A man died and was on his way to another world，either the Heaven or the hell. He saw an extremely magnificent palace half way and the 　   of the palace asked him to stay and 　    in the palace.
The man said，“I have been working hard during my life and now I just want to eat and sleep without any 　 .”
The owner of the palace said，“If so，there is 　    else better than here for you. There are  a wealth of seafood and delicacies. In my palace and you can eat whatever you want without anyone 　    you. Moreover，you can rest I　    that nothing needs to be done by you.” Then，the man settled down in the palace.
At the beginning，the man felt very 　    at the rotation of eating and sleeping. But gradually，he felt a  bit lonely and void. So he went to the owner and 　 ，“It is 　   to live by just eating and sleeping every day. Now I show no interest in this kind of life any more. Could you help me find a job？”
The owner replied，“Sorry， there is no job here at all.”
After another several months，the man could not bear the present life and went to the owner again，“I really could not 　   this sort of life any more. If you do not offer me a job，I would  prefer to go to the 　   instead of living here.”
The owner of the palace smiled contemptuously， “Do you think it is Heaven here？ It is 　   the hell！”

Maricel Apatan，22，stands in the kitchen of the Edsa Shangri—La Hotel in Manila，preparing to decorate a cheesecake. It would seem to be  a（n）____ task for a pastry(糕点) chef，but Maricel is no ____ chef－she has no hands．
“When I first saw Maricel, I was worried she might ____ herself when using a chef’s knife ____ that has never been a problem, ” says Maricel’s manager. “She doesn’t get ____ treatment and works just as hard as the rest of the chefs.”
Despite financial ____ from Archbishop Ledesma, a distant relative, Maricel ____ to deal with her disability. “I was ____ dependent on my mother and couldn’t do anything,” she recalls.
In 2004, Archbishop Ledesma ____ for Maricel to live in the House with No Steps, a training centre for people with disabilities. She ____ how to write and do regular tasks and, more importantly, ____ her disability. She became more determined to ____ hard to live a normal life.
Maricel ____ graduated from high school and enrolled(注册) in a two-year Hotel and Restaurant Management course in Cagayan de Oro City. I have really enjoyed ____ since I was seven years old,” she says.
After Maricel moved back to Manila to continue her studies, the media started reporting ____ this determined young woman. She didn't shy away from the ____.“I wanted others living with disabilities to believe it's ____ to live a normal life,” Maricel says.
Later, Maricel's three younger brothers and sisters moved to Manila．She ____ the rent of their small apartment, ____ their parents look after the family farm in Mindanao．“It is difficult to make ends meet but I don't lose ____. I believe anything is possible if you dream, and work hard．”

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Mrs. White lost her dog. After searching place after place, she placed a “Lost Dog” advertisement in the local newspaper.
The following morning her phone rang and a       voice began, “I’m calling about your   __  .” Then the caller coughed and cleared her voice a few times. She       that she wasn’t feeling well and that, in fact, she hadn’t felt well       her husband died three years ago. She went on to tell that her parents had passed away, and her sister was       with a deadly illness. Even her friends were not doing well.
After 30 minutes of      , sympathizing and even trying offers of help, the dog owner   __   the conversation back to the       subject. “About the dog,” she said.
“Oh,” the caller      , “I don’ t have him. I just thought I’d call to       you up.”
Maybe her technique needed improving, but her       were right on. And though “cheering up” may not be exactly what we      , we certainly need encouragement ---       --- at times. The need for sincere       is basic among human beings.
Do you need encouragement? There’re those who will support your side. Educator Booker T. Washington observed, “There’re two ways of       one’s strength: one is pushing down;   __   is pulling up.” There’re people ready to pull you up when others are pushing down. We need those people in our lives - those who use their strength by pulling us up.
I believe these people can be found      . I believe that we can all become “    ”, lifting one another from dark pits of discouragement to the light of      . And when that happens, the world will never be      .

At the age of five, Shizuka Arakawa started to take skating lessons. Her motivation was      :wearing pretty outfits! Very quickly, she    a passion for skating, and she decided to     all her free time to training. At the age of eight, she was already      to perform a triple salchow (三周跳). The young girl from     won five national championships, three times as a junior and twice as a senior.
In 1998 in Nagano, Shizuka Arakawa      for the first time in the Olympic Games, at the tender age of 16. Japan had high      for her.      the Emperor and Empress of Japan came to see her performance. She finished thirteenth in the      rankings. Four years     , she was not present at the Salt Lake City Games. The skater finished second in the Japanese national championships and was not    in the Japanese Olympic team. In     of this, Shizuka Arakawa was successful in    championships, such as the Four Continents and NHK(日本广播协会)Trophy. In 2004 in Dortmund, she became women’s world    skating champion.
In 2006, after a year-long period in which she almost      her career, Shizuka Arakawa took      in the Turin Olympic Games. A new coach and a new programme had     a new, invigorated(充满活力的)Shizuka. The short programme was a real challenge      the Japanese skater. She performed a noteworthy sequence to Chopin’s “Fantasie Impromptu”, finishing third. On 23 February, 2006, she performed a perfect long programme.      by Puccini’s “Fantasy for Violin”, she performed splendidly and she obtained a      of 191.34, which won her the top step of the winner’s podium(领奖台) in Turin.

The day that I met my best friend for the first time, I was full of anxiety. I was trying to do some ______ 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.
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, 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 f. 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.

Although the Garden God had made him the most beautiful place that there could ever be, Adam was lonely.
Adam needed some   . So God reached into the ground again and took some more stuff from the earth. This time he made every kind of animal and every kind of bird. He brought them all to Adam to see   he would call them. It must have   a long, long time to think up all those   ! Luckily, he didn't call them things like 'Foo Foo' or “Snuggems”or 'Pooky' or anything like that.     , he called them 'gerbils' and 'rabbits' and 'rhinoceroses'. And he   the birds 'eagles' and 'egrets' and 'ruby throated warblers'.
Well,     , we don't know what Adam named them,     he didn't speak English. But he named each kind, and that's important because people are the only ones that name things. Your   knows what a squirrel is, but he doesn't call   a squirrel. He just barks   it! But naming things is one of the things that shows we are   from all the other creatures that God made.    
    even with all the animals around to keep him company, God saw that Adam was    sad. Monkeys are fun to play with, but they don't have very much to say and they have   table manners. So God made Adam fall   , and while Adam was sleeping, God took one of his ribs(肋骨).God took Adam's   and he made a woman from it. When Adam woke up, God   Eve to him , and Adam said, “At last! Here is   like me! Her bones were made from my bones, and her body was made from my body. I will call her 'woman' because that means she was taken out of man.”
At last Adam was   . And so Adam and Eve lived together in God's garden.

The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, US. “    station? A train for Santa Fe collided (相撞) a   at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please come here at once. With an ambulance, too. A man is badly wounded,” said an anxious voice of a young woman.
“OK. We’ll come soon. Please stay there and wait.” Replied the policeman.
Within a minute, a police car and an ambulance    off. Soon they got to the crossing, but only to find everything was fine. No collision, no wounded man.
“What a dirty    !” said the policeman angrily. “ We must find out that woman and…”
They had not been able to say anything about a     when they heard the whistle of a train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came    towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly    to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the people present, the train collided with the truck heavily and struck it dozens of metres away.
When Randolph Bruce, the driver, was helped out of the damaged truck, he was badly wounded just as the young woman had predicted on the phone. As he was taken to hospital in time, he was    at last. Later the police did whatever they could to    the woman who had     them, but failed.
It is really    that a prediction should agree with the fact so    .

On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Many people put some money into the       of the young man.
The next day, the young artist came again, and put his hat on the ground gracefully.    from the day before, he took out a large piece of      and laid it on the ground. Then he began      .
Before long, the young violinist was      with people, who were all attracted by the       on that paper, which said, "Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put something important into my hat     . Please come to claim(认领) it soon."
After half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there in a hurry and     through the crowd to the violinist and said, "Yes, it’s you. You did come here. I knew that you’re an honest man and would       come here."
"Are you Mr. George Sang?"
The man nodded.
"Did you      something?"
"Lottery (彩票). It’s lottery," said the man.
The violinist     a lottery ticket on which George Sang’ s name was seen. "Is it？" he asked.
George nodded, seized the lottery ticket and       it; then he danced with joy.
George bought a lottery ticket which       him a prize of $ 500,000. He was so happy after work and felt the violinist playing so wonderfully that he put 50 dollars in the hat.      , the lottery ticket was also thrown in.
When asked why he didn’t keep the lottery ticket      himself, the violinist said,"      I don’t have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty, I won’t be happy forever."
We can gain and lose so much in our life. But being honest should      be with us. If we bear ourselves in a dishonest way, we     succeed temporarily (暂时). However, from the long-term view, we’11 be a loser. Such a person is just like the         on the mountain. It’s high above at first, but gradually it falls and loses the    of going up.

Henry's job was to examine people who crossed the frontier (边境) to make sure that they were not smuggling (走私) anything into the country. Every evening except at weekends, he would see a(n) ___ coming up the hill towards the frontier, __ a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle__ the frontier, Henry used to __ the man and order him to take the straw off and ___ it. Then he would examine the straw very ___ to see whether he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man's pockets before letting him tie the straw __. The man would then put it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always __ to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he ___ found anything, even though he examined it very carefully. He was___that the man was smuggling __, but he was not able to imagine __ it could be.
Then one evening, after he had__ the straw and emptied the factory worker's__ as usual, he said to him, “___ I know that you are smuggling things __ this frontier. Won't you tell me what you're bringing into the country so successfully? I'm sixty years old now, and today is my last day on the __ . Tomorrow I'm going to retire. I promise that I shall not tell anyone __ you tell me what you've been smuggling." The factory worker did not say anything ___ . Then he smiled, turned to Henry and said quietly, “ __ .”

Every night，I watched for Miss Ellen's lights to go off. She lives next door and we are best friends，____I'm young and she's old. We both like dogs，cats and birds. Miss Ellen has another best friend，her ____，Imogene. Soon as her lights were off，I went into our kitchen and got a(n) ____ to say good­night to Imogene.
“Imogene？” I kept my voice ____ because Imogene is old and I didn't want to ____ her.
Imogene looked at me ____ I put the egg under  her. She seemed to ___ sitting on that egg. I guessed it must ____ her of good old times.
Every morning，I went to Miss Ellen's home to ____ her bread while she ate Imogene's egg.“ I should let you eat the egg too，but it's Imogene's ___ to me，”she said.
When Imogene stopped laying eggs last year，Miss Ellen became ____ and quiet. That was before I started ____ giving her one of Mom's every night.
One morning when I got to Miss Ellen's kitchen，something was ___.Miss Ellen seldom allowed Imogene in the house，but that day she was on the table. Miss Ellen was ____，holding two eggs in her hands.
“Can you ____ it？My Imogene laid this herself！It's not one of your mother's. Oh！Oh！”She ____and put her hand over her mouth.
I looked at her in ____.“You knew？”
“Yes. I'm sorry. To tell the truth，Imogene ____ that you come to visit her every day. She didn't want you to stop. So we decided to keep ____.”
It took a minute for me to ____.Then I figured it out. Both of them wanted me to come. I touched Imogene's head and smiled at Miss Ellen.