My father Rong Xing isn’t exactly a good father.

He works very late every night because ________ his job, sometimes even ________ to eat dinner, and gets up ________ as well. Even when he’s at home, he thinks about his work all the time and hardly ever spend any time ________ my mother and me.

As a doctor who graduated (毕业) from a famous ________ before, he could make ________ of money and only do half the work he is doing now, but he chose to do more difficult and important work. He spends less money on himself ________ he makes more. He always wears old, cheap clothes, saying they are ________ and refuses to change. I sometimes get ________ with him for not caring enough about his clothes, but he just smiles and says, “Daddy has more ________ uses for the money, all right? ”

I never stopped being curious (好奇的)________ how he spent his money. Then one day when I was reading the newspaper, a piece of news caught my eyes: “Rong Xing ________ 100, 000 yuan to help   ________ children go back to school.” Then I ________ understood.

My father’s love for others touched me deeply, I started to understand the great ________ and I decided to pass it on.

It’s hard to be an astronaut’s son. Everyone expects you to be_________. I’m just a normal eleven-year- old kid.

My father is so good at everything. I often wonder_________ my father ever had a son like me.

One morning, my teacher announced a_________ Day essay(散文)competition for the whole school. What would I_________? My father is an astronaut I would start out with that. No. I decided I wouldn’t do that. The whole country and maybe even the whole_________ saw my father as an astronaut, _________ that wasn’t the way I saw him.

How did I_________ my father? Hmm.

I saw him sitting with me in the dark when I was little and had a nightmare. I saw him teaching me how to throw a baseball.

I remembered him hugging me for hours when my dog was killed by a car. And I remembered how he_________ me with a new little dog at my eighth birthday party. These were the things I was going to write about my dad. To me, he wasn’t_________ a world-famous astronaut, he was my dad.

On Thursday night, the winning essays would be__________ in the hall with all the parents and students present. When the third prize was announced and it wasn’t me, I was relieved   and__________ at the same time. Then the second prize. It was me! I went up to the stage and read my essay “My Father’s Son.” I watched my parents as I read.

When I finished reading, the audience(观众)applauded(鼓掌). I saw my father blowing his nose. Tears were running down my mother’s__________. Dad __________ his throat, and put his hand on my shoulder, “Son, this is the proudest moment of my life. ”

It was the proudest moment of my life, too. Maybe I’ll__________ be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize, but just then, it was __________ just to be my father’s son.

Parents， they are here to clothe us， feed us and， embarrass us． Sixteen is a_____ ripe age for embarrassment and poor Rain Price of Utah was no_____． It was the beginning of his high school year and his first time to______the bus． So it was really embarrassing when his dad Dale wave him off． After school， he______his mom Rochelle to stop Dale from doing it again． Guess who overheard（偷听）？

To Rain's_____， not only did the father decide to go on waving his son goodbye，______he decided to send him off ______in costume． But this was not a one-time incident； Dale dressed up in______clothes every single day for 170straight school days．

"When he did it the first day I was _____． You don't want to see your dad dressing up in a wedding dress，______at you on the bus，" Rain told the Metro， to which his dad_____： " I hope this lives with him for the rest of his life．" Dale made his______goodbye on and on， from the Little Mermaid to the Wonder Woman．

Dale became______as the "Wave At The Bus Dad"， coming out in the most strange and funny costumes and never repeating the same_____． He said he only spend around $50 the whole year and ______friends and neighbors to loan him costume and other materials． So the family could______the incidents with the rest of the world． Rochelle created a blog to ______all the costumes．

Rain is now all grown up at 19． He still______Dale as a blushing bride， "In the end， it was just_____． I was laughing on the bus the whole way． I am______him now．"