A professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. All students were ________and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk. ________ he finished ________ the test to all students, he asked them to ________ the test paper and begin.

The students were surprised to see that there was just a black ________ in the center of the page. The professor told them, "I want you to ________ about what you see there. "The students were________ surprised but got started with the test. ________ the end of the class, the professor collected all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. ________of them described about the black dot（点）and tried to explain its position. Now. the professor began to explain, "Here everyone________ the black dot and wrote about it ________ no one wrote about the white paper. The same is with our lives. The white paper stands ________ our whole life and the black dot ________ problems in our life.

Our life is a ________ given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate--- our friends around us, the job that provides us with everything we need. ________, we just focus on day-to-day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships but we ________ see that these problems are very ________ compared to everything we have in our lives. "

We should try to take eyes off our ________ and enjoy each moment ________ life gives us. Be happy and ________ your life positively.

Susan was a shy but clever girt. She ________thick glasses, which were often made fun of by her classmates. The  ________thing was that Lewis had started calling her “Four Eyes”, and the nickname had become very________. Now everyone knew her as “Suzy Four Eyes”.

One day, the class went to visit some famous caves. When walking to the caves, Lewis put his right________in a hole and slipped(滑倒). While ________, he caught Susan, who was walking next to him, and they both fell into the hole.

They ________in a dark cave. There was only a ray of light coming from the cave roof. Susan and Lewis shouted for help, ________no one came. Sitting together in the cold, dark cave, they ________a long night. .

The next morning, they still hadn’t been________. Lewis continued shouting for help, ________ to look for a way out. But nothing was found.

Hours later, Susan noticed that the light was ________into the hole in a straight line. Quickly, she gathered some leaves. ________her glasses as a magnifying glass(放大镜), she focused the ________onto the leaves until a little flame came out. Lewis watched all this with ________and excitement.__________the light from fire, they began to explore the cave.

________, they found a way out and Lewis gave Susan his sincere thanks. Now he ________having named Susan “Four Eyes”, ________after seeing that it was her glasses that had ________them both. Lewis told everyone________had happened and said, “I couldn’t have been with a better friend than Laser Light Suzy!”

And from that day there was no longer any Four Eyes at their school, but Laser(激光)Light Suzy instead.

We always celebrated my Dad’s November birthday on Thanksgiving Day, even after he entered a nursing home. As years went on, these events took on a(n) ________ meaning - a traditional birthday party for Dad, and a personal ________ for all that he had done for me in my life.

When we knew that it might be Dad’s ________ birthday, the whole family decided to come together for a huge birthday celebration at the nursing home. It was a crowded party ________ all of us sitting around him.

Dad was a wonderful ________ , and here was a biggest audience he’d ever had. During a quiet moment, I announced that it was now Dad’s turn to ________ stories from us. I wanted everyone to tell Dad what we loved about him. ________, we told stories from our hearts, ________ Dad listened with wet, flashing blue eyes. We ________ all kinds of lost memories - stories about when we were little, stories about when Dad was young and stories that are shared as family ________. Even the littlest grandchildren couldn’t ________ to tell their grandfather why they loved him. For a man who had been kind to so many people in his life, here was our ________ to honor him.

A few months later, at Dad’s memorial service, we fully realized what we had given Dad that night. Those were the stories people normally tell at a ________. They are told, then, full of tears with the hope that the departed will somehow hear the outpouring of love. ________ we had given those loving ________ to Dad when he was ________, told through laughter, accompanied by hugs and joy. I’m sure the stories and memories ________ over in his mind during his last months and days.

Words do ________, and they are enough. We need to say them, to speak them ________ to the ones we love, for everyone else to hear. That’s the way to ________ love and our chance to honor a person in life.