“Dad, can you tell me how to get rich?”

My dad _________ down the evening paper, “_________ do you want to get rich, my son?”

“Because today Jimmy’s mom _________ up in their new BMW, and they were going to their beach house for the weekend. He _________ three of his friends, but Mike and I weren’t invited. They told us we weren’t invited because we were ‘_________ kids’.”

“They _________?” my father asked unbelievably.

“Yeah.” I replied in a _________ voice.

My dad _________ shook his head, _________ his glasses up the bridge of his nose, and went back to reading the paper. I stood waiting for a(n) ____________.

The year was 1956. I was nine years old. By some twists of fate, I ____________ the same public elementary school where the rich people sent their kids. I went to this school because my family lived on one ____________ of the street. Had I lived on the other side of the street, I would have gone to a ____________ school with kids from families more like mine. After grade six, the rich neighbors would send their kids to private schools, ____________ the poor kids and I would go on to the public intermediate and high school.

My dad finally put down the paper. I could ____________ he was thinking.

“Well, son,” he began slowly. “If you want to be rich, you have to learn to make money.”

“How do I make money? I asked.

“Well, use your ____________, Son,” he said, smiling. Despite my young age, I could tell what he ____________.

He was trying to say, “That’s all I’m going to tell you,” or “I don’t know the answer, so don’t ____________ me.

As expected, dad said, “Don’t count on me to give you an answer. ____________ for yourself, son. But keep it in mind that money is not an ____________, but a means to an end.”

Sarah grew up on a fishing boat. Her father, _____ to make enough money to buy a house, had _____ her within their only small boat since his wife died.

One morning, Sarah saw a _____ above the sea, which was close to them, and the boat began to rock as waves grew. ____   the mountain of clouds approaching from the south, she rushed below deck (甲板) ,“Dad, _____!”

“What?” her drunken father asked _____.

“Dad, a big storm is coming. We need to get out of here.” She grabbed his shoulders and _____ him.

He got angry, shouting, “What are you doing?”

“Dad, we have to _____ the boat. There’s a big storm coming.”

Her father _____ her at last. He walked to the deck, saw the ______ and fired up the engine.

“Dad, what are you doing?”

“Sarah, ______ we stay here, we will die. We need to go out to the sea. We must ride the waves; that’s our only ______.”

Their boat headed into the storm ______. Above them were black clouds and in front of them were dark waves. It was so ______.

Hours passed. The dark day turned into darkness totally. They held each other for ______, but the experienced fisherman needed no ______ because he had fought many such battles.

Eventually, the waves ______ and the sky brightened. Sarah was ______ and hugged her father, “You did it, Dad.”

They sailed back into the port. Other boats had been destroyed. Their boat was the only one to ______ the storm. Sarah hugged her father again. “Dad, you made it. You ______ us.”

“No, Sarah,” he held her by his arms, “we did it together.”

The community at Forrest County Agricultural High School in Brooklyn recently suffered a tragic loss. Walters, a mother working as a secretary at the _________, passed away after battling against cancer. One of her final _________ was that her daughter Brittany wouldn’t _________ the homecoming party. The devoted mother was always _________ at school events to support her daughter, except for this one.

“She _________ she couldn’t make it out here,” said Sean, Walters’ husband. “She made me _________ to come here with Brittany because she didn’t want to _________ her homecoming day.” She said that was something she would _________ for the rest of her life. The mom _________ that morning, but her family kept their promise. Sean __________ Brittany to the party, where they stood among the __________. Then something extraordinary happened!

Senior Nyla was voted the homecoming queen. __________, after being crowned (加冕), she made a big decision. After asking __________ from school officials, Nyla walked over to Brittany beside her father and put the crown on her. __________, Brittany tried to refuse the crown at first. I told her it belonged to her, and then she was __________, Nyla recalled. “I said, ‘No, come here and get it. You’re your mom’s queen.’ I wanted her to know that. And then I __________ her.” Brittany burst into tears, and there wasn’t a dry __________ on the spot. What a heartwarming scene! What Nyla did shined a light on the __________ family.

While this kind act was surprising, people who __________ Nyla say she is just the sort of person. “She’s always been warmhearted,” Principal Holder said. A person’s real beauty shouldn’t come from appearance. Instead, it should be that of inner self, the unfading beauty of a __________ spirit.