Are there any moments with your family that are carved in your heart forever? A few_________ago, my father arranged to send me a mail-order_________for my birthday, on December 26th. Although I had a good job in Manhattan, he_________I would forget it. I had recently moved from California where my parents still lived in the house I_________in.

He wanted me to have a particular_________of fruitcake. Made in Texas, it was famous among fruitcake lovers._________the fruitcake was his way of trying to bless me._________my middle-aged status, I was still his son.

“It should arrive the first week of _________ ,” he said. “As soon as you get it, let me know what you think.”

The first week of December passed with no_________of his fruitcake. I was looking forward to__________the flavors that transported me to my childhood.

Then an__________call from my mother drove me to fly back to California__________. My father was in hospital due to a__________surgery. During a three-month stay in hospital, he would always ask about the fruitcake.

__________, the day before my flight back to Manhattan, the fruitcake still had not__________. January, February, and March came and went with no fruitcake. He was deeply annoyed about that __________fruitcake.

Early last December, nearly a year after my father__________from a failing heart, I got a__________from a staffer at the front desk of my apartment building. “You have a package,” he said. I went__________to pick it up. The brown box had a UpsEx （联合快递) label with a return__________in Texas.

Tinky, an eight-year-old girl, was studying in a primary school in a village. One day some naughty kids _________ some greeting cards from a shop while its shopkeeper was busy in other _________. Tinky told her friends that stealing was a very bad thing. But her friends didn’t _________ the cards, instead they gave one to Tinky. She got excited with that magic greeting card and _________ not to tell anybody about these stolen cards.

Next day Tinky was thinking to whom this beautiful card should be given _________ she asked her sisters about it. They told her that she should give the card to her teacher and write a few _________ for her.

On New Year’s Day she gave the greeting card to her teacher, _________“I love you and happy new year, dear teacher! You are so beautiful like a necklace full of diamonds!” Her teacher didn’t expect it from her because children _________ give greeting cards to their friends only.

So when receiving it, her teacher was _________ but smiled. She started reading what was written in it. The teacher’s heart was filled with __________ and happiness. She hugged Tinky __________ and Tinky was also full of joy. Then Tinky __________ what if her teacher came to know that it was a stolen card. Finally she decided to tell the teacher the __________. Knowing what had happened, the teacher __________ her for her honesty. She realized a greeting card was not costly but the __________ it gave was precious.

Where do you go when you want to learn something？

School？ A friend？ A tutor？These are all _________ places of learning. But it may well be that the learning you really want _________ somewhere else instead. I had the _________ of seeing this first hand on a _________．

My daughter plays on a recreational soccer team. They did very well this season and so _________ a tournament, which normally was only for more skilled club teams. This led to some _________ experiences on Saturday as they played against teams _________ trained. Through the first two games, her _________ did not get one serious shot on goal. As a parent, I _________ seeing my daughter playing her best，____________ still defeated.

It seemed that something clicked with the ____________ between Saturday and Sunday. When they ____________ for their Sunday game, they were ____________ different. They had begun to integrate (融合) the kinds of play and teamwork they had ____________ the day before into their ____________．They played aggressively and ____________ scored a goal.

It ____________ me that playing against the other team was a great ____________ moment for all the girls on the team.I think it is a general principle.____________ is the best teacher.The lessons they learned may not be ____________ what they would have gotten in school，but are certainly more personal and meaningful，because they had to work them out on their own.