When I was young, each morning I woke up and would find my father nowhere around the house . He usually got up early before _______and began milking the cow and cleaning the farmyard. In summer,he got up_______earlier to remove the grass and water the flowers and vegetables in the garden. Once I helped my father to_______the grass from the corn field. It wasn't long before I felt very tired _______the field ridge(田垄) seemed endless. Finally I totally threw myself_______in the field, feeling_______. My dad seemed to have_______my mind. He came up and said, “Farming is tiring and really takes_______and sweat,but in_______the sweet harvest will be worth the ________.” Encouraged by his words, I________my feet.My father________ and added, “Rome is not built in a________but it can be built in hundreds of days. So whenever________with a huge project, just break it into ________ parts and then complete them one by one .Finally you will be amazed at your________.”Hearing what he said,I was greatly________and continued removing the grass from patch to patch. Believe it or not, at the end of the day,I________in weeding(除草) half an acre of corn field.

Now,I have tried different jobs and finally________down running a big restaurant. In my lifetime ,my father's devotion to his job and his special working methods can always encourage and guide me ________all kinds of difficulties.

As a parent of grown children, I have come to realize that many things occurred during those child-rearing years that I knew nothing about.

At one gathering, my third child, Shelly, _________talking about her hair. She has always had beautiful hair. She said she had red highlights (挑染的头发) in her hair when she was younger. We believed her because we all_________ that. For this discovery, she brought her hair color to our_________ . Shelly laughed with us at the_________and then said aloud how interesting it was that she hadn’t seen any highlights in many years.

Snickering (窃笑)_________from across the room. We all turned to look at the_______ . My youngest two girls were sharing wide-eyed_________and giggles (傻笑).

“Okay, what is so_________?” I asked them, my look demanding a(n)_________. With laughter, they finally shared the__________of a story that had us all laughing heartily.

From their childhood, two of their good friends often played together at our house. One day, the four girls,__________ in age from seven to ten years at the time, decided to form a__________business. The girls gathered__________things from the surrounding forest to combine, __________to make a new perfume. They boiled pine needles, wild-flowers, and whatever they found in a pot of water. Then they decided to __________the perfume into a shampoo bottle, Shelly’s shampoo bottle. Realizing that the strawberry-colored__________looked different after adding their mixture, they decided to add__________food coloring. They told us how they rushed each morning to Shelly’s shower in order to shake up the bottle and__________the color throughout once again. They were terrified of the discovery.

Shelly’s face whitened with__________and then reddened with embarrassment before softening into humor. “Well,” she said, after a moment, “I guess that__________it.”

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first parents’ meeting. To the little boy’s _______, she said she would go. This would be the first time that his teacher and classmates _______ his mother and he felt _______ of her appearance.

Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar(疤痕) that _______ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to _______ why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were _______ by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed and _______ himself. However, he accidentally _______ a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked carefully, “How did you get the scar on your face?”

The mother replied, “_______ my son was a baby, the room he stayed in caught fire by accident. Everyone was too afraid to go in because the fire was ________, but I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood falling down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She ________ the burnt side of her face. “This scar will ________, but until today, I have never ________ what I did.”

At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great ________ of gratitude for his mother. He held her hand ________ for the rest of the day.