Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. Mona is ________ a boat race on TV. She likes it because she thinks boat races are ________. Then her sister Lisa comes and says, “Mona, I ________ to watch my favourite talk show.” Mona isn’t happy to hear(听到) this. She says,“Lisa, you can watch it ________ I finish watching the boat race.” Lisa isn’t happy, either. Soon, the two start(开始) to fight. It is very _________.

Mrs. Black is reading a book in her room. When she hears the noise, she stops ________ and comes out. After learning why the girls fight, Mrs. Black says, “Is TV that important? You’re ________ and you need to love each other(彼此). How can you ________ each other because of TV?”

Hearing this, Mona and Lisa both(两者都) feel ________. Mona says to Lisa, “Lisa, why don’t we do something we both like?”

“Sounds great! Let’s go to play ________!” says Lisa.

Then the two go to get the bats and the ping-pong balls.

Nick and Mary have been married（结婚）for more than 60 years. They keep _______ secrets（秘密）from each other except（除了）that Mary has a shoe box under her bed. Mary often tells Nick _______ to open or ask about it.

For all these years, Nick never thinks about the _______. But suddenly Mary gets very _______ and the doctor says she will never get better.

Mary says it is time that Nick should know _______ is in the box. The old man takes the shoe box to his wife’s bedside.

When he opens it, he finds _______ beautiful doilies（装饰小垫子）and some money. The money is $25, 000.

“Before we get married,” Mary says, “My grandmother tells me that the _______ of a happy family is never to fight. She tells me if every time I get angry with you, I should just keep quiet and make one doily.”

The old man is so moved（受感动的）_______ only two doilies are in the box. He thinks she is only angry with him _______ in all those years.

“My dear,” he says, “_______ what about all the money? Where does it all come from?”

“Oh,” she says, “that’s the money I made from selling the doilies. So far, I have sold 2,500 doilies.”

Growing up, I understood one thing about my dad, he knew everything. This was our relationship. I asked him questions and he told me the _______. Is there really a man on the moon? How do sailboats work? What is the highest score anyone’s ever gotten in PacMan?

In my teen years, he _______ me things I’d need to know to live in the real world, how to drive a car, how to check the car’s tire pressure (胎压), the correct   _______ to use to peel an apple, and so on.

When I moved out on my own at the age of 18, I called him at least once a week. I called him usually _______ something broke in my apartment and I needed to know how to fix it, the toilet, the air conditioning, the wall, once, when I threw a shoe at a _______ mouse.

But then, finally, I needed him less. I got _______, and my husband had most of the knowledge I didn’t have about doing chores, painting walls, cleaning the toilet and cooking. For everything else, we had the Internet.

I don’t know when it happened, but our conversations _______ six words. Me: “Hi, Dad.” Him: “Hi, sweets. Here’s Mom.”

I loved my father, of course, but I wondered at times if maybe he had already _______ everything I needed to know. Maybe I’d heard all of his stories. Maybe, after knowing a man for 40 years, there’s _______ left to say. I realized something ________ be done to change the situation. I visited him often and talked about the things happened when I was young with him. We had dinner together. We traveled together. We saw the beautiful scenery (风景) of the world together. The relationship between Dad and me rebuilt.