Two weeks ago my grandfather passed away. It really put me into deep _______ because my grandfather held a unique position in my life. For me, my grandpa was not only a _______ family member but a tutor(导师) who encouraged me to work hard and _______well.

I’ll never forget the first time I read a long piece of his writing. It was when I _______ for Princeton University and he offered to write the recommendation letter for me. He wrote in beautiful _______ and used poetic language, unafraid of sounding too “flowery”. I read the _______ out loud so that I could hear the rhyming(押韵)sounds.

My grandfather _______ hard work. Every time he came to visit us in New York, he would _______ my brothers and me for our good performance, which inspired me. I knew he had worked hard to _______ the big family during the Great Depression. He was awarded many military(军事的) ________ for winning many battles in the Navy in World War II.

At the funeral, a friend of my grandfather’s walked to me and said that my grandfather had told him about a small ________ I had written. After it came out, I sent it to my grandfather ________ received no reply. This man told me that my book hit my grandfather’s ________ and brought tears to his eyes. My grandfather said he was so ________ of me.

Now I feel it’s even more worthwhile to write well because I know my grandfather ________ it. I know he lives in my heart forever.

My brother Ken was born with a brain disease. Though Mama was extremely ________, she never babied Ken. She ________ him to do whatever we did.

I remember once we got a slide in our backyard. Ken was ________ at first sight. But unable to ________ the steps with the braces(支架)on his legs, Ken could only looking ________ at the rest of us from the ground.

One day, Mama put Ken in the backyard, this time without his braces, and watched him move with great       _____ right over to the slide. For the next three hours, Ken climbed the ladder and fell, climbed the ladder and fell,       _____. He skinned his knees, and his head was ________.

Our neighbor ________ at Mama, “What kind of woman are you? Look at the blood. Get that boy off that       _____!” Mama told her kindly that if it ________ her, she would have to close her curtains. Ken had ________ to go down the slide, and down the slide he would go. It took a couple of days of ________ before he could go up the ladder and down the slide as well as the rest of us, and another week before he could do it with his braces on.

Ken was not supposed to ________ it to his tenth birthday but he has lived with his disease and is now a 42-year-old man who lives ________ and even holds down a job. He ________ everything the way he did that slide so many years ago. What a(n) ________ Mama gave him that day by expecting him to be the ________ he could be.

Though I often feel I fall short when I compare my ________ to hers, it gives me great comfort to know that her spirit is ________ me, somewhere-preparing me to make “mothering magic” of my own.

When a mom attended school to help her disabled son, her son and the school thanked her in the sweetest way possible. It wasn’t until after his college years that Marty became disabled after______down stairs. When her son   ______to get his MBA Judy O’ Connor attended every class with him to help him write and _____ . Every day, Judy would sit by Marty in class, taking notes to make sure to set down______requests, raising her hand so he could answer questions, and silently filling in his______ on test days. “After a little while, we found that working together we could ______a great deal,” Marty says.

On graduation day at Chapman University, Judy was dressed in black to mix in with the other______. Little did she know she’d soon be the center of______. When Marty’s name was called, his mom helped ______ him to the front of the stage, _____for a picture with Marty as he received his diploma. Over the loudspeaker, a voice _____ with happy tears made an _____: The university was giving Judy an honorary MBA. “A lump came to my throat, I was proud of my son and ______to be honored,” says Judy.

The mother and son had joked that Judy was putting in enough work to earn her own______. To Marty, there was no question his mom, a retired elementary school teacher with a business degree, had ______earned her honorary MBA.

Perhaps just as important, Judy gave Marty______. Life as Marty knew it before the _______may have changed, but he encourages anyone in a ______ situation to keep up hope. “Just keep an open mind,______you can make your diversity your advantage and take challenges as a(n)______for growth in your life,” he says.