Ryan Hickman was born in an American family. When he was three years old, Ryan Hickman visited a _________ center in California and found what he wanted to do most. Amazingly, the next day as he greeted his dad, Damion, he made a(n) _________, “I’m going to pick up all the bottles and cans from everyone in the neighborhood. I’ll start a new _________ myself!”

It’s never too _________ to start a business, though there were no other staff but himself when the company was started. Today, Ryan, aged seven, the worlds _________ garbage man, is the CEO, manager and _________ of Ryan’s Recycling Company. Though Ryan says he doesn’t remember what made it all start, he remains _________ about what he is doing. When questioned why he did so, he said, “It’s _________ bottles get to the ocean, and then animals get sick and die.” Ryan’s neighbors have been _________ to the little boy’s knocking for their recycled goods. More and more __________ ones call to ask for a pickup or even lay down bags of bottles and cans at Hickman’s door. At school, Ryan’s favorite activity is helping the dustmen __________ the trash and taking away the recyclable. “My wife and I support him and we told him that whenever he wants to __________, he can,” Damion said. “I want to see him with friends, but the recycling just makes him delighted. He has actually __________ five of his friends to join him.”

According to Damion, Ryan has __________ over $11,000 through recycling bottles and cans. Ryan says he wants to buy a large trash truck to be __________ with enough garbage and become a true garbage man.

From my childhood on, my mother didn’t have a job. If she was asked to _______ a personal questionnaire, she would leave the question “Employment” (工作) _______ . She believed that her job was to be my mother—full time.

There is an old _______ of my mother and father, taken in 1942. In the photo my mother looks very beautiful, I think. When I look at the photo, I see a woman full of _______ in life. If she had _______ her mind to getting a career (事业) , the whole world would have been in her _______ . The story of her youth fully _______ this. She got a brilliant exam in one of the finest schools in the country.

_______ she has always been a housewife and mother. Everyone in the town _______ her for her great effort into charity (慈善) work, but if someone asked her what she did ________ , she answered that she was Robert Greene’s wife, and Robert’s mother.

What I ________ best from my childhood is how it felt to get home from ________ . She was always there ________ for us. Today there are probably many women seeing what she did as a ________ of my mother’s good abilities. I don’t make ________ , either. But so many years later, I still remember how it felt to rush home—and there was mum, waiting for us.

On December 7, 1988, an earthquake hit the northwestern of Armenia, killing about 25,000 people.

Just after the earthquake, in a small town, a father _________ to his son’s school. He found that the school had been _________. There was nothing left to find. But he had no _________ of turning back. He used to tell his son, “No matter what happens, I will always be there for you when you _________ me.”

Though his efforts appeared hopeless, the father began _________ removing rubble (瓦砾) from where he believed his son’s classroom had been. Some even told him to go back home, saying there was little _________ that any of the children could be alive. However, he replied, “I made a _________ to my son that I would be there for him anytime he needed me. I have to _________ now.”

He did it _________; no one volunteered to help him. He just wanted to see for himself. “Is my boy alive or is he dead?” The __________ father continued to dig…for 8 hours…12…24…36 hours. Then in the 38th hour, as he lifted away a heavy piece of rock, he heard __________. “Armand!” he shouted.

A child responded, “Dad! I’m here. It’s me... Armand! I told them not to __________. If you __________, you will save me, and once you save me, they’ll be saved. You kept your promise, Dad!” A few moments later, the dad was helping his son Armand and 13 more frightened, thirsty, and hungry boys and girls climb out of the __________.   

When the whole town __________ Armand’s dad, he didn’t think he had done something great, “I promised my son, ‘No matter what happens, I will be there for you!’”