew he was a (an) _______ craftsman (手艺人). “No,” I _______, “the other fellow can’t do it well.”

“The other fellow” was one of those _______ who fix shoes “while-U-wait” — without _______much about mending shoes.

My man saw I wouldn’t _______, and he smiled. He looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one _______ with a piece of chalk and said, “________ in a week.”

I was about to leave ________ he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.

“See what I can do?” he said with ________. “In Paris, only three of us can do this kind of ________.”

When I got back out into the street, the world seemed ________ to me. He was something ________an ancient legend (传说), this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange hat, his funny accent from who-knows-where and, ________, his pride in his craft.

These are times when you can do things any old way as long as it “________”, when, in short, most people merely look on work as a ________ to make money rather than a way to realize their own ________. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest ________ from pride in a job well done.

8 . It is every kid's worst nightmare (噩梦). A six-year-old boy, Jaden Hayes, has _________ it twice. First, he lost his dad when he was four and then last month his mom _________ unexpectedly in her sleep.

“I tried and I tried and I tried to get her _________, but I couldn't.” said Jaden. No one could imagine how _________ Jaden was. But there's another side to his darkness. A few weeks ago he told his aunt Barbara that he was sick and tired of seeing everyone around _________ all the time. And an idea crossed his mind. He had a /an _________ to solve it.

“And that was the start of it," said Barbara. "That's where the adventure _________ . Jaden asked his aunt Barbara to buy a bunch of _________ and bring him to downtown Savannah, Georgia near where he lives, so he could _________ them away. "I'm trying to make people __________," said Jaden.

Jaden __________ people who aren't already smiling and then turns their __________ around. So far he^’s gone out on four different occasions, collecting nearly 500 smiles. He is always __________ , even if sometimes he doesn't get exactly what he was hoping __________ . It is just difficult for some people to __________ a six-year-old orphan (孤儿)who would offer a toy-expecting nothing __________—except a smile.

"I'm counting on it to be 33,000," said Jaden. When asked if he could make that __________ and have any influence on the world, he answered: "I think I can. I don't have to change the __________ greatly, but it's enough to help __________ it a little. Only if I carry it on can I make a big__________ to others."

9 . My mother taught me a lot of things. One lesson I learned was this: Never take “no” for an_________.

I watched my mother in_________many times. One incident was when my brother Ted was attending_________. At the start of his second year, Ted called home and told my parents, “I don't have a_________on campus. The school said they didn't get the_________.”

“Where are you_________?” I asked.

“They have a house at the foot of the mountain,” Ted said. Ted didn't say what we all_________: It was a long way up that mountain to the campus. When winter came, he would have a_________time making it to class through snow.

My mother was_________. “They're crazy — I sent that room-deposit check," she said. “I'm going there and____________this out.”

I thought that was a____________idea. I knew Mom could handle the____________. She would get it solved quickly. But what I didn't____________was that I was going with her.

I tried to refuse, saying I didn't want to____________school, but I soon found myself on a bus with my mother,____________Ted's college. There we were told the dorms were____________and nothing could be done. Then Mom went straight to the president's office. She introduced herself____________and explained the problem. The president promised to take care of the____________.

The next night, after we returned home, Ted called, saying that he was in a dorm.

That day Mom taught me some valuable life____________: Never accept “no” for an answer. Always____________what you know is right.

10 . It's often said that you can judge a person by looking at what's on their bookshelves. Well, when I asked myself this question a few years ago, I made a(n) _______ discovery. Pretty much all the _______ on my bookshelves were written by British authors, and there was almost nothing in translation from other _______. What a shame! So, I decided to begin my _____________ reading project.

But how could I find books from much of the rest of the world? I had to ask for _______. So in October 2011, I started my blog, and I _______ a short appeal (呼吁) online. Within hours, people began to _______. At first, it was friends and colleagues. Then it was friends of friends. And soon, it was _______.

Four days later, I got a(n) _______ from a woman called Rafidah in Kuala Lumpur. She said she loved my project, ________ if she could go to her local English-language bookshop and choose my Malaysian book and post it to me. I ________ accepted, and a few weeks later, a package ________ containing nothing but two books — Rafidah's choice from Malaysia, and a book from Singapore that she had also ________ for me. At the time, I was ________ that a stranger more than 6,000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never ________.

But Rafidah's kindness ________ to be the pattern for that year. Time and again, people went out of their ________ to help me. And books often came from ________ sources. A writer even emailed me an unpublished translation of his novel to me, allowing me to become one of the ________ people ever to read that book in English.

That year, thanks to kind strangers from the four ________ of the world. I read books from over 100 countries.