When Mrs Green asked us to discover our professions（职业）, the whole class seemed to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be _____．“Yes, you will all be searching for your future ____．Each of you will have to ____ someone in your field and give an oral report.”

Each day in her class, Mrs Green talked about this. Finally, I picked print journalism(新闻业). This ____ I had to go to interview a true newspaper reporter. I was nervous. I sat down in front of him ____ able to speak. He looked at me and said, “Did you bring a pencil or pen?”

I shook my head.

“How about some ____?”

I shook my head again．

Finally, I thought he ____ I was nervous, and I got my first big tip as a ____：“Never, never go anywhere without a pen and paper．You never know what you’ll run into.” After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from_____in class. I got an A on the project．

Years later, I was in college looking around for a new career(职业), but with no success．Then I_____ Mrs Green and my dream at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn’t ____ me. They just reminded(提醒) me how competitive the field was and ____ all my life I had to run away from competition. This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my____. It gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was _____.

For the past 12 years, I’ve had the most satisfying reporting career, ____ stories from Olympic Games to car accidents and ____ choosing my strongest area. ____ I went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible（令人难以置信的）wave of memories hit me and I realized that ____ Mrs Green I was able to be sitting at that desk.

I get ____ all the time：“How did you pick journalism?”

“Well, you see, there was a teacher…”I just wish I could ____ her．

One day, during the long summer holiday, Mrs. Martins took Brendon and his younger brother to the beach. As soon as they got there, the two children raced down to the _______to try out their new surfboards. They were soon swimming out to the _______and riding back on their boards.

After a while, Brendon noticed that Kim was _______away from him.

“Come back, Kim,” he shouted. “Mum said we have to stick together.” Kim put his arms over the side of his _______and began paddling, but instead of getting closer he began moving further away.

“Brendon, help!” called the young boy. “I’m _______in a rip current (离岸流).” Brendon quickly paddled over to his _______.

“_______the back of my board and I’ll pull you to the beach,” he told the _______boy. But the rip was too _______and soon both Brendon and Kim were moving further from the beach.

“I can’t ________see our beach any more,” cried Kim.

“Yes, but we’re not moving out of the sea any more. We’re just floating along the coast. See, there’s the next beach,” said Brendon ________. “We’re moving closer to it.” Sure enough, the current was now taking them closer to the beach and becoming ________.

“Right, it’s time to paddle,” said Brendon, suddenly full of ________.

Before long the children paddled to the beach ________they sat for a few moments to ________their breath. After a while, they ________up their boards and started the long walk back to their mother. When they got there, they were surprised to find the beach full of people and boats.

“Thank goodness!” cried their mother running to ________them. “We were just about to start a search. One minute you were in the waves ________me and the next you were gone. I was so ________.”

“It’s OK,” said Brendon, hugging his mother. “We did just as you told us and ________together.”

My day started just as usual. I left for the train station at 7:35 to arrive at work by 8:30. While on the train I would always choose a seat away from the crowd so I can read the newspaper peacefully and _______. I didn’t know why but for some reason when I got on the train today it was unusually _______. I sat down in the only seat available beside a middle-aged man who had his head down and seemed to be _______ in his thoughts. I was glad that he didn’t notice when I sat next to him because he just _______ to look down towards the floor.

Shortly after the train left I found myself _______ what could be so important that he didn’t even see me. I tried to forget about it. However, for some strange reason this inner _______ kept forcing me to talk to this man. I tried to ignore the voice _______ there was no way I was starting a conversation with a complete stranger. Finally I _______ and came up with an excuse to ask him a question. When he _______ his head, I could see that he had some tears rolling down the side of his face ________ his feeble (微弱的) attempt to wipe them away. We talked for about 20 minutes and in the end he seemed to be doing ________.

Several weeks had passed when I noticed an unaddressed envelope on my desk after returning from lunch. It only had the word ________ written on it. When I read the note inside the ________ I was so filled with emotions that I couldn’t ________ myself. It was a letter from the man I met on the train thanking me again for talking to him and ________ his life that day. Clearly he had some very hurtful personal problems that were ________ uncontrolled that he was planning to take his life that day.

In his letter he explained that he screamed out to God in despair (绝望) ________ if God really cared about him he would ________ someone to prevent him from taking his life. In his eyes I was that someone, that Angel sent by God.

So next time you feel prompted (冲动) for no ________ reason to talk to a friend, relative, neighbor or even a complete stranger please remember my story. You just may make a ________ to someone’s life when you listen to your inner voice.