A few months ago, I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a cough that was hard to get rid of. No matter how many different medicines I tried, I_________couldn’t get rid of the cough. Not only did it_________my teaching but also my life as a whole.

Then one day after class, a student came up to me and_________ traditional Chinese medicine. From description Chinese medicine sounded as if it had magic power that_________. I was_________   because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before. _________ my cough got so much worse that I couldn’t sleep at night, so I decided to give it a_________.The Chinese doctor took my pulse and asked to see my tongue, both of which were’ new experience to me because they are both_________ in Western medicine, where diagnosis relies heavily on_________. Then the doctor gave me a scraping (刮) treatment known as “Gua Sha”. I was a little __________ at first because he used a smooth edged tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.

A few minutes later, the treatment started to produce a__________effect and my body and mind began to sink deeper into__________. I didn’t feel any improvement in my__________in the first couple of days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to __________. Then within a matter of weeks, it was completely__________ !

Diebedo Francis Kcre is a young architect from Africa. There was no _______ school when Mr. Kere was growing up in Gando, one of the world's poorest countries. Since childhood he had alrendy had a keen sense of _______ .His family sent him away to school at the age of seven and he did not _______ them. He won a scholarship from the German government and went to study in Germany.

_______ still studying for his architecture degree in Berlin, Mr. Kere learned that the school building in his hometown was on the point of _______ . The school had been built some years previously. _______ to share with his village the advantages that _______ had given him. Mr. Kere launched the School Bricks for Gando project and _______ raising money needed to build a school.

Opened in 2001, the school now _______ more than 300 pupils. The school not only __________education for the village children, but is used to pass on new skills and __________ to the entire village.

" Africa is full of very bright and __________ young people. But only through   __________ to education will they be able to build themselves a better world. For me, Gando School is a __________ because the villagers no longer see it as a waste of time for their children to be in school __________ working in the fields."Kere said.

“MOTHER” is a beautiful word. We are ________ to have a loving and caring mother. She teaches us to do right things, to go right paths and ________ things. But some people can never understand mother’s ________ in their life.

An old woman was ________ behind her son Rahul who was very ________ with some of his office work. Just then, a squirrel (松鼠) came and sat on the window of the house. The mother asked her son what that was. Her son ________ that it was a squirrel. About half an hour ________ , his mother again asked what that was. He again told her it was a squirrel.

For the ________ time when his mother asked the same question, he said to her in a very ________ voice with impatience, “Can’t you ________ it’s a squirrel? Why are you asking me the same question again and again?” The mother felt very bad and her heart was ________ sorrow. And she just stood up and said ________ to him and made him ________.

She then sat next to him and ________ a story about a 5-year-old boy. That boy was very cute and sweet. One day, a bird came and ________ on the window of the house. That boy asked his mother what that was. He was asking that question about fifteen ________ , but all the time his mother answered him very ________ , and kissed her ________ on his face every time.

That boy is Rahul who now is well educated with a ________ job. Rahul can be me, you or many people in this world, who don’t ________ their mothers lovingly enough.