I was walking to my next class when my grandmother called. I thought it would be one of her usual “when are you coming over for dinner” ___________. But I heard heavy breathing as she started __________. I started running to my __________ ready to drive to her home, as I asked, “Grandma, what's wrong?” “Oh honey, I can’t __________ the damn Internet button again. Where is it?" I stopped __________. All terrible guess in my mind disappeared as I   __________ to laugh and cry. My grandma was yelling through the phone. “What’s so __________? I can't get my e-mail. I can't check my Facebook!”

This was not the first time that Grandma had called me in such a tone about her __________. She has always been an outspoken woman, and I could not __________ life without her as one of my instructors. I was thankful she was _________ and well, and I was able to walk her through the loss of her Internet “button”. Two minutes later, she was __________. “There it is! It's back! Oh, thank you. honey. What a relief!”

The whole family knows that Grandma must never __________ the right to use her e-mails, political websites, and Facebook for more than a few hours. Where would we be without her daily e-mails and __________ on our Facebook posts? Honestly speaking, Grandma is a/an __________. I’d actually be _________ if that “damn Internet button” stopped disappearing on her.

A Good-luck Dumpling

When I was in my middle age, something terrible happened to me. As I was away from _______ for almost a year, my wife and children were extremely worried. And my mother, already in her eighties, was on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

On the eve of the Spring Festival, I was finally allowed to return home. Mother looked at me, her eyes filled with _______. But soon she said, “Let’s start making dumplings for the Festival.” And then an idea _______ her, “Let’s put in a coin and make a good-luck dumpling. Whoever eats it will be blessed (有福的).”

While making the good-luck dumpling, my mother secretly made a(n)_______ on it. She pretended nothing had happened, but the trick didn’t escape my _______.

After Mother boiled the dumplings all by herself, she put the good-luck dumpling on top of the others in a bowl on purpose and pushed the bowl to me. Feeling loved, I stared at her in _______ eyes.

I had thought it would give her a lovely surprise if she ate the good-luck dumpling. Taking the opportunity when she went to the kitchen, I put the dumpling into her bowl. Obviously, when Mother returned, she didn’t _______ it and went on eating with her eyes on me all the time. “Ouch!” suddenly she cried out. The coin had hurt her teeth.

“Oh, Granny is blessed”, my wife _______.

“I... how come?” Mother was _______. Just at that moment, the coin fell out of her mouth.

So I joined my wife and children, “Granny is blessed! Mother is blessed!”

Mother burst into laughter, and then tears, as my wife and I ________ with her all her sadness and joy.

My father lived a long life and was deeply loved by his wife, three children, eleven grandchildren and a large number of friends. He was smart and quick-headed. When I asked if he'd like to join me on Virgin Airlines, I remember him_______replying, "Why not? It's as close to heaven as I'll ever get".

While he could always make us laugh, he was also quiet, considerate and full of wonderful_______for us so that we could do better.

When I was a child, I_______myself to the change in Dad's loose drawer—I didn't see it as stealing, but rather as just borrowing without a_______to give back, and bought chocolate from our local corner shop.

One day, while visiting the shop with my father, the shopkeeper questioned my_______spending habits. "Now I don't want to get him into any_______. Mr Branson, but I don't know where young Richard is getting all his_______from. He's becoming my best customer—_______he isn't stealing it."

Dad_______by looking her straight in the eyes and saying loudly, "Madam, how dare you________my son of stealing?"

After we left the shop, my father never spoke a word about the incident. However, his deliberate________for the rest of the day expressed everything. The way he________the situation taught me a hugely effective lesson. I learned that the power of the unspoken words can be frighteningly influential.

His________my honesty was more powerful than if he had scolded me. I also learned the power of________and second chances. And these lessons have________me a lot in both life and work.