How are you？I am Li Hua.__________________________________________________________________

Best wishes!

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

My name is Zhang Meng.

Best wishes.

Yours sincerely,

Zhang Meng

   I've spent most of my career as a traveling salesman. There's nothing _______ than eating meals in a coffee shop. One year，my five-year-old daughter Jeanine gave me a（n）________.It was a soft toy penguin with a hand-painted card ___________ "I Love My Dad！"Tears came to my eyes ________ and，I gave it a special place on my desk.

Soon I had to leave on _________ business trip. This time when I was _________，I put the penguin in my suitcase. After that day，Jeanine __________ helped me with the penguin. Many years have _________ since then. And that little penguin has kept me ________ for hundreds of thousands of miles all across America and over to Europe. We have also made many friends along the way.

Late one night，after leaving my hotel，I _________ that the penguin was missing. Frantically（紧张慌乱地），I __________ the hotel. The clerk laughed，saying it hadn't been __________.But half an hour later，he called back to say that my penguin had been ___________.It was already ___________，but I still drove several hours to get my little friend，arriving near midnight.

It was waiting at the front desk. In the lobby，___________ business travelers looked at us-I thought with some ___________ that I had such a lovely friend. Someone came out to shake my hand. Another man told me that he had even ___________ to deliver it to me the very next day，which would have saved me the trip.

Jeanine is in college now and I don't travel as much anymore. The penguin spends most of its time sitting on my __________ — a reminder（提醒人的事物）that _________ is the best traveling companion. All those years on the road，it was the one thing I never left home __________.

   Old friends They finish your sentences, and they tell you the truth when you've had a bad haircut. ____ mostly, they are always there for you-whether it's in person or late-night phone calls-in good times and _____. But as the years pass, it becomes increasingly _____ to see each other, to make new memories. ___, my high school friends and I promised to have reunions.

A few months ago, we met up for a two-day _____ in the American Southwest. We grew up together in Maine and have said for years that we should have a（n）_____ event, yet it was often put off or _____ due to schedule conflicts（冲突）. Not this year.

The weekend _____ long talks by the pool, wonderful meals, and a hike that brought the entire group to _____. Not tears of sadness or anger, but a close tie with such physical ______ between us. It's heartbreaking that we can't spend our days together in the same neighborhood. But that's ______. Grown-up life.

The most ______ is the group's adaptability to one another. The time we ______ apart is non-existent. No need to get reacquainted, we jump back in the saddle（车座）and it's as comfortable as ever. Old friends—friends with an ever-present ______ of support and sisterhood, friends that know each other-are hard to come by and yet we ______ today as we were years ago, laughing in the back row of Mr. McKechnie's 9th grade math class.

Life today,______, has no math class. Our world is full of ______, full of fear. Yet it ______ me— now, more than ever—how important it is that we stay ______. We may have questions about our future, but we have true faith in our past, and though this reunion of friends has come to a close, we are already ______ our plans for the next one.