I was waiting for the bus when I met the woman. “You look_______Come and sit here,” she said. “_______are you going?”

“I don’t know. I just want to catch a_______and see what it will be like at the end.”

“I’m afraid you’ll see_______there. Why don’t you enjoy the sights on the way?”

“How can I do that while my heart’s_______?” I asked sadly. My best friend had left me.

The woman seemed to understand my feeling. “Don’t cry, little girl. I’ve had a similar experience to you. Thirty-five_______ago, my husband left our three children and me. I was deadly sad. I decided to kill myself and the children, so I took_______to the sea._______, they seemed to know what would happen, so they_______loudly. Their cry suddenly woke me________How could I________my hope to live for one of life’s problems? After that, I worked hard to raise the children. Now they all live________and one of them has his own family.”

Then the woman gave me a________, “We should never wait for the door to________before us. We should find the key to the________or try to find another way.”

Karen found out that she was going to have another baby. Like any good mother, she did ________ she could do to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for a new life. The new baby was going be a girl, and Michael sang to his ________ in Mommy’s stomach from morning till night every day.

Finally, Michael’s sister was born, ________ she was sick and was sent to the hospital. The days went by and the little baby got ________. The doctor told the parents, “There is very little ________ . Be prepared for the worst.” They kept the baby girl in the ICU. Michael, however, kept ________ his parents to let him see his sister. “I want to ________ to her,” he said. Two weeks passed. It seemed that the worst time would come for the baby. Karen decided to take Michael to his sister. She thought this might be the ________ time for him to see her alive. When Karen led Michael to his sisters bedside, he ________ the baby and began to sing softly in the ________ voice of a 3-year-old boy, Michael sang, “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey.” ________ the baby girl moved and her pulse rate (脉搏) became calm. All the people were shocked to see that.

“Keep on singing, Michael,” Karen ________ him with tears in her eyes. “You never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don’t take my sunshine ________,”Little by little, as Michael sang to his sister, the baby was relaxed.

After a few days, the little girl was ________ enough to go home! Women’s Day Magazine called ________ “the miracle (奇迹) of a brother’s song”.

Never give up the people you love!

Something that happened between my father and I is still in my mind. It was a Sunday morning, and was ________ a terrible mood（情绪）. Two friends of mine had gone to the movies that night before and ________ had invited me. I was in my room thinking about how to make them sorry ________ my father came in. “Want to go for a ride today, Beck? It’s a beautiful day.”

“No, ________ me alone!” Those were the last words I said to him that morning.

A few hours ________, my friends called me to go to the mall with them. I forgot to be angry with them and went with them. When I came home, I found a(an) ________ from my mother that said, “Dad has had an accident. Please meet us at the Park Hospital.”

When reached the ________, my mother told me a car hit my father and he was badly wounded. “Your father told the driver to leave him ________ and just call 911. Can’t imagine! If he had moved Daddy...”

My mother may have said more, ________ I didn’t hear anything except those terrible words: Leave me alone. ________ had I hurt him when I shouted at him earlier that day?

It was several days later that he was finally able to talk. I held his hand gently, afraid of ________ him.

“Daddy, I am so sorry.”

“It’s okay, sweetheart. I’ll be okay.”

“No,” I said, “I ________ what I said to you that day. You know, that morning.”

He looked at me and said in a ________ voice. “Sweetheart, I remember nothing about that day.”

My English teacher once told me that words have great ________. They can hurt or they can heal（治愈）. And we all have the power to ________ what to say. I am going to do that very carefully from now on.