1 . 23-year-old Taleigh Loven walked downstairs to her graduation party last October. She was ______ balloons, treats and congratulations from her family. What didn’t cross her mind was her ______ wearing the same graduation cap as she did. ______ him carrying a certificate (证书) with his name on it, she instantly burst into tears.

Mike Loven, 47, decided four years earlier that he was going to restart his study in Grand Canyon University, the ______ school his daughter had just been ______ to. A few weeks later, Mike was taking his first______ course while Taleigh was getting settled in her dorm — with no ______ that Mike was a fellow freshman.

“There was no real reason for ______ it a secret from the family—I merely thought the _______ would be fun,” Mike said. “I work a lot and I’m always on my computer, so no one ______ knew that I was working on stuff (材料) for ______ all those years.”

The ______ part about the whole thing, Mike said, was during ______ midterm seasons when his family would constantly ask him for help with tricky (棘手的) school-related issues. He had his own ______ as well, but he couldn’t tell them. That, he said, ______ many late nights at the computer.

4 . Natalie Browning married the love of her life on June 27. Two weeks before the _________ day, her grandfather, Nelson May, had a stroke (中风) and couldn’t be at the _________. He dreamed of being able to _________ with her in her wedding dress. And since he was unable to travel to the _________, the bride came to him!

After the wedding, Natalie took a _________ from Virginia to Florida, where her grandpa lives. She _________ her wedding dress and did her makeup at the airport. Then she arrived at her grandpa’s _________ ready to dance with him in his living room. “For months he’d been so_________to dance with me on my wedding and I’m just so happy that I was able to _________ him that experience,” Natalie shared.

The video of their dance was __________ on Facebook, and it soon spread quickly. Natalie, the owner of a jewelry business in Virginia Beach, was so happy to have shared that __________ moment with her grandpa.

“I __________ a small business called Great Value that is centered on reminding people that they are deeply valuable,” she said. “I’ve been __________ to share that belief more in my own life and wanted my grandpa to know that he is very __________ to me. And even though he was unable to come to my wedding, the dance he so __________ to have with me was valuable too. So, we made it happen.”

5 . The Cajun Navy is a group of volunteer small boat owners who help people during bad storms and floods. The group ________ volunteering during Hurricane Katrina. During that storm alone, they ________ more than 10,000 people from flooded homes and rooftops! Since then, they have saved more ________ around the US! The Cajun Navy has gone to save during many of the worst ________ that hit the US, such as Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Florence.

Using their ________, they always go into places where people and animals are trapped by floodwaters. They bring their small boats and great skills to find those who are ________ and then they ________ them to safety. How strong and ________ they are in struggling with floodwaters!

Many of the volunteers are fishermen and ________ boat pilots. They, who come from the southeast United States, are expert in ________ through a series of swamps (沼泽) and narrow waterways. The skills they have help them find the way around ________ floodwaters.

A reporter ________ his feelings and meanwhile ________ them after the Cajun Navy stepped in to help during bad flooding in Louisiana. “The ________ were volunteers from the Cajun Navy, who had no ranks, no uniforms, no ________ medals awarded to them for acts of bravery. It was a(n) ________ heart, not a commanding officer, that called them into risky ________ to carry endangered citizens to higher and safer ground,” he said.

The Cajun Navy is a great example of character in action. They do also ________ others. And more and more volunteers join the group. They often put themselves in danger to ________ others. And they do not do it for money or attention, but ________ because they can help and they want to help.