When she was 86, Mom moved to our city. My husband, Kevin, and I found a lovely apartment for her. I was happy to help take care of her _________ she arrived.

The day after she moved in, she called me to _________ about the food nearby. “The pizza was like rubber. I couldn’t _________ it.” “Mom, you’re complaining to me. Wouldn’t it make more sense to tell someone who can _________ the problem?” We hung up. This was only her second day here! And week after week, Mom found more to complain about.

When with my friend Beth, I spent 20 minutes sharing how Mom’s attitude _________ me. “She seems _________ . After everything Kevin and I do for her, all we hear is what she doesn’t like.” As the words spilled from my lips, I realized that I’d developed the same _________ of complaining that annoyed me so much in Mom.

I decided to keep a better watch on my _________. Things went fine for a few weeks. But soon I felt powerless to _________ by myself and couldn’t help complaining to Beth about Mom’s __________ again.

A few days later, I received a journal from my friend Torry. On the first page, he had written, “Jeanette, I use such a journal every day to __________ things I’m thankful for.” I wrote three things I was grateful for. When I looked at them, __________ filled my heart. Maybe this was it. It was a joyous replacement that helped me overcome the complaining — __________ .

Over the next few months, as I continued, I noticed little things I’d __________ . Life was handing out gift after gift, including Mom, complaints and all. I couldn’t change her; I could only __________ her.

Once again, Myra sat alone on the bus. Even after two weeks at her _______ school, Myra had not made any friends. A t the break time between classes, she played alone. In her _______ class, she drew alone. In the lunchroom, she ate _______.And on the bus ride home, she sat alone.

Myra could not _______why no one wanted to be her friend. Other kids joked and laughed with each other._______. none of them joked and laughed with her. Just thinking about it made her _______ hurt.

One day, _______Myra sat alone on the way to school, she looked at the seat _______her. She saw a girl sitting all by herself. The girl looked _______, too.

Myra wondered if she should say ________. But what if the girl didn't want to be her friend？Maybe she already had a lot of friends. What if the girl ________her？What if she laughed at her？Myra stared at the floor of the bus. Finally, she took a deep ________and smiled at the girl. The girl smiled ________.Myra said, "Hi, I'm Myra. Do you want to sit next to me？"

The girl's smile ________ "I'm Nadia. Yes, 'd like to sit next to you." At the next stop, Nadia ________ into the seat next to Myra. They joked and laughed the whole way to school. At ________Myra and Nadia played together. In the lunchroom, they ate together.

And on the ________ride home, they sat together.

When it was time for Myra to get off the bus, she ________ to her new friend, "Bye, Nadia！I'll see you tomorrow！"Nadia smiled, "Goodbye, Myra. I'll ________ a seat for you."

A big smile spread across Myra's face. She had made a friend. A friend who was going to save her a seat tomorrow. She could ________wait.

When I was 8, my brother who was 4 years older than me, did a heroic action. He saved our _________ sister’s life. It happened in the _________ near the village of Saint Lucia.

On the day of the _________ action, my mother and a friend of hers _________ to take us, my three siblings and me, out for a _________ in the mountains. The path was very _________ and at times it broke into slippery cliffs(光滑的峭壁)of rocks.

One particular stretch was very narrow, at most 10 inches in _________. My older sister and I _________ ahead of the group and crossed the path without a problem. My younger sister followed us and began _________ the path. She froze in the middle of the path, and began __________ as she felt stones rolling under her __________. We told her to keep moving towards us, __________ she felt unable to move.

We __________ to my mother and her friend, but they were __________ far behind to hear us. We called our brother and in five minutes he arrived.

Upon seeing my sister, he __________ her hand, calmly telling her to move sideways, one step at a time. She began moving slowly and they finally approached to us. About two feet away from us, the stones fell down under my brother’s feet. He quickly pushed our sister into my arms as he went down the cliff.

A few minutes later, my mother arrived with her friend. My brother had a cut in the arm but fortunately no severe wounds. He was able to climb back up.