Mr. Thomas had always wanted to make a trip into the middle of Africa to shoot wild animals. ____first he had not had enough money, and　____he had married. His wife had not wanted him to　____her. At last his wife　____to the trip if he allowed her to go, ____.

“But it will be very uncomfortable, ” Mr. Thomas warned her. “It will be very　____and we shall live in a tent, and it　____ be dangerous. ”

“I don’t　____. ” said his wife. “I want to go with you. ” So they bought a big tent, camp beds, and a refrigerator, which did not need　____and many other things, which would make the trip comfortable, and went off to the　____of Africa.

The first morning, before Mr. Thomas took his gun and left the tent, he　____his wife a bell and explained to her, “If you feel in　____and you need me, ____this bell and I’ll come at once. ”

After a few minutes, he heard the bell and returned　____to the tent. “What’s the matter?” he asked. “____”, said his wife, “I was only trying the bell. ”

Mr. Thomas went off, but after a quarter of an hour, the bell rang　____. Mr. Thomas hurried back to the tent, but his wife said, “I’m　____. I want cleaning our tent, and I knocked the bell by mistake. ”

Mr. Thomas returned to his hunting, but soon he heard the　____ once more, This time, when he got back to his　____, the tent was burning and Mrs. Thomas was lying on the ground, with　____ running from a big cut on her shoulder. “That’s better!” said Mr. Thomas. “This time the bell had been used correctly!”

It was two days before we had to leave our large house. I loved this house and all the________we had in it. I thought back to________our children there. This was where they learned to walk and talk. Now we were saying________!

My husband________that some things like the rocking chairs, the kitchen table, etc. wouldn't all fit in our truck. I didn't________of his words, saying, "But we have to take the rocking chairs! I nursed our babies in those!” “Honey, come on, listen to me,” my husband continued________, “they're not going to fit.”

We lived east of the Mississippi and all our family was out West, so we were________out there to be with the people we________. When a chance came for my husband to go West, we knew it was________.

“Could we get a bigger truck?" I asked, still trying to bring________along with us.

“Honey, it's already so big! Anyway, we can't take all!" My husband refused my________and went back into the house. I stood in the garage. Thinking we had to________some furniture I loved, I felt________. So I called my mom, “Hi, Mom. It's Amy.”

“Hi, honey. What's new? How's the________going?”

“It's not all going to fit," I said, trying to keep my________steady（平稳的）. “I know it's just stuff（东西）, but it's________to let them go! I sat in that rocking chair and read stories to Azure. I've sat at that kitchen table every night with my________since we moved into this house…”

"Honey, the stuff isn't the memories. You don't need the rocking chairs to________reading books to Azure. You don't need your kitchen table to remember family dinners. You'll always________those memories. And you're going to be just fine."

My mom was________. We've been very happy in our new home, and meanwhile we haven't lost the happy memories of our old home!

My dad passed away in November last year. And it took me several months to feel “_________” in the world again. I didn’t realize it at the time, but in retrospect(回想), the_________described in this piece was an _________part of that process.

I was on a two-week tour of northern Italy, during which I visited the violin_________in the city hall of Cremona, where priceless old violins are_________. Each day, some of these violins are_________and played as a way of keeping them in their finest condition. I was_________to hear the fantastic violin “Il Cremonese”_________by Antonio Stradivari, a master of instrument making. As I sat in that simple hall, surrounded by the ancient paintings and stones, I_________myself to the strains(旋律)of the violin.

My dad also__________music and he had served in Italy during World War II. So I felt he had been with me during my whole Italian journey-and from Venice to Verona, I would catch myself wondering if he had looked at the__________beautiful hills or squares sixty-five years before.

But it was at that moment in Cremona that I__________his presence most powerfully, and that his__________and mine were intertwined(交织在一起)in the__________of the violin. And I__________that people, from newly-made__________to life-long family, __________come and go in the composition of our lives, but that once they have appeared, they never really__________. They are just like those__________. Every day, in one form or another, we take them out and play them, if just for a while. We honor them and keep them__________-as they do us, intertwined.