2 . A little girl created a perfect gift for her mother’s birthday. It was a drawing of a _______on white paper with the words “For mom: love, love, love” decorated with hearts. She folded (折叠) her letter, but then she _______it.

For most people, that would be the _______ of this story, but this story had a different result. James Carrell found the letter. He had just_______ his mother, wishing her a happy birthday. After he hung up, Carrell saw the _______ on the ground outside of a hardware store in Manvel. “I _______ it was a gift,” said Carrell. “I opened it up and saw the flower and hearts. It really _______ me.” Carrell thought the letter would _______ someone’s day and that maybe he could find the owner, so he posted it on the Internet. The message moved a lot of people, _______ one man.

“I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man’s ________,” said Carrell.

The comments included one from Robert Alvarado. He wrote, “I can’t ________ you found my baby’s letter.” Carrell reached Alvarado to ________ the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally met on Thursday night.

“Eventually the letter made it home,” said Alvarado. “We are ________ for what James Carrell did.” We often forget the power of ________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a ________impression.

4 . It’s hard being an astronaut’s son, I _________, everybody expects you to be special or _________, but I’m just an average student.

I often wonder _________ my father ever had a son like me. I mean he’s so _________ and so good at everything. So I used to dream about doing something spectacular (令人印象深刻的) to _________ my father.

In one class, my teacher _________ a Father’s Day essay contest for us and the winners’ essays would be read in front of all the parents and students. After school I walked home, _________ about my father, who I would write about in my essay.

He sat with me in the _________ when I was a little kid and had a nightmare. He _________ me with a new puppy at my eighth birthday party. To me, he wasn’t a world-famous astronaut, but just my dad.

I wrote about all these __________ in my essay. One of our neighbours said, “I __________ you’ll win the contest, David. You’re the only one in town whose father is an astronaut.” I didn’t want to win __________ because my father was an astronaut.

I won the second prize. When I finished reading my essay, the __________ applauded. I saw my father blowing his nose.

Dad nodded to me, __________ his throat, and put his hand on my shoulder. “Son, this is the __________ moment of my life,” he said.

It was the proudest moment of my life, too. Maybe I’ll never be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize, but just then, it was enough just to be my father’s son.

5 . On the first day of my school life in the USA, I showed a great interest in my marketing class. My teacher, Mrs Tolman, suggested I ________a national marketing club called DECA attracting many students with talent and interest in ________. So I did.

The first ________ was to collect money for the marketing competition later in the year by selling candles. Mrs Tolman said the competition was due in a week and that 40 percent of the ________ would go into my personal account.

At the beginning, I tried to sell some candles to my host mum. She said that if I could ________ confidence and do a wonderful sales presentation, she would certainly buy some. I started my presentation with a ________ handshake. Then I introduced all the different kinds of candles and the special sales I could offer and made her ________ that our candles were the best choices for gifts and home decorations. Finally she bought three candles.

Greatly ________, I decided to sell my candles around the neighbourhood. On Saturday morning, with great courage, I knocked at the door of my first potential ________.

“I’m a student at Skyline High School and we are raising money for DECA. I’m trying to sell...”

“Not today, sorry,” the man interrupted me and ________ the door.

Embarrassed, I walked away and said to myself the worst thing that might happen was being refused like that again. I couldn’t even count how many times I was ________ with reasons like “Not today”, “I don’t have any extra money right now” or “I just bought some”.________, I had to continue with the day. Finally, a woman kindly bought nearly $60 worth of candles. I couldn’t even hide my________and said “Thank you very much.” to her with a bow.

After a week’s hard work, I turned in my $408 worth of sales of candles, which gave me $163.2 in my own account. I was ________ to find out I was the second highest seller in all classes.

It was the first time that I had worked as a salesperson. Now I look back on this experience with satisfaction, and I feel glad that I did not ________ in face of difficulty.

6 . Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class fun homework—to draw a picture of something for which they were_______.

Most of the class might be_______economically disadvantaged; but still many would celebrate the holiday with turkey and other traditional goodies of the season. The teacher thought these would be the subjects of most of her students’_______. And they were.

But Douglas made a_______kind of picture. Douglas was a different kind of boy. He was the teacher’s true child of misery (不幸), weak and unhappy. As other children played in the playground, _______, Douglas was likely to stand close by her side. One could only guess at the pain Douglas felt behind those_______eyes.

Yes, his_______was different. When_______to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he drew a hand. Nothing else. Just an ordinary hand.

His strange image captured the_______of his classmates. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a________because farmers raise turkeys. Another suggested a police officer’s because the police protect and________people. Still others guessed it was the hand of God for God feeds us. And so the________went on—until the teacher almost forgot the young artist himself.

When the children had gone on to other pictures, she walked up to Douglas’ desk, bent down, and asked him whose hand it was.

The little boy looked away and muttered (低声说出),“ It’s yours.”

She________the times she had taken his hand and________with him here and there, although she had the other students. How often had she said, “Take my hand, Douglas. We’ll go outside.” Or “Let me show you how to________your pencil.” Or “ Let’s do this together.” Douglas was most thankful for his teacher’s hand.

8 . Music is something I could never live without. Without music, I was ________ and would only talk when asked to. Music allowed me to ________ myself and be as loud as I wanted to. Singing my ________ out during choir class, auditioning(试唱) for choir concert solos, and trying out for the school play, I felt most like myself. There was nothing that could keep me away from my ________, until high school.

Everyone who wanted to be in the show choir auditioned for the ________, including me. In the audition room, there was a piano, notes and different lyrics________ on the chalkboard. I hit every note, and the sound was amazing. When my audition was over, I breathed a sigh of ________. Weeks passed and the list of who had made it to the show choir was ________. I   found my name: “Angelica H-alternate(候补者)”. After I saw this, my ________ disappeared. On the outside I wasn't sad, but in my heart, my whole world had ________.

A year passed, and I was at ________ that also offered karaoke to the customers. My parents let me go up and sing. Finally, I got enough courage to ________ song by Sam Smith and started off. While I hit the high notes, people eating ________ for me. I realized I did not get into one programme but that did not mean that I had to give up all ________. I still liked singing. The lesson I learnt was that if you are ________ or do not get what you want, and it is something that you're in love with, don't give up.

9 . Lydia Denton felt very sad when she learned about the incident, in which many children in the U.S. died because someone left them in hot cars. But no one has come up with a good way to deal with the ______. The little girl, who would enter the seventh grade, decided to find out ____.   

Two years later，the 12-year-old girl from North Carolina won a $20,000 prize for her ____. The Beat The Heat Car Seat, a car seat device measuring the ______ of a car. The device is able to ______ the parents of the danger when the inside temperature of the car ____ reaches 102 degrees Fahrenheit (38.9 degrees centigrade).

Lydia used part of her $20,000 to continue to ______ her device with the hope of getting it to market as soon as possible ______ it can be something that will save lives and something that most people can ______ to get it.

With her 14-year-old brother and 10-year-old sister, Lydia also ______ some of her prize money. They also helped bring the ______ in the car seat device. Her brother was really great at coding and her little sister would ______ them with some sweets or cakes.

Lydia’s mom, a science teacher, said it was ______ to watch her three kids cooperate to think out a way to the problem that has ______ for years. They have proven that time and time again nothing is ______. She is really proud of them.

10 . You never know how far a kind act can go. You don’t know who it can ________, either. When Gloria Porter and Jeff Reick began ________,they had no idea how much it would ________ others to shower (大量给予) people with kindness.

89-year-old Gloria Porter was lying in hospital. She couldn’t leave her ward. So to ________ boredom, she would often stare outside her window to watch construction workers building the new front entrance to the hospital. She wasn’t expecting one of the ________ to wave to her. She couldn’t help but wave back at the kind ________. This was only the start of a special ________ between the two.

Jeff Reick knew Porter was ________,so he decided to send a kind ________ to her by finding some chalk and writing “Get Well” on one of the beams (梁) facing her ________. “I just thought that was ________,” Porter said. “So I should do something to ________ that.”

When Porter saw construction workers working high above the ground one cold, windy day, she grew ________. She wrote “Stay safe” on a piece of paper, which she then ________ on the window for the workers to see. “When I saw 4 Stay safe’ on a piece of paper, I ________ and said to my coworkers, ‘Did you see that?’” Reick said.

The hospital staff took photos of that and ________ them on social media. The simple acts of kindness ________ and many people were employed in similar acts, including one woman who delivered ________ pizza to the construction workers.

“I just try to lead by example and never expect so much ________,” Reick said. “If everybody ________ does things like that, the world will be a better place.”