One day, a hunter went hunting with his dog. He saw a rabbit running out of a bush not far in front and ________ raised the gun to shoot. The rabbit was hurt. It ________ in fear. The hunter waved to the dog to ________ it. The well-trained dog rushed like an arrow, running very fast and full of ________.

The rabbit ran so desperately（拼命地） that it ________ not to have been hurt at all. However, the dog was surprisingly left behind. Gradually, the dog was losing sight of the rabbit. At last when the dog ________ empty-handed, the hunter was angry and blame（责备）it. “How ________! Unable to catch an injured rabbit! No supper for you.” Feeling sad, the dog tried to explain for itself, “________ I didn’t catch it, I had done my best.”

When the rabbit got home, all the other rabbits were surprised at its ________.They were dying to ask, “How did you ________ to run away when the dog ________ catch you? It’s unbelievable!” The frightened rabbit answered, “The dog would only be blamed for not catching me at most, ________ all it did was to do its best. The situation is completely different ________ me. I would surely lose my life ________ I was caught. I had to go all out（竭尽全力）!”

We can learn a lesson for our daily life from the story. Have we ever examined ourselves and asked if we did our best or went all out when we looked for a(n) ________ for our failure.

"It is never too late or too old to start something new." said Ellen Rema. She began to learn______at the age of fifty. In just a few years，she has made a lot of progress.

_____no evening classes were offered in the area Ellen lived in，she _____ to study online. She took an English course on the Internet.

Ellen began with easy courses and studied hard."My son always said，'Mom，you are a bit________.'He couldn't understand why I spent so many hours_______，but I love it，”she said，"Maybe I wanted to do too much in a short time. I______all my courses after two years，but I found I still had difficulties with grammar."

Instead of _____，she chose to continue. After another two years，she's still studying in the online classroom.

“Studying online is sometimes boring，so you need self—discipline(自律)，"said Ellen，“If you______want to learn，never give up when you face difficulties and when you think you haven't made any ______."

Ellen said studying English wasn't all about hard work."It was fun. I have learned so much_____ other cultures and traditions，"she said.

A group of frogs were traveling through the forests, but unluckily two of them fell into a hole. The other frogs tried to help them. When they saw how ________ the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they could not be saved. The two frogs didn’t ________ and tried their best to jump up out of the hole. The other frogs ________ saying that they were sure to die. ________ one of the two frogs, who heard what the other frogs were saying, ________. Then he fell down and died.

The other frog, however, ________ to jump as hard as he could, and at last he succeeded. When he ________, the other frogs asked, “Didn’t you hear us?” The frog, who had a poor ________ explained, “I thought you were encouraging me all the time.”

The story teaches us a ________: There is power (力量) of life and death in the tongue. An ________ word to those who are down can help them out while a discouraging word can kill them.