One man was to meet his wife downtown. He waited patiently for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for another 15 minutes. After that, he became ________. When he saw a photograph booth (小间) nearby, he had a(n) ________. He wore, the most unhappy expression(表情) he could manage. In a few moments, he was holding four small prints.

He wrote his wife’s name on the back of the ________ and handed them to a clerk (职员) in the booth. “________ you see a small lady with brown eyes and an apologetic (歉意的) expression, looking for someone, would you please give her this?” he said. He then ________ to his office, thinking that if a picture is worth (值得) a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good lesson! He sat down with a smile.

His wife ________ those pictures. She carries them in her purse now and shows them to anyone who asks whether(是否) she’s married.

How are you with ________? One person calls it “waiting training”. It seems that there is always something we are waiting for. Patience is an important ________ of a happy life. After all, some things are worth waiting for. Every day presents many chances for waiting training.

We can hate waiting, ________ it or even get good at it! But one thing is ________—we cannot avoid it. How is your waiting training coming along?

The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere. Music is an international language. It is ________ in a lot of different ways and by lots of different people all over the world. In our daily life, almost ________ listens to music. Music has a strong ________ on people’s mood. That is the ________ thing about music. It can make you laugh, ________ and provoke (激起) memories and feelings. Just think about it. By making the music, you can express yourself and give yourself happiness. And when doing this, you ________ thousands of people with the same happiness and make them feel different emotions. It can make you ________, or give you energy. Music is something that could make people feel happy and smile ________ make them feel sad and cry at the same time. When you play the same music for different people, it can make ________ have different feelings. Music can even help you ________ a problem. It has the power to do it.

Music is one of the most beautiful things in our ________. Just look at jazz. When you listen to it, it’s ________ you can touch it. It is ________ to explain it with words. When watching movies, the background music brings such feeling. Music can ________ strengthen (增强) feelings and moods. When you are sad and listen to sad love songs, it usually makes you even ________. But when you are in a good mood, pleasant music can strengthen that feeling.

The saying “No music, no life” is really true!

I care about the little wonders in the world around me. My father has treasured an old suitcase for a long time. It has become the biggest _________ in my life.

My father was ever an artist when he was young. After struggling (奋斗) for 20 years, he got all his work done well and came back living with my mother 50 miles away from my new house. A few months ago, I _________ to visit my parents. As soon as my car stopped, my father brought me in and said, “I have _________ for you.” I followed him to his study. It was an old suitcase. At first sight, it might not look like much, it was just a _________ brown suitcase with two silver locks up on the top. But to him, it’s _________ what a miracle looks like.

That suitcase is the very one my dad brought with him _________ he moved to the U.S. from Turkey in 1965. He’s just a 19-year-old boy who had _________ money, even didn’t know a word of English at the time. He left all his friends and family with an empty stomach, _________ that he would become an excellent artist one day. The suitcase carried my dad’s most _________ things: many black-and-white photos from home and his favorite art works.

As a kid, I __________ paid much attention to the suitcase. It only lived quietly on the top of my bookcase. It was the time I got __________ that my father told me about it. Looking inside, I found tons of photos and the letters __________ wrote to my mother, back and forward between the U.S. and Turkey.

Tears came down and finally I realized __________ the suitcase meant to him and his family. How beautiful that dirty old suitcase actually was, it carried my father’s dream and the hopes of the family. It’s a memory of not only the hardships (苦难) my parents __________, but also all the wonderful things they had, how they found love, how they __________ difficulties and how their dreams came true.