2 . Before she passed away from cancer, A.J. Walters made her husband Sean and daughter Brittany promise her one thing: Sean would accompany Brittany, a high school senior, to the homecoming game, where she was in the running for homecoming _________. A. J. was a beloved administrative assistant at Brittany’s high school. It was _________ to her that her daughter go. Brittany and Sean _________

Days later, on the morning of Friday, A.J. _________. Keeping their _________, that very afternoon, an emotional Brittany walked arm in arm with her father. They crossed the football field with the other candidates to await the_________ of the voting.

Brittany wasn’t_________ homecoming queen that day; Nyla was. But, like many in the community, Nyla had also_________ A.J. Out of _________, moments after receiving the crown, Nyla walked over to Brittany, removed the crown from her head, and__________ it on her friend’s. The two__________, tearfully holding each other for support. “She’d rather have her __________ than a crown,” Nyla said. By__________ it to Brittany, “I was telling her that she was her mom’s queen, and that she was loved by many, __________ me.”

“I felt so much love from her, and I just felt so much__________ for her,” said Brittany, “I can __________ my mom through Nyla. They have the__________ caring and giving spirit.”

Nyla is no less perfect for __________ of a crown. A friend of the Walters family said, “There’s an old__________ goes, “Real queens fix each other’s crowns.” But the fact is, real queens __________ their crowns to let other queens shine.”

5 . I'm standing in a class of wild 14-year-old girls as they throw paper and howl （大喊）with laughter. They won't ____ me. I was 23 and I didn't know what I was doing. I never wanted to ____ .I wanted to be a writer. But when I arrived in London, they were short of teachers.

My efforts at teaching were _____. When the bell finally rang, I rushed to the staff room, red with anger. The other teachers weren't ____ . "That's 4B, the worst class in school," one said.

I dreaded （害怕）our next _____ , but I couldn't give up. I needed the job. So. I ______ formal lessons. Instead, I brought _____ for class discussions. One of the liveliest talks was about the arguments they had with their parents. They paid attention and shared about their lives. I was _____ . So I had them write about themselves. Most wrote about families with little money and big problems. As time went on, their essays became a ____ between us. I admired their humor, toughness and insight, and I think they ____ my interest in their lives.

The musical My Fair Lady was playing in the West End, but they had never seen a ______stage performance. They lived just a few subway stops from the West End, but none had ever been. 1 asked if they'd like to see the musical. They thought I was _____ . No teacher had ever ______taking them out. A few weeks later，4B and I were sitting in a _______ . They loved the music, the costumes and the characters. It was the _____ of their year, and they talked about it for days.

Near the end of the semester, someone knocked on the door of the staff room. The two most rebellious （叛逆的）girls in 4B were there - with flowers. I was proud to know I had ___their lives. I enjoyed teaching and getting along with _____ .

When I returned to Australia several years later, I still wanted to be a _____ . For the first time in my life, I stopped _____ and started writing. My first story was titled. My Fair Ladies. Teaching wasn't the _____ of my writing career; it was the beginning.

6 . There came a time in my life when my learning curve ( 曲线) became very steep. I learned so much in such a _______ time that I was reading two grades ahead of my _______class. At school I was continuously ________with lectures, because I had already done _________.

And ________my knowledge increased, so did my arrogance(傲慢). I started getting into ______debates with my teachers. I knew more than them, and I was eager to show it at every _______I got. That was until Mrs T _______. She was new to our school, and a perfect ________for me. I tried one of my tricks on her in front of the whole class. She didn’t scold me. She just _______

At the end of the class, she ________me aside and said the following words:

“I know that there is an unspoken _______that a teacher is supposed to be more ________than the student. We both know that is _______ . I know for a fact that you know much more than me. And I won’t insult you by pretending otherwise. But remember this. Knowledge is supposed to give you ______, not pride. Today you are the smartest person in the room; tomorrow you won’t be. There will always be someone much _______, much more diligent than you. And when that happens, all the pride in the world wouldn’t be enough to _______you from downfall. Everything that you have learnt will be for nothing if you don’t learn the _______of humility.

Today, I _______remember her words. I ________myself of them daily.

7 . My daughter Kelly is a cautious person. She needs to warm up to situations, and is ____ to try new things. When with close friends, she becomes a ____ who laughs loudly and chants, “Girls rule, boys drool.” But when that ____ zone is not around her, she is shy and ____.

This has been challenging for me ____. “Shy” is not a word that I think has ever been used to ____ me. But this has been a year of ____ for my girl that has filled her with a new sense of ____. This year she moved to lap lane in swimming where she was preparing for a swim team. This year she teamed to ride a bike without training wheels. And this year she ____ her first kids’ triathlon (三项全能).

On Saturday, with a thunderstorm coming soon and my son’s birthday party later in the day, we all went out in the dark of the morning for Kelly to ____ her first triathlon. We practiced transitions from swim to ____ and to run with her. We got all the equipment she’d need and we kept talking about the ____. But as we waited the two hours for the older kids to finish before her ____, she ____ my leg a little harder and told me she loved me a few too many times. She was nervous but trying to keep calm.

And then it was time for her to go. From the second she jumped into the water, my heart ____ quickly. My daughter ____ into the most confident human being I had ever seen. She dominated that swim, crushed that bike ride and ran to the ____ with the biggest smile on her face.

I can honestly say that I never felt so ____ of someone in my entire life. It wasn’t because she did a sport or anything like that. It was because she was afraid of something and ____ that fear with confidence and a fire I hadn’t seen before.

All day I would find myself just looking over at her and smiling. She might be wearing the finalist medal but I felt like I ____ that clay.

8 . Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I_________across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and _______with dust. Deciding to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They _______ .

As I carefully opened each letter, _______of them fragile with age, I discovered a new page _______unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents’ lives.

My father used to _________ in the army. So his letters were full of frontline  _______of the things about the war. Each of my mother’s letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was _______to these letters like a magnet(磁铁).

Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very  _______and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a ________kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the  ________. He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had __________to him when he had been so far from home.

It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the  __________letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside.

At his bedside, I joked with him, saying  ________, “Today is Valentine’s Day, don’t you want to send Mother a present?” He became more __________ when I handed him the old  ________. He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he ________it, his eyes were filled with tears.

My father, in a________tight with emotion(情感)read the loving message he’d sent to my mother fifty-six years   __________. And this time, he could read it to her  __________  .

A terrible fever made Anne Sullivan nearly lose her eyesight in her childhood, and the doctors said she was a hopelessly mad girl. She had been_______in the basement of a mental hospital (精神病医院) in Boston. Sometimes, little Annie ______hit anyone who came near to her. She ignored everyone who appeared in front of her most of the time.

However, an old nurse ________that little Annie had hope. She went to_______little Annie every day. The child ignored her in most cases, but the old nurse ________stopped seeing her every day in the basement. The_________lady left cookies for little Annie and spoke words full of encouragement to her. She believed that as long as she showed__________, little Annie could get better. Finally, the doctors noticed the_______in little Annie. They moved her upstairs and her condition continued_______.Then her last day there came, and the child who seemed to be “_________” went out of the locked door of the mental hospital.

After she grew up, Anne Sullivan hoped to__________others, just as the kind old nurse helped her. She became the________of Helen Keller. She_______her, trained her strictly and worked with her________she lit the candle that brought________to the whole world. Anne Sullivan________a miracle (奇迹) in the life of Helen Keller. But first it was a kind nurse who had full________in little Annie that turned a(n) _________ child into a great teacher.

If there had been no Anne Sullivan, the name of Helen Keller would not be________But if there hadn’t been a________who kept showing love, Anne Sullivan wouldn’t be known to the world, either.