Li is a teacher at a health center in Wuhan. She has been helping children who are unable to speak and listen for 13 years. It was not an easy     1     for her. But when she sees the children     2     back to ordinary (普通的) schools, she feels very happy.

She invented     3     own way to teach the children to speak. For example, when she taught children to pronounce “tu”, which means rabbit, she put a piece of paper in front of their mouth. She said it was     4     to see the paper blow. It was also a great joy to see the children speak, especially when they said “mom” or “dad”     5     the first time.

Li made up her mind to be a teacher     6     she went to college. “One day I found a child who suffered from a painful illness but held back from crying. I was     7     moved by his strong mind,” said Li. Then she decided to help the children and went to a health center to be a volunteer.

After graduation, Li     8     a teacher at the center. She has to work more than eleven     9     a day. To help more children with disability (残疾), Li usually     10     her videos with parents about how to train their children on the Internet. The videos are very successful. She has got tens of thousands of followers.

During the COVID-19 lockdown (活动限制) in Shanghai, lots of food parcels (包裹) reached Shanghai. People from all the other parts of China did their best to h    1     the Shanghai people.

One Tuesday, a truck (卡车) carrying nearly 1,000 food parcels from Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province a    2     in Minhang District, Shanghai. As volunteers were handing out the parcels, they found s    3     unusual. One parcel was noisy. They thought a live chicken might be in it and didn’t pay too much attention to it.

At the same time, a message went popular on the I    4    . It read, “Please tell me if anyone in Shanghai got a food parcel from Yangzhou with a mobile phone in it. My sister was so c    5     that she left her mobile phone in one parcel while she was preparing it.” Many people a    6     the message. “Thank you for your care and love! If we find it, we will g    7     it back to you!” “I thought it was a j    8     at first, but my wife told me it was real. Wish you good luck!” “Give us your a    9    . We want to buy you a new phone.”

L    10    , the phone was found soon. Wang, a truck driver, took the phone with him on his way back to Yangzhou. What a special trip the phone had!

For Helen, the single mom of four-year-old Luna, money was always tight. As Christmas drew nearer, she kept thinking about how she would not make her daughter d    1    . Finally, Helen had thought of having Luna send a letter to Santa Claus (圣诞老人) by balloon, saying Santa would catch the balloon during his flight through the air on his sled (雪橇).

Helen helped Luna write down all the things she dreamed-candies, a Spider-Man ball, a doll, etc., and then put the p    2     into a red balloon. It was a cold morning. As they released the wishes to the sky, Luna whispered, “Dear Santa, please do find and take my balloon with you soon, will you?” The thing was, Helen herself hadn’t expected anyone to find the balloon.

After a simple Christmas, the calendar turned to another year. One day in January, a friend called Helen e    3    , “Log onto (登录) Facebook! Guess what? A man called Alvin found Luna’s balloon! He wants to send Luna gifts!”

In surprise, Helen logged onto Facebook and then she saw Alvin had posted (发布) the pictures of Luna’s red balloon and note, asking about Luna. Thousands of people from all over the country reposted them. Some commented in Alvin’s page, “Back then we were just like Luna. We had also hoped in our childhood that magic Santa would show up in front of us and realize our dream after hearing our pray. Why don’t we just act as Santa o    4     this time and bring magic to little Luna? Alvin, please count us in!” Helen went over all the posts in tears. Loneliness and helplessness had tailed her all the way, but they were g    5     for the first time. A stream of warmth flowed inside her.

Helen contacted Alvin who had gone all the way to find her family for the past one month and told Luna, “Santa d    6     your balloon by accident. But how lucky you are! One of his elves (精灵) found it and will help realize your dream!”

Who could have ever imagined that a balloon would bring the s    7     this close? In April, Alvin headed to Helen. That morning, just as chilly as the day Luna released her balloon, in front of Helen’s house, Alvin and his wife got out of the car with a box full of gifts in their hands. Luna ran out to meet them happily. “Is this what you wanted for Christmas, Luna?” Helen asked. “Absolutely!” Luna exclaimed.

It was 2020 and the performer Emily had just gotten a fantastic nose job. I looked at her before-and-after pictures, and I was sure I needed to get one for     1    . During a phone call with my mom, I told her I wanted to fix my nose. She said     2     a soft voice, “If you believe you’re beautiful, people will see you that way.”

However, she     3     to take me to see a doctor finally.     4     doctor turned my head up and down from one side to another with his hand. The nurse took a photo of my face looking straight ahead. “I can help you have a very nice, thin     5    ,” he said, “The problem is that you will     6     the ability of smelling everything forever.” Hearing that, I was so afraid that I wanted to get out of the office as     7     as possible.

The next day, my father     8     was a photographer, showed up with a bunch of flowers at my apartment. He took a photo     9     I was smelling the beautiful flowers. “I love this and I love you,” he     10     in an e-mail with the photo. In the photo, I was smiling with my face turned to the side, and the light of the flash was right on my nose. I put it up as my picture on WeChat. “I’m lucky to smell everything good in the world, and finally I learn to love the real me!” I wrote in my moment.

Rachel is my best friend. She kept a naughty cat named Billy. Billy used to live in the street. On a cold rainy night, the cat a    1     near Rachel’s house waiting for help. Rachel was so nice to take the poor cat in. However, Billy had a bad habit. He scratched (抓) her sofa all day and all night. F    2    , the sofa was broken. Rachel was not c    3     about that. She had to go to the shop to buy a new one. She looked around the shop and saw a lot of f    4     there. It took her a few days to find the p    5     sofa: it was more good-looking, more comfortable and cheaper than the others. Rachel hoped Billy would love the new sofa and stop his bad habit.