One day, I was so angry with my parents that I left home, saying I would never return. I was ________because my parents refused to buy me a bike.

But in my anger, I didn’t even ________ that I had taken both my father’s shoes and his wallet. As I made my way to the bus station, I felt some pain in my ________. I noticed that the shoe had a hole in it.

There were no buses around. Not knowing what to do, I looked in my dad’s ________. To my utter shock, there wasn’t much money inside. I found a note from his manager. It asked him to wear nicer-looking shoes to the ________. I remembered my mother asking him to________ a pair of new shoes, but he said that his current（现在的）pair of shoes should last another six months ________. I also found an exchange note. Dad was going to exchange his old motorbike for a new bike. I ________ remembered that when I left home, my dad’s motorbike wasn’t there. I started to run back home with my foot paining.

When I got home, my dad was there ________ me. I couldn’t help crying. I hugged him tightly and said, “I’m sorry, Dad. I don’t need a bike.”

That’s when I understood just how much pain and hardship（苦难）our parents sometimes endure, and how great their love for us is. Everyone should remember these from time to time.

We always have a habit of taking our parents for granted. From now on, let’s not________to them about things they have not done and start loving them for what they have done for us. You know being parents is not an easy job.

My mother was a housewife. She thought that successful people spent a lot more time __________ than watching TV. So she asked my brother and me not to watch too much TV, but to read two books every week in our free time. She would check them with marks, __________ she couldn’t read the books at all.

When I went to high school, I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted cool clothes and __________ with friends. I went from being an A-student to a C-student, but I didn’t __________. One night I complained about not having enough Italian shirts. Then my mother gave me all the money and said I could use the money __________ over to buy shirts if I finished buying all the things the family needed. I was very __________ with that, but after I bought those things, there was no money left. I got to know how difficult it was for my mother to do all this. I went back to my studies and became an A-student again. __________, my dream came true and I became a doctor.

My story is really my mother’s story—a woman with __________ education greatly changed my life as a parent. So I believe there is no job more important than parenting (养育).

Bella arrived home late from school that day. When she walked past her mother’s room, she found her mum was still in bed, and seemed to be very weak.

Bella ______ her room and heard the cries from her little sister. She knew her dad would expect her to ______ her sister. And she also had to prepare meals for the whole family as her mum did before.

Bella thought it was not ______ because she also had schoolwork to do, just like everyone else in her class. Why did she have to be the grown-up?

When she got out of the room, she saw her dad sitting at the kitchen table, lonely and tired. ________, something happened inside Bella. She ______ that her father, as well as a husband, must be really worried.

Then she heard a deep voice from her father, “Make the dinner, will you, Bella?” She was going to find a(n) ______ to meet her friends, but she stopped and said to herself, “It is a hard time for everyone in our family. I guess making ______ is just what I can do to help.” Then she went into the kitchen and began peeling potatoes.

“OK, Daddy.” said Bella. “______ will be all right and we can manage.” At the moment, she saw a smile on her father’s face. She felt ______—grown-up, somehow. It was really good to bring   a smile to her father’s face, even for only a moment.

“Daddy, whatever happens, we will be OK. Right?” “Yes, we will. If we ______ on each other, we’ll always be all right.” They both smiled at each other over the table.