By the time I was a junior at Yale, I’d already met everyone I cared to know. I also knew those I didn’t want to know, including Maxey. He and I were like planets in different ________ .

Everything changed dramatically when we had a field trip for a weekend. Although I was________, I could get along well with others except Maxey who still made me________. I couldn’t think of anything to say to him. When he walked up to me and stuck out his hand, I just ________ it quickly. We stood awkwardly for a few minutes. When someone tried to get my attention, Maxey politely ________. That last morning, when we discussed how to return home, he insisted I ride home on the back of his motorcycle. I said I thought it was a terrible ________ and I wanted to refuse, but Maxey ________ a helmet at me. ” I wanted to give you a________. You didn’t seem to like me. I want you to like me.” he said. Maxey started up the________ and we roared out of the driveway. The bike ________down the highway. I________ my arms around him and held on for dear________. Maybe our friendship started from that day.

We were now both 60, but my ________ with him remained strong. I was sure if I was in ________, Maxey would be there for me. I was ________sure that if he wanted my help, I would give it without hesitation.

I was about to get on a plane after a trip. Honestly speaking, the trip was very _______ and exhausting. To make things worse, I had a middle seat in Zone 5, where they_______ the baggage(行李) because there wasn’t much room in the overhead bins (行李架).

I had to ask the flight attendant(服务员) if I could _______ my seat. Trying to be _______, she asked if I was willing to sit in an exit row(出口排). “Yes, sure!” I _______responded, full of hope. But a moment later, she told me that row might not be _______. I could only accept the reality.

Suddenly I heard her offer two seats in the exit row _______a young couple next to me. I was filled with _______that I was ready to get up and _______ with her. I wondered how she could _______ me and then go to help others. I was about to shout at her,_______my good sense won. For that belief moment, I tried to comfort myself. “If you are impatient, you’ll make a _______ of yourself.” Then though I was still annoyed, I managed to _______.

With about 5 minutes to board, when I was worried about how to keep my _______, the attendant handed a new ticket to me. “Is this for the _______ seat?” I asked. “No, it isn’t,” she responded. “Once in a while I’m able to do this and I’m glad it has _______ this time.” I glanced down﹣business class, Seat 2F﹣no charge! I was very _______ for that and I felt relived that I had _______ my anger. I do know even if I shouted at the attendant, she would _______try hard to help me, because she seemed very responsible. Now I realize that it is always important to show _______ and understanding for others in life.

One day, I was teaching my daughter how to paint. I saw that a lot of her energy went into _______ her brush into the paint, and then into a bowl of water. But then most of the paint that was on the _______would just disappear in the water. As an _______ mother, I was thinking, “I am trying to teach you how to paint on paper and what are you doing? This is not what you are _______ to do. You have to do this way.”

But she is three years old so she is probably not going to _______ doing it the right way. She had so much _______dipping the brush in the paint and in the water bowl. Pretty much within an hour, most of the paint was all over the room and I just sat there with my hands _______my head thinking, “Oh my god, this girl is hopeless.” Soon after, however, she shouted, “Mama, when I _________pink and blue, it turns purple!”

I was surprised. _______I was thinking that she was wasting perfectly good paint and paper, she ________learned something. What would have been a very theoretical (理论的) experiment turned into a very ________experiment.

I am a designer and work with software like Photoshop and Illustrator. When my daughter sees me work on the ________, she is always very curious and she wants to work with me on the same thing that I do. She starts to ________with buttons, and in that process sometimes ends up __________me things! There will be many times when she will find________ new. I will ask her ________, and she will tell me, “I pressed this, and I pressed this, and then this happened.”

One of the things I realized from this is that everyone has a(n) ________way of learning things. When I was growing up, I ________to literature very well, so everything that was turned into a story became my way of learning and ________different concepts. Some kids understand through art, some understand through math and games, and it’s the job of a parent or a teacher to watch and __________how children learn and try their best to make these experiences educational.