It's a beautiful day in Jáen, Southern Spain. As a father of the bridegroom   _________his speech, a sea of wedding guests   _________applause, some of them even rising from their chairs to show hearty admiration. This is because 66-year-old Dave just delivers his speech   _________in Spanish, a language that he couldn't speak a year ago.

Dave and his wife Carol were in Southern Wales when their son Stewart called from Spain, _________his parents to meet someone so special to him. _________,the couple arrived in Spain and met the special lady, Atanea, and her extended family. _________they couldn't understand the language of each other. Atanea had to run nonstop as a (an) _________to ensure everyone was understood until eventually she felt exhausted and Dave felt _________ .He wanted to support his son and connect with his in-laws.

So the moment they _________down in the UK, Carol and Dave signed up for both day and evening Spanish lessons, the time of which   __________four hours per week. To study Spanish at any other time moreover, the pair __________a Spanish-learning app. The couple would set aside time every day, complete the exercises on their app and then __________ each other over a cup of tea in their kitchen. Just as they were making __________ progress and beginning to enjoy their Spanish and tea __________, they received another __________ from Stewart, telling them that Atanea had agreed to marry him and asking his father if he would make the father-of-the-groom __________. Having said “yes” to his son, Dave knew he had more work to do for the big day.

On the wedding day, the newlyweds hold hands and smile with __________. While the words get __________ in his throat several times during the speech, yet Dave's months of determination and hard work come together in one beautiful expression of __________ for his son and his daughter-in-law, and of __________ for the culture of his new in-laws.

My grandfather was rich but had no sense of responsibility. Three of his four ________ including my father grew up uneducated. Besides, they had the wrong sense of ________ that created this feeling of shame in doing ________ jobs. So from the time when I can remember, we were ________ poor.

My resources (time, pens, school uniform etc.) were short, which influenced my study. Bad neighborhood also affected my ________ badly. When I came in 10th grade, I failed in my exams. I only got 6% marks in the exams. My friendship was gone, and everything was ________ to me. I talked to myself and came to realize that nothing ________ a lot except a good education. Luckily, one of my uncles guided me in the ________ time.

Though the poverty made me ________ a hard life, it also made me become a reliable man. While so many people around me feel ashamed to ________ rickshaw pullers (人力车夫), I could find much ________ when talking with them, which always made us laugh happily. I thought they were hard-working. Anyone who works hard is respectable. I also ________ buying small things and drinking a lot with friends is a ________ of money. For me, only a few things are worth my hard-earned ________. I am living a simple life in an quiet apartment. I like it, because it's so ________.

Each fall my wife and I go to visit our children. It isn't that they don't like us ___ their lifestyles and their work have _____them to the far corners of North America and we don't get to see them very ___. For several reasons it is ___ for us to visit them than for them to visit us so we get to ______Usually trip number one for the   ___ is the annual journey to Los Angeles to visit our younger son.

Last fall, when we ____Los Angeles, our son took us to a holiday center in Indio, about a two-hour drive east of the city. It was hot there and we spent most of our   ___ in the swimming pool. I liked warm weather but none of us liked it that   ___. The local people are convinced that the late fall   ___ is cool because it doesn't get much over 33 degrees. But it was____over 40 degrees when we stayed there.

After a week in Indio, we returned to Los Angeles to ____ the heat. As we drove and looked west across the city, we could ___   a layer of dirty brown haze (雾霾) trapped above the downtown area. That's what we would be_____ for the next few days.

I don't______Los Angeles. In fact, I wouldn't want to live anywhere in the US and Los Angeles, in particular, is not the place I would___ even if I had to live in the US. To be fair there are many   __   in Los Angeles such as Hollywood, Long Beach and some good restaurants.   __ , having air you can almost taste and traffic jams that can make the simplest trips a nightmare   (噩梦) does not, for me, make a   __   atmosphere in which I would want to spend my time. Nevertheless, because my son loves it, we'll still be_____next year.