2 . Jane Sun, CEO of Ctrip, Asia’s largest online travel company, connects people with the best places the world has to offer. She believes travel and cultural experiences can _______ divide and conflicts, strengthen industries and create peace.

Actually she herself is a _______ advertisement for how travel can _______ a life. But her journey was much longer and more _______ even than marathon.

While_______ Peking University, Sun was invited to a program in the University of Florida, where she finally managed to_______ her study. Compared to others, Sun’s life pace was_______. She bicycled 6 miles to the _______ each morning, taking the earliest classes so she could spend the rest of the day, working to make money. However, Sun _______ those days, “I learned a lot from my experience in the USA.”

“Many discussions I had still __________ my style today. In particular, I have __________ a habit of hearing people’s different __________over certain topics.” “In today’s world, you’d better have a good understanding of different people and __________different cultures. ”

Feeling it her duty to help others, Sun __________an organization to help students. Her advice for them is to give 100% effort to whatever you want to __________. Now as a mother of two daughters and CEO, she has__________ both for her children and Ctrip. “Some people ask me why I work so hard, because I feel mothers are the best ____________for children, ” Sun says. “To work is actually to __________ yourselves, but if you double your efforts at work and being a mother, it is doubly__________.”

As for her future efforts, Sun is preparing for the day when advanced technology and even space travel will change the travel industry. One thing that won’t change: the __________ of travel is to build bridges.

3 . Fifth grade teacher Langford is trying to make a mark on her students. Recently she wrote personalized_______messages across her students’ desks. The words were meant to give her students an increase of _______before their standardized tests.

“When the kids come, they need to_______ that even though they’re away from their families at home, there are people here who love and_________ them and hope the best for them. And   _______believe in them, ” Langford said.

Langford wrote _______on the kids’ desks in dry erase marker. She knew each individual student would   _______ special quotes and key words.

The teacher explained that the messages were _______ by the growth mindset idea. The concept is the _______that abilities can be developed through hard work and devotion, rather than just __________. The sweet notes seemed to have ________. Langford said that the students were happy to see their desks________.

She said,“I think it   ________their stress a bit. They were excited. Some of them wanted to keep them on their________ forever.”

________she wants her students to know that she will________them strongly. “I do believe they can do anything they want to do.”

Langford’s act not only________her students, but also other educators. “It’s really encouraging and it’s ________ to be appreciated, ” she said. “If I inspire even one ________to do the same, that’ll be so________ .”

4 . When Deborah hiked cycling to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York last November, she _________ a female mute swan near the water’s edge. Deborah, 30, who had worked at the Wild Bird Fund rehab (康复) center, knew that mute swans can be aggressive. But as she _________ this one, it didn’t move.

She was certain that the bird needed _________ attention. Deborah covered her jacket over the bird’s head, _________ picked it up, and cradled it in her arms. And then a thought _________ her: What should I do now?

Her best choice was the rehab center, _________ that was across the East River and clear on the other side of town. How was she going to _________ a 17-pound swan on her bike all that way? Luckily, some confused strangers driving by offered them a(n) _________ to a nearby subway station.

On the subway, no one seemed particularly disturbed by the _________ passenger. “One guy,” says Deborah, “was sitting right in front of me on his __________. I don’t know if he noticed the swan before him when talking with the person on the other end.”

Deborah called the rehab center on the way, and Tristan Higginbotham, an animal-care manager, __________ her up at the subway station and drove the bird, the bike, and the __________ to the center. There, staff members determined the swan might have lead (铅) poisoning, caused by __________ weights on fishing lines.

The staff got the swan back up on her webbed feet (蹼足). The swan even made a __________ at the center—another injured swan. __________, even with all that TLC (tender loving care), the swan had a bacterial infection. Two months __________ Deborah came to her rescue, she passed away early this January.

It’s a(n) __________ ending, but the real story is just __________ some people are willing to go to save a swan in the big city—literally. In all, Deborah traveled two hours by foot, __________, and subway (while hauling her bike). Higginbotham says, “That’s the perfect __________ of who she is.”

5 . A couple months before my wedding, I decided to hire a day of coordinator (协调员) to help ____ things at the venue (举办场地). I am a planner with a type A personality, who can do anything just to achieve my vision perfectly. So the thought of giving someone else ____ over my special day that I had planned for an entire year was ____.

After some googling, I ____ A Touch of Grace and had a phone meeting with Amanda for the Wrap Up Service. Just speaking with her for the initial call ____ many of my worries. She was ____ to talk to, professional, ____, and sounded like she knew her stuff. I had spoken to a couple other coordinators ____ to her and none of them ____ her. Not once did she make me feel like I didn’t know anything or force any ____ on me.

In the last weeks before the wedding, I met with Amanda ____ a couple of times, talked on the phone a couple of times, and communicated regularly via email. She was great at looking at all of my plans and adding in her ____ for things I didn’t think of. I was also able to meet up with her and handed her some ____ so that she could set up for me at the venue. Not only did they set up, after the dancing time on the ____ day, Amanda and her team also sorted everything out. By the time the wedding ended, most of our stuff had been ____, ready to be taken away.

I had a lot ____ for my wedding day and Amanda really helped make sure everything went ____. Amanda was also good at turning around people who ____ our table to chat with us. She made sure that we were able to ____ during our assigned time without interruption, in case I kept talking and not eating.

My thanks to Amanda are truly beyond words. She was so amazing that I’m extremely glad she was the one helping me make my ____ come true on my wedding day.

6 . It was New Year time. We were travelling in a van (小型货车) _______ toys to the homeless. When we approached the spot, something _______ my eye. Something or someone was moving in the rubbish. Soon I _______ that it was the home of a poor family. There were two _______, both about my age at the time, and a lady I supposed to be their mother. They sat there _______.

As a little girl myself, I was especially _______ to the little girl. How _______ our lives were. She lived for the day, searching through the_______ for something to fill her stomach. I on the other hand was well _______ and never had to worry about food. I had a good education and thus a ________ future. I looked at the little girl. The only ________ she had was the worn-out dress that she was wearing.

Seeing this little girl, I made the decision to ________a doll that had belonged to me for a while. When the van came to a________, I stepped out, called the girl over and ________ the doll in her hand. At first she looked at me with________ and wasn’t certain what to do, but then she smiled and I saw ________ in her eyes. I went back into the vehicle and we started to________ off, and that’s when we realized the little girl was running ________. We stopped again and opened the door. The girl had ________ with us. She looked directly at me and said two ________ words “Thank You”.

7 . Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future and wanted to make a_________in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s_________I learned about the Lighthouse Project.

I started my_________as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous_________. I knew it would be_________, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time._________, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project_________.

I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to_________among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for the_________. I would be going to a small____________near Abuja, Nigeria.

After completing my____________, I was sent to the village that was small and____________in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food____________I were their own family. I was asked to____________a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I____________in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes thought I learned more from my ____________than they did from me.

Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or____________to me no longer did, though I did not get____________with the local language, and returned to the United States a____________man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my____________forever.

8 . As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. Unluckily, fashion wasn’t much interested in her. Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle ________ and stands a little under four feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. ________ through fashion magazines, she didn’t see a single person who looked like her, and it really ________ . “That would have been a game changer for me,” says Blake, who had 26 surgeries before age 17. “When you’re a teenager—disabled or not—you deal with issues of ________”

Blake, now 39, has spent her adult life trying to ________ for that. She is a disability-rights ________ as well as a little-known freelance (自由职业) writer, but she gained a national following in 2019 after ________ at those who made ugly comments about her online. She tweeted, “people said that I should be stopped from ________ photos of myself because I’m too ________.” Blake posted a new selfie every day to share something about her life as a disabled woman, which________ her determination to fight that.

Her fans went wild, calling Blake a goddess and a powerful woman. Among her ________ is Mindy Scheier, the founder of Runway of Dreams, which displays fashion for people with ________. Last fall, Scheier asked Blake to be one of the event’s 24 models.

“Getting Melissa in this year’s biggest fashion event just makes people understand how important it is to ________ the consumers in the fashion industry, or what we ________ represent in the word ‘model’.” says Scheier.

“It was a little ________,” Blake says of modeling. But she’s glad she took the ________. Often, when we think of ________ for people with disabilities, we think of buildings and employment. But it’s also ________ to have access to what’s fun and enjoyable.

“Fashion isn’t going to solve all the world’s ________,” says Blake. “When disabled people are included, it sends a message that we ________ a seat at the table in all aspects of life.”