1 . Sara Kays, a 22-year-old singer-songwriter from Indiana, US, is a(n) ________ star on online video-sharing platforms. She not only uses TikTok to ________ her music but also posts partially-finished snippets (片段) of songs to get ________ from her followers.

“It’s been cool to engage with people that way, and sometimes I’ll ________ to a comment of someone asking me if I could write a song about an idea they suggested,” said Kays.

Kays has been using online platforms to pursue her music dream to ________ effect. Now, she is a TikTok celebrity with about 1.3 million followers. She released her breakup song Remember That Night? in November 2020. The post ________, getting almost three million views. Kays has ________ singing since she was young. At 11, she got a guitar from her mother and then started to ________ while playing. Two years later, she began busking (街头卖艺) on the streets in her hometown,   which she had been doing throughout high school. ________, people started asking her to play at restaurants and she also started to ________ some live videos on YouTube, gaining her more and more followers.

Different from other content creators who update their content ________, Kays updates on a weekly basis and only posts videos about her songs and ________ stories, such as singing, playing the guitar or ukelele, recording in the studio and shooting music videos.

Now, Kays has ________ with a music company. She hopes to sing live and go on tour. In Kays’ eyes, people like her songs and videos ________ she shows the ideal package for a TikToker: relatable (易产生共鸣的), authentic (真实的) and youthful. “I just sing and share my feelings about divorced parents, body image, loneliness and mental health,” said Kays. “I want more people to know they’re not alone with the ________ in their lives.”

2 . Chloe Smith is a 6-year-old girl from Atlanta, Georgia. One day, while taking a walk with her father near their home, she _________ something shiny under a pile of rubbish. She picked up the _________ to take home, as she often did on her treasure-hunting walks. Chloe was later _________ to discover she had found a stolen Olympic gold medal.

The medal belonged to former canoeist (划艇运动员) Joe Jacobi, who won gold while _________ for Team USA in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. The medal, along with other personal belongings, was _________ in May of 2016 when someone broke into Jacobi’s house. Though police managed to _________ some of his stolen items, they hadn’t been able to find his _________ Olympic medal. It may have been lost forever, if not for a 6-year-old girl’s treasure — hunting _________.

Chloe’s dad had seen Jacobi’s story on the news, and _________ realized it was his stolen property. He found Jacobi’s email and sent him pictures of the treasure. After __________ the medal, Jacobi was astonished, just speechless.

Chloe was __________ to give it back after speaking with Jacobi on the phone. __________, Jacobi promised to speak to her class when school begins again this fall. The __________ of this little girl reuniting an Olympian with his beloved possession is __________. When we talk about character and doing the __________ thing, Chloe represents the Olympic values in every sense of the word.

3 . A thief dropped a winning lottery ticket (彩票) at the scene of his crime, but he has been given a lesson in _______. The man whom he robbed _______ the ticket and won the ￡25,000 prize. But the man managed to find the thief, and handed over the _______.

The robbery happened when Professor Sabbatucci was changing a tyre on a highway. Another motorist, who stopped “to_______”, stole a suitcase from his car and drove off. The professor found the _______ ticket and brought it home.

The next day, the professor saw the lottery _______ on TV and realised it was a winner. He _______ the ￡25,000 prize, but he decided not to keep the money. He made an announcement on the radio, _______, “I’m trying to find the man who robbed me. I have ￡25,000 for him — a lottery _______. Please meet me.”

The professor received hundreds of ________ from people who were hoping to ________ him into handing them the money. But there was one voice he ________ and he arranged to meet the man in a park.

The robber gave back the ________ and burst into tears. He could not ________ what was happening.“Why didn’t you keep the money?” he asked. The professor replied, “Because it’s not mine.” Then he walked off, turning down the thief’s ________ to share the prize.

4 . My husband, our children and I have had wonderful camping experiences over the past ten years.

Some of our _______ are funny, especially from the early years when our children were little. Once, we _______ along Chalk Creek. I was _______ that our 15-month-old boy would fall into the creek (小溪). I tied a rope around his waist to keep him near to our spot. That lasted about ten minutes. He was _______, and his crying let the whole campground know it. So _______ tying him up, I just kept a close eye on him. It _______ — he didn’t end up in the creek. My three-year-old, however, did.

Another time, we rented a boat in Vallecito Lake. The sky was clear when we _______, but storms move in fast in the mountains, and this one quickly _______ our peaceful morning trip. The _______ picked up and thunder rolled. My husband stopped fishing to ____________ the motor. Nothing. He tried again. No ____________. We were stuck in the middle of the lake with a dead motor. As we all sat there ____________, a fisherman pulled up, threw us a rope and towed (拖) us back. We were ____________.

Now, every year when my husband pulls our camper out of the garage, we are filled with a sense of ____________, wondering what camping fun and ____________ we will experience next.

6 . It’s amazing how one dollar can change the culture of a school.

We have a _________ school of about 30 students. It is really full of competition and pressure as most of the kids get good _________ and try to be the best ones. It’s good except that a lot of us middle kids felt really _________. We got the feeling that we were so selfish—it’s every man for himself.

_________, my friend and I set out to find a way to change the culture. We thought doing things for others was the only way to _________ our depression about school. On the first day of school we put a _________ folded into a heart into one of the leaders’ lockers with a piece of paper that _________ “Buy yourself a snack.” We hoped to give away small gifts every day. We didn’t know the _________ it would have.

People went _________ over it and everyone was talking about who it might be doing the acts of kindness and __________ that they should do something too. It is so much fun to see the __________ on everyone’s faces now! Lots of other people have started sharing __________ now too: chocolate bars, cookies and money left on purpose in the vending machine (自动售货机). And lots of notes are on the thanks board saying: “Thanks to whoever started.”

Now I actually expect to go to school to have the chance to __________ people up. I hope kindness will __________ to other schools. If anybody is struggling with being __________ at school and work, I totally suggested doing acts of kindness.

7 . Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to _________my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small party in the backyard. I started thinking about doing a solo _________ somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out maps and drew the 1,500-mile route along which I would be _________ from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I shared my plans with my dad, he _________ as I thought he would. Because I get my adventurous spirits from him, he was _________it.

I had only been away from my home three days now, but there was an inner _________ going on inside of me. Part of me was _________ and doubting whether I really could make it. The other part of me was ready to _________ to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.

On the road, I met another bicyclist who was quite a bit older than I was. He had started his journey alone by bike at the southern part of Norway and had just finished. I could tell he had a great sense of _________. It encouraged me not to __________.

As I listened to my __________ artists on my MP4 player, I pedaled (踩踏板) with my feet. There was __________around me for miles. __________, that wasn’t entirely true. There were mosquitoes (蚊子) ——millions of them. My arms were so dotted with bites that they looked like a topographical map (地形图). But, however __________ it would be, nothing could stop my advance __________ the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.

8 . A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air to the right woman. But _________ apply. You must be named Elizabeth Gallahgher and have a Canadian _________.

Jordan Axani, 28, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their _________ ended and he did not want her ticket to _________. The ticket had a strict no-transfer (不可转让) _________, but since passport information was not required when _________, any Canadian Elizabeth Gallagher can _________ it.

“I just want to see the ticket go to good use and for someone to _________ a lot of joy,” said Axani. He posted his _________ on a social networking website, and received thousands of e-mails, including thirty from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with the __________ passports, “More __________, there are hundreds of Canadians who are interested in __________ their name to Elizabeth Gallagher, Axani said. “It was absolutely out of __________, thousands of e-mails, people around the world __________ their stories of travel.”

Axani wrote in his post that he is not __________ anything in return and that the woman who uses the __________ ticket can choose to either travel with him or __________ the ticket and travel on her own.

The __________ is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before __________ in Toronto on January 8. He said the __________ woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.

9 . 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.