Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams. All the students had been studying hard for some months, reviewing their lessons for the exams. If they didn’t _______ the exams, they would have to resit (补考) in September. There were usually a few students who _______ in them, and Lucy didn’t want to be one of them. So Lucy worked very hard to _______ that she could pass the exams. And Lucy was working so hard that her mother was worried about her. Her mother thought she went to bed too late. So the night before the first exam, her mother_______that she should have an early night. Her mother also advised Lucy to take a sleeping pill (药片) if she felt too much stress. Meanwhile, her mother_______ to wake Lucy up in the morning.

_______on the bed, Lucy found it very difficult to fall asleep. She was afraid that she might oversleep and missed the exam. Her _______kept jumping from one subject to another. At last, with the help of _______, she fell sleep. In no time at all, she had a dream: she was sitting in the classroom, looking through the_______ on the desk but she couldn’t answer any of the questions. ________ around her was writing confidently. ________she worked very hard, she couldn’t find anything to write about. She kept looking at her________. Time was running out. There was only an hour left. “It is impossible to finish all the questions within an hour,” Lucy told herself, “but if I ________ now, all my efforts would be useless.” Without any other solution, her body started shivering(颤抖). It shook so much that she ________up. Lucy opened her eyes. ________ came into her view was her mother trying to shaking her awake.

Mother’s Day drew near,and John was driving by a flower shop.He said to himself,“I will send Mom some ____.” He entered it and saw a boy ____ with the clerk.“How many roses can I ____ for six dollars?” the boy asked.The clerk was trying to explain that roses were ____.Maybe the boy would be happy with carnations (康乃馨).“No,it has to be red roses,because that’s my mom’s ____.She was sick last year and I didn’t ____ much time with her.”He said again.____ inside of John was ____ by the boy’s words,and he looked at the clerk silently whispering that he would pay for the boy’s roses.The clerk said,“Okay,I will give you a dozen red roses ____ your six dollars.”The boy almost jumped into the air.He took the flowers and ____ from the shop.John ____ his own flowers and made sure that delivery would include a ____ telling his mother how much he loved her.

As he drove away from the ____,he was feeling very good.As he waited at the light,he saw the boy enter a park through two huge gates.Suddenly,he realized it was not a park.It was a cemetery (墓地).He could see the young man turn in by the gate and walk along the fence.As the light ____,he pulled over,got out of the car,and began to ____ the boy,thirty or forty steps behind him.The boy stopped by a small monument and went down on his ____.He sobbed and laid the roses on the ____.John heard him speak,“Mommy,why did I not tell you how much I love you?Why did I not tell you one ____ time?God,please tell my mommy I love her.”John walked back to his car,____ in eyes.He drove quickly to the shop and told the clerk he would take the flowers ____.He wanted to make sure of it and tell his mother just how much he loved her.

Darlene Leeson was in hotel isolation(隔离)after returning to Australia from a trip to Hawaii. She was calling a friend, joking about the idea of putting a(n) ______ on her hotel window as it faced offices across the road. Getting the gentle encouragement of her friend, Leeson wrote on some notes: “Day 4 I need ______. Room 623” and then stuck them up.

The first ______ from those in the outside world was laughter. She got a few smiles and waves from office workers and workers on a nearby rooftop. “It was more done to ______ myself during the boring isolation,” she said. “I wasn't thinking anyone would take it ______.”

Then her hotel room phone rang. “I ______ thought it was the hotel ringing to tell me to ______ them off. It was the wife of one of the rooftop workers who had rung reception asking to ______ to my room,” she said. “They then asked what chocolate I ______.”

The traveller said she was in ______ and didn’t make her choice of treat clear. “We chatted and she said I could ______ an Uber delivery soon.” Within an hour, the chocolate arrived. Soon, TimTams (a brand of chocolate) arrived for her at reception. Leeson later learned a woman in a nearby office building made the ______ delivery. More chocolate had arrived, and a group of workers had all ______.

“Being in hotel isolation, I can’t ______ my room where there are only a few short minutes when the sun can shine in,” Leeson said. “Though, the kindness of these ______ brightened my day beyond any amount of sunshine possible.”