Philip is a blind (失明的) 55-year-old man. He can _______ a flower, but he cannot tell if it is red, white, or blue. It does not matter to him. He enjoys the beauty of the smell itself.

But his life is not a bed of flowers. It is _______ for him to travel. He can’t _______, but he can travel by bus. At home, he can’t just look out the window to see what the _______ is like. He can’t look at the _______ on the wall to see what time it is. He uses a special _______ to know the time.

He is a _______. He plays the violin, but not in a band. Four times a week, he sits down on the sidewalk (人行道) and plays. He puts an upside-down (倒放的) _______ in front of him with a little change (零钱) in it. “The change keeps the hat from blowing away.” he says, “It also lets people know where to put their _______. Usually I can get from $10 to $30. One evening I made almost $100. Another evening, someone took all the money away. I don’t mind. I guess he needed it __________ than I did.”

Juan worked hard for hours. He put all of the coconuts(椰子) into large baskets. He then fastened(系) the baskets to the back of his horse.

All he had to do was to take the coconuts to the home of the owner to get his pay. Just ______ Juan started on the road to the owner’s house, he saw a young boy.

“______ will it take to get to the owner’s house? " asked Juan.

“If you go slowly,” said the boy, “you will be there very soon. But if you go very fast, you will get there______.”

“What a foolish boy!” thought Juan. As he pulled the horse along fast, coconuts began to ______ out of the baskets. Juan had to stop to pick up coconuts.

“Now I have to hurry to make up for(弥补) lost ______,” Juan thought.

More coconuts fell off the top of the full baskets and rolled down the hill. The more Juan tried to hurry, the ______ coconuts fell and rolled away. Each time, Juan found it more tiring. He had to ______ the fallen coconuts and pick them up. The sun began to set, and Juan ______ the owner’s house at the top of the hill. He began to hurry once more. His hurrying made the horse ______ fall. Some coconuts again flew out of the baskets and onto the ground. This time, the sun set.

Poor Juan. He could not see the coconuts in the ______ and could not send them until the next day. The boy’s advice was not so unreasonable after all.

When Mary Smith was a student, she always wanted to be a teacher because she liked ____. When she was twenty, she started to ____ in a small school. She was a good teacher, and she laughed a lot with the children ____ her class. They enjoyed ____ teaching.

One day, one of the girls said to her, “Miss Smith, ____ does the hair on a man’s head become white before his beard does?”

Mary laughed ____ answered, “I don’t know, Helen. Do you know?”

“I don’t know, Miss Smith,” said Helen. “But it happened to my ____.” The other children in the class laughed when they ___ this.

Then a boy said, “I ____, Miss Smith! The hair on a man’s head becomes white first because it’s sixteen years ____ than his beard.”