When I was a college student, I did a lot of traveling abroad. That was because a professor _________ me to do so. She said, “Now is the time for you to travel around the world, _________ your knowledge through actual experiences and have fun!” I _________ her.

Since I started to work for a food company, _________, I have done most of my traveling through the Internet. By using the Internet, I have seen the _________ of many cities on my computer screen. And I have really made business _________, too. With the help of the Internet, I have also got _________ about food from different countries.

Therefore, I was beginning to feel that actual trips were _________ necessary when I happened to read a famous chef’s comment on the Internet. He said, “It is very difficult to have real Italian food in a foreign country, because we enjoy food and the _________ around us at the same time.” Those words __________ me of my professor’s advice. With information technology advancing, you might be able to do without making some real trips. But this also means that you will miss the various __________ you can get from traveling.

Today, people __________ direct communication with others and spend much of their time on the Internet. I do not think that they are taking good advantage of information technology. We should use information technology as a tool to make our daily communication more __________. Besides, we should never let it __________ our time for face-to-face communication. Let’s make use of information technology more __________ and have great fun in experiencing the actual world.

I’ll never forget a ride 20 years ago. Back then, I drove a taxi. One time, I was called at midnight to pick a _________. When I arrived, the building was dark except or one light in a window.

I walked to the door and knocked. A small woman in her eighties stood before me. By her side was a _________, I took it and we walked slowly to the street. She kept thanking me.

“It’s nothing,” I tried to treat my passengers how I want my mother to be _________.”

When we got into the taxi, she gave me the _________, and then asked me to drive through the downtown. But I told her it was not the shortest way.

“Oh, I’m in no hurry,” she said. “I’m on my way to a hospice (临终安养院). The doctor says I don’t have much time _________.”

I quietly _________ the meter (计价器). For the next two hours, she showed me the building where she had once worked, the _________ where she had lived, and the furniture shop where she had gone _________ as a girl. In the early morning, she suddenly said, “I’m tired. Let’s go now.”

We drove in _________ to the hospice. As I __________ two nurses were waiting for us. They helped her into a wheelchair.

“How much do I __________ you?” she asked, reaching for her purse.

I said nothing, leaned down and gave her a __________. She said, “You gave me a little moment of joy. Thank you.”

I squeezed her hand and then walked back, __________ believing I had never done anything more important in my life. We usually think that our lives are __________ by great moments. But I now realize that great moments catch us by surprise, because they often seem quite __________.

Bobby had attempted to climb the big snowy mountain. He had tried it at least thirty times but had always_________. He began at a god pace, focusing on the snowy summit, imagining the wonderful _________ there. But as he went on. and his strength dwindled (减少), his gaze would _________and look at his worn out boots. _________ , when the clouds had gathered round him, and he understood that he wouldn’t be able to_________ the view from the summit that day, he would give up and return to the village below.

On one of these _________he went up the mountain accompanied by old Peeper, the town optician (配镜师), who witnessed the_________. Peeper encouraged Bobby to try again, and he_________him with a pair of special sunglasses. “If it starts_________over, or if your feet start hurting, put these glasses on. These are__________glasses; they’ll help you. ”Bobby accepted the gift without giving it much mind, __________when his feet started hurting again, he put on the glasses. Just as nearly always seemed to happen, __________returned in the form of cloud cover. But this time it was so__________that he could still see the summit through the clouds. And so Bobby kept climbing, __________his pain, and finally arrived at the summit. His feeling of__________was incomparable with the mountain below surrounded by a sea of clouds. Bobby didn’t remember the clouds being as thick as that, so he looked more __________at the sunglasses, and understood everything.

Peeper had engraved a light __________on the lenses, in the form of the snow-covered summit. It was made in such a way that you could only see it if you looked__________He thanked Peeper for using that little__________to help him see that his aims were not __________, and that they were still there, where they had always been.