In the Thai city of Khon Kaen a dog kept waiting around a crossroad ______ he was waiting for his owner. Many citizens believed the dog had been________. Some warm-hearted citizens brought him food and water. _______them was a middle-aged lady named Rol who came ______.

One day, a reporter______the dog and Rol who came to _______ some food. Then the reporter shared the story about the dog and Rol on social media. The post went viral and the photos got shared ______ times.

And the photos reached the eyes of the dog’s _______owner, Auntie Noi. She felt heart-broken for having ______ her beloved dog during a car trip. When she learned that he had been waiting for her in the same ______ for the last four years，her heart melted.

Auntie Noi told her daughter to_______her to where the dog was waiting. When she got out of the car and called his name, BonBon, the dog started wiggling(扭动)his tail and came to her，but when she tried to take him     _____with her, he was______to follow. She didn’ t want to _________ the dog to come with her so she agreed to leave him with his new master. _______ , she and her daughter will come to visit him regularly.

I was a boy of nine in 1960. I used to mow the lawn for Mrs. Long. She paid me little for the job, but promised to give me a Christmas present.

I spent much time _________ what it would be. Many boys had baseball gloves or ice skates and I was eager to have any of these. “It would _________ be a baseball glove,” I _________ with myself. “She wouldn’t know much about baseball.” So I was convinced that she would give me ice skates. I even imagined myself upon the skates.

As Christmas approached, it was with _________ that I stopped myself from reporting to Mrs. Long and demanding my present. On December 22, I presented myself at the door of the house. Mrs. Long handed me a small box which under no circumstances could _________ a pair of skates. I was disappointed. When lifting it from her, I was curious about the _________ of the present. It weighed almost nothing.

“What is it?” I asked.

“A kind of magic,” she said. Her words were enough to set my mind _________ with new possibilities.

On Christmas morning, I had this box on my knees. With great _________ I opened the box to find inside ten sheets of black paper, each labeled in colorful letters, Carbon Paper Regal Premium. “What is it?” I asked. Mum took two pieces of white paper, placed between them one of the black paper, and wrote my name on the upper sheet. Then she handed me the second sheet, which her pencil had in no way touched. There was my name!

It was a miracle to my _________ mind. In that one moment, I remembered the ideas about the duplication(复制) of words and the printing and the mystery of spreading ideas. Thank Mrs. Long for her wisdom to guess that a boy might profit from a present totally outside the realm of his ordinary experience.

The __________ present merely satisfies a temporary desire; the great one lights up all the years of life that remain.

A girl kept complaining about life. It seemed to her that one problem was not solved yet before another one________. One day, she told her father that she wanted to________.

So her father took her to the kitchen and filled three pots with water and placed them on the________. After the water was heated, he put in each pot some carrots, eggs and coffee beans and let them________. All the time her father said nothing.

About ten minutes later, he fished out the________and placed them in a bowl. Then he got the eggs out and placed them in another bowl.________, he poured some coffee into a cup.

“What do you see?” he turned to his daughter and asked.

“Carrots, eggs and coffee,” replied the daughter who was so________that she could not help asking, “What do you want to say, Father?”

Her father________the question and just asked her to try the carrots, eggs and coffee one by one.

She did what she was told to do.

“Each of them had gone through the same________—the boiling water, but each reacted________. The carrots went in strong and hard. But after being________to the boiling water, they________and became weak, while the________is true for the fragile(易碎的) eggs. Best of all, the coffee beans were so________that they even turned the tasteless water into a nice drink. When adversity(逆境) knocks on your door, how should you________the challenge?” he asked his daughter. “Do you want to act like the carrots, eggs or coffee beans?”