One evening, Mother returned home after shopping for groceries (食品杂货) at the supermarket. I _______ her to sort out the groceries and put them into the refrigerator. Grandmother saw that the rubbish bin (垃圾箱) was _______, so she took a big black garbage (垃圾) bag and emptied the rubbish bin. While Mother was preparing dinner, grandmother asked me if I would like to take a walk with her. At the same time, we would _______ the rubbish at the rubbish collection point _______. I happily agreed.

We took the lift and got to the ground floor. We walked over to the rubbish collection point when we saw a man at the corner of our block _______ on his motorcycle. We did not take much notice of _______ and continued walking. Grandmother and I were talking about the recent events that were taking place in the world when we heard the sound of a motorcycle coming towards us from behind. _______ the motorcycle rode past us, the motorcyclist took a quick _______ of the garbage bag which grandmother was carrying. Grandmother was in shock for a second and then shouted _______, “Help!” My first reaction was to run after him. Then it dawned on me that the thief had taken our bag of rubbish! I burst out laughing. Grandmother also ________ when she realized that her purse was still with her. The motorcyclist had made a silly mistake!

I gave dancing lessons to preschoolers. Every week for the past eighteen years, I’ve________my Tuesday with a couple dozen children________in feathers and butterfly wings. The children are normally very active and eager to learn.

However, for some unknown reason, Nicole, a four-year-old girl, saw the class time as the kiss of________. In her mind, she was going to be left all alone with a________woman with wild hair and several other children shaking like crazy. One day on class, her usual fear started. Uncontrollable tears started to flow and she________the loudest cries in the world.

I gently called to her father. “John, you may want to come in here.” Following my________, this tall young man________his tiny daughter. Grabbing his right leg, Nicole cried, “Dad, don’t leave me.” ________down on his knees until they were nose to nose, John________whispered in her ear, “I’ll do it with you.” After he wrapped her entire young hand around his middle two fingers, the ________began to skip and dance around the floor together. The most________and amusing moment was watching him stand in the middle of twenty four-year-olds swaying side to side, hands on his hips, and________like a fairy princess.

“Wow!” I exclaimed. “You________a prize, I’ve never seen a dad do that before.”

For a brief second John________, and then with a smile, he replied, “Isn’t this part of the job?”

That precious moment was two years ago and I’ve thought of it often. It is what a father is supposed to do—________a child the courage to stand on the center stage of life.

Our 13-year-old son won a local “Hoop （篮球）Shooting" competition and entered the regional competition. So on Saturday morning we _______ our bags and headed down to Green Bay, Wisconsin to _______ many other basketball shooters for an _______ to move forward to the state championships.

In the competition, my son _______ waited his turn. Nearly an hour later, he went to the hoops. His first basket was a _______ .   We could see the frustration（沮丧）in his eyes. He tried _______ to shoot another hoop. Then another failure -- he shook his head in _______ . But he continued. Finally, he _______ to shoot a few balls and scored 20 points. My son _______ from his hoop, frustrated and disappointed, being ________ that he didn't make it because there were several guys getting over 40 points, already ________ his.

If it had been up to our ________ son to decide, he would have left before watching the game and ________ himself in our hotel. Instead, we took this chance to help him ________ this life disappointment: giving him time for frustration and then sharing our opinion on this ________. We told him: It's because of his earlier ________ that we were able to watch this game; it's ________ to fail. We all fail at some point in our lives. We were proud of him though he didn't ________ the prize.

In the end, we ________, watched the game, and had a great time! When you are ________ by life, don’t let it keep you down. As the old saying goes, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!”