One day I wandered into a small Indian shop in the mountainous area of the Sierras in Northern California. And soon I began a(n)  (1)  with the Native American woman who was the owner of the shop. My own Modoc Indian heritage (传承) and love of Indian jewelry encouraged me to tell her of the  (2)   I suffered when my mother's silver belt was stolen. My mother had  (3)   it almost every day of her life. It has  (4)   to me when she had passed through the arch (拱门) of life to the other  (5)  .

   I remember as a  (6)   girl putting my arms around my mother's  (7)   and feeling the warmth of her body through the silver belt. Having her belt gave me great   (8)  after her death.

     (9)   I talked with the Indian woman, I could  (10)  her sympathy. But when I  (11)  expressing my grief at having lost the belt, her   (12)   was not the one of sympathy I   (13)  . What she gave me was a new  (14)   and an insight into my mother.

   "Remember," she said, "the  (15)  gift you were given was things of the   (16)  . Don't ever cry over things that can't cry over you."

   My mother is not a belt. My mother is   (17)   in the woman who now stands in her   (18)   — me. My true heritage is the talents and strengths that she left to me  (19)   cry over things that can't cry over me. I cherish (珍爱) the courage and the love a woman  (20)  to me.

Dear daughter,

Can I tell you a secret?

   Being a mother of a teenager is difficult, which ____  (1)  ____ hits me like a hurricane, sweeping me right up into it.

   Not long ago, I myself was a teenage girl. I thought then that I knew ____  (2)  ____ all, but with each passing year, I ____  (3)  ____ how little actually I knew. I think being a mother is a kind of wisdom that comes ____  (4)  ____ age. Maybe this will be your ____  (5)  ____ too. Maybe you will grow older and realize the same thing ____  (6)  ____ you will be swept one day into the hurricane of motherhood and know ____  (7)  ____ what I mean.

   My mother and I battled when I was a teenager, as I ____  (8)  ____ for independence and imagined her somehow my ____  (9)  ____ rather than my mother. I see now that in each little act, she was telling me I was ____  (10)  ____: when she put curlers (卷发夹) into my hair and I fought because I wanted it ____  (11)  ____; when she tried to help me with my school project and I ____  (12)  ____ because I wanted to do it myself.

   Now I see all the love that I ____  (13)  ____ see then.

   I am   (14)   to see how our relationship will be. I can't wait to   (15)   the young woman that God will make you be. I hope in some small ways He uses me to ____  (16)  ____ you — not just

through hard times and mistakes, but also the way I learn best.

   I hope that we do read this  (17)   together, and that we can   (18)  the time when you were so small, sleeping in my arms and we both ____  (19)  ____ with joy to see each other's face.

   Whatever our relationship will be like, whatever challenges we both may ____  (20)  ____, remember this: my love for you is deeper than I could have ever imagined.

Yours,

Mum

Years ago,if a teenager had some problems in his life,he might go home and write in his diary;now, a teenager with __41___ problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog(博客).In many ways, a diary and a blog are very ___42___; But what makes blogging different from writing in an traditional diary?

The biggest difference is that a blog is much more ___43___ than a diary. Usually,a teenager treats his diary like a book full of secrets that he does not want to ___44___ with others.

It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog instead of a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

The biggest ___45___ with blogging is that anyone can read what you write.If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something ___46___ about him in my diary, he would never know. ___47___, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might read her blog and get angry.

There are also ___48___ to blogging, of course.If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me…”, no one would know about it.However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friend would quickly ___49___ and tell her how much they like her.Blog help people ___40___ in contact with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.

That holiday morning I didn’t have to attend school.Usually,on holiday,mother    (1)    me to sleep in.And I would certainly take full advantage of it.On this particular morning,   (2)    , I felt like getting up early.

I stood by my window overlooking the       (3)    , having nothing better to do. But as it turned out,I was soon to learn about something      (4)    in life.

As I watched several people go by,get into their cars and drive off,I   (5)    an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its    (6)   and a basket of rags and bottles on its back—carriage. He    (7)    from one car to another,washing and cleaning them.From the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already     (8)    washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. He must have begun to work quite early in the morning.

Several thoughts   (9)    my mind as I watched him work. He wasn’t well-dressed. He had on a pair of shorts and a (an)  (10)   T-shirt.The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern            (11)     would want to be seen riding on. But he seemed   (12)   with life. There he was,working hard at his small business,        (13)    at passers-by and stopping to chat now and then     (14)   elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.

There was a noticeable touch of    (15)      in the way he seemed to be doing things ----    (16)    the windscreen (挡风玻璃), then standing back to admire it, scrubbing (擦净) the wheel and      (17)    , standing back to see what they looked like after the scrub.

It was a    (18)   to learn,I felt.At no age need one have to beg for a   (19)    if one has good health and is willing to work hard. For a while I felt   (20)   of myself.Young as I am ----just sixteen, and there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the horizon.

Once upon a time a teacher and his student lay down under a big tree near the big grass area．Then  (1)  the student asked the teacher，“Teacher，I’m puzzled．How do we  (2)    our soul mate(知己)?Could you please  (3)   me?”

The teacher was  (4)  fora few seconds(秒)，and then answered，“Well，it’s a pretty hard and easy question．” The teacher  (5)  ，“Look that way．There is a lot of  (6)  ．Why don’t you walk there? But please don’t walk   (7)  ．On your way，try to find a blade(叶片)of beautiful grass and  (8)    it and then give it to me．But just one”.

The student said OK and then he walked straight  (9)    to the grassy field．A few minutes later，the student came back  (10)  ．When the teacher asked the  (11)  , the student said，“On my journey，I found quite a.  (12)   beautiful blades of grass，but I   (13)   that I would find a better one，so I didn’t pick it．  (14)  I didn’t realize that I was at the    (15)  of the field，and I hadn’t picked any because you told me not to go back，so I didn’t go back.” Hearing this, the teacher said，“That’s  (16)   will happen in real life”.

What is the  (17)     of this story? In the story，grass is the people around you；the beautiful blade grass is the people that    (18)    you and the grassy field is time．In looking for your soul mate，please don’t always  (19)  and hope that there will be a better one．By doing that，you’ll    (20)    your lifetime．Remember “Time Never Goes Back．”

Happiness isn’t about always getting what you want. Happy people understand that sometimes life doesn’t   (1)   their way; life isn’t fair. What they do know, is that you can only do your best,

  (2)   yourself for what doesn’t work, and   (3)   when you need to.

Suffering is an inevitable (不可避免的)   (4)   of humanity. You cannot   (5)   this world without at least a little suffering. Happy people know a   (6)   happiness comes through surviving a deep pain. We learn what we’re truly made of when   (7)   with such hurt.

As hard as you work, and as   (8)   as you try to plan it all out, you’re just not in control. You cannot control the actions or   (9)   of others. In order to reach happiness, happy people accept this inevitable truth and learn to be   (10)   rather than passive to life’s surprises and misfortunes.

If your happiness is   (11)   on how other people feel about you, you will never be happy. You can’t   (12)   everyone and you certainly can’t   (13)   anyone to love you in a specific way. Happy people accept the way their loved ones feel, and work at showing their   (14)   and asking for what they need rather than expecting people to love them the way they want to be loved.

If you believe you are incapable and let that belief   (15)   you from happiness, then   (16)   

you give truth to a self-imposed fallacy (谬论). The only way to improve and succeed at anything is to try and try again. Consider this: who is your   (17)  ? Do you think he or she is so accomplished through a life   (18)   from failure? No! They simply do not let their doubts keep them from happiness.

Unhappy people seek happiness through approval. Unfortunately, that approval is impossible to achieve because it is caused by an inner   (19)  , which keeps them   (20)   striving (奋斗). Happiness can only be achieved through self-acceptance. Yours is the only approval you need.

Always Changing

Jack is leaving, and I’m feeling kind of sad.

You probably don’t know Jack, but you might be lucky enough to  (1)  someone just like him. He’s been the heart and soul of the office for a couple of years combining  (2)  professional skills with a sweet and gentle nature.

And now he’s moving on to an exciting new professional   (3)  . It sounds like it could be the chance of a lifetime, and we’re  (4)  for him. But that doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye to him.

Life has a way of throwing these curve(曲线) balls   (5)  us. Just when we start to get comfortable with a person, a place or a situation, something comes along to   (6)  the recipe. Our ability to cope with change   (7)   , to a great degree, our peace, happiness and contentment in life.

But how do we do that? A friend of mine is fond of reminding us that “survivability depends upon  (8)  .” And then there’s Chris the California surf-rat, who once told me that the answer to life’s problems can be   (9)   in four words: “Go with the flow.”

Iˈm not exactly sure, but I think Chris was saying that life is a series of   (10)  —both good and bad. No matter how excellent your skill, there will always be life-influencing factors over which you have no  (11)  . The truly successful person expects the unexpected, and is prepared to  (12)  adjustments if the need should arise—as it almost   (13)  does.

That doesn’t mean you don’t keep trying to make all your  (14)  come true. It just means that when things come up that aren’t   (15)  in your plan, you work around them—and then you move on.

    “Change, indeed, is painful,   (16)   ever needful,” said philosopher Thomas Carlyle. “And if memory has its force and worth, so also has  (17)  .”

We’re going to miss Jack. But rather than stay on the  (18)  of our parting, we’ll focus on our hopes for a brighter future—for him, and for us. And then we’ll go out and  (19)  everything we can to make that future happen.

       (20)  our plans change—again.

What is time? Is it a thing to be saved or   (1)   or wasted, like money? Or is it something we have no control   (2)  , like the weather? Is time the same all over the world? Thatˈs an easy question, you say.  (3)  you go, a minute is 60 seconds, an hour is 60 minutes, a day is 24 hours, and so forth. Well, maybe. But in America, time is   (4)   that. Americans see time as a valuable   (5)  . Maybe thatˈs why they are   (6)  of the expression, "Time is money."

To Americans, punctuality is a way of showing   (7)  for other peopleˈs time. Being more than 10 minutes late to an appointment usually   (8)  an apology, and maybe an explanation. People   (9)  

are running late often call ahead to let others know of the   (10)  . Of course, the less formal the situation, the less important it is to be exactly   (11)  . At informal get-togethers,  (12)  , people often arrive as much as 30 minutes past the   (13)   time. But they usually donˈt try that at work.

American lifestyles show   (14)   people respect the time of others. When people plan an event, they often   (15)   the time days or weeks in advance. Once the time is fixed, it takes almost a(n)  (16)  

to change it. If people want to come to your house for a friendly visit, they will usually   (17)  first to make sure it is convenient. Only very close friends will just   (18)   unannounced. Also, people hesitate to call others late at night for fear they  (19)   be in bed. The time may vary, but most folks think   (20)   about calling after 10:00 p.m.

  I've been really tied up recently helping my elderly parents out of a crisis and sorting out their house．But sometimes   (1)   opportunities present themselves to you ，which is what   (2)   today．

    I was heading out of town on my way to a well-earned picnic in the countryside，  (3)   to turn across a stream of traffic into a side road，when I   (4)   out of the corner of my eye a pedestrian(行人)   (5)   crossing the road at an unexpected and rather   (6)   place． The figure of a young woman eventually   (7)   at my passenger window in the middle of a two-lane road，looking   (8)   and asking for a lift to a college in town，where she should have been taking an exam which had   (9)   1O minutes earlier，having been let down by the bus．

    I   (10)   to let her in my car and she eventually arrived 20 minutes late． It would probably have been another 40 minutes on stop of that if she'd had to   (11)   the next bus，so hopefully this will have helped her   (12)   the exam． The even was slightly   (13)   when she later called me and wanted to   (14)   me some money，which of course I firmly   (15)  ．

    This has led me to think about general   (16)   regarding being under obligation(责任)to someone，or owing them something which must be   (17)  ． Maybe another time I may have the presence of mind to   (18)   positively and helpfully to such a   (19)  ． The best thing that even when I was behaving normally and casually in my daily time，the fate arranged that I could still have an/a 60 to trust and do someone a favor．