Adam Sandler will forever be known as one of Hollywood’s funnymen. However, his journey to the career is really a(n) ________ of his resilience (适应力).

As a student at NYU, Adam was doing stand-up comedy shows to make a living. At the time, his dream was almost ________ by his acting professor, who said to Adam ________, “I want to take you to a bar because I want you to think about whether to ________ acting and choose another path as your career as it is too hard for you.” The reality takes an ironic (讽刺的) ________ years later. At the height of his success, Adam ________ the same professor. That time, Adam ________ the favor by buying him drinks at a bar.

Apparently, Adam didn’t pay attention to his professor’s ________; he never gave up his dream. Every ambitious comedian dreams of ________ it to Saturday Night Live. Adam ________ up becoming one of the actors when he was only 23. Adam went on to write and act in a series of ________ films, earning over $3 billion at the box office. In 1999, he even ________ to open his own production company.

From the very beginning, Adam knew ________ was his vocation (本职). Adam’s success inspires us to ________ our hobbies and projects with the same enthusiasm. When we don’t let the outside world ________ our decisions, we are able to set ourselves on the path that we truly want to follow.

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s _______, she said she would go. This _______ be the first time that his classmates and teacher _______ his mother and he felt _______ of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar(疤痕) that _______ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to _______ why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were _______ by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother _______ the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed and _______ himself from everyone. He did, however, get within __________ of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked __________, “How did you get the scar on your face?” The mother replied, “__________ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was __________ afraid to go in because the fire was __________, so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked __________ but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She ____________ the burned side of her face. “This scar will be __________, but to this day, I have never __________ what I did.”

At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great __________ of the sacrifice(牺牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand __________ for the rest of the day.

I'm 14 years old and in ninth grade. A little while ago, I was walking home from school and saw some writing on a _____ of a house I was passing. It said, “Happiness is a direction, not a destination.” I had been having a bad day and just reading this brightened my day a little. I saw the _____ everyday while walking home from school and one day decided to _____ something on the fence for someone else to see. I took out a pen and wrote one of my favorite quotes down. When I came back to the fence, I saw another quote under mine in the same handwriting as the first one. I _____ on another, and we kept at this pattern for quite a while. One day, I was writing yet another quote on the fence and the old man, one of my neighbors, who _____ the fence saw me. He came out and I thought he would _____ me for writing on his fence; he was not known to be a very friendly person. He gave me a quick look and then read the quotes on the fence, all 20 or so of them. Without saying a word, he went back inside. I was a bit _____ for a while, and didn't go back to the fence, but when I did, I noticed not more quotes but two words in totally _____ handwriting had been added: “Thank you.”

Later, I saw the old man in his front yard. He asked me to come over and told me how my quotes had been encouraging to him and how he's glad to see _____ like me still have “values.” We are now good friends instead of just neighbors，and I talk to him a lot and do housework for him. This experience has ______ changed my life. l still don't know who wrote that very first quote, but if you're out there, I'd like to say thank you to that ______ hero.