Accept life as it is. I learned how to do it from my father. _______, he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was _______ and ill.

My father was _______ a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness _______ all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is _______ .One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started _______ about life, and I told them about one of my _______. I said that we must very often give things up _______ we grow — our youth, our beauty, our friends — but it always _______ that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father ________ up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up ________! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn’t think of anything to say. ________, he answered his own question: “I ________ the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.

I was also ________ by his words. After that, when I began to feel angry at someone, I ________ remember his words and become ________. If he could ________ his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be ________ to give up my small anger. In this ________, I learned the power of acceptance from my father.

Sometimes I ________ what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am ashamed (惭愧的)for this one word.

Can you love someone too much? Perhaps you can express the wrong kind of love, but I’m sure you can’t______too much.

One of my favorite stories tells of a woman who finally______to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All days she felt ______. Late in the afternoon she worked up the______to speak to her employer. To her delight, he______a raise.

The woman arrived home that evening to a beautiful table set with their best dishes. Her husband had come home early and ______a festival meal. She wondered if he ______knew that she would not get turned down.

She found her husband in the kitchen and told him the good______.They kissed and then sat down to the wonderful meal. Next to her plate the woman found a beautifully lettered_______. It read: “Congratulations, darling! I knew you’d get the raise! These things will______you how much I love you.”

After supper, her husband went to do some washing. As she left the room, she______a second card that had fallen from his pocket. Picking it off the floor, she read: “Don’t______not getting the raise. You deserve (应得) it anyway! These things will tell you how much I love you.”

Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa said, “What can you do to promote world______? Go home and love your______.” Yes, love your family, and also love your friends.

“Mom, stop. STOP!” yelled my mom outside my bedroom. At 7 am, I ________ to her yells. It was the weekend and I wanted to sleep. ________ a loud knock on the door ________ my chance of sleeping. “Maggie, get up quickly and help with your grandmother,” my mother ________ me eagerly.

I quickly entered my grandmother’s room and ________ her when we were going downstairs as she walked slowly. We ________ made it to the living room. Now, I had to get her to sit down to watch TV quietly. “ I have to go to work!” she argued, ________ toward the front door. “ I have to go and meet with Fran!” she ________, referring to her daughter, who lives nearly one hundred-twenty miles from here. This argument continued ________ I convinced her to sit down.

I poured out a ________ from a medicine bottle. She hesitated, and then swallowed it down with a glass of water. We returned our ________ to the TV and soon she fell asleep. 15 minutes later, she woke from her nap, becoming ________. The rest of the family came in to greet her. She smiled at everyone, and made jokes, like a ________ person.

My grandmother is________Alzheimer’s（阿尔茨海默症）．One out of five people develops the________by age 80. Symptoms include forgetting words. They also________ to recognize friends and family members or perform________tasks like dressing themselves. As of today, Alzheimer’s is too ________ to defeat, but there are treatments to alleviate（减轻）the symptoms.

The disease affects both the________and the family members. It's________. But it's someone in love. We are willing to fight it with love, which is just as powerful.