Parents， they are here to clothe us， feed us and， embarrass us． Sixteen is a_____ ripe age for embarrassment and poor Rain Price of Utah was no_____It was the beginning of his high school year and his first time to_____the bus． So it was really embarrassing when his dad Dale_____him off． After school ， he_____ his mom Rochelle to stop Dale from doing it again． Guess who overheard？

To Rain's_____，not only did the father decide to go on waving his son goodbye，_____he decided to send him off dressed in costume． But this wasn't a one﹣time_____：

Dale dressed up in different clothes every_____day for 170 straight school days，"When he did it the first day， I was in shock． You don' t want to see your dad dressing up in a wedding dress， waving at you on the_____．" Rain told the Metro，to which his dad_____，"I hope this lives with him for the rest of his life．" Dale made his_____goodbye on and on， from the Little Mermaid to the Wonder Woman．

Dale became_____as the "Wave At The Bus Dad''，coming out in the most strange and funny costumes and never repeating the same_____ He said he only spent around $ 50 the whole year and relied on friends and neighbors to_____ him costume and other materials． So the family could_____ the incidents with the rest of the world． Rochelle created a blog to_____ all the costumes．

Rain is now all grown up at 19． He still_____ Dale as a blushing bride， "In the end， it was just_____．I was laughing on the bus the   whole way． I am_____ of him．

The day I met Hani Irmawati, she was a shy, 17-year-old girl standing alone in the parking lot of the international school in Indonesia, where I teach English. She asked if I could help her improve her English. I could ________ it took immense courage for the young Indonesian girl to ________ me and ask for help.

“I want to go to a US university,” she said with confidence. I was surprised.

I agreed to work with her ________ a volunteer basis. For several months, Hani woke each morning at five and caught the city bus to her public high school. During the one-hour ________, she studied for her regular classes and finished the English ________ I had given her. At four o’clock in the afternoon, she arrived at my classroom, ________ but ready to work.

When I met Hani’s family at their ________ little house, I realized they would never be able to afford the expenses of a US university. Hani’s enthusiasm was ________ with her language ability, but I was becoming more and more discouraged.

One day I received the announcement of a(n) ________ opportunity for a major US university. After reading the requirements, I knew Hani couldn’t meet the qualifications. I told her that there was only a ________ chance of her getting the scholarship and encouraged her to be more “realistic” about her dream. But she remained ________.

“Will you send in my name?” she asked.

I couldn’t ________ her down. I completed the application, with the painful truth about her academic life, but also with my ________ of her courage and perseverance.

Three weeks later, just before Hani went to Jakarta to take the Test of English Fluency, she received a letter from the scholarship association. She had been ________.

I leaped around the room, overjoyed and shocked. Hani stood by, smiling. I realized that it was I who had learned something Hani had known from the beginning: It is not intelligence alone that brings success, but also the ________ to succeed, the commitment to work hard and the courage to believe in yourself.

A team of volunteers in the UK rescued a dog in a very unusual way, using a drone (无人机) and a sausage.

Millie, a lovely and pretty dog ________ while she was out for a walk in Hampshire, near the southern coast of England.

After she was seen running on busy roads, her ________, Emma Oakes, contacted the Denmead Drone Search and Rescue (DDSAR) for ________.

Millie was ________ found in a wetland by the coast, at risk of drowning as the tides filled different parts of the area with ________. Police officers, members of the coast guard and volunteers ________ to get to her on kayaks (橡皮艇) and on foot while the DDSAR ________ a drone to follow her. But they were all ________.

After three days of trying to rescue Millie, the team thought of ________ a sausage from a drone to try to help her get to ________. “It was a crazy idea,” said the DDSAR’s Chris Taylor, speaking to The Guardian. But they decided to try anyway. With the help of a local woman who gave them sausages and even ________ the sausages, the team hanged one in front of Millie, who ________ it to higher ground. However, after taking a ________ of the sausage, Millie ran away again. It took two more days before she finally ran into the ________ of her owner.

Emma said it was ________ to finally have Millie home, and she was very thankful to all the volunteers for their hard work.