Twenty years ago, cable services (有线服务)were relatively expensive. When we requested our cable services be lowered to the basic package, we found the cable company had________ our service instead. After learning that we would have to pay for________, we decided to give it up altogether.

________they could no longer watch their favorite television shows, our daughter________into her bedroom, screaming about the injustice of it all. Our son looked upset while he________that the only shows he ever watched were cable-only stations.

I admit that the first week was the________. With so much time in hand, my children began________over little things. After a week of listening to my children constantly quarreling, I was almost________to re-order cable but gave up at the last minute. In the third week I was pleased to announce that no one had died of________. The children started enjoying more physical activities. We also organized________activities that requested the whole family's involvement. Besides, when I needed the children's help, I________heard, "Just a minute, Mom. I'll be there during the next________"

We found more time to talk with each other. We________the pleasure of reading, and board games had become a family affair. It truly was a________and a great way to reacquaint (重新熟悉) ourselves with one another. After all, shared activities and family affection________anything.

Here is a story about a young boy in New York. He once went to one of Dr. Jane Goodall’s talks and learned about the _______ expressions of chimpanzees.

When he saw a picture of a chimpanzee on a box of _______and it looked like the chimpanzee was grinning (咧嘴笑), the boy _______ from what he’d learned at Dr. Goodall’s talk that the chimpanzee’s look was actually one of _______.

The boy _______ to the cookie-maker asking to take the chimpanzee’s picture off the box. _______ receiving a letter back from the company, he saw the picture of the chimpanzee _______from the box within just a few months.

“I took _______,” the boy now says. “And the company changed.”   _______ it happened that the picture changed, the boy and his family   ________it was his doing.

As the story shows, young students have much more ________ to accomplish change than what   ________may believe. Moreover, students often achieve much more than they ever   ________ they will.

The story also ________us that small actions can have a big impact. We often tend to think about   ________ events like Clean and Green Week. Instead, a lot of small changes can make a(an)   ________. If hundreds or thousands of students   ________ their families to turn off the tap to save water, move the air-conditioning temperature up a degree or two, drive less and make other environmentally friendly changes, the ________ family may change its behaviors.       

With these small yet highly   ________ changes, students have an effect beyond just their own actions. Students can   ________ by realizing that their own actions have more power than they may expect, and environmentalists can benefit as well by taking the time to focus on even the youngest students.

Most of us need to heal(治愈）once in a while. Physically. Mentally. Emotionally. Spiritually. Sometimes it’s all the above. For some of us, the hardest part of _______ is simply to believe that it’s possible.

Years ago, I was watching my oldest son practice free throws. The boy was good. He made a dozen shots through the _______ without a miss.

“How do you do that?” I said.

“Before I release (放开) the _______,” he said, “I see it in my mind_______ the net. I see it in my_______ to make it happen.”

I loved those _______. It struck me that they might also be said for healing. We need to _______ healing can happen and _______ it in our minds to see it in reality. Belief doesn’t assure(保证) us of the outcome we hope for. But it sets us in motion to move toward it.

My late husband, the coach who taught the boy to shoot free_______, was diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live. With a firm belief that healing was possible, he stretched those six________ into four years. He worked hard to heal. At the same time, he also learned to________ and let go. 

Healing begins when we ________ the past, accept the present and believe that all things are________.

A few years ago, I had surgery for a ________ ankle (脚踝) and spent eight weeks in a ________. At the end of those eight weeks, I expected to start walking again. That didn’t happen. 

I started going to physical therapy (治疗). I believed it could help, so I ________ at it. Just when it seemed I’d never again walk ________ I did before, I did just that. 

When hope grows dim(暗淡）, believing________ the way and makes all things possible. We need to believe healing is possible. If we can see it in our minds and feel it in our________ and believe it in our souls, we can let go of the past, accept the ________ and begin to move forward with our lives.