As I lay here in my hard_________hospital bed, nobody could understand how_________I wanted to leave this place. I_________my mom to grab me my keys. On my keychain, there was a soft piece of leather. She gave me a(n)_________look as if she thought I was going to drive myself home, but actually I just wanted to_________the only thing that symbolized my true passion and_________so many memories that transformed me as a person.

Every time I_________the leather I would think of one thing—_________.The leather was made of my first baseball glove that I_________so much. Lying in my bed with my eyes__________, I was taken toa sports field. The freshly cut outfield grass was luscious green. The baselines were gleaming white and perfectly straight I heard a__________of the judges speaking with the coaches and the parents chattering（闲聊）.My teammates' cleats（防滑钉）were__________as they walked across the dugout（球员席）anxiously__________the championship game. With a yell of “PLAYBALL”, I began a trot（小跑）out to my home at first base and everything__________smoothly.

________, my nurse walked in and I jumped when I heard her voice. She didn't mean to ________me, but I needed some medicine and should get examined.__________my eyes open, the road trip that I was on in my brain was now over. I was back to the__________of medical devices and a swollen arm. I realized an hour had passed! Even in__________times, the things and people you loved could help you escape and even make your__________.

My father was in the navy, which meant that my mother was married to both my father and the sea．As was often the case, we had to pack our belongings into boxes and ____those we had grown to love．We would arrive at our new home and find ourselves once again ___ at the pier（码头）waving good-bye to my father as his ___ pulled him away from us．My mother would turn my brother and me around before the ship was out of ___, wipe our tears, and take us back home to start the process of ___ in the new environment again．

Throughout the years of changing ___, schools and friends, there remained one constant in my childhood — my mother．For both my ___ and I, she was the cook, waitress and teacher．She played these roles while ___ some type of part-time job．Leaving a promising career is just one of the ___ which my mother made for my family as we moved around the world with our father every three years or so．___ she had to deal with only a small budget, my mother, ___, managed to make each house to be the very home that is safe and ___．

This probably sounds like a depressing way to live, ___ with two small children: “single” parenthood, short-term friendships, and the inability（无能） to ___ a career or establish a home．But it was not for my mother．She turned this __ into adventure for us all! Each relocation（变换位置）was a chance to ___ another part of the world．My mother greeted each new culture, climate and neighborhood．Each new house was a ___ to rearrange furniture, make curtains and ___ pictures．Every part-time job was an opportunity to learn something new and work with interesting people．

No matter how difficult the life was, she was always having a ___ attitude．She always had strength in the face of struggle and change．My mother was so ___ all those years during my childhood — she was my island in a sea of change．She is my hero．

A young man was one day taking a walk with his professor, who was well-known for his kindness to everyone. As they went along, they saw a pair of old ____, which belonged to a poor man who had almost____ his day’s work on the field.

The student ____ to the professor, saying: “Let us play the man a ____; we will hide his shoes, and hide ourselves behind those trees, and wait to see his ____ when he can not find them.”

“My young friend” answered the professor, “we should never do it at the ____ of the poor man. Please put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how the discovery ____ him.”

The student ____so, and they both hid behind the trees close by. The poor man soon finished his work, and came to the place ____ he had left his coat and shoes. While____ on his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something hard, he ____ down to see what it was, and found the____. An expression of ____ was seen upon his face. He looked at the coin, turned it round, and looked at it again and again. He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and ____to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was doubled on finding ____ coin. His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered aloud a thanksgiving, in which he spoke of his wife, sick and ____, and his children without bread, whom the timely help, from some unknown hand, would save from starving.

The student stood there ____affected(受打动), and his eyes filled with tears. “Now”, said the professor, “are you not much more ____ than if you had played your trick?”

The youth answered, “You have taught me a ____ which I will never forget. I feel now the truth of those words, which I never understood before: “It is more blessed to give than to ____.”