As a child ,I hated going to the store with my mom. Whenever my mom asked if I wanted to go______, I would say , “No, mom!’Who wants to get car sick and walk near the frozen section(冷 冻区)? That’s the______ part --- the freezers and smell of seafood. Why would any mom____their only child this way? I hated it. _____ , I did get cookies, French fries, and chocolate. This____ treatment went on until I left for Culver Academies.

Here at Culver, I had no chance to walk around with my mom and get snacks I wanted. I found myself stuck(被困住) at the _____ whose store had high prices for a slice of cheese. I ___walking near the frozen sections with my mom.

My first vacation home, my mom asked what I wanted from the _____ , knowing I wouldn’t go.

“Can I ___？”I asked with a look of _____ because I wanted to spend time with her. I also felt sad while asking _____ I took all those _____for granted in my childhood.

I ____ come home now. But when I do, I ____ to go with her every time. If not, I always say, “Love you mom. Drive safe!” I run to the gate and watch her______.I wave ,smile, and ____ that I stay home.

As a child , I hated going shopping with my mom, but now I ____ it. I like walking near the frozen sections of stores now--- it gives me a(an)______to stay with her. When I go with her, I really______ every detail in our trips. Now I’m eighteen and will be in college soon. I hope she knows how much those eight minutes’______ to the store meant to me .Thanks mom.

When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for $200 so that he could travel to and from work more _________ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, _________ then it got so old, and it was costing him so much in repairs that he decided that he had better _________ it.

He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly _________ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so _________ of them had any desire to buy it. Dave’s friend Sam saw that he was _________ when they met one evening, and said, “What’s wrong , Dave?”

Dave told him, and Sam gave a(n) _________, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? That way you may _________ more than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam’s _________ was reasonable, he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, __________ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at $50.”

Two days after the advertisement, there was no __________. But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry (询问). A man rang up and said he would like to __________ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o’clock the next morning would be __________ or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I’ll __________ my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to __________ it.”

The next morning, at 9:45, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, __________ to wait there for the people who had __________ his advertisement. Even Dave had to __________ that the car really looked like a wreck (残骸). Then, soon after he had got the car as clean as it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a __________ got out. He looked at Dave’s car and then said, “Have you reported this __________ to us yet, sir?”

Late one evening, I noticed that Lazarus, my beloved German Shepherd, was not acting like himself. He began walking around and just couldn’t _________ to get comfortable. When he started to vomit (呕吐), my husband and I knew a _________ to the emergency vet’s was in order.

Examinations were taken, and he appeared to be _________. However, my boy continued to show signs of abdominal (腹部的)_________. So, we decided that X-rays were _________. The doctor felt that Lazarus might need surgery and _________ he should be kept overnight to keep him safe. I agreed to leave him at the _________, hoping his discomfort would pass by without the need for any further treatment. It was one of the _________ drives home I had ever experienced. I began to _________ as I lay on my bed. “God, I __________ love this dog. He is very special to me and my whole family. Please, please help him __________.” Suddenly my phone rang. It was the doctor at the clinic. My heart __________. The doctor told me that she had started his abdominal surgery and his __________ of survival were not very good. My voice __________ when I spoke. Maybe the next time I would see him, he would be in a wooden box that would be buried under our fruit tree in the back yard.

Luckily, Lazarus stood up and recovered! No one, especially the doctor, expected him to make such a(n)__________ after his surgery.