Fifteen years ago. I took a summer vacation in Lecce, Italy. After climbing up a hill for a full view of the blue sea, I paused to catch my _____ and then positioned myself to take a photo.

Unfortunately, just as I took out my camera, a woman approached from behind, and ______ herself right in front of my view. Like me, this woman was here to stop,       ____ and appreciate the view.

____ as I was, after about 15 minutes, my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would ______ take, I was frustrated. Should I ask her to _____   so I could take just one picture of the landscape? Sure, I could have asked her, but something ______ me from doing so. She seemed so ______ in her observation. I didn’t want to mess with that.

Another 15 minutes passed and I grew more ______. The woman was still there. I decided to take the photo ______. And now when I look at it, I think her ______ in the photo is what makes the image ______. The landscape, beautiful on its own, somehow comes to life and breathes ______ this woman is engaging with it

This photo, with the ______ beauty that unfolded before me and that woman who “______” it now hangs on a wall in my bedroom. What would she think if she knew that her figure is captured (捕捉) and ______ on some stranger’s bedroom wall? A bedroom, after all, is a very private space, in which some woman I don’t even know has been kept forever. In some ways, she has been ______ in my house.

Perhaps we all live in each other’s spaces. Perhaps this is what photos are for: to       ____ us that we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common ______ for pleasure, for connection.

That photo is a reminder, a captured moment, an unspoken ______ between two women, separated only by a thin square of glass.

I used to walk around the store with my parents and beg them for something. I remember the_________of all the bright bags of chips and candies. I asked my mom to_________for me. I had no real knowledge about the value of _________.

When I was about twelve years old, my dad always_________my begging and told me, “You can waste all the money you want when you have a job.” I_________him when he said that and_________I was going to get a job as soon as I was_________enough. But before I could legally (合法地) get a_________, I babysat to make some money. I remember the feeling of getting new money in my pocket.

A few years later when I was in high school, I got a job information. I started to think about the money I could make, so I_________. Soon I got an email, inside which I was__________to a meeting the following night and learned all about the__________.

After being trained for several months, I__________started the job and made some money. The more money I made, the less I wanted to__________. Instead of wasting my money on useless things, I started saving up. I finally came to the__________that money meant so much more to me because I was the one working for it. Because I__________my money, I now have 3, 300 dollars in the bank.