1 . Not being able to see someone you love for a long time is hard, but it does make a reunion (重逢) more special.

Owen and Stevie _________ several years ago at their school in Chicago. They became close friends and it seemed that nothing could _________ them. Unfortunately, their friendship was _________ three years ago when Owen and his family moved to Missouri. Owen and Stevie were _________ to keep their long-distance friendship. _________, it wasn’t easy not being able to see their best friend every day.

Recently, Owen’s dad was _________ for a business trip to Chicago. The two families naturally took advantage of this amazing _________ for a reunion. Instead of telling Stevie the great news, they kept the _________ from him. When the big day arrived, Stevie was _________ kept in the dark.

That day, Stevie’s mum __________ to pick him up early. Little did Stevie know that his best friend was __________ him in the back seat. When Stevie __________ his mum’s car with a basketball in his hand, Owen was hiding in the car. Yet the moment the door opened wide, so did Stevie’s __________!

“What are you doing here?!” Stevie said with a big __________.

“I’m __________ you in Chicago! That’s what I’m doing here,” Owen replied, then giving Stevie a huge hug.

“I feel like I’m dreaming,” Stevie said…

2 . Cake and birthdays go hand in hand. However, on her first birthday, Akeesha Rose __ an extra special treat. Her aunt, Leah O'Brien, had placed an order for a Peppa Pig themed ___at a bakery. Little did she know that when she went to____it, another customer had paid for it and left a __ for the ^“birthday girl". It read： " __ what would have been my little girl’s first birthday, I have chosen to pay for your birthday cake. I am __ to buy my daughter a cake of her own today, but I hope you enjoy this one and have a fantastic birthday. Hannah's __ ."

Ms. O'Brien told BBC News NI she was "overjoyed". "I'd never heard of anything like this happening before. It was such a kind __."

Determined （坚定的）to find out more about Hannah, and to thank her dad, Ms. O Brien ___pictures of the cake and card on Facebook.

"I __ wasn't sure if the family would be happy with me doing so, but I really wanted to reach out to them," she told BBC News NI.

With thousands of people liking, __ and commenting, it wasn't too long before Ms. O’Brien uncovered the __ of Hannah's father — Gareth Bronte.

Tuesday 10 September would've been my daughter's first birthday,” he told BBC News NI. "Unfortunately, she died after eight days and I wasn't going to get the __ to buy her a birthday cake. But I wanted to share some___ about in her memory. I walked into the bakery. said I wanted to __ for someone else's birthday cake and explained the reason why. And it just so __ that there was a cake ordered for the one-year-old girl."

"Some people said my actions had restored some faith in humanity （人，性）for them, but I just___ it for Hannah."

Kristy, Gareth's wife, said she hoped his actions would open a __ for other parents who had lost children and help ___their sadness.

After Mr. Bronte's act of kindness, Ms. O'Brien felt driven to follow suit and put money towards another __ cake at the bakery.

3 . Eyes are the window of soul. They are one of the most expressive instruments of body language.Keith，seventeen，from Montclair, New Jersey，learned the hard way about one _______ the eyes can make.“I had a teacher who _______ heavily on classroom discussion，”Keith says.“He seemed to have a strong _______ to know just when I didn’t have the answer.I couldn’t _______ how he could be so _______.Then it dawned on me._______ I didn’t know the answer，I would _______ looking at him.When I did know what to say，I always stared straight back _______ him. From that moment on，I_______ myself to look him in the eye，________ I knew the answer or not.That trick has ________ me a lot of trouble.”

Many people，________ some policemen，believe eye contact is a good ________ to testing honesty.If someone can’t look at you directly in the eye，then he or she is not playing ________ ，they insist. After many experiments，________ ，a number of experts have found out that good liars can make false eye contact.

Eye contact，though not a sure ________ of dishonesty, is a clear way to show interest in another person. When a person looks at you and continues to do so，you know his attention is ________ on you.When he turns his head away, his mind is probably ________.But there is ________.A shy person may have trouble making and keeping eye contact, no matter how interested he is in the other person.And certain nationalities，such as the British and Germans，are much ________ adaptable to eyeball-to-eyeball contact than, say, the French and the Arabs.