请你根据句意和单词的首字母填空.

Here is a l ________ from my pen pal.

请你根据句意和单词的首字母填空.

Here is a l ________ from my pen pal.

先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个合适的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词必须在答卷标有题号的横线上完整写出。

Here is a question I have often asked at dinner parties:

You're on an island with only one other person, your best friend. He's d   1.   of cancer. In his f 2. days, he tells you, "I have 100,000 dollars in a bank back home. When I die, make s  3. my son goes to medical school." Then he dies. But his son is a no-good playboy who has no i 4.  in going to medical school and will w  5.   that money away in a very short time. But your son is entering college, and he is w  6.  to become a doctor. Which one do you give the money to for medical school?

   I've asked this question of everyone from the president of a famous university t 7. an ordinary young soldier, and it has never f  8. to get a discussion going. Everyone has an opinion, most of them different, but all of them c 9. . Sometimes this one topic l 10. the whole evening.