1 . In the seventh grade when my mother suggested that I should join the golf team, I thought she had lost her mind. But as usual, my mother _________ in the end. I played on the middle-school golf team in the seventh and eighth grade. The summer before high school came, I was _________ to join the high school team.

That summer I _________ almost every Sunday morning on the golf course with my _________, and too many afternoons with my mother. This_________ relationship with my parents _________ during my high school years._________ you’re walking down the freshly mowed fairway (修剪的平坦球道), looking out across miles of nothing but golf course, and looking up at the beautiful blue sky, you will realize what is _________ in life.My mom and I_________ many things in the middle of a round of golf that we would never do at ____________,where she is Mom and I am an annoying teenager. On the golf course, we’re just two people who ____________ golf.

During the past years golfing has become a part of my____________. My friends know in the summer the place to find me is on the golf course. There is ____________ I love more than a perfect autumn morning, riding around in a golf cart (球车) with my dad. Golf has ____________ me and made me into the person I am today. And I have to____________ that all of it is thanks to my mom who made me join that middle-school golf team. In fact, she was right.

2 . My family is still recovering from the rainy season of the past few years. It began with the untimely death of a friend, ________ by some major family changes. What’s worse, my teenaged stepson became seriously ill.

As anyone who has ________ a chronically（慢性的）sick child knows, the stress doesn’t go away. My husband and I were ________. Every day the air carried the ________ of an approaching storm.

One day, my stepson and I were discussing Valentine’s gifts—a kazoo（卡祖笛）. My first ________ to this gift was puzzlement, which quickly turned to ________ when, I, a pianist, couldn’t make a sound.

My stepson was ________. It turned out that someone on his school bus had been playing around with a kazoo that day. He wanted to see it.

“You couldn’t get a sound?” he asked. “What’s so ________ about it?”

I shrugged(耸肩). “ I don’t know. It ________ never worked.”

“It’s easy,” said my husband. He grabbed（抓住）it and blew. Nothing happened. ________, he tried again. No sound. His crazy ________ produced only a loud noise.

My stepson burst into laughter. His face ________ like that the first time in almost a year. Soon we were all laughing to the point of tears. It was the ________ 10 minutes in the past couple of years. This experience gave us a moment of ________. It showed us there’re still things to laugh at and enjoy, and that we can still ________ as a family.