Before five, I couldn’t even speak in full sentences. Unlike most other children, I_________ communicated with others, neither cried nor lost temper. My extreme_________ 1 made my parents wonder if I was _________ slow, but they weren’t sure. Actually, I have to _________ that my memories of my early childhood are quite vague(模糊的)

My learning problems were the result of my mother taking medicine. When she became _________ with me, she had a bad cold, So she had to take _________ and stay in bed to _________ the illness. However, the medicine affected my early intellectual_________. When I was in elementary school, I learned very _________ and was as quiet as a doll. As a fifth grader, I finally started __________ my classmates. classmates. That was the first time in my memory that I had some friends. More __________, from that time on, I became talkative, laughing and playing like any normal child.

After heading full speed for my junior high education, my learning situation got __________ in the mud again. However, 1 never lost__________ that 1 might one day succeed. That’s when I discovered a strong__________ for English. With over 10 years of consistent English self-study, I successfully __________ TOEFL without going to any language center and headed for America for higher education.

I frequently met __________ in my studies, but I __________ to be overcome by them . I __________ those facing problems not to give up. Give yourself one more__________ to stand up, passion makes you__________ forward, and once you learn with passion, your dream will come true.

One teacher had two students. One of them had a positive vision while the other had the _________ one.

One day, the teacher _________ for a park with both the students and while wandering in the garden, they _________ a mango tree from which some ripe and juicy mangoes were _________. On seeing this, the teacher thought to _________ both of his students. Then, he asked the first one, “My dear child, what do you think of this mango tree?”

The student answered instantly, “Teacher, in spite of people _________ this tree with stones, it gives us sweet and juicy mangoes. It does _________ but still it gives us fruits. I wish all human beings learn this important _________ from the mango tree—to share their _________ even if they have to suffer for this.”

After that, the teacher asked the other student the same question. The student __________ answered, “Teacher, this mango tree is no good and will not give mangoes by itself but only when we hit it with stones and __________. Therefore, we should hit it hard to get sweet mangoes from it. That is the only way to __________ these mangoes. It is also clear from this tree that in order to get good __________ from others, we need to be violent and only when we become violent, then and only then will we get __________.”

The teacher was delighted with the answer given by the first student because he had an admirable vision and __________ the tree with positive vision.

I was back to my hometown, South Carolina. I had just made the trip in a 20-year-old van with just my dog for company in need of about all 1,000 miles of_________.

I had learned only a day or two before that my beloved_________, Billy, had been killed. One of his friends had driven me to a grocery store to get something_________. As I came out of the store, an older woman _________ me. Without saying much, she walked up to me and _________ me in the tightest hug.

“I read about your brother in the paper,” she said with a trembling _________. “I_________ for him, and I’m going to pray for you, too.” I don’t know who she was or how she knew who I was but this _________ sensed my grief and_________ enough to reach out to me.

Since then, I have__________ her often. I__________ her face and the kindness in her eyes. Sometimes I __________ whether she was an angel. Yes, she__________ was.

Give roses to others and the lasting fragrance will__________ in one’s hands. This time I realize that great__________ to warm others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.