Every family should have an emergency kit in their home. If there is an earthquake or a hurricane, for example, there could be a _________cut, or the water could get polluted. You might be _________at your home for several days because of a storm or a flood. Having an emergency kit _________could help if anything like this _________.

Your emergency kit might include the following _________:

The first aid kit should include alcohol, cotton wool, bandages, painkillers, clean bottled water and burn ointment.

It is _________to keep non-perishable (不易腐坏的) food supplies. In other words, food that won't spoil (变质) out of the fridge, such as canned food. There should be _________food for three days. It is better if the food does not have to be cooked. Don't _________the can opener!

It's a good _________for each family member to have a __________change of clothes, including waterproof shoes and a raincoat, as well as some warm blankets in case you have to __________outdoors, just as if you were camping!

Other things you can __________the kit are: flashlight and spare batteries, paper and pencils, mobile radio, matches and candles. Don't forget these things need to be checked regularly (定期地) to be sure that they __________well. Check the expiry (期满) __________on any canned food. You can also put in a backpack some of the things that are __________to you, such as a toy or something else that you care about.

What is a person supposed to do with the collections of a lifetime? Not ________the holiday decorations, but all the things that I ________: an instrument my son dragged around, tea cups my mother loved, the wooden toys my father made... . The ________ for thinking about cleaning up the house was that every time I did the laundry, I saw many boxes filled with things I no longer _________. Finally, I decided to ________ those old things. I started from the basement but soon returned to my office ________I couldn't deal with the big things down there.________, it soon turned out that everything I found was a big thing.

“It can be both fun and sad to ________ photographs and letters, but one thing is ________: you will unquestionably get stuck down memory lane (回忆往事) and may never get down to________anything else,” a writer wrote.

I got stuck down memory lane because the datebooks (记事本) I ________ were little letters to myself. For five years I ________ what I had done in tiny print (小字体) to fit into tiny squares (方格). Though many squares are ________, there are still a lot of days, and those days hold________. The datebooks mean ________ to anyone but me. I should have thrown them away, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t ________ with out-of-focus photos, either, or so many _________: “Things as They Are,” the first book I bought; “From the Pen of the Dreamer” by my childhood acquaintance Lenny Silver.

There’s a ridiculous glass cat, but there’s a story ________ to it. My mother loved it but she ________ it to her sister. And when her sister died, her family gave it to me.

Our things hold memories and the times of our lives, which is why it is so ______to let them go.

One of my father’s favorite sayings as I was growing up was “Try it!” I couldn’t say I didn’t like something, whatever it might be, until after I tried it. Over the years I’ve come to _______how much of my success I owe to my _______of those words as one of my values. My _______ job was just one I decided to try for a couple of years until I _______ what I want to do as a career_______ I believed I would work for a few years, get married, stay home and raise a family, so I didn’t think the job I took _______ that much. I couldn’t have been more _______ I mastered the skills of that beginning level position and I was given the opportunity to move up through the company into different _______ I accepted each new opportunity with the thought, “Well, I’ll try it; if I don’t like it I can always go back to my _______position. ” But I was with the same company for the past 28 years, and I’ve ________ every career change I’ve made. I’ve discovered I ________ a large number of different talents and skills that I never would have thought were within me had it not been for my being open to trying new opportunities. I’ve also discovered that if I ________ what I’m doing and work hard at achieving my ________ I will succeed. That’s why I’m so ________ to be a part of Career Fables. com. I think ________ has come and I am determined to make it a success.