One summer night, my friends and I stole into the Jordans’ backyard and started harvesting their sweet, juicy raspberries (树莓). We were enjoying every bite of the tasty berries_______Mr Jordan came charging outside all of a sudden.

“What are you boys doing out here?” he yelled as my friends ran off_______all directions. He attempted to catch one or two as they rushed past him, but they were too_______for the older gentleman to catch. Within seconds, the boys_______into the dark of the summer night. All except me.

However, speed was never my_______. I took the tongue-lashing(痛骂) that Mr Jordan gave me as he marched me down the block to my house, where my mother took over and scolded me_______. My friends said they could hear every_______word she spoke from the darkness of our backyard, where they had gathered to_______their escape and to observe my capture.

They teased me about it for days afterwards, while all I could do was complain about how_______it was that I was the only one who had to pay the price. After about a week of this, I complained to my father about the inequality of the situation. Dad said, “You took raspberries without________, and you get exactly the punishment you deserved.”

“But what about the other guys?” I asked. “They didn’t get punished at all!”

“That’s not my concern nor should it be yours,” Dad said. “You can’t________what happens to others. You can only________what happens to you. You made a bad choice that night, and you were punished for it.”

________the duration of the following years, I come to realize there is no guarantee that life will treat us fairly. That’s why we can’t________comparing our lives with the lives of others. Like Dad said, that isn’t our________.

Like many, I travel a lot for work.Unlike many, I never _________ it.On the open road are always _________ people and new places. There is one thing about travel that _________ me, though, and has ever since my early years: the constant waiting. When I travel, I wait in the shop, wait to _________ the plane, wait in restaurants, wait to check into hotels,and on and on.

For years, I have tried to   _________my life in such a way to lower how much time I have to spend waiting,and it has _________: I ask for the _________as soon as the server brings me my lunch; I have all the _________ that helps to enter the waiting hall at the airport quickly; I _________ hotels that have self-service book-in rooms. No doubt my waiting time is __________. But recently, I have realized that despite these __________, I'm not any less upset by the waiting I still have to   __________

This mystery has led me to   __________ that I have gone about the whole problem in the wrong way. I have been trying to __________ the outside world to make it better for me. I should __________ have been working on myself, to live better in a world of waiting.

“Absolutely no!” I thought while looking up at a mountain pass to the cliff (悬崖). I climbed halfway and looked over. It was extremely steep (陡峭的), which would _________ broken bones… or worse. I could feel my _________ increasing, hands getting sweaty and breath getting shallower.

“No, I’m not taking my kids over this! How did I end up here?” I _________ curiously.

I have _________. You might not guess it but it’s _________. Nature is full of things that _________ me: bears, snakes, lightning storms, etc.

One thing I’ve learned over the years is that fear is so powerful that it prepares our bodies to react anytime. I’ve also found that we _________ to fear what we don’t know. However, it’s during times like this that I’ve _________ the importance of showing myself that there’s nothing to be afraid of.

I looked over the pass with _________ knees, and then back at my children. I took a deep __________ and smiled at my kids, “I’m going first and then help you.” The __________ took about five minutes for me to complete and then my kids __________. “That was fun!” they yelled, and surprisingly I had to agree.

Despite my fears, __________ our beautiful world with my kids is very important. Why? There are so many __________! One is teaching my children that it’s OK to feel scared sometimes, but not to let fear __________ their steps from getting outside and trying new things.