One small mistake changed Sonia’s life. Now she is ______and tries not to miss any opportunities that come to her way.

One day, Sonia walked ______ a little boy, who wanted to buy crayons(彩色蜡笔), but he couldn’t ______them. He looked sad when he saw the money in Sonia’s hand. ______she didn’t realize he was in ______of help at all. Sonia ignored him and ______on her way home.

After reaching home, she told everything to her brother Gur. Gur told Sonia, “God had given you a(n) ______to help a boy, but you _____it. There’s a possibility that God was _____ you; maybe today would have become your big day of your life.” Hearing Gur’s words, Sonia ______back to the shop to find the boy but time never _____for anyone. Sonia got disappointed and returned home, continuously ______at herself. Why didn’t it come into her mind what Gur had ______? “Chances are everywhere, and all you need to do is _____them because they don’t always show up,” said Gur. Now what Sonia has missed is a chance that she can only ______.

On that day Sonia learnt the biggest ______in her life. Actually not only Sonia, but many of us ignore the chance of helping in ______ways because we always run after bigger ones. However, big opportunities do come but not every day. Therefore, ______small ones so that you can’t miss big ones. Sonia also ______to wait for big opportunities, but now she knows that with small that with small opportunities she can make big ______in her life.

When we seem to have finally obtained things we’ve worked hard for, most of us tend to think that we can relax and enjoy life._______, life has some rude awakenings for us.

This was the_______for Stevie. He worked hard and years later, he was able to buy a really nice home on a cliff_______ the ocean. It seemed that all his work_______and that he had finally realized his dream.

Well, as life would have it, along came the events over which he had no_______. Above all, the cliff started to erode (风化)badly from the_______winds and rains over the years. What was once a one-hundred-foot backyard was rapidly _______week by week, and to make matters even_______, he became badly ill to the point_______he had to take lots of time off from work.

Then, the most tragic things happened. The backyard totally disappeared and what was________was the back of the house sitting dangerously on the edge of the cliff. What was even more destructive was that he had no house insurance________the family could not get any from insurance companies who knew of the________. No insurance, and so sick that he couldn’t work—now what? A person who thought he had finally reached the________and now only to find almost everything had disappeared through no________of his own.

The good news was that he wasn’t done—friends, neighbors and even those who didn’t know him________responded to fund-raisers to help them start over.

Life has a way of________and kicking us from behind and even kicking again when we are really down. But life also gives us a way________if we don’t give up. There is kindness and comfort________-an opportunity to start again if we have a ________to move forward. Keep focused on new life and move beyond all those things that may________us to the present.

My mother was a nurse and often took me along to visit the families she was caring for. Among them was a woman who had a _______ disease and was always lying on the bed.

One afternoon, my mom told me that we needed to visit the woman at her home, and that we needed to be there to _______ treatment, and we would stop at a store on the way. I thought we would stop at a _______ store, where we can buy some pills, but we pulled up to a _______. My mom headed to the make-up area and bought the most expensive bottle of perfume they _______. To my surprise, she also bought a _______ nightdress. When I asked my mom who these things were for, she said they were for her patient. My mom further explained that although this woman was older and unable to _______ her bed, she was still a lady, and she still _______ dignity (尊严) and beauty. She _______ to me that when we care for someone, we should look past the ________ or the illness and we look into the soul of the human so we can connect with them with sympathy.

I ________ realized that my mother’s great strengths and abilities were ________ the very young and the very old, those who can not ________ out their needs and hope for themselves, and need trustworthy and loving care providers. Under the influence of my mother, I knew in the 9^th grade I would become a ________. Today, my dream has come true. I work as a clinical psychologist, working hard and remembering what my mom taught me, and I’m not ________ that I find my work filled with patients who are very and very old.