Now I am living in Italy, working as an English language assistant. I am living with one of the _______ from a local school, who is very kind. At the moment, it’s a bit _______ as we don’t always understand each other. This is known as a _______ barrier(障碍), when two people cannot communicate because they don’t have a language in _______.

I have learnt that it is more _______ speaking in real life than speaking it in the classroom. My teachers could _______things to me in English when I didn’t understand. My _______ doesn’t speak any English. When I don’t know the _______ in Italian, I try to explain it and when that doesn’t _______, I try to show the thing I’m talking about.

Yesterday, the Internet wasn’t working and I had to __________ my housemate where the router(路由器) was so I could find the password for the Wi-Fi. I had no __________ what the Italian word for router was so I tried to explain it several time. In the end, I called it the “Internet box” and she __________ what I meant.

However, it isn’t all __________. When we finally understand each other, we both __________ and have a little celebration. Sometimes I feel very __________ because keep making many mistakes, but my housemate __________ me nicely and tells me that I’m doing well. I can also feel my language __________ because I have no choice but to __________ Italian. I hope that I will be speaking like a real Italian by the time I __________. I’m determined to __________ over this language barrier.

Buried deep within the cracks of an old, wooden desk, a worn-out notebook lay forgotten. Its pages, yellowed with _________, were scattered with handwritten notes and drawings, each ________ a dream or aspiration of its owner, Emily Dickinson.

Dickinson, a ________ teacher, had passed away peacefully in her sleep, leaving the notebook as one of her few _________. There were drafts of traveling to foreign places, notes about learning a new language, and even a few ________ about publishing her own book of poems in it.

One ________ sketch caught her children’s eye as they looked through the pages. It was a drawing of a small cottage ________ in the hills, surrounded by greenery and a stream. Dickinson had always dreamed of retiring to such a place, a place where she could find peace and ________.

Her children decided to fulfil her mother’s dream. They found a cottage ________ to the one in the sketch and bought it. They ________ it with the furniture and kick-knacks (小摆设) that Dickinson had treasured and turned it into a ________ to her life and her dreams.

The cottage became a place where Dickinson’s family and friends could gather and shared stories about her. It was a place where they could feel her ________ and be inspired by her firm determination. The notebook, now ________ on a small table in the cottage’s living room, remains a constant ________ of Dickinson’s dreams and aspirations. Her children hope that by keeping it there, they can honor her memory and continue to inspire others to ________ their own dreams, just as she had done.

I met Mrs. Neidl in the ninth grade on a stage-design team for a play and she was one of the directors. I loved her the first time I saw her. She had an ________ voice and direct way of speaking, but she was encouraging and ________.

Mrs. Neidl would ask me for my _________. She wanted to know how I thought we should _________ with things. At first I had no ________ how to answer because I _______nothing about stage design! But I slowly began to respond to her ________.

Mrs. Neidl’s ________ that year was , “Try it. We will get better and better ________!” At first, I was so afraid of failing, but Mrs. Neidl believed that I could do well. With the encouragement of Mrs. Neidl I became more _________ and went all out.

The shy, quiet freshman achieved success that year. I was ________ in program as “Student Art Assistant” because of time and _______ I’d put in. It was in that year that I _________I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing stage design.

Being on that stage-design team with Mrs. Neidl ________ me completely. Not only was I stronger and more able than I had thought, but I also ________ a strong interest and a world I hadn’t known existed. She taught me not to ________ what people think I should do. She taught me to take chances and not to be ________. Mrs. Neidl was my comforter when I was _______. Her ________ in me has inspired me to do things that I never imagined _______.