Before Thanksgiving one year, my husband and I decided to invite a guest over for the holiday. I called a senior center and they _________ a woman named Ilse.

On Thanksgiving, Ilse welcomed the glass of wine my husband _________. By the end of the evening, we felt as if this old woman were an old _________.Two weeks later, I invited her to lunch.

The more _________ I spent with Ilse, the more she became like a grandma. She always asked me when I was finally going to have children. “You’re not getting any younger,”. she’d say. I soon became her _________ driver, driving her everywhere and I noticed that the more _________ I agreed to provide, the more she asked of me.

A few months later, her only son _________. I realized Ilse was too upset to be left alone and helped her _________ a caregiver. Having known her for two years, I felt _________ for her. She was like family to me.

One day, I received an early-morning __________ from her caregiver. “Please __________ now,”the woman said calmly. “She’s passed away. ”When I arrived, I saw Ilse lying on her bed. I sat on the edge of the bed, too shocked to __________ at the moment.

The next morning __________ Ilse’s death, I pulled her will out of my desk for the first time. Ilse had insisted I take a __________ of it a year earlier. I read through it and stopped when I saw my __________. She had left me $50, 000.

I knew I couldn’t __________ what she had left me on myself. Ilse was a friend I’d helped out of respect, not with the expectation of being __________ I opened an investment account in her honor. Over the next 20 years, Ilse’s __________ grew and gave me the __________ to donate money in her name to a cause she cared about __________ children.

Every year, the Olympic Training Centre has one extra special day just for girls and women. This day celebrates the fact that ____ can join in any particular sport they desire, just as ____ as men.

In the old ____ , women were told that certain sports were for men ____, and that women were forbidden to the ____. Well, eventually the women of this world decided to strike back, telling ____ else that they weren’t going to put up ____ this form of nonsense (荒唐行为) any longer. ____ was then that women and men were declared equal ____ to any sports game, regardless of(不管)____.

Tomorrow, this special day will be ____ by all Olympic Centres by offering a free tour as well as planned activities for all the girls from the neighbouring _____. Since the Olympic Training Centre, here in San Diego, is just a few kilometers from ____ our school is located, we ____ an invitation to this event as well.How wonderful, ____, and incredible! I simply can’t wait!

Our scheduled ____ were volleyball, archery (射箭), and track (赛跑). This means that we were to play a game ____ two of volleyball with the US Volleyball Team champions, and ____ arrows (箭) with the Official Archery Team of the United States! We even got to ____ the track with US champs as well. All the instructors were ____ themselves, and all are on a championship team, representing America.

I had offered to watch my 3-year-old daughter, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was getting some work done in my study while she ______ to be having a good time in the other room. No problem, I figured. But then it got a little too ______ and I shouted, “What are you doing?” No response. I ______ my question and heard her say, “Oh…nothing.” Nothing?

I got up from my desk and ran out ______ the living room, where I saw her running across the hall. I followed and watched her as her little behind made a quick ______ into the bathroom. I had her ______! I told her to turn around. She ______. I pulled out my big Daddy voice, “Young lady, I said turn around!”

______, she turned toward me. In her hand was what was left of my wife’s new lipstick. And every square inch of her face was ______ with bright red! As she looked up at me with fearful eyes, I heard every voice that had been shouted to me ______ a child. “How could you… You should know…How many times have you been ______ ... What a bad thing to…” it was just a matter of my ______ which old words I was going to use on her so that she would know what a bad girl she had been. But ______ I could let loose, I looked ______ at the sweater on her. In big ______ it said. “I’M A PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL!” I looked back up into her tearful eyes and, ______ seeing a bad girl who didn’t listen, I saw a little angel full of ______ that I had come dangerously close to ______. “Sweetheart, let’s take a picture so Mommy can see how ______ you look.” I took the picture and thanked God that I didn’t ______ the chance to prove what a perfect little angel he had given me.