As the years passed, many _________—birthdays, awards, graduations—were marked with Dad’s flowers.

A ______ is something we buy to help remind ourselves of a place we have visited.

 The selfless village doctor treated whoever came to his family without any_   _.

After our government launched a (n)       to popularize Chinese language worldwide, lots of Confucius colleges have appeared in foreign universities.

In a way it was a(n)______ to know exactly what we were up against.