In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed ____but one with quite a____ story to tell.

My grandma, an amazing woman,____from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that ____. But one year after I started college, she _____cancer. I made the choice to stop learning at college to ____her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to____.

Then I got married with another dream: building my _____with adopted and biological (亲生的)ones. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was_____— and very exciting. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then _____son No. 3. In 2003, I ____birth to another boy.

You can imagine how _____occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo — a joyous zoo. Not surprisingly, I _____did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream, either. I ____ only one choice: to find a way. That ___taking as few as one class each semester.

The hardest part was feeling____ about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to____, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.

In 2007, I finished my study in the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to ____my college degree!

I am not____, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you're looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you're inside, it just seems normal. Everything you want won't arrive in your life in a day. It's a____ . Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.

He, handsome and attractive though small, is 73 this year, but looks much younger than he actually is. My mom got the _________ from my grandpa. And thank God so did I. You can never imagine how genuinely _________ and fascinating he could be. My grandpa absolutely leads a _________ life of old age, unlike other retired elderly people just walking with their pet birds, or _________ time at home as couch potatoes do.

He takes to cooking tasty cuisine, singing Karnoke, collecting antiques, and experiencing brand new dimensions of cultures. “Stopping to smell the roses and passing on the happiness is a _________ factor of people’s happy life,” he always _________ his peers.

“He is always doing everything with his _________—so cool and enviable!” my grandpa’s friends remarked. They also _________ my grandpa for his blog where he writes much, _________ his distinct opinion of life. One night his blog caught my eye. There was a __________, at the very beginning, of him hugging my grandma with fireworks blooming on Times Square last Valentine’s Day. “People say reality __________ and fantasy begins when the fireworks display starts, but for me both __________ a great deal. I take great joy in everyday life __________. I can hold the hands of my love.” he said beneath the photo.

I couldn’t believe those were from my grandpa, I mean, from a 73-year-old person. Now I finally see the true meaning of the saying that __________ is not a time of life but a state of mind. I love my grandpa for the interesting and romantic __________ he has.

My father often works very hard. And he_________.goes to the movies. Here I will tell you a _________ story about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work, and_________ go home, he found a film ticket under the glass on his desk. He thought he_________ to have not much work to do that day and _________ was quite wonderful to pass the evening at the cinema.

So he came back home and _________ finished his supper. Then he said good-bye to us and left..

But to our _________ , he came back about half an hour later. I asked him what was the _________ . He smiled and told us about the funny thing that had happened at the _________.

Whey my father was sitting in his seat, a __________ came to father’s seat and said that the seat was hers. My father was __________ and he took out the ticket __________ looked at it carefully. It was Row 17, __________. And then he looked at the seat. It was __________. So he asked her to __________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat __________ in it was Row 17, Seat 3.

Why? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering, suddenly the woman said, “The __________ of the tickets are different.” __________ they looked at the tickets more carefully. After a while my father said, “Oh, I am __________ , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the __________ a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left.