1 . I was ready for bed. My eyes fell on the musical _________ on my bedside table. In it was a photo of Dad smiling, and once opened, it would play his _________ song recorded before his death. It was propped (支撑) open just enough so the recording wouldn’t play.

Dad was a _________ man. He was always singing me his little made-up songs to share joy although he was _________ off-key, not hitting every note.

Dad was a man with big heart. When my house burned down a few years ago, Dad _________ my family into his home. When we tried to offer some _________, he said with his characteristic voice, “Don’t be _________!”

With happy _________, I fell asleep.

“Beautiful and marvelous!”

Suddenly, I was awoken hours later by the _________ song. The card! I snapped it shut (啪的一声合上).

How did that card just start playing? I checked the windows, all tightly shut. But why couldn’t I __________ the feeling that something was wrong?

I decided to __________ downstairs. Opening the door to the laundry room, I was hit with a strong smell of __________. The heat lamp had fallen, and the carpet was burning.

The __________ wasn’t too bad. I let out a shaky breath with __________. What could have happened? Perhaps another house fire. But we were safe. All thanks to Dad’s one-of-a-kind __________.

2 . At only 9 years old, Lesia Cartelli was badly burned in a gas explosion at her grandpa’s house. In fact, the burns were so_____that her own grandfather didn’t recognize her. But now, this brave woman uses her miserable past to help other burn _____ find healing.

Lesia and her cousin were playing in their grandpa’s basement on that_____ day. A gas leak started to burn, causing the whole house to _____. The explosion threw many of the 9 family members in the home across the street. Lesia pulled herself out of the house. Flames still covered her little body so she _____ in the dirt and snow to put them out.

Lesia_____ several months in the hospital, undergoing operations and skin grafts(移植). Once released, Lesia’s scars drew _____ and questions from people, so she started isolating herself.

“When I was burned, everything in my life changed,” she said. “My friendships changed. I hated going to school. You are_____ things you never had to before.”

Lesia could have remained_____ in her whole life, because when bad things happen, we can ______ choose to escape or to treat it as a chance to ______. Lesia chose the latter, realizing she was put on this Earth to do more than just survive.

“My life got______ when I started to look on my life as a gift,” Lesia said.

Lesia______Angel Faces, a national nonprofit organization offering support to girls ranging in age from 11 to 19 to help them heal ______.

Lesia’s Angel Faces allowed the girls to bond with fellow burn victims, helping them get rid of the feelings of ______ loneliness.

3 . There are some disabled people in the world who fight an unseen battle within themselves every day. They never cry or _______, but with a big smile on their face. I call such people _______ because they know the art of living life.

About nine years ago, I was in a car accident. The driver slept, and the car fell in the ditch. As a result, I suffered _______ injuries: the radius and ulna (挠骨和尺骨) of my right arm were _______; the lungs and livers were badly injured. But what changed me and my life _______ was the injury of spine (脊柱). Many people came to _______ me. They did try to find an ambulance but _______. So I was thrown in the back of a jeep and _______ to the nearby hospital, where I went through three major and two minor _______.

The days I spent in the hospital were ________. I was in severe pain, especially psychologically. I was ________ with wearing the hospital gown, lying in the ward and looking at the white walls. I was so ________ that I felt life was pointless and ________. But then I realized instead of crying for what I had lost, I was going to fight against my fate. Thus, there came the best ________ that I took in my entire life painting, a magic way to color my life.

That’s how this experience helped me in ________ an artist in me. So be grateful, be alive, and live every moment.

5 . Opening my car window, I called out, “Ma’am! Ma’am!” The only lady in the parking lot ________ until she saw me. “How nice you look today!” I said.

Her face registered ________ for a second when she found I was a stranger, and then she smiled. “Thank you!” she ________. I stared at her and felt her shoulder ________ a bit more and her final steps to her car seemed ________.

I have made it a point in recent years to compliment (赞扬) people, especially women and girls. Instead of just thinking ________ in my heart that someone did a great job, I say it out loud. It’s like having a(n) ________ in my head. When I see someone who ________ a kind word, the cheerleader jumps up and down and throws her pompoms (绒球花) in the air. As women, we have learned from our role models to be ________. Even when we do receive a(an) ________ compliment for what we’ve accomplished, we downplay our own ________ as the world expects us to show ________. Now, when I compliment a woman and she ________ the game of denial, I say to her, “Just say thank you.” Most of them are relieved they can ________ the compliment. It’s a good beginning to accept the praise without feeling ________ isn’t it?

6 . A lonely girl found two starving songbirds in the woods. She look them home and put them in a _______ cage. She cared them with love and the birds grew strong. One day the girl _______ the door to the cage open. One bird flew from the cage, The girl was so_________ that it would f1y away. As it flew close, she grasped it_______. Her heart fell glad at her success in _________ it. Suddenly she felt the bird breathless. Her desperate love had killed it.

She_______ the other bird moving back and forth on the_______of the cage. She could feel its great_________ for freedom. It needed to fly into the blue sky. She lifted it from the cage and tossed (抛) it_______ into the air. The bird circled once, twice, three times.

The girl watched happily at the bird's____________. Her heart was no longer concerned with her__________, she wanted the bird to be ____________ Suddenly the bird Hew closer and____________softly on her shoulder. It sang the sweetest song that she had ever heard.

The fastest way to lose love is to ____________ it too tight, the best way is to keep love is to give it ____________.

7 . The best and most amazing thing about life is that no matter what happens or how hard it may get, or how useless you feel, stay _______.

All you need to _______ is doing good, even if it may be the smallest thing, like greeting someone with a smile. It can _______ someone’s day, and you will have made the smallest _______ biggest difference to their life. It all starts with your small but sincere smile!

I learned patience the hard _______. I have been trying to rush through life rapidly, always   _______ myself to my friends and family and wondering when my life would change. I was too busy trying to speed things up, but things just weren’t _______ , so I finally gave up. However, when I continued to help people and do little things I could every day to make a difference, life _______me back. Therefore, keep your _______ realistic, no matter how unjust people are towards you. I believe you will be successful, ________ everything has its own special time when everything goes well, and yours is definitely coming. You just need to ________ a little longer.

I ________ met someone worth it all, so kind and sweet, always trying to surprise me in the most ________ ways. Now, every day is something bigger and better, and that ________ is amazing, and then you realize it’s because of all the good things you keep doing in your life.

Even if you have been doing bad things up until now, you can change it all and make it all better. Believe me, it always gets better. It’s not easy, but it will. I know, because I have been ________ with it and I finally feel better.

8 . Nougat and Clarence became best friends almost as soon as Nougat moved into the retirement home. Nougat likes to rest his head on the back of Clarence as often as he gets the ____. The dogs live at Vintage Pet Rescue, a non-profit organization that ____ elder animals from local shelters (收容所) that are ____ to find a new home. The organization aims to give dogs a comfortable, loving environment at the ____ of their lives.

Kristen Peralta, the founder of Vintage Pet Rescue, takes care of 27 mostly senior dogs. While she and her husband have unofficially been ____ older dogs for some time, Peralta turned her passion into a full-time job in 2017.

In some ways, elder dogs may be less ____ to care for because they prefer sitting still than little ones. But their futures aren’t always so ____. There are many organizations, like Peralta’s, ____ on rescuing elderly pets and giving them protection outside of animal shelters, in part because senior dogs in shelters have a(n) ____ rate of just 25 percent, while younger dogs have a 60 percent rate.

A life spent ____ two dozen older dogs can be very busy. Peralta ____ vet appointments at least once a week, gives out individual medications and does a lot of bathing and petting. But the work is rewarding, and she thinks it’s helping to show more and more people are beginning to ____ just how special senior dogs are. “You can just tell how much they ____ it when they’re helped in trouble,” Peralta said. “They’re ____ that they’re with you and you love them. It’s so special to know that you saved a dog’s life and that you’re going to make a ____to the rest of its life.”

9 . Two years ago, my friend and I were at college. With his birthday quickly approaching, he came to me with an unusual __________: instead of receiving presents, he wanted to do some acts of kindness.

I was __________ for such an idea. Giving instead of taking for the birthday was really difficult. I asked him how he could come up with such a __________ idea. He told me about a TED talk he had watched on generosity, which had inspired him. So we started to __________ creative things we could do.

Our university employed some security guards to __________ its students. They have to work __________, keeping watch on every corner throughout the university. For the most part it's a thankless job as most people grow __________ to seeing the guards all around and eventually barely notice their __________, let alone acknowledge their efforts. How could we show them our appreciation?

We decided to make a large pot of hot __________. We hired a Uber and asked the driver to take us around the campus where we knew the __________ would be and we poured them each a cup of hot chocolate. The Uber driver was __________ a bit doubtful to the entire plan but after a while he was helping us __________ the guards and our lively spirit had __________ to him as well. We were met with many __________ and appreciative words. It was amazing to see how a ​__________ act or even intention of generosity can lift everyone's spirit.

10 . JAYCE began noticing when he was 5 in kindergarten that others had two hands but he had one.

When one boy _______ him, Jayce felt very sad. He returned home with _______ : Why am I different? Why?

"He _______ told us he was mad at God for making him that way, " Lewis, his mother   says. "That was a huge knife to the _______."

Lewis _______ she didn't know what to do at that point. One day, when Jayce was 12, Lewis _______ the TV to a news story about Trashaun, an eighth grader from Washington, Trashaun, then 14, two years older than Jayce, had become an Internet sensation after _______ videos of his slam dunks(灌篮). Like Jayce, he was _______ most o£ his left arm. Lewis called Jayce in. He watched _______ dunk after mazing dunk.

It seemed that watching Trashaun would simply be a(n) ________ moment for Jayce—he'd see a surprising role model with a similar   ________. Had it stayed just that; Lewis would have been ________. Little did she know that a family friend had already ________ the newspaper to help set up a meeting with Trashaun to build Jayce's ________.

The boys met on a Saturday afternoon two months later, in April 2017.

The day was not spent being buried in self-pity—it was devoted to ________ , They rode bikes around, took photos, played hide-and-seek, and ________ baskets.

Trashaun ________ their left arms. He told Jayce not to let words ________ his confidence or anyone dray him down,________ that he was perfect the way God made him.

Since that meeting, Lewis has seen a pronounced ________ in her son.