1 . When my son was very young, he didn’t like grocery stores. The bright lights, tons of goods and people would result in his ______of self-control. At that time I didn’t ______that it was because he had sensory processing disorder (感官处理失调症), and grocery stores could be very ______for kids like him.

One day, I had to ______a few things, and no one could help to ______my son. There were no other _______ I had to go with him. As soon as he was put into the cart he began to______. The only thing I could do was to finish shopping and ______the store as soon as possible. ______, I saw a woman in the distance waving her arms crazily at our ______. I looked behind us ______we were the only people there. I was ______. I pushed the “race car” cart and kept ______towards the woman and when we got close she slightly tapped her______into ours. “Oh, my goodness!” she said to my son. “What a crazy ______you are! You must be the fastest!” My son went from crying to laughing in a second. Then she showed me a look that I will never ______. It said, “It’s okay. You’re doing your best and I know because I’ve been there myself.”

It’s been many years since this happened, but every time I’m in that store I______that woman. I want her to know what her ______appearance did for me and my son that day. Now, whenever I ______a mom having one of those moments with her kid, I always______that look and help make their day a bit lighter.

2 . I deliver (派送) meals on wheels every Friday. A week ago, I had the pleasure of _________ one of my customers. She was in her eighties and was very _________ and I always brought her lunch on Fridays. She looked _________ when she opened the door one day. She told me her phone was_________ and that she couldn’t receive the call from her doctor. She went to her neighbors, _________ they were not at home. She had _________to ask the mailman to help her, but he didn’t come for several days. She was _________ .

Having heard _________story, I took matters into my own hands. I called the phone company_________and made sure they knew that getting this phone__________was urgent (紧急的). I took down her phone number and her __________ just to make sure I could __________ later to see if the phone had been fixed.

She was so __________ that she was in tears,__________me for my help. I called the __________twice that day. They told me they had checked the phone line and got the phone__________. After that I called her every day to make sure she was__________ and didn’t need anything.

Just being able to help her in her time of__________filled my heart with such__________and happiness. It does not take much time or __________ to help a neighbor. Sometimes, all that is needed is a smile, a hug or a helping hand.

3 . I used to watch her play basketball and laugh. The boys always tried to stop her but _________. No one could. At other times she would practice dribbling and shooting   _________ until dark. She desired to go to college and the only way was to get a(an) _________ by being one of the best players. _________, one day in her senior year, the coach told her that she would probably _________ get to play for a top ranked team for being too short----_________ less offered a scholarship.

She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat _________ as I sensed her disappointment. Her father encouraged that those coaches were _________. They just did not understand the _________ of a dream.“ If you really wished to achieve something, nothing could stop you except one thing---your own __________ . If the dream is big enough, the facts don't __________. Keep dreaming!" Then she smiled and ran towards the court to continue the __________ .

The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college __________ who was there looking at the opposing team. She was indeed __________ a scholarship. She was going to get the college education that she had __________ and worked toward for all those years. And that little girl had more playing time as a freshman and sophomore than any other woman did in the history of that university. All the teachers were __________ with her diligence and rapid progress.

Every time she wanted to __________ , she remembered her father’s words and she will continue to __________ her dream. After work she can still be found sometimes as the sun is __________, bouncing a basketball. And often I hear her tell others, "If the dream is big enough, the __________ don’t count.”

4 . I had been practising my speech for days, but I was still stressed out. I was in the first year of my PhD, and my ________ public speaking experiences had not exactly been successful. The first one had ended in a ________ because it was too long; during the second one, I had been. unable to control my ________ voice, which gave the audience the ________ that I was about to burst into tears. Now, I hoped I could get through this one without ________

When my turn to speak finally came, I focused on ________. I would have to speak fast to present all the information I had ________. Fifteen minutes later, I finally relaxed, ________ of finishing on time and speaking with a steady voice. I had no ________ whether the audience had learned anything.

I continued to view my. ________ this way until about a year later, when I made a presentation to a nonscientific audience. Their ________ made it clear that they had not gotten the message I wanted to ________ Suddenly, I realized these people probably felt the same way I did after watching a ________ presentation: The speaker was not ________ with the audience at all. And I realized that I didn't want to be that speaker. I wanted to do better.

Instead of trying to________ the audience with as much information as possible, I began to care about what people would take away from my presentations. I ________ advice, added pictures, removed text, wrote a script(讲话稿) to use as a roadmap, and ________ a lot.

My efforts rapidly ________, My audience started to appear energized and interested in what I was saying, and their questions showed that they had learned something. My ________ grew. Although I still feel some stress, I enjoy each minute of my talks- some practical ________ helped me get here.

5 . Rebecca, who I met at a business conference in Las Vegas, is one of the _________ people I have ever known. So sharp in mind was she that she made a deep impression on me. Even if you were around her for an entire day, you probably wouldn't notice her _________.

She was born with severe dyslexia—a slight disorder of the brain that causes difficulty in reading and spelling. _________ her learning disability, she had to be in _________ education classes for most of her elementary and middle school years. Despite the _________, she refused to let dyslexia _________ her life. Every day, she worked on _________ her disability with the help of her parents. Her dad would spend an hour every morning _________ her with math. In the evenings her mom would have her read books out aloud and then her mother would _________ her on the content.

__________, in her effort, Rebacca's hard work __________. By high school, she had __________ from special education classes all the way to honor classes. “When I was young, no one thought I could ever attend __________.” she said. Not only did Rebecca __________ going to college, but she graduated as the top of her class.

“I always had a vision,” says Rebecca, “of one day being a __________. But it seemed like such a crazy __________ that I never told anyone.” Today, Rebecca's vision is a __________. She graduated from law school and is __________ working her up in one of the largest law firms on the East Coast. Rebecca says: “I wouldn't change a thing. My learning disability __________ brings challenges to me now, but it also gave me the __________ to make my childhood dream come true.

6 . Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite________through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)________life, so he and his wife did all the work and________made them do anything.

After some time, his wife died and________he didn’t want his children to________, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and________, and started to worry about his________when he died.

So he thought about this for a long time and he________his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve________all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and________the gold.”

And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to________and my children don’t know how to________themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”

So the neighbors provided them with________for some time.

Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the________so they did the digging themselves. They________one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.

So the brothers sat down and one________the other, “Do you think our father________us?”

But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the________is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the________we can become rich.”

So like all the other________, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.