I felt anxious when going into my room from school. Every day, my room was something different. The hours away at school were long enough to cause a terrible change to my peaceful harbor. Today was no ________.

As I entered the house, Mom ________ me with a smile. It seemed like nothing was ________. But I was still doubtful about it. Yesterday, around the ________ of my favorite figurine (小雕像) was a chocolate cookie.________, Callie had enjoyed the cookie so much that she wanted to share it with my angel.

I ________ Callie, who had just turned three. I didn’t see her, but I heard the TV blaring (发出声音) in the other room. As I ________ the family room, I noticed it was pretty ________. There were toys all over the floor, but none of them seemed to be mine. Maybe she hadn’t entered today. I was so ________ that I breathed a sigh of relief.

I pushed my room door open and saw damage! There were a few headless dolls, some broken blocks, and a few juice-stained stuffed animals. “She did it again!” I screamed in ________. My mother ran up to me, embarrassed. She ________ to put a Callie-proof lock on my door tonight. I felt ________, because I knew that soon my room would truly belong to me. However, I was still angry with my little sister so I went into the family room to tell her how she had made life ________ for me. “Callie,” I started. “Hooray!” she shouted.

She leaped off the sofa and hugged my knees with such happiness that I could only look down at her and smile.________, she was only three and learning about the world in her own way. And she always chose to explore and ________ my room because she loved me, her big sister.

My mother's parents came from Hungary（匈牙利）. My grandfather preferred German to all the other languages he spoke, _______ Hungarian was his native language. Every morning, before going to work, he read the German language newspaper published in New York.

My grandfather was the only one in his_______ to settle down in America. He still had relatives（亲戚）living in_______. When the First World War broke out, he felt_______ that my uncle, his only son didn't go to the war field. If that had happened,_______ would have been cousin fighting against cousin._______ the early days of the war, my grandmother requested him to_______ reading the German newspaper. He agreed and finally he gave up the German newspaper.

One day, my uncle received a command to join the army. My grandparents were upset, but my mother, his sister was_______. Then she could be proud of her brother's going to the war field. When the_______ came for him to leave, his whole group left together from the same station. There was a________ playing and my mother and her friends came to________ him off.

The soldiers got on the train. Then the train slowly left the station. It had gone about one thousand meters________ it suddenly stopped. The band stopped playing, and the crowd stopped cheering. Everyone was in________ as the train slowly backed up and returned to the station. There was a dead silence________ the doors opened and the men started to come out. Someone shouted, "The war is over." For a moment,________ moved, but then the people heard someone shout________ at the soldiers. The soldiers lined up, formed into two lines,________ down the steps, and paraded（游行）through the street,________ returning heroes, to be welcomed home. My mother said it was a great day, but she was a little________ that it didn't last a little longer. The next day my uncle returned to his job________ my grandfather started again reading the German newspaper.

It was a cold November morning. My alarm clock had just______off but I was having trouble getting out of bed.

My Dad, who had been my hero growing up, had passed away a few weeks before, leaving me, weighed down by______ and depression. Dad loved me. Still, he had been raised in a(n)______way and raised us that way too. I couldn't remember, for example, ever being______by him after I grew up. Before his______, we talked more, but still______ touched and never hugged. Then, his health began to rapidly______and within a few months he left us.

That morning, I was too numb ( 麻木的) inside myself to______anything. I kept thinking what I would have______in exchange for just one last hug from him. Sad and weak,I was unable to gather______to get up. When I finally did and walked out, my son, rushing to meet me, suddenly,______ his arms and gave me a heart-felt hug. Meanwhile, my Dad's______rang deep inside me, “Joey，this hug is from me!” Tears ______ up in my eyes. Right then, I realized I couldn't______on life.

Life can seem very long but in truth it is so______that we can never afford to miss a dearest hug!