1 . My father often works very hard. And he has __________to see a film. Here I’ll tell you __________about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work and __________ go home, he found a film ticket under the __________on his desk. He thought he __________to have not much work to do that day and __________ was quite wonderful to pass the __________at the cinema. So he came back home and __________finished his supper. Then he said __________ to us and left.

But to our ____________, he came back about half an hour later, I ____________ him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about ____________funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a ____________came to my father’s and said that the seat was ____________. My father was surprised. He took out the ticket ____________ looked at it carefully. It was Row17, ____________. And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her ____________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3. ____________? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The ____________of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, ____________, I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

2 . When your dream is to become a footballer, nothing should get in your way —even if you have no feet.

Gabriel Muniz, an 1l–year-old Brazil kid, was born without feet. Although his family thought he would have serious difficulties living a normal life, he started walking before he was one year old. His mother would go after him, expecting him to keep falling, but he never fell. It took him a while to make the jump from walking to playing football, but he did make it. And, in fact, there’s nothing he loves more than playing football. In his school, the skillful youngster is not only the best player in his school team but also the captain of his gym team.

He knows that his disability means he’ll never be able to play for a professional football team. So Gabriel is hoping that football will one day become a Paralympics(残疾人奥运会)sport. He proved to everyone there he could go head to head with any other boy. Watching him play is unbelievable. He’s fast and he’s got a big bag of tricks – he’s very skilled and he does everything he can to copy his hero, Messi so much that he was invited to go to Spain to meet his hero Messi and show his talent in the Barcelona Football Club. His coach says he is proving the disability only exists(存在)inside our heads and he is challenging the social rules.

3 . Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket — anything with a round ball, I was _______,” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always _______ in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.

It was a mountain _______ he received for his 15th birthday that _______ him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a _______ friend. _______, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and _______. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.

The _______ year, he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s School of Adventure in Scotland, where he _______ about Ridgway’s cold-water adventures. Greatly ________ , Saunders ________ that this would be his future.

In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders ________ his first long-distance expedition (探险) towards the North Pole. It took ________ energy. He ________ frostbite (冻疮), ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the ________, pulling his supply-load sled (雪橇) up and over rocky ice. Since then, Saunders has skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.

Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometre journey that has never been completed on skis.

6 . Exercise and I had never had a good relationship due to my fear of sports. From a young age, my dad _______ me into a dozen sports. I didn’t like any of them, _______.

When I entered the University of Regina, my dad _______ telling me “You have to find a way to stay _______.” or “You don’t want to get the Freshman 15, do you?” So I _______ to give swimming a shot, but I _______ managed to go to the pool twice during the fall semester (学期). Worse still, I was _______ to convince myself that’s OK.

The spring semester came. A friend of mine _______ me if I wanted to try Zumba (尊巴) with her. All I knew about Zumba was that it was basically a kind of exercise: dancing to Latin pop songs. It didn’t sound too bad, but I couldn’t be _______.

I went, and that was it. Zumba became my ________ of tea. The instructor would always say, “Don’t worry about the steps. Have fun. Do your own thing.” That removed my ________ of sports. I didn’t have to be ________. I didn’t even have to be good. I just needed to ________ the music and move. Zumba did ________ me from the Freshman 15, and it also did so much more. It let me make ________ with my unpleasant past about physical exercise, and enjoy staying healthy.

7 . I was doing well as a department head in a Mumbai firm, but my relationship with the boss had become strained (紧张的). Not wanting to ________ this, I resigned rather impulsively (冲动地). But with no other job offer in hand, I soon became ________.

Then, one morning, a Situations Vacant ad I spotted ________ a person like me. So, carrying my ________ typed CV (简历) in an envelope on which I had written both “To and From” ________, I took a train on a Monday morning to get to the post office, where I could have it weighed, stamped and ________. Getting off the train, I ________ the crowd of office-goers out of the station and on to the street. Suddenly, I noticed my envelope was ________!

I rushed back to the ________. The train was still there. A ________ of the compartment in which I travelled ended up with nothing. I waited ________ for the train to pull away. It hadn’t fallen on the tracks either.

The ________ thing to do was to go home, sit at my typewriter, make a new CV and covering letter and mail it. But losing the envelope was like a bad ________, so I gave up.

Three weeks passed. I ________ a letter that referred to my “lost” job application and inviting me for a ________ with the company’s managing director, I was ________.

I soon got the job, and ________ there as deputy general manager until I took voluntary retirement.

I still think about my application ________ its addressee (收信人). I imagine someone found it. He or she might have asked others on the train. Realizing it would be ________ to a fellow citizen, the finder took it to a post office, stuck the stamps and mailed it. To that ________ friend, I want to say: Thank you for a little act that proved to be so big for me.

9 . My father used to like drinking. Every time when he got _______, he would shout loudly and beat my _______, who left my father and I when I was seven.

I went to a boarding (寄宿) _______ when I was thirteen, and I finally didn’t have to see my father drunk every day. However, I didn’t talk to anybody and _______ all my spare time alone in school because of the pain in my heart. When other boys were _______ on the playground, I would sit there alone. This lasted for several weeks until a new _______ who was about forty came to our class. She, of course, _______ I was different. She asked me to answer her question in her first class. I _______ and answered her question in a very _______ voice, with my head down. That noon, after lunch, she found me and had a ________ with me. She asked me ________ I needed any help. Nobody had ever cared about me like that. I ________ told her everything about my family.

“Things won’t get ________,” she said.

From that day on, every time she saw me, she would give me a ________. She often asked me to answer her questions in class, and she helped me with my ________ after class. As time went by, I didn’t feel so ________ as before.

The day I left that school, I ________ her why she did all that for me. “My mother ________ when I was ten. I know how hard it is ________ a mother,” she said.

I will never ________ her — my dearest teacher.

10 . I ran into a stranger as he passed by. “I’m so sorry” was my reply. Then he said, “Excuse me too. I wasn’t even watching for you.” We were very ______, this stranger and I. Then we went on our ______ after saying goodbye.

But at ______, a different story is told about how we treat our loved ones, young and old. Later in the kitchen, as I ______ the meal, my daughter walked to me, very still. When I turned, I ______ knocked her down. “Get out of the way!” I shouted with a frown (皱眉). She walked away silently, with her little heart ______ I didn’t realize how rudely I had spoken.

That night, when I lay ______ in bed, there was a quiet voice that spoke to me, “While ______ with a stranger, you are calm and polite, but with those you love, you are quick to get excited. Go to look around the ______, you’ll find some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers she brought for you. She ______ them herself — pink, yellow, and your favorite blue. She walked away quietly and you never saw the ______ in her eyes.”

By this time, I felt sad and small and my own tears began to fall. I quietly went and knelt (跪) by her ______. “Wake up, my dear,” I said. “Are these the flowers you picked for me?” She smiled, “I found them out by the tree, and I______ them in a napkin (餐巾), just for you. I knew you’d like them, especially the ______ I said, “I am so sorry that I missed them today. And I shouldn’t have ______ you that way.”

And she whispered, “Mommy, that’s OK... I still love you anyway.” I ______ her and said, “I love you too, and I love the flowers.”

You should know that: if you die tomorrow, the ______ you are working for could have someone easily replace you in a matter of days. But the family you ______ behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into our ______ than into our families—a(n) ______ investment (投资) indeed.

Remember that FAMILY= (F) ATHER + (A) ND + (M) OTHER + (I) + (L) OVE + (Y) OU.