For my daughter's 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didn't really have the    ____   but we knew how much this band meant to her.
The night before she was like a  ____   at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to    ____   with us, because she couldn't   ___. On the night of the   ____   it was good to see her so    ____    and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off.
Needless to say when they   ____    after midnight, with T­shirts and lots of pictures of the band,    ____    her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well   ____. This will be a memory she would   ____   forget, and nor would we.
____   full of excitement from the night before, the following day they   ___   to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I   ____， loving the fact that she had not   ____ that quality as she grew up.
Later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a   ____    each. On each present were the words “Because you are the    ____   mum/dad in the world”. When we said our thank­yous and told her she didn't have to, we asked her   ____   she had bought us gifts. Her    ____   was simply “Just because I love you”．
This wasn't something   ____    from our daughter; she had always given us a gift when she wanted to express her  ____， and each gift was always a welcome surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldn't have mattered, and it was  the act itself and the feelings behind it.

I am a person who doesn’t like waiting. I don’t like to wait in line, being put on hold when making a phone call, or arriving at an apartment to find that my companion will be         . And of course, I don’t like waiting rooms.
      , I realize that my agony(痛苦) will not be good for me, as an         crowded world can only mean one thing – more waiting.
       this, I have taken an action and decide to turn my frustration to productive ends. In short, I am looking for what I call “waiting-in-line”        .
These are volumes that contain materials         for being read in shortened words, so there is no extended story line to lose track of. Another          is that they be         enough to slip neatly into my back pocket.
The other day I went to the supermarket.         that the rain would keep most people away, I was         to see that the place was filled with        . Every checkout was open – and jammed! But I can         my pocket book and go to work.
The more the world demands that I        , the more I learn from my waiting library. Look at the followings: One Hundred Things Every American Should Know; The Poetry of Robert Frost; Living Thoughts of Leading Thinkers; Still More Toasts. I have learned interesting and enriching things and much         from these books.
On a recent visit to the general store, I placed my order at the         along with six or seven people. The old female employee seemed to have her hands full as she rushed        . “Young man, just be        ,” she said to me.
No problem. I quietly opened my dictionary prose(散文) and poetical quotations. Perhaps the other customers         me as a bookish, lonely soul. But         did they realize that I was enjoying the         of Shakespeare, Thoreau, Homer and Ben Johnson.

Mrs. Barrow, room 501, I repeated to myself as I was looking for the room number. It was my first day of        grade and I was really        .
Stepping into the room, I felt       . I tried to keep calm, but Mrs. Barrow saw through me. “Good morning, Courtni. You may pick your       .”
I glanced round the room and took a(n)        seat near a girl named Wendy. Soon, Wendy and I became good friends. I felt no closeness to Mrs. Barrow,       .
Mrs. Barrow had us write a paper        what we wanted to be when we grew up. She said that when her      students graduated, she liked them to come back and      their fifth-grade dreams together, as a memory of their childhood. I decided right then that I liked Mrs. Barrow.   
A month later, my grandmother died of cancer.      her was so painful for me that I __    some school.
At the funeral(葬禮), I was sitting feeling sorry for myself when I looked       and saw Mrs. Barrow standing there. She        my hand and comforted me by reminding me that Grandma had no more pain or      .        had never occurred to me that it was better for my grandma this way.
After the funeral, we went home to see the flowers that had been sent. My mom       me a pretty ivy(常春藤) plant. The attached card       :
Courtni,
I’m sorry about your grandma. Never forget, I love you.
With love,
Mrs. Barrow
I wanted to       . I took the plant home, watered it and put it in my grandma’s old room. I am in eighth grade now and I        have that plant. I never thought a teacher could        that much about her students: now I know. 

When our restaurant business failed，we headed north in a camping truck to Texas，hoping to have a “fresh start”.
At the     of Palo Duro Canyon (峽谷）State Park，I     a job advertisement hiring park hosts. The position offered a     ，permanent campsite in the park, and     , the hosts served as a link between the park’s guests and the rangers (護(hù)林人). It was the perfect solution: a rent-free place to reorganize our lives. We entered the park and I made an     for the following day.
The park was     , so it took us some time to find an available site. That evening, as we finished our dinner, my wife saw two large skunks (臭鼠由）walking toward our table. We     climbed onto the table and, for the next four hours, waited for them to     our camp.
Having survived that night, we were     that everything else would be all right. The next day we met with the people who ran the park. They explained our     and gave us a beautiful campsite.
That evening,     , we learned about the canyon    . They were strong and cold, rocking our little camping truck violently，and we lay     in the dark until the winds died away.
   the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck and     the little money my wife     by substitute teaching. Building a successful business and then losing it had left very little time for building a successful     For a time after our business    I thought I might lose my family as well.
Living in the tiny     with no television, we sat close together reading and talking. One evening, standing under a jeweled sky，I found myself     for all the hardships. We had walked the trails and climbed the canyon walls. We had become a family!

If you want to stand out，there is no alternative but hard work.
Once a boy in____clothes full of patches ran to ask a successful building contractor (承包商) in a construction site，“How could I become as ____as you when I grow up？”
With a___at the boy，the contractor replied，“There is a story about three diggers.The first digger liked holding a spade without doing anything but saying that he wanted to be a(n) ____in the future.The second always liked____about the work and his low____.The third digger liked____devoting himself to digging.Later，the first was still holding his spade in the___place and the second took an excuse for early____.Only the third became a boss.Do you understand the  ____of this story？Just go to buy a____shirt and work hard.”
The little boy was____.So he asked the contractor to explain further.____the working builders，the contractor replied，“Look at my  workers！I can’t remember all their names，and even I have no____of some of them.Most of  them wear blue shirts.But if you look____，you will notice a sunburned man in red.He seems to be working harder than others.He is always the first one to work while the last one to leave.It is exactly his red shirt that makes him____.Soon he will be____to my assistant.You know，that is also how  I got_____I am now.I worked hard and wore a striped  shirt.My boss ____me.I also became a boss eventually.”
Success can only____action.Working hard is all  winners’ shared experience for achieving their dreams.

A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.The conversation soon turned into____about stress in work and life.Offering his____coffee，the professor went to the kitchen and___with a large pot of coffee and a____of cups—porcelain，plastic glass，crystal，some plain­looking，some expensive，some exquisite (精致的)，telling them to ____themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand，the professor said，“If you have____，all the nice­looking expensive cups have been____，leaving behind the plain and____ones.Of course，____it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves，that is the ____of your problems and stress.”
“It is sure that the cup itself____no quality to the coffee.____ it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we____.”
“What all of you really want is coffee，not the cup，but you went____for the best cups.And then you began____each other’s cups.”
“Now consider this：Life is the coffee；the jobs，__1_and position in society are the cups.They are just tools to____and contain life，and the type of cup we have does not define，nor____the quality of life we live.Sometimes，by concentrating only on the cup，we____to enjoy the coffee.Value the coffee，not the cups！”
Don’t let the cups ____you.Enjoy the coffee instead.

Mother used to ask me what the most important part of the body is.Through the years I would ____a guess at what I thought was the correct____.When I was younger，I thought sound was very important to us as humans，____I said，“My ears，Mommy.” She said，“No，many people are ___.”
Since making my first attempt，I had considered the correct answer carefully.So several____later，I told her，“Mommy，____is very important to everybody，so it must be our___.”She looked at me and told me，“You are learning fast，but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind.”
Over the years，Mother asked me a couple more times and always her answer was____.Then last year，my grandpa died.Everybody was____.When it was our turn to say our final____to Grandpa，my Mom asked me，“Have you found the answer to my usual question—what is the most important body part____，my son？”
I was____when she asked me this now.I always thought this was a game between her and me.She saw the____on my face and told me，“This question is very important.It shows that you have really lived your life.For every part you gave me____，I have told you were wrong and I have given you an example____.But today is the day you need to learn this important lesson.” She looked down at me as only a mother can.I saw her eyes well up with tears.She said，“Son，the most important body part is your____.” I asked，“Is it because it holds up my head？”
She replied，“No，it is because it can hold the head of a friend or a loved one when they cry.Everybody needs a shoulder to____on sometime in life，my son.I only hope that you have enough love and friends that you will always have a shoulder to cry on when you ____ it.”
Then and there I knew the most important body part is not a selfish one—it is sympathetic to the___of others.People will forget what you said.People will forget what you did.But people will____forget how you made them feel.

In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally ____them and the job they do，although there are certain people who do not believe that the police____have the power that they do.
What does a policeman actually do? It is not ____job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in ____.A policeman often has to control traffic, either____ foot in the centre of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, his time ____up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop ____motorists and help when there is an accident.
A policeman has to help keep the ___， too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we ___ the police to come and restore order. And they often have to ____ situation at great risk to their own ____.We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, ____ he is not a detective(偵探)，will often have to help___and arrest criminals.
And ___ do we call when there is an emergency—an air crash, a____，a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police.___a policeman has to be ____to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the ___ world. The police do an absolutely necessary job, they do it ____ well and I support them, but I do not envy policemen. I do not think that I could____do the job of a policeman.

Now, I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know you have a lot of _     in your lives right now that can make it hard to      on your schoolwork.
I get it. I know what it’s like. My father   my family when I was two years old ,and I was         by a single mom who had to work and who struggled        to pay the hills and wasn't always       to give us the things that other kids had. There were times when I      having a father in my life. There were times when I was          and I felt like I didn't fit in.
So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I'm not    of, and I got in more trouble than I should .And my life could have     taken a turn for the worse.
But I was      ，I got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my      .
Some of you might not have those      . Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the        that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there's not enough money to    the daily expenses. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friends who are          you to do things that you know aren't right.
But at the end of the day,         the circumstances of your life are,        of those is an excuse for ignoring your homework or having a bad      in school. That's no excuse for talking back to your        , or dropping out of school. There's no excuse for not trying.

All of us go through some difficult times as we approach teenage years. It's the age when we have to deal with the most ____ in our life. This transition (過(guò)渡) from childhood to adulthood is ____ for some, but rough for others. The most important thing about being a teenager is ____. When we are teenagers, we would get blamed or even punished for anything wrong we do.
It's all not so ___ about being a teenager though. We don't have to have our ____ take us to somewhere we want to go or we couldn't go before. We can have ____ with friends or even alone, which we couldn't have because we were too ___ to know what pleasure is! It's a very enjoyable time of life. During this age, we are old enough to ____ what is good for us, and make decisions without ____ others.
But like the saying goes, “All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue ___.” During this period, we are having much ____ for our studies. If we don't pass, we won't get jobs, and things will take a turn for the ____. With the present world economy in ___， we have to do really, really well in our ____ for a job. Adults say that their ____ is the hardest part of life. But I think the transition from a kid to an adult is much ____ than being already an adult. What we do in our teenage years will ____ what we become and how we lead our life in the future.
In conclusion, it is quite ____ that parents put much pressure on an already stressed out teenager. If they realized that, living condition for teenagers would be much better. ____ for the teens ourselves we should get to know what is best for us. What's more, we should understand the right ____ of life we choose at this age can make us happy for the rest of our existence.