Peter Wiggins grew up in a poor family. He worked diligently at his ____ job as teaching assistant in a private kindergarten and put in three more hours at night as a part­time cashier at a ___. By the time Peter walked home with slow and heavy steps every day，it was often close to ____.
Peter worked very hard in order to ____ his aged parents who had retired as restroom cleaners with ____ savings left after putting Peter and his sister through school. Peter was the only ___， for his sister, Beth, was often in poor health.
One day, as Peter was walking home from ACE Supermarket where he ____， he stumbled(絆腳) upon a small brown packet on the pavement. The package was slightly ____.
So he picked it up to examine it more closely. To his ____， it contained fifty­dollar bills. Peter knew it was not his to keep and that the ____ might urgently need the money.
Without ____， Peter walked quickly to the nearest police station and handed it over to Mr. Roberts who was the police officer ____ for that night. Surprised to see someone hand in such a large amount of cash ____，the police officer said that Peter was indeed a role model others could ____.
“It's nothing really...I was doing what ____ would have done，” Peter's face turned red as the officer continued to ask for his name and contact number so that the owner could ____ thank him. The next day, Peter received a ____. The owner of the lost money was none other than Peter's ____ at the ACE Supermarket! He had found out about Peter from Roberts and had decided to ____ Peter to the position of manager with a handsome increase in salary. He had also decided to pay for Beth's ___.Peter was overjoyed.

Music to My Ears
Robby was 10 for his first piano lesson in my class. Much as he tried, he ____ even the basic rhythm. However, he dutifully reviewed the pieces that I required.
Over the months he tried and tried while I ____ and encouraged him. At the end of each lesson he'd always say, “My mom's going to hear me play some day.” ____ it seemed hopeless.
I only knew his mother from a ____ as she waited in her aged car to pick him up. Then one day Robby stopped coming. I was secretly ____ that he stopped because of his lack of ability.
Weeks later I informed the students, including Robby, of the coming recital(獨(dú)奏). To my ____， Robby asked me if he could be included. I told him he really did not qualify because he had ____ out. He said his mom had been sick and unable to take him to lessons but he was still ____ .  
“I've just got to play！” he ____. Something inside me let me allow him to.
Then came the recital night. The gym was ____ with parents. I put Robby up ____， thinking that I could save his poor performance through my “curtain closer(謝幕)．”
The recital went off smoothly. Then Robby came up on stage. His clothes were wrinkled and his hair was ____. “Why didn't his mother at least make him comb his hair for this special night？” I thought.
Robby pulled out the piano bench and began. I was not ____ for what I heard next. His fingers were ____ on the keys. Never had I heard Mozart played so well by people of his age. After he ended, everyone was ____ their feet in wild applause.
In ____ I ran up on stage and put my arms around Robby. “I've never heard you play like that, Robby! How did you ____ it？”
Robby explained, “Well, Miss Hondorf…remember I told you my mom was sick? …____ she had cancer and passed away yesterday. She was born deaf, so tonight she could hear me play in heaven. I wanted to make it special.”
There wasn't a ____ eye in the house. That night I felt he was the teacher and I was the pupil, for it was he who taught me the meaning of perseverance and ____.

The day that I met my best friend for the first time, I was full of anxiety. I was trying to do some __41__ for an important oral exam in the local library, but people kept ____ me. I was getting annoyed and of course, I wasn't able to ___. Suddenly I heard someone singing behind me. I ____ and glared at the person who was singing. It was a tall girl about the same age as me.
The fact that she looked like a sensitive, friendly girl didn't matter. If anything, it made me even angrier.“ How could she be so selfish？” I thought ____.
I picked up my books, glared at her and whispered coldly, “Thanks to your ____， I've been unable to study. You're so ____！”
I left the library in such a hurry that I left the most important textbook ____. when I got home two hours later, I found that textbook gone. I was so ____ that I almost cried. Just then, the phone rang. A gentle voice ____ the speaker as Jenny and asked if I was Jane. After ____ that I was, she said that she had noticed I'd left my book in the library and as my ___ was in it, she'd asked a librarian to get my phone number. She said that she didn't live far away and could bring it around for me if I needed it. 
I sighed with ____ and agreed to meet her at the convenience store down the road. Of course you've ____ who Jenny was. She was the girl I had shouted at for singing in the library. When I recognized her in the convenience store, I was filled with ____ and apologized for my ruled behavior. I felt so ____， but Jenny just laughed, saying she was glad to see that I'd also left my ____ in the library! I couldn't help laughing at this and I invited her back to my apartment for a quick cup of tea.  
Ever since then we've been best friends and we got along really well. To be honest, I trust her more than any one else. I often think how ____ I am. If Jenny hadn't been a kind person who was willing to ____ my shortcomings, I would ____ have experienced such true friendship.

The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two      systems on the whole.
The   of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated孕育 by     . In China, the mother river is the Yellow River while the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were developed for several thousand years and formed their own        . Then in Dang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture        went overseas to Japan,     into the Japanese society and shaped the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it belongs to the same      .
When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was       on the Mesopotamian Plain美索不達(dá)米亞平原 ---- the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known as the      of the European culture. Like the Chinese culture, the European one also      waters. When the colonists of England     in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't    from the European one a lot.
At the same time, the difference of the language systems    _ the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system, for example, the one I’m using to write this paper.
Other factors like human race difference counts as well. But what’s more, as a result of the far distance and the steep險(xiǎn)峻的areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom     until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no      with the other.

My son Joey was born with club feet(天生特厚的畸形腳). The doctors promised us that with treatment he would be able to walk      , but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were        in surgery(手術(shù)). By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a     when you saw him walk.
The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during      , and Joey would jump right in, run and play, too. We      told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to      as well as the other children. So he didn’t know.
In seventh grade he     to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he     with the team. He worked harder and ran      than any of the others—perhaps he sensed that the      that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him.      the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the chance to      points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.
He      to run four to five miles a day, every day —even the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was      , so I went to look for him after school. I found him      all alone. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He had two more      to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy（目光呆滯的） from his fever.      he looked straight ahead and kept running.
Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were     . Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in      grade —the other six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn’t       to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it… so he didn’t know. He just did it.

Brownie and Spotty were neighbour dogs who met every day to play together. Like pairs of dogs you can find in any ____, these two dogs loved each other and played ____ so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their own houses.
One evening, Brownie’s family ____ that Brownie hadn’t returned home. They went looking for him with no ____. Brownie didn’t appear the next day, and, despite their ____ to find him, by the next week he was still missing.
Curiously, Spotty ____ at Brownie’s house alone, barking. Busy with their own lives, they just ignored  the ____ little neighbour dog.
Finally, one morning Spotty ____ to take “no” for an answer. Spotty followed Ted about, barking strongly, then running towards a nearby wood, as if to say, “____ me! It’s urgent!”
Ted followed the anxious Spotty. The little dog led the man to a ____ spot a half mile from the house. There Ted found his beloved Brownie ____, one of his hind legs stuck in a steel leg hold trap. Horrified, Ted now wished he’d taken Spotty’s earlier requirement ____. Then Ted noticed something quite remarkable.
Spotty had done more than simply ____ Brownie’s owner to his trapped friend. In a circle around the ____ dog, Ted found some dog food---which was later ____ as the remains of every meal Spotty had been fed that ____!
Spotty had been visiting Brownie ____, in a single-minded quest to keep his friend alive by offering his own comfort. Spotty had obviously stayed with Brownie to protect him from being hurt, snuggling (依偎) with him at night to keep him ____ and touching him gently with its nose to keep his spirits up.
Brownie’s ____ was treated by a veterinarian and he recovered. For many years afterwards, the two families watched the faithful friends frolicking (嬉戲) ____ chasing each other down that well-worn path between their houses.

We live in a fast-paced and anxiety-filled world that oftentimes seems to shift beneath our feet. Thus we are sometimes affected by fears or anxiety impacting our life. For as long as I could remember I had struggled with anxiety. After I left university, I made friends with a Moroccan woman at work. One day she invited me to       her and her family back home. I wanted to, but I would have to travel there       and I knew we would be in a very rural area. How would I cope with my       ?
Then one day it         to me that I had a life to live. I could choose to let anxiety       me or I could go to Morocco and       something different. I was 23 years old and had never been out of the UK alone. The journey to Morocco     something inside me. I managed to cope with my anxiety. The sense of       was overwhelming and still to this day when I get afraid of going somewhere alone, I remember how       it felt when I arrived in Morocco.
Upon arrival I was so       for the generous welcome I received. My friend’s family had arranged a welcome party. The people were so loving toward me. As a moment of        felt in a faraway village, this reminded me that I was “good enough”, which helped to        my anxiety.
Waking up the next day, in the morning light, I saw the area where we were. I was        by how rural it was – and the realization that these people had very few       .
In the days afterwards, I traveled around Morocco. We went to Marrakesh and     the Atlas mountains. We had the most amazing food – lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.
At the end of my       something inside me had changed. I realized I had not felt anxious for nearly two weeks.
Experiencing a different culture far away from home helped me to realize what is important in life, what really       and with that my anxiety        . When I returned home I was much more active in       my anxiety. Working with people, helping them        their anxiety, is how I can share the love I found in Morocco.

The train had started moving. It was      with people of all ages, mostly with the middle-aged workers and young students. Near the      sat an old man with his thirty-year-old son. As the train moved by, the son was overjoyed with the        outside. “See, dad, the scenery of green trees moving        is very beautiful.”
This behavior from a        son made the other people feel strange about him. Everyone was       about the son. “This person seems to be       ,” a newly-married man whispered to his wife.
Suddenly it started   . Lots of drops fell on the travelers through the open window. The son excitedly said to his father, “See, dad, how      the rain is, too.” The man’s wife was annoyed by the rain drops spoiling (弄壞) her      suit. The young man said to the father, “Can’t you see it raining yourself? Your son        be mentally ill. Get him to a hospital!”
The old man        at first, feeling rather hurt and then replied, “We are on the way back from the       . My son was        from birth. He just recovered from an eye operation yesterday. The rain and nature are all new to his eyes. Please      us for the inconvenience that we may have caused.”
The things we see may be right from the outside      we know the truth,      the lesson learnt may be too late. Imam Ali once said: A fool’s mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man’s tongue is under the control of his      . So try to understand the problem better before taking a(n)     action. As the saying goes, “It is better to light up a candle instead of blaming the       .”

On this Christmas Day I had the wonderful opportunity to see the true spirit of Christmas.
My big family always  ____ presents together at the start of the New Year and have done so in this way for more than 40 years. Since the beginning, my grandfather and grandmother have ____ their children and cousins on this day in their small farmhouse.
With 13 ____ and uncles and more than 30 cousins in this group, there were usually more than 50 people in the room to exchange gifts. Because of the activity, the flying wrapping paper, so many people and the limited space of a 65-year-old farmhouse living room, most of the individual moments went ____.
My nephew, Jack (9 year old), who was walking by my 5-year-old cousin, Seth, in the Christmas chaos, noticed that Seth was crying. Jack ____ to ask him what was wrong and why he was crying. Seth ____ that he didn’t receive any toys!
Almost without _____, Jack looked down to the only two toys he had received, and _____ Seth with his best toy! He said, “Here, you can have this one. I don’t have to have it. I have other toys I can play with at home.”
Tears were welling up in my eyes! I was moved by this huge act of _____. I was so _____ of my nephew and what he had done when he thought no one else was looking.
I gave him a huge _____ and told him that he had demonstrated(演示) the true _____ of Christmas!

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Travelers to new cities are often told to start their trip with a bus tour．It is said that they can then get a full view of the places that _____them．Nonsense! What you see from the ___ of a moving bus is _____and completely removed from the real sights，sounds，and_____ outside．Be adventurous! The best ______to experience any place is on foot and with absolutely no travel plan．______ go wherever your feet and your interests______ you．You finally will get to the _____ sites as you are on the bus tour—the museums, the monuments，the city hall—but you will have seen much more．You will have______the present life of the city．
“But what if I get lost?” people might ask．No one ever gets ______lost in a major city．
At first, you can find your way back to a(n) ______location．If it ____ you to“l(fā)ost”，just find a taxi and go back to where you started．However， ______ things can happen if you get lost．You can _____ at a sidewalk cafe to sit and relax．You can ask the local people at the next table about the directions．And _____they don’t speak your language．your trip becomes more memorable because of the _____．Here are a few more
ways to get the most out of your travel．
Know before you go．______a few hours before your trip learning about the history and culture of your destination．This will help you understand what you’re seeing．
Move around like a local．Use the subways and buses of the city you’re _______．You’ll not only save money，but you’ll also learn how people really live．
Check the bulletin boards(布告牌)．Sometimes you can find advertisements for free concert，and _____fun activities on bulletin boards around universities．
So next time you see a poster advertising an introductory  ______tour，save your money．Instead，wander on your own．I promise you a time you’ll remember with great pleasure．