When I became a junior school student, I decided to take Latin (拉丁语) at school. I felt much _________ about taking that class, and I was fully expecting to be able to understand every word I’d ever _________ once I learned Latin.

But Latin classes were so _________. Each day, the teacher Mr. Keady would ask us to open our books and recite aloud the various Latin forms of words. Thus it became the daily _________. That went on until I _________ my hand one afternoon when we were asked yet again to open our books.

When Mr. Keady asked what was wrong, I _________ why I thought that his class was boring how I had _________ more, and that his method of teaching was _________. When I finished speaking, I _________ Mr. Keady would angrily send me to the head teacher. But it turned out that he didn’t do so.

__________, he sat at his desk quietly, looking __________ and tired. After several moments of __________ Mr. Keady spoke. He quietly and strongly said that he would think carefully about what I’d said. And that was it.

In the following weeks, Latin class didn’t become the exciting learning environment I hoped it would, but Mr. Keady did try harder. He __________ some new worksheets and __________ to make us students take part more in his classes.

Maybe some people would __________ what I did but even so many years later, I feel bad about it. If I saw him now, I’d tell him how I __________ what I’d done that day in class, and that I was disrespectful. And at the same time, I’d also tell him that he taught me a wonderful __________ that day. Following my __________ words, he showed me that being hurt doesn’t mean you have to give away your dignity (尊严). __________, Mr. Keady’s response __________ that no matter how hurt you feel, no one can take away your dignity.

My husband and I changed our front yard with something eatable, adding apples, bananas, oranges, and pomegranates(石榴).

Every crop brought us_______ to neighbors and strangers. The food was a(an) _______to communicate. Kids in the neighborhood (including our son) learned _______ and gentle timing. When we had extra, we would _______it. Then, we received a powerful lesson: a gift hidden as a _______. Our first-ever crop of pomegranates had ripened(成熟)._______ , at harvest, they all disappeared in the middle of the night. We were   _______ sad and angry. Friends had fun suggesting deterrents(为摄物). One _______ suggested we post a sign to curse (诅咒) those who _______ our fruits.

And suddenly, the   ________ was clear. We did need a sign. But our sign would encourage sharing and community. Last autumn, we had a larger crop of pomegranates. We put________a sign that read, "If you'd like one, please knock and ________ yourself, and we would be   ________ to cut one off the bush for you. Cutting saves the branches and is good for future growth, so we can   ________ to share pomegranates with________friends like you. Thanks, the Green Family. "

Out of eight fruits, one pomegranate was taken. and most of others were________to new friends. This year, we won the Kindness Contest award, ________we planted three trees-a peach, a pear, and a plum. Before they fruit, I'll ________ a big sign to the yard to encourage sharing. Today. I'm happy to be a role model of ________ for my young sons and to have the opportunity to________ an eatable front yard for others.

The winter of 2008 was especially tough in one northwestern city, where it became extremely cold and it was also a difficult time for me. What’s worse, a(n) ________ injury happened to me and it might keep me in bed for several months.

One day I was doing my housework ________ there was a tap at the window from a branch of the troublesome fruit tree. On hearing this, with my eyes closed, slowly, I began to recall the fall of 1995 when somebody placed a pipe from my pump next to the ________. The earth was so wet that it ________ immediately with most of its bare roots upward. Seeing this, my mother ________ to pull it out, but I refused. “How hard it’s trying!” I said, ________ the direction of its strong holding of the earth. “It is ________ of a chance to survive.” With tools, we ________ dry soil around the tree and put up some supports into the ground, making it ________ upright.

Several months had passed before I could be ________ of it. Surprisingly, when spring returned, my “rescue stick” had grown some leaves and many ________. In 2008 it had grown into a towering tree. What an unbelievable miracle of life!

The day before the Spring Festival, the ________ at the window was continuing, the more fierce wind, the better sound, as if to remind me to look up and appreciate its powerful life.

That night I slept peacefully having a(n) ________. In the dream some flowers were coming out ________. The next morning I stood against the window. ________ the window was the tree bursting with life. Anyway, I had a wonderful Spring Festival that year.