2 . My mom only had one eye. She was an embarrassment to me. Once during elementary school, my mom came. I was so embarrassed and ____ how she could do this to me. I ____ her a hateful look and ran out. I was so ____ with my mom and wished that she would just ____ from this world.

I told myself that I would become ____ in the near future, so I ____ very hard. Later I got ____ by the Seoul University. I left my mother and never went back. One day, a letter about a school ____ came to me. I went back to ____ in the reunion. After the reunion, I went down to the old shack, which I used to call a house, just out of ____. There I found my mom fallen on the cold ____. Then a piece of paper in her hand ____ into my eyes. It was a ____ to me.

I think my life has been ____ enough now. I can’t go to see you, but would it be too much to ask if I wanted you to come to ____ me once in a while? When you were very little, you got into an ____ and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn’t ____ watching you having to grow up with only one eye. So I gave you mine. I was so ____ of my son to see a whole new ____ for me with that eye, I was never ____ at you for anything you did, It’s because I love you.

Mom

Knowing the truth, tears poured down my face.

3 . Being jobless for the last three months, I am upset nowadays. My son has lost his ______ from a good school and he might have to go to a less qualified school. I have moved from a spacious (宽敞的) apartment to a small one in order to ______ my living expenses. My wife has built extra stress. On top of that, my father in-law ______ a week ago, which has added fuel to fire, ______ our family into a more terrible state.

In these circumstances I have two mental ______: either to feel upset and keep losing my peace of mind, or ______ my negative thoughts with super mental powers about self-confidence and consistency, and ______ applying for new jobs with positive attitude.

I choose the second option because I believe that the pain I am ______ today will build up my ______ . My strengths will then increases my confidence and make me a good times make me a ______ man one day. I understand that good and bad stages are part of ______ . While good times make me happy, bad times ______ the ‘inner’ me.

Two months later, ______ , I have finally landed on a job which is very exciting and offers a nice salary. Time has healed my wife’s mental stress ______ the death of her father. My son has already been accepted by another good school because the admissions for new academic year were still ______ !

As I am back on the track of normal life, I can ______ say that the most important things that helped me ______ the crisis (危机) were my consistent character of patience, and ______ attitude towards life. So, while I wish you all the best life can ______ you, I would highly recommend taking the same attitude towards life ______ you are trapped in any of such situations.

4 . Last Tuesday I took my two daughters, aged five and seven, to town by car. It began to rain_______so I decided I would leave the children in the car_______ I rushed into a shop. I warned the girls not to _______ anything and told them I would be _______ within a few minutes. Then I locked all the doors and left _______happily looking out of the window.

I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had _______! I could hardly believe my _______. The car doors were _______ locked, the windows tightly shut and on the back seat _______only two coats. Being ________, I ran to the corner of the street ________ there was no sign of them. I ________up to an old lady nearby and asked ________ she had seen two small girls but she said ''No''.

Feeling quite sick with fear, I sat on the driver’s seat, and ________ to stop trembling(发抖). Suddenly, I ________ a merry laugh ________ me. I got out of the car, ran round to open the boot(车尾行李箱) and ________ were two very red-face and ________ children. They had obviously pulled out the back seat, ________ behind it and then been unable to push the seat forward again. ________ tears in my eyes, I leaned forward and pulled their ears.