It's a memorable period when I lost a long time job. It happened in 2004, when our company announced the job _________, facing the global economic crisis. We all _________ the insurance company we worked for was not as _________ as it used to be. Then, one day, I entered my office and was _________ I got fired.

During that week, I did almost nothing to change my situation, _________ renewing my old contacts with writers that I built when I worked as an experienced _________ many years ago. Beyond this, I remained a _________ unemployed loser. Soon enough, I received an order from a writer. Then I was _________ by a few more people who needed my services, and gradually my reputation recovered.

Though this _________ job couldn't support me long. I could make ends meet while __________ a job. During my hard times, I made the __________ of a man from Japan, who wanted to have his novel translated into English quickly, and I __________ that. We worked together for a while. He inspired me to find new opportunities from __________ companies instead of the same ones. I started to look at the world from another __________; I figured out what I truly wanted, and __________ the thought that “the man is for work, not the work for the man”.

Mike has loved flying since he was small. When he was three years old, his dad took him to an air show. Mike loved the sounds of the plane, he________of becoming and airplane pilot(飞行员)someday. As Mike grew up, he learned as________as he could about flying. He wanted to go to flying school________university. He kept on________his parents about it all the time. At that time, pilot training was very________. Mike's parents couldn't afford it.

Later Mike became a salesman. He hoped to get lots of money for flying school. He traveled________America for his factory. He liked to travel,________by plane. To save money, he usually stayed in cheap hotels.

One morning, Mike________to Altanta. On the plane, after breakfast, he went to________. Some time later, he woke up. The two men beside him were talking in a________voice. When Mike heard the word "hijack(劫持)", he nearly________out of his seat, but he pretended(假装)he was still________. he listened when the two men talked. Mike quickly learned what was________. They planned to hijack the plane to Cuba(古巴). This made Mike very________. He knew he had to stop them before they began their________.

Mike pretended to use the washroom. On the way he met a hostess(空姐)and told her about the coming________. A moment later, the passengers were told that there was something wrong with the plane. Soon the plane landed at the________airport.

The two men received a________when they saw twenty police officers were________them at the airport.

Later Mike was given free flying training as a reward.________he became a pilot and flew happily ever since. Now his story is well known in the United States.

I never met a more interesting man than Mayhew, a lawyer, in Detroit. By 35 he had a good ________; a cute brain and an attractive ________. There was no reason why he should not become, financially or politically, a(n) ________ in the land.

One evening he was drinking with friends. One had recently come from Italy and told them of a house on the hill, ________ the Bay of Naples. He ________ to them the beauty of the most beautiful island in the Mediterranean.

Mayhew sent an email, wanting to buy the house. The next day the ________ came back. The offer was accepted. Mayhew made no secret of the fact that he would never have done so ________ a thing if he had not drunk, but he did not regret it. He made up his mind to do ________ as he had said. He did not ________ wealth and he had enough money on which to live in Italy.

He had no _________ plan. He merely wanted to get away from his current life. He determined to write a history about the Roman Empire. He began to collect ________ books and soon he had a large library. He worked harder, ready to sit down to ________. He died. His memory is ________ in the hearts of fewer friends. As the years pass on and to the world, he is unknown. And yet to me his life was a ________. He did what he wanted, and he died when his ________ was in sight.