UNIT1 In Another World

　　Here I am, in China, half way around the world from home. As I look at my clock and calculate the time back home .I realize that half a world away, people are busy getting ready for a wedding.

　　The bride is my niece, a person I first met when she was three days old.

　　I think back to the first time I had the opportunity to become __1__ niece. As my sister cradled her in her arms, the infant girl clasped

　　her mother's outstretched finger.

　　My __2__told me that her temperament would be a sunny __3__, a joy to people around her.As she grew, the cute little girl had an __4__

　　laugh that started as a small grin, then became a giggle and grew louder and louder until it triggered a response from all the people around her and they joined in.As an adolescent, she studied hard and enjoyed welldeserved success in secondary school as she interacted with her peer group. After receiving her high school diploma, she chose nursing as her career. From the beginning of the young couples romance,

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　　The couple had an engagement party when I was at home in Canada a few months ago. The party was in the form of a picnic in a beautiful rose garden. To celebrate and to toast their future, we drank champagne. As they posed under an arch covered with climbing roses,we snapped pictures for their photo album.The couple decided on a fall wedding. Plans for the wedding day were activated immediately. The decisions about the forthcoming event were shared by the whole family. A close friend of the family was contacted and invited to sing a solo just prior to the ceremony