The story goes that some time ago, a man had a very lovely little daughter. One day the man ____ his 3-year-old daughter for ____ a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became ____ when the child tried to decorate a ____ to put under the Christmas tree. ____, the little girl brought the gift to her ____ the next morning and said, “ This is for you , Daddy.”
The man was ____ by his earlier ____, but his anger flared again when he found out the box was ____. He yelled at her, stating, “Don’t you know when you give someone a present, there is ____ to be something inside?” The little girl looked ____ at him with tears in her eyes and cried, “ Oh, Daddy, it is not empty ____. I blew kisses into the box. They are all for you, Daddy.”
The father was crushed. He ____ his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her ____. Only a short time later, an ____ took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many ____ and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an ____ kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
In a very real sense, each one of us, as human beings, has been given a gold container ____ unconditional love and kisses… from our children, family members, friends and God. There is simply no other ___, anyone could hold, more ____ than this.

When I was 8, a gentleman came to my orphanage（孤儿院）and taught us how to do woodworking projects.
I remember my first project—a small table. I was so      of it that I looked upon it as if I had created a(an)     . It was absolutely beautiful and it had taken me six weeks to      it. I could hardly wait to give it to Mother Winters as a     . She was the head mistress of our orphanage, who was always      with us.
As the tables were not dry from the clear coating, the man told us to wait a few days before taking them to our dormitories. But I was just so      and happy that I couldn’t wait. I dashed out like a     , carrying my table, smiling from ear to ear.
When I reached the dormitory I placed the little table beside my bed. I was      it when Mother Winters entered. She walked over to the table. Running her hand      it, she noticed that it was still wet.
“Were you      to bring this home?” she asked.
“No, ma’am,” I      with my head down.
She ordered me to throw the table out and so I did. After she left, I immediately opened the door to get it back. There was      stuck all over. I brushed and cried, but it would not come off.
I hid the table in my closet and never      it. A year later while cleaning up, I gave the table to Mother Henderson, my houseparent（宿管员）, thinking that she would      it away.
Thirty years later at a reunion, I      that Mother Henderson was living nearby, so I drove up to see her. We talked cheerfully for long. As I was about to leave, she asked me to come down to her      to get something important. I followed her      into a dark corner. She picked something up.      she turned around, I could see that she was holding a little table.
Mother Henderson kept the little table that I had given up for lost so long ago.
Today, I look at that table with bittersweet memories but full of      to Mother Henderson, who kept it for a young orphan who tried very hard to     .

When I began teaching in a university, I was invited to a workshop for new professors. I had ____ a long time learning what to teach, but not learning how to ____ it. Somehow, my university seemed to hope a weekend spent with experienced professors would ____ for that. My colleagues presented well­crafted lectures about the tools they used. I enjoyed their ___， but do not remember a thing they said.
At a coffee break during the lectures, finding myself ____， I turned to a mathematics professor standing nearby. I asked him what his favorite teaching ____ was. “A cup of coffee，” he said, “I talk too much and too fast in the classroom. Students sometimes have trouble ____ me. So when I've said____ that I want my students to think about, I would____ and take a sip of coffee. It lets what I've just said sink in.”
When we were called to the next talk, he put down his cup and I ____ there was not a trace of coffee in it. “My doctor ____ me to stop drinking coffee，” he explained. “So I have always used a(n)____ cup.” I decided to try his ____ in my class.
I took a cup of coffee with me to my next class. It helped. My pauses, as I ____ the coffee, not only gave my students ____ to think about what I had said, but gave me time to think about what I was going to say next. I began to use my ____ to look around the room to see how my students were reacting to what I had just said. When I saw their ____ wander, I tried to bring them back. When I saw them puzzled over some concept that I thought I had ____， I gave another example. My ____ became less organized and less brilliant, but my students seemed to ____ me better.

As a teaching student, I was sent on my first practice at a high school．During my practice, I      realized high school hadn't changed since I was there and still an awful place of Cliques（派系）．
Jess, a Year 8 student, always respected her classmates,      the lack of respect she usually received in return．Kids constantly laughed at her behind her back．As a teacher, your instinct（本能） is to      students like Jess, but you soon realize that there's only so much you can actually do．
Tyson was at the    end of the scale（等级）．A handsome Year 12 student, and always surrounded by mates, it was clear that he was a confident and popular young man．
When Jess asked to perform a solo act （独唱）in the school talent show, I    to allow her to take the stage, fearing that she might face teasing．However, I knew that it would be unfair to say no on these grounds, so her name made it onto the list of  ．
The day of the show, the whole school    in the auditorium（礼堂）．Shortly after the acts began, it was Jess's   ．Smiling, she stepped onto stage．The music started and, to my horror, she   the first line of the song．She became confused , sang in the wrong key and forgot her lyrics （歌词）．As she struggled through the song, kids whispered and laughed．
Jess looked   and was about to give up when the sound of somebody clapping along to the  of the song began to rise above the crowd．It was Tyson．
He was clapping proudly and urged his friends to join in and, surprisingly, they did．
Slowly, from Tyson's group to the rest of Year 12, finally throughout the auditorium, the claps  spread．
The smile on Jess's face that day is one that I'll never forget．Tyson changed my life by restoring my    in the goodness of youth．

A young woman was driving alone through the country. It     dark and raining. Suddenly she saw an old woman by the side of the road, holding her hand out as if she    a lift.
“I can’t      her out in this weather,” the woman said to herself , so she stopped the car and opened the door.
“Do you want a lift?” she asked, the old woman nodded and      the car. After a while she said to the old woman, “Have you      for a long time?” The old woman shook her head. “Strange,”       the young woman. She tried again, “Bad weather for the time      year,” she said. The old woman nodded. Although the driver tried some more , the lady said      except for a nod of the      or something else .
Then the young woman      the lady’s hands. They were very large and with thick hair. Suddenly she knew the lady was a     ! She stopped the car. “I can’t see that mirror      ,” she said, “Would you mind cleaning it for me?” The lady nodded and opened the door.
As soon as the lady was      the car, the woman drove off quickly. When she got to the next village, she      . She found that the old lady had left a handbag behind. She picked it up and opened it . She gave out a deep breath.        the bag was a gun!

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One day Reuben saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But he couldn’t        it at that moment.
However, he opened the shop’s door and went inside. Standing        and straight, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted and asked him to        it for some time. The shopkeeper      .
Reuben walked out into the sunlight and thought he would        the five dollars and not tell anybody. Hearing the sound of hammering (敲打), he had a (n)       . People built their own homes using nails (钉子) and       nail bags outside. He could sell them back to the nail factory for five cents a piece. That day he sold two bags and hid the       .
It was evening when Reuben got home. Dora was at the kitchen, ready to serve        as Reuben sat at the table. He looked at his        and smiled.
Every day after school, Reuben        the town, collecting nail bags. On the day the school closed for the summer holiday, Reuben was happier than anyone        he would have more time for his       . Finally, the time had come! He        the coins. It was five dollars in all. Then he headed for the shop. “I have the money,” he       told the owner. And he got his     .
Racing home, Reuben       as he ran to his mother, “Here, Mum! Here!” He      a small box in her big hand. She        it carefully and saw the golden word “Mother” inside the box. It was Mother’s Day. Dora had never received such a       . She smiled happily and held her son in her arms.

There was a rich man who wanted to choose a husband for his only child from a great number of pursuers. The man      all the pursuers to a river and pointed to the crocodiles there, saying, “Anyone who can swim across the river safely will marry my     ” The pursuers looked at each other and no one      take action. At that moment, a man dived into the river and swam      a surprising speed to the other side. All the people there      him with a great sense of admiration for his courage.     , the man, after landing on the bank, shouted     , “who pushed me into the river just now?”
Maybe the man,      thinking about the whole      and the happy consequences of his act, will eventually be      to the one who pushed him into the river. In life it is fairly      for disadvantages to turn into advantages and misfortunes into fortunes! But many of us are      to realize the true      of our “rivals” (对手) to success. Generally speaking, many people would see the one who “pushes him into the river” as a rival. However, the one who “pushes him into the river” gives you a feeling of urgency and inspires your ambition and      to strive for success! You try your best to      your difficulties and progress to the next stage in life!
If a man does not have rivals, he      be satisfied with the present and will not try to improve his     . He would      in the face of difficulties and sink into laziness. Therefore, your rivals are not your enemies. Instead, they are good     ! In our lives, we need some rivals to “pushes him into the river,” leading us to strive ahead in difficulties and competitions. Thanks to our rivals, we can show our      to its best. Thanks to our rivals, we are able to make continuous progress while competing with them!

On a sunny spring morning, a seven-year-old girl was sharpening(削) a beautiful pencil. , the wind was so strong as to blow open the door. The girl stood up to    it, but then fell on the floor. The sharpened pencil pierced (刺入) directly into the girl’s chest into her heart, and only a small part of the pencil could be seen.
The girl’s mother was so    that she dialed the emergency number and put the girl flat on her back. The girl    and asked her mother to pull the pencil out of her heart    it was particularly painful. The mother hesitated for a while but    her daughter. She told her daughter not to pull out the pencil without her permission.
In the end, the girl was    successfully! She had a very serious    but she didn’t lose too much blood. If the pencil were pulled out, the blood would have poured out from the wound, and doctors couldn’t have saved her!  , the measures taken by her    were totally correct.
The mother’s comments afterwards were quite   : “I really didn’t know what to do. My daughter was especially obedient (听话的) and she    my decision not to pull out the pencil. I knew she was in great pain, and her obedience was what I   . I thought if I had pulled out the pencil, she would have believed she was    and might fall asleep and lose consciousness (意识). In the emergency vehicle, I simply kept asking her if it was  . She nodded her head, which gave me great    because she was conscious and still felt pain. She was struggling for______.
In the world, there are so many people sruggling with different___ When you are trapped in wild mountains, when you come across setbacks and hardships, and when you have no other way but to experience the pain by yourself, ____ask yourself.”Am I in pain?“ When  we feel the pain, we’ll have the courage to try our best to___and never give up.

Last summer Tom and his friends George and Bill wanted to take a vacation, but they did not have much     . They decided that a short mountain climbing expedition(探险) was the only       they could afford (负担得起). Since each of them liked climbing, the vacation would be a lot of        .
Tom    all the plans. He decided that they should      the expenses(费用) for food and gas         and that each one should bring some    _____ clothes because the weather there was usually cold.
The boys were        in a hurry, so they climbed slowly the       day. The weather was pleasant, and they enjoyed the fresh         as they climbed up a narrow path. Tom expected the        to stay nice,        late in the afternoon there was a heavy rain. The boys rushed toward a        and decided to camp there that      .
When the sun rose the next morning, they continued      . As the boys went higher, the climbing became        dangerous, and by that afternoon the trip appeared        .
When they finally reached the        of the mountain, they saw a beautiful sight. The         of the sunset were yellow, red, and gold. The boys were very happy and they enjoyed the view. The farms and fields of wheat and corn       appeared very small. In the distance, they could see trees, hills and valleys. They spent four more days in the mountains. They really had great fun.

15-year-old Tom reached school, waiting outside his classroom for his classmates to .It was a cold,wet day. Tom stared at the . Then his eyes fell upon the 18-metre-high hill that   at the back of the classroom.
He   large amounts of rainwater flowing down the hill, and water was also bubbling(冒泡) at the base of a rock on the hill. For a few minutes, Tom    the water, wondering why it looked so    . Then it hit him — the    was similar to the video he was shown during Disaster Management classes. Fearing a   disaster, he shouted    at the students waiting outside their classrooms. “Run, run, don't stay here! The   on the hill is going to fall on us!”
Chaos broke out as the    ran to the open area that had been appointed as an emergency gathering point. When some teachers   Tom, he showed them the water gushing from the hill, and they started leading the students to safer ground.
Just then Principal Richard drove into the school. Tom ran over to tell him what was happening. After   the site, Richard knew the school was in   . The enormous rock at the top of the hill could come crashing down   .
 a group of teachers and older students, Richard climbed the hill and tried to make the water flow away from the rock. They were too   : ten minutes later, they heard screams as the huge rock rushed down the hill. There was little Richard and his group could do as they watched the earth    their classrooms. Thanks to Tom’s   action and careful observation,   was hurt in the incident.