Last year in early summer, I was walking to my house when I saw two large birds standing in my yard. They didn’t seem to _______ me until I was right in front of them and then they _______ disappeared into the nearby bushes. I was quite excited by the _______ of two special birds making a nest (巢) in my yard．

A few weeks later, the birds _______. I found them crouching (蹲伏) beside a tree. As I approached them, they _______ their heads and made a croaking (嘶哑地叫) sound. I didn’t know why they were croaking at me until a short time later I made an amazing _______: there were two small birds _______ around happily.

As I inched towards the birds, _______ not to make sudden movements, they started their croaking again, putting their necks forward so they seemed _______ and more threatening.

The mother put the baby birds under her wings and carefully crouched down over them so her babies were well ________.

I was watching them with respect when I suddenly ________ and fell to the ground. The mother took this as a/an ________ and the father raced towards me, ________ his wings to protect the mother and the baby birds.

I felt sorry to have disturbed them and left quickly. I am amazed by their ________ actions. Their parental love made them so courageous. It is hard not to show ________ for nature.

After the five-day canoeing trip, I waved goodbye to my fellow “leaders in training” and entered the unknown area. Armed with some necessary _________things, I suddenly realized that for the next 48 hours, these would be my only companions. Staring into the forest of Northern Quebec in the evening, with the _________ setting on my back, I was frozen and _________. Hitting so many bugs in summer, I wondered, whose _________ was this? What benefit was there to spending two days _________ with nothing but trees and bugs?

The next morning, a(n) _________ sleeping bag and heavy rain made me unhappier, yet it was under these conditions that I was able to clearly examine my life in a way I never had before. As my solo (单独的) experience took its course, the saying “The quieter you become, the more you can _________took on a whole new meaning.”

I had been in the wilderness before; most of my _________ had been spent outdoors climbing mountains in a group. But being here alone had a completely different effect. What_________ as a seemingly meaningless thing turned into a beneficial one that I knew I would use fully. When it started to rain, I got wet __________ I hadn’t set up my tarp (油布) correctly, which was my fault. There was no-one else to __________. The realization that I was responsible for __________ all time and action and overcoming all conflict had an immediate effect. __________ I began to see myself as an individual good at overcoming challenges of an environment.

As the hours went on, I became very hungry. Strangely, __________, things became clearer. The unpleasant conditions had in fact produced a growth process, one that made me __________ my role as a human being. Looking back, I value those moments of my lying in a wet sleeping bag in the middle of nowhere.

In present times, stress is one of the major causes of mental illness and physical illness. Stress is no _________ to us. Everybody has met and experienced it. It lives in our homes, workplaces, and _________ follows us wherever we go, in some form or other. But do you know why you can’t _________ it?

You get stressed because you _________ to get stressed. This is ridiculous (荒谬的), you might say. You’re right. Who would _________ that stress is a choice that we make? And why in the world would we choose stress? Well, it is because we do not realize that we’re doing that. It happens _________. Choosing stress is easy, but the other way around is a _________ task.

Most of us would take the easy _________, the path of minimum efforts. We’re under stress at times _________ we don’t do anything that we should do — just because either we’re __________ or we don’t have __________ in ourselves. When you don’t complete your task on time, and the __________ draws near, stress envelops you.

If you did your task or carried your __________ as it should be, then you would not be stressed. Choosing not to get stressed is like swimming against the tide. Initially (最初), it __________ effort because you are used to going with the flow of your __________ behavior. So we need to overcome our laziness and self-abasement to be stress-free.