My son is 7 years old and he was _________a show to be put on at his school. He was playing the role of an angel. On the evening before the show, he asked me, “Mom, can we _______angels?” As usual, I seized(抓住)the ________to teach him to be positive and I said, “Yes, but only those who are perfect, and think and talk positively can.” He asked, “You must have seen them then?”

I was _____for a few seconds, not knowing what to say. I was touched by his _____that his mother was a perfect person. He looked into my eyes, _____a positive answer. I chose to be _______with him and told him, “No. I’ve not been a good person all the time.” I was almost_____to admit this to him. I thought that his______of a perfect mother would now surely be torn into pieces. But he _____it positively and said, “It’s all right. You know to try to be better from now on.” I smiled as I replied, “ That’s ______. Sometimes, we might make a _______, but when we do, we must always try to do better.”

My son’s _______struck me right in my heart and are always with me. I learned a good lesson that day “to always try to be better.” This will always______ me in all situations where I’ll need to be positive.

It was the second day of a winter holiday in Queenstown, New Zealand, three years ago. When we decided to explore the beautiful scenery, our landlady _________ us, “Make sure you are well dressed up today. The weather is _________. Head back when you see snowfall.”

The day was bright and sunny, and I started to wonder if she was being too _________. When snow began to fall at 6:00 pm, I was not worried, thinking we’d have no _________ in catching a taxi back. However, we waited for a while, and all the drivers _________ their heads when told of our _________.

The first driver passed by and gave me a card with a number for me to _________ help. I was filled with _________, but I had no choice but to lead my three sisters to a nearby place to make the _________. Then a taxi __________ up and we got in. The driver did not appear very __________. Then the light streaming(光线)from his headlights showed very __________ why no taxi wanted to take us to our hotel. And I began to understand the driver’s apparently unfriendly silence—he was __________. The steep incline(斜坡)ahead was __________ with snow. The taxi slowly made its way up the hill. Suddenly, we came to a dead __________, and the driver turned to us. “Look! It is very __________ to go forward. You have to get out and walk. If I drive any __________, the taxi will slide back,” he said. “Er…can you keep your headlight on? The rest of us will __________ you up,” I said. The driver __________.

We made it safely back to our hotel. Even though it __________ for the rest of the days, we could see the silver lining in the cloud(一线希望): the generous soul who helped us.

Mom and I pulled our artificial Christmas tree out of the box together. Mom hoped the lights all worked. Actually I didn't_________whether we even had a tree or not when I was_________the next day. It was our first Christmas without my father. My_________was too heavy to enjoy anything. How I wished would decorate the tree that Dad and I had_________together the year before. That_________had been perfect, like everything about that Christmas.

Throughout my childhood, my father was in and out of the hospital_________from leukemia(白血病). My grown-up brother and sisters had memories of him when he was younger and full of_________. But the dad I loved was almost always_________.

Until suddenly in time for Christmas, like a_________, my father seemed to get better. Dad took the__________to make the most of every good day he had.

"Are you thinking about the tree last year?" Mom asked, "Yes, Mom." I__________.

The tree had been Dad's__________. A real tree, not our artificial one. Dad and l drove to the Christmas tree farm to get it. In his truck, he__________his Christmases with me on the way there: "My brothers and I used to go to the woods to__________our tree, and we decorated our tree with something from the farm as well," Dad__________, "One year we did earn enough__________from the sale of crops. So we could__________some beautiful lights from the supermarket. "When Dad and I returned home with our tree, I asked him if we could__________it as he had when he was a boy, "Sure we can!" Dad agreed__________.

Mom had decorated the artificial Christmas tree. Looking at the shining tree, I thought the Christmas would never be__________after Dad passed away.