You just can’t imagine what a brave mother is like. She was a mother of three, who just _______ an earthquake, couldn’t tell if her children were _______ for help. Or what if you knew you couldn’t yell at her for help because she couldn’t _______ you? That was what happened to Connie and her three children _______ the 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Napa, California. Connie is _______ and communicates with her children using sign language.

At midnight, Connie and her three children were _______ on the first floor of their two-story home. She and her 16-year-old son, Juan, were shaken awake. Instantly, they realized there were no disaster supplies downstairs. Connie, also _______ one-month-old Raul and 8-year-old Adriana, called Juan to come close to her in the darkness and _______ for him to go upstairs to get a _______.

Juan slowly __________ the stairs. He heard a loud creak (嘎吱声). Arriving on the top floor, he moved quickly but __________ to get what he needed. Using the flashlight to guide his steps back __________ the stairs, the family was able to take a few items from the first floor and __________. Their home was almost in ruins.

Being deaf was not deterrent (妨碍物) for this __________ mother. The family made it to the __________ safely, which comforted everyone.

He came from somewhere south of Rome. I didn't know when or how he got to America, _________maybe. But one evening I found him standing in the driveway, behind my garage, extremely thin.     

＂My name Tony Trivionno and I mow （割） your lawn. "he said. It was hard to comprehend his _________ English. "I mow your lawn, "he said again and walked away. Yes, these Depression days were _________，but how could I_________a person who had come to me for help? When I got home the next evening, the lawn had been mowed, the walks_________and the garden weeded._________, my wife assumed I had _________him. I told her of my _________the night before and we thought it strange that he had not asked for_________。The next two days were busy, and I ____________ about him. But on Friday, I saw him, behind my garage again and busy around.

I managed to ____________ some small weekly pay for him and each day he cleaned up the yard and took care of any little ____________. He was very helpful whenever there were any heavy objects to lift or things to fix in my factory.

＂I want to be an apprentice （学徒），”he said one day. ____________ we had a good Prentice school that trained laborers, I doubted whether he had the ability to____________ blueprints and micrometers （千分尺）.Therefore, he took a ____________in pay to become an apprentice.

Many years later, I found him in our____________   meeting spot, much ____________ than he used to be and taking on a look of____________. He was a millionaire now!

Tony came to America seeking the American Dream. But he did not find it-he ____________ it himself. Tony didn't begin on the bottom rung （横档） of the ladder. He began in the____________. Tony' s affairs were tiny, and all he had were 24 hours a day. He wasted none of them and succeeded finally.

Eddie has lots of hobbies. but he loves baseball best. So it is his_________sport. Eddie plays baseball on a team every year in the spring. He loves to go to baseball_________.

Every day when it is _________, Eddies father throws a baseball to Eddie in the backyard. This is the time of day that Eddie_________best. He enjoys spending time with his father and he loves practicing baseball.

Eddie_________baseball cards throughout the year. He and his father visit the_________and buy cards for Eddie's collection. Eddie spends hours with his baseball cards. He arranges them in different _________,and trades them with other baseball_________.

One day, Eddie s father came home with two tickets to _________the Atlanta Braves play the next Saturday. Eddie was so__________. He counted down the days on the calendar.

Finally it was the day of the game. Eddie and his father__________to Atlanta early in the morning.Before they watched the match, they__________ the Braves' museum at the stadium and saw a short movie on the history of the Atlanta Braves. Eddie enjoyed seeing the ________

They ate__________at the stadium when it was at noon, and soon it was time for the game .

The game was exciting. Eddie tried to__________every move the players made.__________he watched carefully and practiced a lot, he might just be on one of those baseball cards some day!

________the game, Eddie and his father drove home. They talked about the game. They talked about which__________were the best, and which__________were the most exciting. Eddie went to sleep that night still __________of baseball. His dreams were filled with images from his very special day.