A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare art works. They had everything in their _________.

When the Vietnam War broke out, the son went to war. He was very _______ and died in battle while rescuing another soldier.

About a month later, there was a _______ at the door. A young man stood there with a large package in his hands. “Sir, I am the soldier for whom your _______ gave his life. He often talked about you. and your love for _______.”

The young man _______ his package and opened it. There was a portrait of his son, _________ by the young man. He stared at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was _______ to the eyes that his own eyes shined with _______.

The father hung the portrait on his wall. __________ visitors came to his home, he took them to __________the portrait before he showed them the other great works he had collected.

A few months later the man __________.There was to be a great auction (拍卖) of his paintings.

“We will ________ the bidding (出价) with this portrait of the son. Who will bid for it?” There was a __________for a long time. Then a voice shouted, “We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.” But __________the auctioneer continued, “The son! Who'll take the son?”

Finally, a __________ came from the back of the room. It was a gardener of the wealthy man. “I'll give $10 for the painting.” He being a poor man, it was all he could ____________. The auctioneer pounded the gavel (拍卖槌), “Going once, twice, SOLD for S 10!” The crowd was becoming __________. They wanted the other worthy collections. “Now let's get on with the collection!”

The auctioneer ________ his gavel. “I’m sorry, the auction is over. I was told of a secret paragraph in the will. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever __________ that painting would inherit(继承) the entire paintings. The man who took the son gets everything!”

Verda Tetteh, a 17-year-old straight A high school student, is on her way to Harvard. At her graduation ceremony, Verda won a famous scholarship for general ________ that offered her $10,000 each year for four years. The scholarship was to help her _______ expenses on living, books, and computers.

She accepted, sat back down but then jumped up again, ________ to ask if she could say a few words. “It is such a great ________ but I also know that I am not in the most need of it,” Verda said. She ________ the money should go to struggling fellow students to help them ________ in community college.

After her ________, there was shock, and then applause followed for this ________ act of kindness. Verda ________ that right after receiving the scholarship, she ________ her mom, Rosemary Annan. ________, she knew that she should do the right thing and _________ the scholarship.

Annan worked hard and showed ________. She brought Verda and her ________ to the US from Ghana, often working 80 hours a week to ________ the family, and never hesitating to help out the needy in her community. Annan always stressed the importance of ________ and, in fact, went back to school as a(n) ________ student and is now working towards earning a bachelor’s degree.

Annan also taught her children to be ________. She is very ________ of her daughter’s act. “That ________ my heart. I would do that. And I know she would do that, too. She’s learned from me over the years,” Annan said.

We may have heard that it’s never too late to pursue your dreams. Now, a man _________ that to be true by achieving his lifelong _________ after 84 years. Earlier this year, 101-year-old Merrill Pittman Cooper _________ his high school diploma during a surprise graduation _________. His family worked with local school officials to _________ the celebration.

Cooper attended Storer College from 1934 to 1938, but life condition _________ him from finishing school and earning his _________. Without his father around, his mother worked as a live-in housekeeper in order to _________ his school tuition and board, but that wasn’t _________. After realizing his mother couldn’t __________ to make the final tuition payment for his senior year, the teen __________ her to move them to Philadelphia to be closer to her family.

In Philadelphia, Cooper worked to help his mother pay the bills and he was __________ as a city trolley (有轨电车) car operator in 1945. That job led him to a long and __________ career in transportation where he __________ became president of the local union in Pennsylvania and later vice president of the International Transport Workers Union in New York City. But despite such a successful __________, he always regretted not graduating and getting his high school diploma.

But now, after 84 years, Cooper was __________ able to see his lifelong dream come true. His family got the idea to __________ him with the honorary high school diploma. Cooper could hardly __________ his tears when he discovered their plan.

The whole thing was a dream come true for Cooper, who now __________ his diploma proudly from its perch (栖息处) on his bedroom dresser. “I can’t think of a __________ day,” says the inspiring 101-year-old man. “I’m really happy to have it.”