Two weeks ago my grandfather passed away. It really put me into deep_______because my grandfather held a unique position in my life. For me, my grandpa was not only a_______family member but a tutor (导师) who encouraged me to work hard and_______well. 

I’ll never forget the first time I read a long piece of his writing. It was when I_______for Princeton and he offered to write to the university on my behalf. He wrote in beautiful_______and used poetic language, unafraid of sounding too “flowery”. I read the_______out loud so that I could hear the rhyming sounds. 

My grandfather_______hard work. Every time he came to visit us in New York, he would_______my brothers and me for our good performance, which inspired me. I knew he had worked hard to_______the big family during the Great Depression. He was awarded many military__________for winning many battles in the Navy in World War Ⅱ. 

At the funeral, a friend of my grandfather’s walked to me and said that my grandfather had told him about a small__________I had written. After it came out, I sent it to my grandfather__________received no reply. This man told me that my book hit my grandfather’s__________and brought tears to his eyes. My grandfather said he was so__________of me. 

Now I feel it’s even more worthwhile to write well because I know my grandfather__________it. I know he lives in my heart forever.

My family is still recovering from the hard time of the past few years. It began when my teenaged son became _______ .

As anyone who has ever _______ a seriously sick child knows, the stress doesn’t go away. Every day the air carried the heaviness of an approaching storm. My husband and I seemed to forget how to _______ —we couldn’t have a simple conversation without fighting and tears.

One night, my son and I were discussing Valentine’s Day gifts. I _______ that his dad had given me a kazoo(卡祖笛) for our first Valentine’s Day.

My first _______ to this gift was confusion, which quickly turned to _______ when I, a professional saxophone(萨克斯管) player, couldn’t get it to make a _______ . The kazoo eventually was packed away and I hadn’t thought of it until that evening. Interested, he asked to see it. After some trouble, I found it _______ in a dusty box.

“You couldn’t make a sound?” he asked, amazed, turning it around in his hands. “What’s so hard about it?“

“I don’t know. It just never _______ .”

My husband grabbed(抓住) the kazoo—“It’s ________ ! Look, you just do this..."—and blew. Nothing happened. Surprised, he tried again, only to produce a sound like an angry bee.

We burst into laughter as if the long-settled dark cloud had ________ and let in a ray of sunshine. Eyes met and souls ________ . My son took a turn on the kazoo. He did no better than us. More ________ . The mood stayed light for the rest of the evening.

Even though we have gone through a lot, ________ , we can still connect as a family. There is always light to lead the way out of the ________ .

My wife was shouting at Sindu again. I threw the paper away and rushed to the scene. My daughter Sindu looked_______. Her eyes were wet with tears. In front of her was a bowl_______with bitter melon. Sindu particularly hated bitter melon, but my wife believed _______ in the “cooling effects” of bitter melon. I tried to_______ Sindu to take a few mouthfuls. She _______ down a bit and wiped her tears. Then she said she would eat the_______bowl of bitter melon on condition that I gave her whatever she asked for. I agreed. Slowly and_______ , she finished the whole bowl. After that, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with_______. To our surprise, she wanted to have her head _______. “Impossible!” shouted my wife. However, I knew that if I ________ on my promise, Sindu would never learn to________her own. So I decided to keep my promise.

On Monday morning, I________ her off at school. Just then, a boy shouted, “Sindu, wait for me!” What struck me was________ hairless head. I was about to leave when a lady came to me and said, “Sir, your ________is great indeed!” I didn’t________. She continued, “That boy is my son. He is ________from Leukemia(白血病). He lost all his hair________the side effects of the chemotherapy(化疗). He ________to come back to school because he was afraid that the kids at school would make fun of him. Sindu visited him last week and promised to help him, but I ________imagined that she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son! Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a（n）________ soul for a child. ”

I didn’t know what to say. It was then that I knew what love really was.