The day before Mother’s Day, Mrs. Berry asked her students to make a card for their mothers. She passed out paper and pieces of cloth.
Mary looked for a while at the blue cloth and began to cut it. Then she      her paper in half and began writing. When Mary finally looked at the message the teacher gave on the paper, she noticed something else. She felt her      grow hot---she hadn’t heard that anyone who didn’t have a mother could make one for a grandmother or an aunt.
As her teacher      to her, Mary tried covering her card with her arm, but Mrs. Berry gently lifted it so that she could      it. Mary sat      , waiting for her to say something, but she saw a      roll down Mrs. Berry’s face. She had never made Mrs. Berry so      .
When school was over, Mary      until all the other kids left so that she could apologize . “I’m sorry for not listening. I’ll make another card      you want. I’ll do it at home and      it tomorrow.”
“    are you talking about?” asked Mrs. Berry.
“My Mother’s Day card. I know you’re sad because I didn’t do it      .”
“Mary, that was the      card in the whole class. It was so      that it made me cry. ”
Mary was so      that she ran out of the classroom.
When her father came home from work that night, Mary      to give him the card early .
On the front of the card was a      of Mary’s father, with a blue piece of cloth cut like his hair. Inside the card she had written:
Dear Dad,
I know you work really hard to be both a      and a father. I want to thank you and       you a Happy Mother’s Day!
Love
Mary
When her dad read the card he started      , just like Mrs Berry did.

One Saturday, I got a phone call about electrical problems. Since I am not an electrician, I quickly       that the woman on the line had the wrong number. The woman on the phone sounded extremely        as her electricity wasn’t working. Her       tried to replace a wall switch(開關(guān)), but now some of their lights wouldn’t be on, and the heat had       .
The woman thought she was        an electrician who had done work for her in the past. I had just recently changed my        and she got me instead. I’m not an electrician but I do work with       .
I       her that she had the wrong number, and I didn’t know what her old electrician changed his number to. She       , and we said goodbye. After I hung up the phone I thought        I could help her so I dialed back and found out she was just one town over.
When I got to her house, I told her I would help her, but I would not        any money. This confused(使迷惑)her and she asked        I would bother if I wasn’t getting paid.  I told her it was an act of        and to “pay it forward”. The couple, who were both retired, seemed        and said they had never met anyone like me.
Her husband had fixed the        switch which was causing a short(短路). After I was done, they thanked me and tried to give me some       . I told them I wouldn’t accept anything, and that the best        would be to find someone else to help out. I        said that if they can’t find someone else to repay then just be extra nice to each other. They were both unbelievably happy that I        to solve their electrical problems quickly, but I think I was even        at the opportunity to help them.

Wallet Back
This is a story about a learning experience that had a big effect on the way I live my life．The ______in the story did not give me tests or even grade me on my work．I was taught by one of the most effective______ of teaching，one that only people with lots of love can do．
“My wallet! Where is it?” were my first words______I found my wallet was missing．I ______ my memory for a few good seconds, then realized that I had left my precious wallet in the library’s public ______ ! Because the library was now ______, I had to wait until the next morning to look for it．When I got there the next day, all I found was a clean restroom．This was the first time I could remember ever______to see a clean restroom．As I walked out，I looked at myself in the mirror and shook my head at the ______  fool in front of me．
I politely ______ the librarian at the front desk and asked her if a wallet had been found in the restroom yesterday．“No．”That was that．I walked off with a sense of ______．
I ______ what I would do if I had found a wallet with sixty dollars，a phone card and other irreplaceable ______things．Finally，I ______ accepted the fact that my wallet was gone．
A week later，I received a ______  in the mail．It was my wallet! And most  ______ ，nothing was missing! But there was a letter folded up in one of the wallet pocket that had not been there before．I slowly unfolded the letter，which ______something like this:
When we continue to help people around，we will live in a larger and more rewarding world．
This person didn’t even leave a return address．So I couldn’t  ______ whoever it was．But from that day on，I ______ myself that l will follow this ______ and help others and make them as  ______as I was when I opened that parcel!

Streit was an experienced safecracker who never used force—either against people or safes．He was a real    of his trade and it took him only 19 minutes to open the most difficult   he had ever met．In about 10 years，   by his brother Stefan，he took about 33,000,000—from the safes of 28 banks in Austria．On his last job，he     the safe door open and 80,000 behind．With the    was a note，“We don't need all that much”．A witness      his car and Streit was caught by the police．Then he was sent to Austria's Stein Prison to serve a six-year    ．He boasted（吹噓）at his trial that he would continue   the law, “I'm a thief and I shall use every opportunity.” In spite of the     prison officials moved Streit to the prison's blacksmith shop．One day during the week before Christmas，Streit    ．Searchers found all his doors were well locked．Streit had   to make a set of keys and let himself out．Not to     ，though．After crossing into Bavaria，Streit    the suspicion（懷疑）of German customs police on purpose and got himself     ．“I want to be in a German prison, ”he     to the surprised police．“As German coups give much milder（溫和的）sentences for     like mine and will     the time I would otherwise have served in Stein Prison．”In prison，Streit    his keepers to let him telephone his former keeper, Karl Schreiner of Stein Prison．“I'm sorry     I caused trouble．I didn't want to     anybody by escaping．Conditions weren't that bad．In fact the food was better than it is here．”

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　　My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other      , including her“sixth sense”, that she rarely gives the impression that she's       anything.
　　Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us,     that she doesn't push too hard on them,        really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude. She knows when to clean the house, and she moves around so fast that        often don't realize she's blind.
　　I    this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very      about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was      excited about her finger-painting project.
　　“Mom, guess what?” said Kayla, all smiles. “I learned how to       colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle      with us”. 
　　To my great      , my child had learned about color from a blind friend! Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my      showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really       what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never known how good finger paints felt       Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.
　　I realized Kayla didn't know that Michelle was blind. It had just never       in conversation. When I told my daughter that Michelle was blind, she was       for a moment. At first, she didn't believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla      . And I knew my child was      because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her art work. Michelle had also heard Kayla's      in her work.
　　We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my       .”
　　Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.

Travis laughed as he tore at the wrapping paper on his birthday present. He was so       ! Finally, he would have the coolest pair of name-brand basketball shoes.
All the guys on his team were wearing the name-brand shoes of a popular basketball       , Chuck Hart.         Hart was criticized for his poor sportsmanship and infamous      , he was a great player. In fact, Travis wasn't thinking about Hart' s behavior; he had only expected to see Hart’s       on the side of the box. The first indication that something was       came as he tore away the last piece of paper. Not Hart’s. The new shoes were the name-brand of another player, Robert Ryann, who was       for his amazing work in the community.
Travis’s hands       ; his heart stopped. It wasn't that the Ryann shoes weren’t nice, but what would his friends think ?
They were the wrong shoes and Travis would be       by the other players. When he looked up into his dad' s eyes, however, Travis decided he      not tell him. "'Thanks, Dad. I was really hoping for shoes," Travis said as he pulled the shoes out of the box.
Next morning his dad drove him to school. When they       in front of his destination, Travis slowly opened the car door. Just then, his dad stopped him.
“Hey, Travis, wait a minute, look…” his dad said       ,“Travis, I know those aren’t the shoes you had hoped for, but I saw the names of the two guys and made a（n）      . The guy whose name is on those shoes,” he said, pointing down at Travis’s feet, “is someone I       . Do you know how often Ryann has found himself in      ?”
“No,” Travis said.
“Never. He’s never talked back to his coach or started a fight, and he’s a team player. You could have acted like a (n)       when you didn’t get the shoes you wanted, Travis,       you were polite and made the best of it. You have such a good       , like the guy whose name is on these shoes. I’m hoping that someday, your name will be on the coolest pair of shoes I’ll ever see.”
When Travis looked down at his feet, he saw the shoes       . His dad had used his mind and heart to give the son a thoughtful       .

閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。
A teacher teaching math to seven-year-old  Laiq asked him, “If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple , how many apples will you have?”
With a few seconds Laiq          confidently, “Four!”
The confused teacher was expecting a(n)         correct answer, three. She was disappointed. “Maybe the child didn’t hear       ” she thought. She          , “Laiq, listen carefully. If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”
Laiq had seen the        on his teacher’s face. He         again on his fingers. But within him he was also   the answer that would make the teacher happy. This time hesitatingly he replied, “Four.”
The disappointment stayed on the teacher’s face. Suddenly she        that Laiq liked strawberries. She thought maybe he didn’t like apples and that was why he couldn’t answer the question. This time with an excitement in her     she asked, “If I give you one strawberry and one strawberry and one strawberry, then how many will you have?”
Seeing the teacher        , young Laiq calculated on his fingers again. There was no pressure on him, but a little on the teacher. She wanted her new        to succeed.      a hesitating smile young Laiq replied, “Three?”
The teacher now had a       smile. Her approach had succeeded. She wanted to        herself. But one last thing remained.       she asked him, “Now if I give you one apple and one apple and one more apple , how many will you have ?”
Confidently Laiq answered, ‘Four!” The teacher was        “How Laik , how?” She demanded in a little annoyed voice.
In a voice that was        and hesitating young Laik replied, “Because I already have one       in my bag.”
The story tells us：     someone gives you an answer that is        from what you expect, don’t think they are wrong. There shall be an angle(角度) that you may not have thought about yet.

My mom only had one eye. I hated her. She was such an   _. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market（跳蚤市場(chǎng)）. She collected little weeds and such to sell anything for the  we needed, she was such an embarrassment. I remember that it was field day(戶外活動(dòng)日) during elementary school, and my mom came. I was so   . How could she do this to me? I threw her a    look and ran out. The next day at school, “Your mom only has one eye?" they   me.
I wished that my mom would just    from this world so I said to my mom, "Mom, why don't you have the other eye?! You're only going to make me a laughingstock(笑柄). Why don't you just die?" My mom did not    . I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt    to think that I had said what I'd wanted to say all this time.
Maybe it was because my mom hadn't    me, but I didn't think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.
That night I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. My mom was    there, so    , as if she was afraid that she might wake me. I took a look at her, and then turned    . Because of the thing I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching （夾痛）at me in the corner of my   . Even so, I hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye. So I told myself that I would grow up and become    , because I hated my one-eyed mom and our    poverty.
Then I studied really hard. I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got admitted to the Seoul University with all the    I had. Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I'm living happily as a successful man. I like it here because it's a place that doesn't    me of my mom.
This    was getting bigger and bigger, when someone    came to see me. "What? Who's this?" It was my mother still with her one eye. It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little daughter ran away,    of my mom's eye.

On arrival in the downtown El Paso, I came across an old man, a bum(流浪漢) on the street corner. He     me and asked if I was running away from home. I     him, “Not exactly, sir.” The old man wanted me to follow him to see     great. We walked a couple of blocks until we came upon the downtown El Paso Public    .
He asked me to sit down while he was looking for something     between the shelves. A few moments    , he returned with a couple of old books. He then sat down,     , “There are two things that I want to teach you Number one is     to judge a book by its cover, for a cover can     you. As a matter of fact, I am one of the     men in the world and have all the things that money can buy.     a year ago, my wife died, and since then l have been     thinking about my life. I realized there were certain things I had not yet     in life, one of which was     it would be like to live like a     on the streets. I promised to do     that for one year. For the past year, I have been going from city to city doing just that. So, you see, don't ever judge a     by its cover, for a cover can fool you “
“Number two is to learn how to read, my boy. For there is     one thing that people can't take away from you, and that is your     .” At that moment, he put my right hand in his and put them upon the books he had     from the shelves. They were the writings of Plato(柏拉圖) and Aristotle(亞里斯多德)—great classics from ancient times.

Joshua, my son, is fifteen years old. He was born with Down Syndrome (唐氏綜合癥). In the last fifteen years. I have experienced many difficult and      stories. However, right now I want to just stick to the topic of     . When Joshua was born, they      us not to “waste our time, energy or money". They claimed that our son would never accomplish anything. They told us he would never walk, talk or learn to use the toilet.     , we were not about to accept the words. However, we weren’t really sure what to expect.
Therefore, we expected him to develop at his own pace, with a lot of help and encouragement, but only to develop little. We decided that      we saw progress we could never give up. Very early on, we knew in our hearts that we had to have high expectations, but how high? We could not set goals for him that he could not ever possibly reach.     , if we did not have high hopes, the chances would be very slim for him to work to his potential.
When Joshua was four and a half years old, his younger sister, CJ, was three and attended the same preschool in a younger class. The school      an art contest and all the children in it presented pictures. The pictures were hung on the wall and the president of the local church, who was not personally      with the children, was appointed to be the     .
On the day of the contest, I made my      through the crowded parents to see CJ’s picture,      it was likely to be hung there, but Joshua's class pictures were not yet up and I didn’t think twice about seeing his picture      leaving the building. You see, I had no expectation that Joshua would win; it was      for me to know that he was able to draw a picture and have it      with those of the other children.
Well, when I returned to      the kids, you can image my      when I discovered that Joshua was the winner from his class! Proud and excited, he told everyone, “I won the contest! I      it! ”
CJ kept insisting that she had won too and it was certainly a      feeling to know that Joshua had achieved something that his  sister had not. After that I decided to keep my expectations     . It seems that most people work to whatever expectations are set for them. Why should Joshua be any     ?