1 . 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, err...sure.” As I stuttered (结巴地说) through my _________, all I could think was, “What? Why me?” I walked back to my office wondering where to _________. This was a time _________ the economy was getting worse. The rise in unemployment forced many of my coworkers to _________ to survive. How could I ask them for more?

That evening I drove home, depressed. Then I remembered once 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 left a message, _________, “Kids need milk.” The milk delivery _________ as usual and Jim never collected a cent ____________ us. The memory of Jim’s ____________ fired 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 ____________ a large 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 ____________ manage to push our food trolley (手推车) around like 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 ____________ so many have lost theirs. Sure money is tight. But when isn’t it? People need food.”

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

2 . Between flights, as I sat in the Denver airport, a young man approached me. He sat beside me _________ my suitcase blocked the chair next to mine. There are many open seats. Why did he _________ this one? I thought. When he sat, I noticed the markings on his bag and his _________ camouflage (迷彩服) uniform.

He told me he had just come from Afghanistan. He was going home for a few days of leave. He said it was almost _________ to leave the war than to stay, leaving others _________. But he had to go back and this might be his _________ chance to see his mom.

I remembered how he scanned the room _________ as he talked and when he looked at me, his eyes kept no distance from me. He seemed to _________ something from me. I could not tell what it was. He said it was hard to stop scanning for _________. The day before, he’d been in the desert. Fellow soldiers, men under his command, had been blown into pieces around him. This day, he was in an airport trying to __________ the anger over flight delays, and the __________ for coffee. He didn’t know how to be, here in this place.

I thought maybe I understood. Only weeks before, my friend’s teenage son had dies suddenly. One evening, after spending __________ hours with a broken mother, I went to my daughter’s theater performance. In the crowded lobby before the show, mothers __________ about their seats and other small slights (怠慢). I felt confused and distant. I told the solider about this. He breathed deeply and showed a small smile. I had given him a little __________.

He’d seen something __________ during his military service. He knew what was real and what __________ in life. When he returned, he found it was hard for him to experience the __________. I realized this was what he wanted from me. He did not want the seat beside mine. He wanted to sit with me. He wanted to feel __________ and understood for a while between here and there.

I did not know his name, and how long his tour of duty would last. I hoped his mother had a __________ heart. We sat together until our flights were called and then said goodbye as the two __________ heading home.

3 . I never knew my mother’s father, John Leon La Walla, and maybe that is why I was always ______ about him. He moved to Australia in the 1920s, ______ and started to raise a family, ______ died in World Ⅱ. All we had was one photo of him dressed in his ______ uniform.

My grandfather had not kept in touch with any of his relatives, although my ______ did recall some family members’ names. It wasn’t till 1963 ______ she finally saw her father’s tomb, in the Albury War Cemetery in New South Wales. I fiercely wanted to know more about this man. Who were his parents, brothers and sisters? Were any of them still alive and ______ where were they now?

I started searching ______ on the Internet in the late 1990s. From my grandfather’s records in the army, I learnt he’d ______ his birthplace as Hertfordsie England. “I think his surname must have been an alias(别名),” my father said. I joined a genealogy（家谱学)website and was soon ______ the dark secrets of some of ancestors from distant relatives. I commented, “I just wish I ______ find out the strange and interesting past of my mother’s father now.” and ______ them of my search.

In late 2012, I ______ a very distant relation on my father’s side called Julie, from New Zealand. ______ a mad-keen genealogist herself, she’d taken pity on me and spent several weeks on research. It was really a big surprise when she said she may have traced(找到)my grandfather’s ______ .

She’d searched English census(人口普查)records and found the surname Waller. The date and first names matched, right down to a brother who’d ______ on the Western Front. Julie had ______ the alias, got a whole tree and put me ______ present relatives. “_______ it an early Christmas present,” she said. Julie had done all this careful research for an almost ______. I will be ever grateful.

4 . Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an_________should be made even before choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually,_________, most people make several job choices during their working lives,_________because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve_________position. The “one perfect job” does not exist. Young people should_________enter into a broad flexible training program that will_________them for a field of work rather than for a single_________.

Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans_________benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing_________about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss__________. Some drift from job to job. Others__________to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted.

One common mistake is choosing an occupation for__________real or imagined prestige(声望). Too many high-school students-or their parents for them-choose the professional field,__________both the relatively small percentage of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal__________. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a white-collar job is__________good reason for choosing it as life’s work. __________, these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large percentage of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the__________of young people should give serious__________to these fields.

Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants__________life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take__________for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.

5 . I took a job as a receptionist for a pet doctor almost five decades ago. As an eager animal lover, I accepted the _______ on condition that I wouldn’t have to assist with any wounded animals. I couldn’t bear to see any creature in _______.

At the end of my first week, we were closing the office for the day when a young man ran up to us holding a severely _______ Doberman pinscher puppy (杜宾犬) in his arms and _______ us to save his life. The four-month-old puppy had been hit by a car. The doctor and I ran back into the _______ room. The doctor worked _______ for what seemed like hours, stitching (缝合) him back together again. That was the _______ part. The puppy had broken multiple bones, including his backbone. Even if he _______ the next few days, we were quite sure he would never walk again.

That day forever _______ my life. The doctor guided me, and I became his ________ in all things medical. One of my first jobs was to give that Doberman puppy daily physical treatment. I remember moving his ________ legs to try to keep his muscles from weakening. Weeks went by until one day, I felt this little ________ push back ever so slightly. And he continued to push back till he could finally use his legs.

Fast-forward about a year. I walked into the clinic’s crowded waiting room and called the name of the next client. ________, a huge Doberman standing quietly with his owner on the opposite side of the room ________ and dashed toward me. I found myself pressed against the wall with this magnificent dog ________ on his back legs, his front paws on my shoulders, ________ my face with countless and ________ kisses!

I still tear up in ________ at the display of love and ________ the dog had for me that day all those years ago. I went on to be a pet doctor for 14 years until retirement. In all the time that has passed and all the experiences I have had, I’ve ________ met a dog who didn’t know it had been rescued in one way or another.

6 . My job is to provide at-home services for the elderly and those who are disabled. My client (客户) was an 86-year-old woman who had been _______ cancer for the past four years. The last few months of her life took all her _______ but none of her joy in life.

Each day I appeared at her _______, she would ask, “Have you heard any good _______ lately?” I’m not good at remembering jokes and _______ had a funny story to tell her, besides it always seemed that the only joke that would come to my mind sound _______ to her.

Then, I got the bright idea to copy Grace’s Kid Stories that I _______ on my bookshelf at home. Every day I would have one more _______ thing to tell my wonderful friend. She would _______ quietly to herself, and my heart was________.

Today, her daughter told me she had ________ on Sunday. One of the things the daughter told me was that one of her mother’s last ________ was “Have you heard any good jokes lately?”

The daughter told her mother that she couldn’t ________ anything funny. Her mother replied that I always ________ with a joke and that she had ________ wailing for me to arrive with each new “joke”.

We ________ for a few minutes together, then I got on with my ________, but I couldn’t seem to down to work. Finally, I ________ the daughter and asked, “Would you like to hear today’s joke?”

I am grateful (感激的) to the stories for ________ me to make an old woman’s last days a little more ________. Goodbye, my old friend, I hope you continue to get a joke every day in heaven!

7 . Itzhak Perlman, the world famous violinist, got polio (小儿麻痹症) as a child. _______, you know that getting on stage is not easy for him.

On November 18, 1995, he came on stage to give a _______ at Lincoln Centre in New York City. That night Perlman walked _______ to his chair. Then he sat down and began to play. But suddenly, one of the strings on his violin broke. You could hear it break with a loud _______.

People thought to themselves, “He would have to get up to either _______ another violin or another string for this one. But he didn’t. _______ he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra (管弦乐队) began, and he played from where he had _______. He such passion and such power. Of course, everyone knew that it was _______ to play a symphonic work with just three strings. But that night Itzhak Perlman _______ to know that. You could see him changing and recomposing the piece in his head.

When he finished, there was a ________ in the room. Then people rose and cheered. We were ________, doing everything we could to show how much we ________ what he had done. He smiled and then he said in a quiet tone, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to ________ how much music you can make with what you have left.”

His words have ________ in my mind ever since I heard them. That is also the way of life. Perhaps our ________ in this quickly changing world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

8 . It was a hot, humid summer day, and I had just pulled into the local gas station to fill my tank (油箱). After pumping the_______, I started to walk inside to pay. That is when I_______them. Two elderly women were standing back from their car. There was a mixture of shock and_______on their faces. I looked and saw what they saw: five yellowjackets (小黄蜂) building a nest(巢) around their gas cap. My eyes widened. I_______the ladies' fear.

Yellow jackets had_______been friends of mine. Several times these wasps (黄蜂) had_______me while I was cutting the grass, giving me many stings (蛰) each time I ran over their ground nests. The_______time, however, happened when I was a young boy. A friend of mine and I were running and playing in my backyard. I must have _______on one of their hidden nests again because_______I knew it, both of us were being chased and stung over and over by the yellowjackets while we ran away________. I ran to my mom with________in my eyes. She________ran a cold bath and put us both in it to________the pain and itching before giving us medicine to ________all the poison(毒素) in our little bodies from the stings.

Still, I knew I couldn't let fear stop me now. I________into my back pocket for a paper towel I had there, removed the ________from the gas cap and stepped on it while the angry wasps buzzed around me. Both of the ladies thanked me, and I said, "You're welcome!" with a smile and a happy heart.

In life, you can't let the fear of being stung either physically or emotionally________you from doing what is right. We need to love each other and to change the world for the________. And the only way you can do this is one loving ________, one kind word and one shared smile at a time. Don't let the yellowjackets in your life hold you________. Live! Love! Do good today!

9 . David has two innocent and lively children, one is 5 years old and the other is 7 years old.

One fine day, David was instructing his 7-year-old son, Kelly in how to _______ a lawnmower (割草机). When he was teaching “how to turn the lawnmower around”, his wife Mona _______ him at the window and asked him about something. David _______ into the house to answer Mona’s question, while the naughty Kelly _______ the lawnmower into the flower bed next to the lawn. He originally wanted to _______ and learn how to turn the lawnmower around. Seeing that his _______ had not come yet, he took full _______ of the mowing techniques he had just learned and tried _______ in the flower bed.

Wherever the lawnmower _______, the flowers and leaves were everywhere. The beautiful and ________ flower bed instantly became a mess. When David returned and saw the ________ in front of him, he was simply furious (生气) and almost ________. You must know how much time and ________ he had put into this flower bed! But it was ________ by Kelly in just a few minutes.

“Oh! What are you doing!” he ________ to Kelly, flames burning in his eyes.

Just as he was preparing to punish his son, his wife ran to him and said ________, “David, don’t do this! You know, we are raising ________, not raising flowers!”

Hearing his wife’s words and looking at the son standing ________ to the spot, David felt extremely embarrassed. He lowered his ________ to calm himself down, and then he held Kelly ________ in his arms.

10 . While getting into Harvard Law School is not easy for anyone, Rehan, a sanitation worker (环卫工人) from Bowie, Maryland, worked hard to achieve it. And he doesn’t take all the _______ either — he gives most of it to the people around him.

When he was 8, his mother left the family and his father had to_______ to support it. Rehan’s grades dropped._______, his high school grades were so poor that he was_______ by many colleges. So he took a job at Bates Trucking and Trash (垃圾). For many people, getting the job would feel like a low point. _______, for Rehan, it was a really _______ time when his life began to turn around.

“It was the first time in my life that people who weren’t my father or my brother really just _______me to feel confident, told me I was_______.” His coworkers urged him to go back to school, and the company owner, Brent Bates, helped him get_______in Bowie State University. Rehan earned a 4.0-grade point__________and was able to go to the University of Maryland for further__________.

During his junior year at Maryland, his father was ill. To __________their family, Rehan had to return to work at Bates. __________dropping out of school, he woke each day at 4 a.m. to finish his __________before class. He scored very well in his LSAT test, and __________Harvard Law School. That school charges a high price. Luckily, the young man found another __________. Carmie McCook, a communications coach, started a GoFundMe page to help him with the __________. The goal was $75,000, but it rose to over $185,000 in __________, which helped make his dream __________. While most people heading to Harvard Law School have the grades and the financial support, Rehan just had his own __________story to stand on — the same story that makes him an inspiration.