When my husband died of cancer I became angry. And I felt a hard brick wall built around my angry heart.

One morning, driving down a busy road in my town, I____a carpenter was building a __around an old house I’d always admired. Each time I drove by, I ___the progress. I saw an aproned woman sweeping the yard, ___the flowers, cutting the grass, and even ___ the litter thrown from the cars passing by.

Eventually, one day, a ___fence stood there, ___greeting me! I ____the engine, waved the woman and said   "I came to see your beautiful fence."She stopped her work and____her hands on her apron, smiling. Then the sun witnessed us drinking tea on the porch （门廊）with the white fence surrounding us.

The fence isn’t____ me. I live alone. But since so many people come by here, look at the fence and wave, I thought they’d ___seeing something pretty. A few, like you, even stop and sit here to talk. she ___

But if the road is widened there’ll be much __?

Change is part of life. When something bad happens, you have two __—to get bitter or better.

When I left, she __: ― Come back anytime. Leave the gate ____—It looks more friendly.

I carefully left the gate ajar(半开的) and ____, feeling something deep inside me. I could even picture the ___in my heart falling down, and being ____by this marvelous fence. I planned to ____my door open for whatever or whoever might come my way.

The Fourth of July picnic was a great thing in my neighborhood each year. No kid wanted to _______ the bike-decorating competition or the food party. But the best part was the firework display. The boys were excited to _______ their fireworks, and everyone couldn’t wait for _______ to fall.

One year, the boys _______ us girls with sparklers (烟花棒). I also lit some for fun. Later, some boys began to _______ their lighted sparklers to make things more _______. Watching the sparklers’ beautiful fire traces, _______ holding the sparkler wasn’t enough for me ——I _______ the boys.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have the good _______ they had. My sparkler landed on the arm of Mr Miller and ________ his shirt. Luckily, he didn’t get hurt. I realized I had made a mistake, but I wasn’t ready to ________. I quickly walked towards the tables of food and tried to behave ________.

Staying at the picnic became quite ________. But leaving before the firework display would look strange. After all, I had been ________ it for days. Upon arriving home, I headed straight towards my room in case my parents would notice my ________. However, after a night’s ________ inside, I told my parents the truth. They suggested getting Mr Miller a new shirt and making a(n) ________. Actually, I was afraid of Mr Miller, for he always seemed ________. However, after hearing my words, he wasn’t as angry as I’d thought. He even accepted the shirt and showed ________. Actually, seeing Mr Miller at the picnic each year never became comfortable. But it ________ holding an unbearable secret inside.

Rumeysa Gurbuz was at home asleep on February 6 in the city of Iskenderun on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast when a magnitude 7. 8 earthquake attacked the region. The quake caused ________ damage in Iskenderun. Fortunately, her beloved pet cat Leyla woke her up 15 minutes before the earthquake ________, enabling her to ________. When the quake hit, Gurbuz jumped out the window of her home, only ________ her legs.

“If I hadn’t woken up, I would have been in the ________, Gurbuz said in comments provided to Newsweek by animal welfare nonprofit Humane Society International (HSI). ”I ________ her a lot. We are alive, and there is ________.”

After being injured in the quake, Gurbuz was ________ to a hospital. But she posted an article on the Internet in a desperate attempt to ________ Leyla. HSI saw the ________ and began searching for the cat but finally was ________.

Kelly Donithan, HSI’s director of animal disaster response who was helping to ________ Leyla, asked Gurbuz to send her a voice message calling the pet’s name in an attempt to ________ the cat out. After a lot of ________, the trick worked and the ________ pet finally emerged from the ruins.