2 . When Mina was just nine months old, she was deserted by her parents. But she was _________ by a family after a year of living in an orphanage (孤儿院).

From an early age, Mina began to play with animals and _________ she had great love to them. In fact, what she loved to do most was _________ the local animal shelters, and when she was 8 years old, the family also adopted a dog named Lily. Mina liked the dog and _________ it many tricks, including how to give a hug.

One day while _________ Lily, Mina met Dr. Stecco, who was walking her dog as well. Stecco has adopted many _________ dogs for Senior Dog Rescue, a nonprofit organization that rescues and re-homes senior dogs. _________ by what the organization does, Mina visited the Senior Dog Rescue, where she made a _________ to assist senior dogs.

“I love the Senior Dog Rescue,” she said. “The dogs may be old, but they’re so friendly and not _________, which is why I want to help them.” Later she started a pet-sitting (宠物看护) __________ called Pet Fairy Services and donates her __________ to the Senior Dog Rescue.

Up to now, she has already __________ seven thousand dollars of her own money. “I feel very proud to know that. I have saved many dogs’ lives and given them another chance to enjoy life for the __________ years of their living,” she said. “I feel like all dogs should get a forever __________ just like I did.”

She said “I took care of my grandpa very __________ and want to look after these dogs in some way because they’re senior and just like my grandpa.”

3 . When I came to my new school three years ago, I was surprised at how lonely I felt.

Then one of my classmates invited me to her house for a dinner_________I was a little anxious, but finally I gladly _________ .

Not really knowing how_________ the bus ride should be, I _________ when I saw the landmarks (路标)_________on my classmate’s hand-drawn map. But when I got close enough to the _________ , I found none of the streets were shown on the map. I was_________ on a busy road with cars driving past without a person in sight. I had no _________ when the next bus would come,_________when a bus did come, I __________got on. I told the bus driver where I wanted to go and he said that I had caught the __________ bus, but he let me stay on. After he had finished his scheduled bus route, he __________to help me out. I gratefully showed him my little hand-drawn map but__________ did not help much.

He finally __________ me off at a main road to catch a different bus and was __________ that he could not help me more. After I walked for a few minutes, a bus stopped beside me. It was the __________ bus driver. He explained that he didn’t want to leave me there __________ He sent out a call and someone radioed back, saying that the bus I needed to catch was about ten minutes away. At last I made it to the dinner party __________ I was over an hour late.

I am forever thankful for the __________that this bus driver had for me. His act of kindness left a __________on my heart.

4 . “I tried to play with some kids at recess（课间休息）and one of them pushed me away. So I _______played by myself," my daughter told me after her first day at primary school. For most people it was no big deal, but I felt quite _______.

I never really_______school. It didn't help that my family moved around a lot so it felt like I was always moving to a_______school. This also_______that I spent much time as a child playing by myself. I _______most children don't like playing by themselves. A_______child is not usually a happy child.

Despite(尽 管)this before my daughter started school I remained pretty _______ . My daughter had a happy time in kindergarten（幼儿园）.She made many friends and was considered as a(n)_______ girl. I knew it wouldn't be ________ for her to make friends at school.

Throughout I wasn't worried or nervous. I'd chosen a local public school for my daughter and many people said the school was a(n)________one. And yet only two days in she'd been by herself at recess—I was close to losing my ________I found myself at midnight searching for the local private schools. A look at fees(费用),however,put an end to that ________

It was then that I stopped and gave myself another reality ________—my daughter had only been in school for two days and I was already considering ________ schools. I needed to give her a ________ to work things out before I made any rash(轻率的）decisions. I________ that I shouldn't let my past experiences influence that of my daughter who is going to________experiences of her own. I also told myself that the start of school can often not be a(n) ________one, and like every new beginning it takes ________to get used to it.

5 . I sat and waited for Kathleen to speak. “Annie, ” she said, “A food bank that serves the elderly is asking for ________ . I’d like you to organize the event”. “Well, errr....sure.” As I stuttered through my ________ , all I could think was, “What? Why me?”

I walked back to my office wondering where to ________ . This was a time when the economy was ________ . The rise in unemployment forced many of my coworkers to ________ to survive. How could I ask them for more?

That evening I drove home with negativity. Then I remembered a time when my father was out of work. Mom wrote a note to Jim, the milkman, asking him not to ________ any more milk. Two days later Jim picked up the   ________ and left four liters of milk. He wrote his message, which read, “Kids need milk.” The milk delivery ________ as usual and Jim never collected a cent ________ us.

The memory of Jim’s kindness ________ my enthusiasm. Perhaps I’d be in for a pleasant surprise.

The next morning I ________ signs about our food drive all over the cafeteria and on every notice board I could find. Each sign said, “Food drive to support the poor elderly! ________ of non - perishable (不易腐的) foods are greatly needed.”

Within a few days I had to locate empty office space to ________ the massive number of contributions we had   ________ . One of my coworkers, Maggie, made the rounds with me every day from one department to another to pick up the canned goods and other ________ . Though over sixty, she pushed our food trolley around with the ________ of a woman half her age.

I asked her where she got all the enthusiasm. She said, “With the unemployment rate touching 10 percent, I can’t think of a better way to be ________ for keeping our jobs when so many have ________ theirs. Sure money is   ________ . But when isn’t it? People need food.”

As I listened to Maggie, the milkman’s words ________ in my ears, “Kids need milk.”

6 . I am a girl, but I was born to be a rebel (叛逆者). I like games that can be ________. Some of the sports I like, even boys won’t play!

Wrestling (摔跤) is ________ seen as a sport for men, but I ________ to see if I could do it.

Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed early to go and watch my brother ________.From morning to night, I would sit watching the ________ have all the fun. Since then, wrestling has been part of my       ________.

For three years, I ________ all the boys and became the best player in the team. My deepest memory of wrestling is when a boy walked off ________ because he’d lost to a girl.

My last ________ was at this year’s Girls’ State Wrestling Championships.

I was so excited. I was sure I would win. My heart was beating hard when the match started. I could see ________ but my competitor. When the final whistle(口哨) blew, I had ________ by four points. The cameras and ________ all turned to me: I was the new wrestling champion. But after a few minutes of enjoying being a champion, pain began to run ________ my knee. Because I hurt my knee, my ________     of being a national champion ended. Even so, I won’t lose heart and still want to wrestle next year when I go to college. I have ________ that you can do anything you want if you stay positive and put your heart into it.

7 . I will never forget one summer in my childhood. While walking in the attic（阁楼），I stepped on something and _______ down, with my hand landing on a floorboard that popped up and almost hit my head. When I _______ and looked inside the open space. I could not believe my eyes：There was gold in there! I _______ a handful of shining gold cubes, ran to the bottom stair and _______ , “Mama，I found gold up there under floor!”

Back up the stairs I dashed, but my brothers almost knocked me down as they ran right by me. When mama opened the door and _______ her head in, she _______ said, “Honey, that’s insulation（隔热材料）. Now put it all _______ .”

I felt really disappointed. I had thought I made a real _______ .

When I _______ inside to put “the gold” back, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was old and small：Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, which I’d never heard of. And ________ I was bored, I decided to see what was inside this little book. To my ________ , it was a book of passages, phrases and proverbs, and I could tell that this was going to be ________ .

So I spent quite much time on it and found ________ in these pages. As I didn’t know how to express things clearly, I often ________ to talk about them. This book helped me ________ that I didn’t need to feel ashamed or ________ , because other people had similar experiences.

When I went to college, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations came with me. Over the years, I’ve kept my ________ copy, which to this day I often ________ . Although it was a coincidence（巧合）to find the book, it liberated（解放）me in a way. It helped me see more than my young mind and heart were able to ________ .

The book discovered under those floorboards was, ________ , gold.

10 . Five years ago, Kelly Klein of Minnesota gradually recovered after battling the cancer. But in 2020, it returned, and she had to lie down every day to _______ the treatment again.

The first time around, the beloved teacher was _______ to take six months off work for the monthly chemo (化疗). _______, during these days, she spent her five-hour chemo sessions on the _______ — teaching her students online!

Kelly has been teaching at Falcon Heights Elementary for the last 32 years. She said it’s a process of _______ the society, and more than a job. So the _______ of having to take more time off was _______ what she never expects to do. But the move to online school during COVID-19 made it _______ for her to see her students. Since she has to sit in a chair during each treatment, she realized her monthly _______ was a perfect chance to see her kids!

“Teaching 5-year-olds is like ________ Disney World. Everything there truly ________ them and they’re so excited about everything that it gets me ________ though I’m suffering from the cancer,” she said.

Headmaster Beth Behnke wasn’t ________ when Kelly said she desired to find a way to ________ her students. “Because I know what this ________ to her. It is her cause that she ________ very much.”

Kelly’s battle has been a great ________ this time because it’s terminal. Knowing this, Kelly decided ________ to spend as much time as possible with her lovely students.

What an educator with an abundance of ________! If only every child could be ________ enough to have a teacher like her in their life.