In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live.These things come to represent what I call _________ and love.

I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did _________ the water. Any kind of _________ ride seemed to give him pleasure._________ he loved to fish.

I liked being _________ the water, moving through it, _______ it all around me. I was not a strong _________, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my fears. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and _________ those summer days with my father. My father would stand there in his suit, the _________ person not in swimsuit.

After swimming, I would go to his office, where he let me ____________ anything I found in his drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk ____________ he worked in the lab, an assistant might come in and tell me I shouldn’t be playing with his ____________. But my father always ____________ and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s ____________.”

A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is ____________.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but who, in that childhood, looks at us.

When Zou Hongyan welcomed her son to the world in 1988, terrible birth complications (并发症) left him disabled for life. Doctors _________ her to give him up, a view that even her own husband _________, as they believed the boy would lead a miserable, _________ life. Zou, however, rejected their claims, divorced her child’s father, and made it her life _________ to treat and support her baby boy.

Zou worked _________ three jobs to support her family. She _________ how to massage (按摩) his muscles and would play intelligence _________ and puzzles with him.

The mother also _________ from the start that her son would learn to _________ his disabilities as far as possible. For example, Ding had problems coordinating (协调) his __________ movements, and found it difficult to use chopsticks. __________ many relatives said it was perfectly understandable, Zou insisted on __________ him to do so.

“I didn’t want him to feel ashamed about his __________ problems,” she said.

Ding graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Peking University in 2011. We can only __________ how proud this hard-working mom is of her son’s incredible progress, and how grateful Ding Ding must be to his greatest __________.

My son is 7 years old and he was _________a show to be put on at his school. He was playing the role of an angel. On the evening before the show, he asked me, “Mom, can we _______angels?” As usual, I seized(抓住)the ________to teach him to be positive and I said, “Yes, but only those who are perfect, and think and talk positively can.” He asked, “You must have seen them then?”

I was _____for a few seconds, not knowing what to say. I was touched by his _____that his mother was a perfect person. He looked into my eyes, _____a positive answer. I chose to be _______with him and told him, “No. I’ve not been a good person all the time.” I was almost_____to admit this to him. I thought that his______of a perfect mother would now surely be torn into pieces. But he _____it positively and said, “It’s all right. You know to try to be better from now on.” I smiled as I replied, “ That’s ______. Sometimes, we might make a _______, but when we do, we must always try to do better.”

My son’s _______struck me right in my heart and are always with me. I learned a good lesson that day “to always try to be better.” This will always______ me in all situations where I’ll need to be positive.