Autumn is a colorful season. It’s____with natural beauty. It’s breathtaking to see the reds, oranges and yellows ____ along highways, across mountain ranges, and in backyards. The air is fresh. The sun is brilliant. Many people go on ____ outings—not necessarily to swim, ____ just to be by the ocean in that cool, bright _____.

Autumn is also a transition season, a ____ to the quiet of winter. It is a time of ____, as leaves fall to the ground and ____to the earth.

This week, we’re celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Every year this ____offers us an opportunity to look back on the past and to ____our life in the direction we believe it should go. And every year, we ____the festival in autumn. Rosh Hashanah also feels to me like a powerful____that now is the time to make a fresh____just as the vibrancy(活力) of the year is winding down and to set a positive goal for the days, weeks and months____. For me, it feels profound, and almost courageous, to face the cold winter with fresh____and energy. The more____we are rooted in what matters during the autumn, the more we have to draw on when____winds blow.

That’s a lesson____us every day of the year, isn’t it? Today is the day to ____tomorrow’s happiness, tomorrow’s kindness, tomorrow’s health and tomorrow’s friendship. Whether it’s cold and windy outside, or warm and bright, we have the power to ____ the most of each day, to start fresh and to reorganize our life in the directions we believe we should go.

Last spring, I was fortunate to be chosen to par ii pate in an exchange study program. In my application letter, I was careful to _______how much I wanted to see France; evidently, my excitement really came through in my words. Once I_______that I was going, all I could think about was the fun of foreign travel and making all sorts of new and _______friends. While traveling was inspiring and meeting people was exciting, nothing about my term in France was what I_______.

The moment I arrived in Paris, I was _______by a nice French couple who would become my host parents. My entire experience was joyous and exciting _______I received some shocking news from my program coordinator (协调人): there had been a death in my host parents’ extended family. They had to travel outside France for several weeks. That afternoon, I had to_______out of one family’s house and into another. The exchange coordinator told me I’d have a roommate this time and asked whether I could share a bedroom with an English speaker. To avoid the temptation (诱惑) to_______my native language, I asked not to be placed with an English-speaking roommate. When I got to my new room, I _______myself to my new roommate Paolo, a Brazilian (巴西人) the same age as I, who I was surprised to find playing one of my favourite CD! In just a few hours, we knew we’d be good friends for the rest of the________.

I left France with many ________so when people ask me what my favorite part of the trip was, they are always ________to hear me talk about my Brazilian friend Paolo and the scores of weekdays in class, weeknights on the town, and weekends ________France we enjoyed together. I love how people can seem so different, but end up being so ________. The most valuable lesson I gain from studying in France wasn’t just to respect the French people but to respect all people, for your next best friend could be just a continent away. I would recommend an exchange program to anyone who wants to experience foreign culture and gain meaningful ________.

My name is Timothy. I’m 21 years old and I’ve been diagnosed with autism (自闭症) since the age of 2. I’d like to       _______ my story with you about my life with autism.

Firstly, autism makes me a loner. I can’t easily____________too much human-to-human communication at the same time. I find it difficult to process all that spoken and unspoken information. I also__________some other stuff that has been a rocky roadblock during my life. It’s very____________to live through the times that I put up with during my life_________ teasing, struggling to adapt to new__________like schools, on and off depression._______seeing my relative’s death and the struggles with my disability. Well,__________all of those horrible barriers that tried to cut me down, I have overcome them.

Those things I mentioned are just a(n)_________part of my life.__________, there are good things in my life. Currently, I work at a local library to get some_________. Outside of that, I’m a writer and motivational speaker to reach people and__________their spirits. Now, I’m writing a book titled Through My Eyes: Tim and his Poetry, which is about my life and the 50_____________I’ve written.

Every day, there will be______________challenges that are going to fall on me, but I will get stronger as I conquer them. Now, autism can still___________me and I go back into my own little__________for a short time, then I bring myself back by trying to be as___________as I can. I have a few__________ to be sociable with people. The first one is to ask others about how their day is going.__________ the reply, and then try to talk about something we have in____________.