1 . As a teenager, I was pretty lazy when it came to doing things for my family. I found myself refusing to _________ out at home with even the simplest things.

Every Wednesday afternoon, for example, my mother _________ me to another town for a piano lesson. During my two-hour lesson, she’d rush to the nearby store and buy a week’s worth of _________. Given the fact that my mom had driven me twelve miles there, twelve miles back, and _________ for my lesson, you’d think I’d be very _________ to help her bring the groceries into the house. But I wasn’t. I generally just brought in an armload and left the rest for Mom as I ran to my room and shut the door.

Don’t get me wrong. Back in my room, I felt _________ about not helping my mother more. Deep inside, I wanted to change my _________ . But I also realized that once I took on more responsibility, my parents would start _________ more from me. At age fifteen, I sensed that this one small change would mark something much bigger: my personal change from a spoiled(宠坏的) child to a more _________ young man.

I’ll never forget the Wednesday when I made a(n) __________ to try and see what would happen. Returning home from the lesson I disappeared into my room, as usual. But once inside, I felt that deep and burning __________. Throwing my school books on the bed, I suddenly opened my door and __________ back to the garage to help my mother. How happy I felt that day! Surely, over time, I continued to help out with more housework. The more I helped out, the __________ I felt about myself. As Mom and Dad realized they could __________ on me more, our trips became far less stressful, too.

Sometimes the little things we put off dong for the longest time __________ out to be simplest things to complete. Feeling happy beats feeling guilty any day.

2 . Family meals are an important part of living with a family. A recent survey shows that most American children and their family _____ a meal at least four times a week. This is a(n) _____ sign, in my view. It is _____ dining together is able to benefit family members.

Firstly, having a meal together can help a family stick together, which helps strengthen each family member’s sense of _____. Family meals can teach younger people about their _____ by eating traditional foods. Family members can also relax together during this time, temporarily leaving the worries behind, and enjoy each other’s _____. Routine socializing helps family members show each other’s _____ which cannot only be expressed on Thanksgiving Day.

Secondly, family meals also play an important part in a child’s growth. For example, parents are able to _____ their children’s psychology(心理) at this time based on their deeds and expressions. If parents _____ to lead kids to tell something about it, they can eventually figure out what their psychology looks like. If there is something wrong with it, parents and kids can discuss about it and find the ______. Studies show eating together means that kids were not likely to have ______ to smoke, get into fights, or commit suicide. Children who eat with their families are more likely to ______ high grades in the end than those who do not eat family meals. And such kids are probably to be more ______, and make more friends.

Through family meals, parents can also ensure that their children are eating ______ foods to have strong bodies. It’s because children who eat together with their families can be taught to be not particular about meals.

These families ______ to eat more fruit and vegetables, instead of often eating at fast food restaurants like the others.

3 . My name is Miranda Gibson. I have been at the top of a tree for five months now. Some people might wonder________on earth I would choose to do that.

I have walked through this forest many times. On December 12, 2011, ________rolled into the forest and the destruction (摧毁) began. I couldn’t________the thought that these forests would be________ forever. So, on December 14, 2011, I packed up my life, ________of my job plans, and climbed 60 meters to the top of this tree. I have been here ever since.

Life in the tree top can be________at times. I have times when I feel frustrated (沮丧的) and wish I could________, to anywhere, just have a ________of scenery for a minute! There are times too, when I feel terribly________.I miss my friends and family.________these times, I find myself loving the________.

Living on the tree has been inspiring. I am willing to________ here for as long as it takes,________I honestly hope it won’t be too________before I can put my feet on the ground below and stand in a forest that will never be________.

4 . When 12, I knew my teen years would be the _______ years of my life. I was a total outsider, bullied (欺凌) at school. I felt _______ alone in my small town. _______ , by doing volunteer work when 14, I turned my _______ into a chance to help others. The opportunity to practice kindness made me feel my life had a greater _______. The more _______ energy shared, the more kindness and appreciation I _______. I realized my purpose in life would be to help people, especially teenagers, feel less alone.

Books were my true friends back then. I was so _______ that the authors wrote those books. The _______ they offered with their books saved my life. My biggest dream was to become an author to write books that would ________ other teenagers as those books helped me.

After ________ terrible experiences at school and at home, I chose to take the positive road in later steps of my journey. I have been a full-time ________ of teen novels since 2007 and am grateful for this amazing opportunity to reach ________ to readers every day.

Kindness saved me ________ I needed help the most. Small acts of kindness can change someone’s life. You never know what someone else is ________. But by practicing daily kindness, you become an architect of positive change.

5 . Growing up in the 1960s, I was taught from an early age to send a handwritten thank­you note expressing _______ for kindness. My mother used to buy me a box of paper and _______ me in the art and value of saying “thank you”. She _______ to be right.

A study showed that it took less than 5 minutes to write the thank­you notes. Just 5 minutes to make _______ person feel overjoyed! _______, in our “instant” world, the idea of getting an actual pen and writing an actual note seems to never come to mind. We tend to do what is _______ for us—a quick text or an email.

It’s easy to use the _______ of being busy, but even very busy and _______ businessmen find time to _______ thank­you notes. For example, when Douglas Conant became CEO of Campbell’s, the company had __________ half of its market value and morale(士气) was at an all­time low. He __________ fixing that by doing some simple things that are probably not __________ in any MBA class. For one thing, Conant wrote to every __________. He gained their confidence and __________, turned the company __________.

6 . We had just completed a unit on heroes, and I had given my kindergarten class a task to draw their favorite hero. Each child was _________with the task, creating colorful masterpieces.

However, one little boy was having_________with the task. Cameron was with autism (自闭症), but that didn’t matter to me or his classmates. We all _________him just the way he was. I sat and watched Austin, a little boy, _________ with Cameron. Within a few minutes, Cameron began _________and then coloring.

Finally, it was time for everybody to share their pictures. I listened as each student_________stood in front of the class, his or her picture held high, and _________his or her hero. It was finally Cameron’s _________. He stood up and anxiously placed his drawing in front of his _________to avoid eye contact. We all fixed our eyes on the picture,__________to know who his hero was. He then said it was a picture of me. He added that I helped him learn things and then __________sat down. Tears began to form in my eyes, but nothing could have __________me for what happened next.

When Austin stood up, he proudly held up a picture of Cameron. Austin said that Cameron was his hero because Cameron had the __________that made it really hard to learn, but he was like Superman and was really smart.

Cameron immediately stood up, and put his arms up in the air as if he were going to__________, yelling out, “I’m Superman!” The entire class began striking Superman’s poses, too. Within minutes, we were all laughing as though we had truly discovered the secret of becoming __________.

7 . Last weekend, I had an opportunity to serve as a volunteer at a nursing home in another city. I don’t have a car and even the _________ train station is far away from my house. _________， I wasn’t sure how to get there.

I posted a request for a ride on the ride share board. Soon an individual I’d never met _________ that he’d be able to pick me up and drop me off at the station. He said he’d wait until my train arrived before he drove away. My heart _________ and the stress I’d been feeling disappeared immediately and thus our friendship began.

I _________ arriving at the nursing home in time. The tiny team of workers there were _________ for the additional help. We all worked together as a team. I was glad to be a part of this and be of _________ to the elderly.

That evening when my new _________ dropped me off at the station, he noticed that it was in a deserted (空寂无人的) area. So he parked his car and said, “We will wait for the train to come together.” I couldn’t believe his _________.

With five minutes left before the train arrived, he __________ with me stories of his childhood. As a young boy, he __________ to sit near the edge of the railway tracks, waiting __________ for the trains to rush by with all their force. That night he waited with me as my train __________. It didn’t rush by with full force but I left that station __________ the full force of his kindness and generosity. People like him would always __________ me how to love and how to give.

8 . Playing toss and catch with small children can be a fun experience, as they enjoy it very much. “again, Mommy, again!” Sarah exclaims as I toss her up in the air and catch her safely. She spreads her arms and legs as if she were flying, her eyes gleaming with _________. Her complete trust in me is heartwarming, yet it also carries a great deal of _________.

I hope that Sarah will always have complete _________ in me, but I realize that as she grows older, earning and maintaining her trust will require more effort and good judgment _________. Trust is such an essential part of a parent-child bond that it’s something that can’t _________ to lose or be taken for granted. Every time I _________ Sarah to something new, she’ll do it only because she trusts me and feels _________ in the knowledge that she won’t get hurt. For example, teaching Sarah to swim means she has to _________ that when she’s swimming in the big pool, I’ll come to her rescue if her doggy paddle lets her down.

_________ in the workplace, trust is crucial for strong __________. It is something that every manager should work hard to __________ among their team. Without trust, your team is unlikely to __________ your directions and willingly work together to achieve common goals. A __________ of trust can make people work against you rather than for you. At the very least, it means that people are not going to be __________ you their best. Good __________, like good parenting, is a long-term commitment, which requires effort, understanding, and patience.

9 . I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to El Capitain, a_________rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew_________I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion(热爱) ever since—_________the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my_________.

About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of_________, like beer cans, empty boxes, around the area. It’s beyond me why visitors started respecting the place_________and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.

I tried_________trash(垃圾) myself, but the job was too big. I would_________an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so tired of it that I decided something had to change.

In 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a_________. On that day, more than 300 people__________. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to__________. I couldn’t believe the__________we made—the park looked clean!

Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash.

I often hear people__________about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by__________rather than complaining. We need to teach by__________.

10 . When I was a child, my father had to do three jobs for a family of seven. Every time I saw him come back late, looking _______, I promised myself that someday I would show my thanks to my father for _______he had done.

Over the next twenty years, my father worked hard to _______ our big family and suffered a lot from a heart problem. One morning, my father’s old car _________ and he asked me to pick him up after his medical examination. He had _________ refused when I offered to replace _______.   He said that he did not want something that he was unable to pay himself.

As he stepped out of the doctor’s office, he looked unusually_______ . We drove _______and he made me promise to keep the medical report as a _______. I did this with a heavy heart.

At that time, I was ________ a new car. I asked my father to go with me to pick one out.________   I started talking with the salesman, I noticed my father admiring a brown car. I finally________ a white car. My father took one final look at the ________car and seemed kind of _________   Before leaving I heard him muttering (嘀咕) to himself, “Really like that car. Wish I could   _______ it.”

Several days later, I asked my father if he could go with me to pick up my new car. As we arrived, the salesman handed him a key to his new car - the brown one - and explained that it was for him, from me. My father looked at me in great surprise . I explained it was my childhood promise and smiled at this man, who had given up everything for his family.