Tiffany Hammond and her son Aidan communicate in some familiar ways, like hand gestures and body language. But when Aidan wants to ______ himself with words, he uses a tablet (平板电脑).

Aidan is autistic (患孤独症的) and does not speak, so when his mom asks ______ , he can press a button on the screen to answer them. The family has designed routines around his autism, but people outside the household don’t ______ .

“Every single time we go outside the house, there’s something bad happening. There’s a______ , and there’s a mean stare,” Hammond said. “And he feels lonely a lot.”   However, that loneliness and those reactions from outsiders ______ Hammond to find a way to ______the ways in which people with autism can express. They just communicate in a(n) ______type of way. The result of this experience is a children’s book from Hammond titled A Day With No Words. The book followed Aidan through a regular day, showing his ______routines.

Hammond also wrote about the ______ of the book to want people to give kindness and the goal she hoped to ______ with the writing.

In an interview, Hammond said,   “I want to ______ all the things that I see in him. He loves being outside and swings, and he loves life. He is ______ like other people. I want to______ the regular life that I have with my son, and it is supposed to ______ a loving letter to him.”

______, a day with no words can be full of meaningful communication.

Six years ago when I was told that my father suffered from dementia(痴呆), everything changed overnight. Until then, I was loved and lived with little _______. My father became a child who needed round-the-clock _______ for everyday activities. _______, we learnt that the best way to deal with him was with patience and_______.

Our family started_______more time and activities together——Sundays were set aside for a drive, a park visit and dinner at a restaurant. Each _______ gave us the chance to connect as a family.They were special to my father and gave him great_______. It was also a time of _______—— I found myself tested in different ways and found perseverance(坚毅) that I didn’t_______ I had.

By December last year, my father’s condition became more________. Unable to deal with his illness, we were ________ to send him to a centre for dementia care.

We brought my father home in February when he got ________. The next month, the government advised us to stay home because of COVID-19. I was worried that he would miss his walks and would get________ if he had to stay home all day long, but when we explained the________to him, he understood. Perhaps it was because he knew his family would ________ with him.

When my mother and I finally opened a cookbook together, we weren’t planning a holiday meal. At 70 years old, my mom could _________ boil a potato. After an almost 40-year career at a museum in New York, she could _________ a Masaccio, or a Michelangelo on sight, but she _________ nothing about cooking.

Two months earlier, my _________ had been seriously ill in hospital. I’d come back, first to sit by his bedside and hold his hand giving _________, then to do the grocery shopping, and _________ him three meals a day.

My father had been the perennial (长期的) cook of the family. Once he was home and recovering, but still too _________ to do any heavy lifting, it was up to me. After ten weeks, _________, both parents agreed it was time for me to get back to my own _________ .A bit of arithmetic(算术)showed the fact: there would be only one of us ____________ to cook, and it was the one person who didn’t ____________ know how.

The book we ____________ was How to Cook Everything: The Basics. We ____________ it, looking for the simplest of ____________ recipes. We found it: pork chops with onions and apples. One small, ____________ step for man, one giant leap(骤变)for our ____________.

While in college, I ____________ the joy of preparing the right meal for someone you love. It was this ____________ I hoped to pass on to my mother as we ____________ at our kitchen table, reading this book of ____________ that at any other time in life, would have seemed laughably simple.