I was working as a nanny (保姆) in Dublin then. My morning routine ________ with Grdinne’s daily walks to and from her gate, and we began having ________ there. I told her about my grandfather and his ________. I told her how I had never felt at home anywhere, and how ________ I had always felt from India, the country of my birth. “I thought I was travelling in order to find myself, ________ I think I’m travelling to find out where I fit.” I told her. She ________ my hands in hers, then pulled me to her in a fierce hug, which meant a lot to me during those ________ summer days.

Shortly after my return to India, my grandfather passed away. Gráinne sent me an email full of ________. She ended with these words: “You told me you travelled in order to find out where you fit. I hope you understand now you don’t fit into places, but you will always fit where you have ________ to fit with.”

Two years and some months later, I received a ________ envelope bordered in black in the mail. It was a letter from Grdinne’s son, ________ me that she had passed away peacefully in her sleep. My tears fell on the letter as I read that Grdinne had wanted me to ________ her garnet cross on its silver chain, the one she’d worn all her life. “My mother ________ you. Thank you for being a generous and loving ________ to her.” he wrote. I shook out the cross from the envelope, held it to my heart, and ________.

Old Bernard Baruch.81 years old, is still ambitious. His only reference to the past was that, with great pride in eyes. he_______to rank first in shooting. What makes this man still_______? The answer is his strong_______ to keep being productive.

Two of the hardest things to_______ in this world are to get wealth by honest efforts and, having gained it, to learn how to use it in a proper way. Recently I walked into the locker room(休息室)of a well-known golf club. A dozen middle-aged men were seated at tables drinking heavily and talking _______. Day after day these same men hung out there and each of them had been a man of affairs and wealth,_______ in business and respected in society. However, it seemed that they are too content to be aggressive. They knew that their productivity had _______ gradually. When a fruit tree doesn’t bear its fruit, it is dying. In this way it resembles(类似)man.

What is the _______of a long and happy existence in the world? I think I found it long ago in a passage. The words were few, but had a lasting_______on me: "In the sweat of the face shall you eat the bread." The words have been and will always be a great ________ to me. At the end of the road I want to feel that I have fought a good fight and lived to the full.