One day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was expecting a ________ view of the modern artworks. A young couple seeing the paintings ahead of me were ________ endlessly. I watched them for a moment and ________ the lady was doing all the talking. How did the man ________ her constant stream of words? ________ by their noise, I moved on.

I met them several times ________ I moved through the different rooms of art. Each time I heard her continuous flow of words, I moved away ________.

But I met them again at the ________ shop. I bought some souvenirs and was waiting at the checkout while the couple were ________ the doorway. Before they left, the man ________ his pocket and pulled out a white object. He lengthened it into a long ________ and then tapped his way into the coatroom to get his wife’s jacket.

“He’s a(n) ________ man,” the clerk at the counter said. “Most of us would give up if we were blinded at such a young age. During his recovery, he made a ________ that his life wouldn’t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in whenever there is a new art show.”

“But what does he ________ from the art?” I asked. “He can’t see.”

“Can’t see? You are ________. He sees a lot. More than you and I do,” the clerk said. “His wife ________ each painting so he can see it in his head.”

I learned something about patience, ________ and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without ________ and the courage of a husband who would not allow blindness to ________ his life. And I saw the love ________ by two people as I watched this couple walk away, arm in arm.

The fall leaves are really starting to change now. It looks like the trees and mountains have become a canvas _________ by a loving artist. The bright, beautiful reds are _________ in the sunlight and the yellows are glittering (闪耀) like _________. Some trees have only a few leaves changed, some are half-way and others have already completely _________. Some of the leaves are falling to the ground to turning it into a colorful _________. I am enjoying this so much because I am _________ aware when winter arrives all of the trees will be _________ with the leaves down. It is always a little _________ to see but I know it is the circle of life. Those dead leaves will become the soil that nourishes (滋养) the trees and _________ new life next spring.

Today I noticed a lovely little girl from our __________ picking up the fallen leaves from the ground. The prettiest reds, yellows, and oranges were picked up and __________ in her arms. Soon she had quite a pile and __________ carried them over to her Mom and then with a smile gave them to her as if they were delicate flowers. Her Mom accepted them with a smile and together they __________ them out on their porch and stared at them like the priceless __________.

I watched this __________ from my living room window with a smile on my face as well. The world __________ a circle of love as well as a circle of life. And I am __________ that the former like the latter will never end. It will __________ all through this life and into the next. Take your place in the circle. Give love, receive love and live every day of your life to the __________ with love. And your __________ will shine bright like the most beautiful tree in autumn.

In a national spelling contest in America, an 11-year-old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her ________ voice, the judges were not sure whether she spelled the right word. They talked it over and ________ decided to simply ask her what she had said. By then, the girl knew she had misspelled the word. Instead of lying, she told the truth that she had said the ________ letter—so she lost the contest.

As the girl walked off the ________, the entire audience stood，clapping to applaud her honesty. Later, dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this ________, even though it cost the girl the contest. But the fact is that she ________ the biggest contest that day: the contest of her character.

Probably the biggest test of our character and honesty is what we would do if we knew we would never get ________. This young girl could easily have ________ and nobody would have known it but herself. But it’s been said, “If you ________, you make yourself cheap.” This young girl was ________ enough to prize her own character more than the prize from a spelling contest. She knew the ________ she made in that moment will have a long-lasting influence in her future.

Should the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket or ________ to the policeman? Should the ________ change received at the store be forgotten or ________ ? Nobody will know. But we have to live with ourselves, and it is always better to live with someone we ________.