A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s disappointment(失望), she said she would go. This would be the  16  time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he  17  lose his face because of her appearance. Although she was a  18  woman, there was a scar(疤痕) that covered nearly the whole right side of her face. The boy never wanted to  19  why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were   20  by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother even though she had the scar on her face, but the little boy was still embarrassed(尴尬) and hid himself from everyone.   21 , he happened to hear of a talk between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked  22 , “How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother replied, “When my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. 23 was too afraid to go in because the fire was  24 , so I went in.    25 I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood  26 and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless(失去知觉) but luckily, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She  27 the burned side of her face. “This scar will be there forever, but to this day, I have never  28 what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with  29 in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great sense of the sacrifice(牺牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand  30  for the rest of the day.

A man was walking along the street when he saw a woman struggle（奋力）with a large box. It was half in and half  1  of her car. He was a helpful man, so he went up to the woman and said, “Let me give you a hand with that box. It looks very   2 . ” “That’s very kind of you,” the woman said. “I’m having a lot of  3  with it. I think it’s stuck（卡住）. ” “Together we’ll soon move it,” the man said. He  4_  into the back seat of the car and took hold of the other end of the box. He said, “I’m ready. ” And he began to_ 5  hard. For several minutes the man and the woman struggled with the box. Soon they were  6  in the face. “Let’s rest for a minute,” the man said. “I’m sorry, but it  7  stuck. ” A few minutes later, the man said, “Let’s try again. Are you ready?”  8  of them took hold of the box again. “One, two, three!” the man said, and they went on with their struggle.
At last, when they were very tired, the man said, “You are  9 . It really is stuck. I don’t think there’s any way we can get it out of the car. ” “Get it out of the car!” The woman cried. “I’m trying to get it  10 !”