1 . An ordinary toy animal might not mean much to an adult. But for a child, it could mean the _________. 10-year-old Leon Ashworth’s mom couldn’t _________ to buy him a toy panda. However, he really wanted it, so he wrote a _________ on the toy’s box. The boy hoped other shoppers not to buy it _________ his mom could. What happened next was so _________ that it could melt you.

The boy lived in Liverpool, England with his mom, Debbie Ashworth. When he first saw the toy panda at an Asda supermarket, he was attracted _________. However, he knew they were living a(n)_________ life and his mom couldn’t buy it.

_________, he said nothing to her. He was willing to wait _________ until his mom’s salary came in on June 15th. Then he could take the panda home. However, the store’s staff __________ Leon’s note on the toy’s box. They decided to do something __________.

They tried their best to __________ the boy. They didn’t know him at that time. Of course it was __________ difficult. But the Internet was powerful and __________. They posted the note and their phone number on Facebook. It __________ attracted the attention of Debbie Ashworth. She immediately recognized it was her son’s handwriting. She __________ the supermarket and they invited the mom and her son back to the __________. There was a wonderful __________ waiting for them.

“This is the __________ day of my life,” Leon remarked to his mom. For Debbie, who lost another son in January and had __________ since, the day was even more meaningful.

2 . What’s on top of your mountain?

Some people live to climb the highest mountains. Some people only think about it while others ________ ever climbing at all. But one thing is ________ — all people ________ mountains in their life.

When I was a little girl, my parents ________ us to the tiny village of Otongo, Hidalgo, Mexico, which was at the bottom of a big mountain. One day after school, while ________ the green woods of this mountain, I found a set of ________. What could these steps-lead to? Could this be the way to the ________?

________ got the best of me, so I started climbing up those ________ steps I climbed and climbed, but still there was nothing ________. It was getting real dark. The voice of ________ told me to hurry back home and try again the next day. I ran back home in the dark while trying not to get too ________. That night, I went to bed dreaming about what I would find at the top of this ________ mountain Could there be a handsome prince,________ or monsters up there?

Those were the days when we dared to ________. We dared to do crazy things. We ________! I created this childhood fantasy to make my days so much more ________ as a kid. This story is a good metaphor for life today. You might ask, “What was at the top of that mountain? What would you have wanted to find?” Dream about what’s at the top of your mountain. What do you want out of ________?

Tomorrow is another day, and still, you must ________ Whatever you do, never ever ________ your dream! Never let anyone tell you, “You can’t”.

3 . About a year ago, I left my well-paying job as a magazine editor with no particular plan.Having worked for a half-century on other people’s _______, I wanted to be the boss of myself.I longed to read more, to _______ more and learn more about beautiful objects created by people of different cultures.I wanted to do work not just with my _______, but with my hands as well.

As we _______ in years, each choice rules out other possibilities until—Surprise！—I am a 53-year-old lady who lives a(n) _______ life in downtown Manhattan with a husband and two kids, and has spent my working life in the magazine industry._______, over the past year I have been interested in learning the techniques of bakery, _______, and natural dyeing.Although I learned a lot, I know well a dilettante(一知半解者) of many _______ is in effect a master of _______.I have also traveled to villages and towns in countries I had never been to and have been __________ by the diversity of lives and cultures still amazingly __________, and by the people I’ve met, craftspeople who, whether through choice or the __________ of it, make __________ objects day in and day out.

I have come to __________ the way these objects are inseparable from the communities and __________ in which they are created.But what will I do with the __________ access I’ve had？Will I find a way to be __________ or help resolve the problems I have witnessed？I don’t have a __________.I don’t know what my next move is or whether, when I figure it out, I’ll be able to __________ in it.But in my otherwise rather stable life, I find that __________.

4 . When 10-year-old Romeo Cox realized what he wanted more than anything else was a hug from his 77-year-old grandmother, he decided to make the journey. He did not let the 1,7000-mile distance and the fact that there were no flights _______ him.

“I hadn’t _______ her for a year and a half owing to the pandemic (流行病), so I _______ to go and see her in secret,” he said. “I meant it to be a(an) _______ .”

“I asked my _______ and they said no more than 50 times, but I _______ talked them into letting me do it,” he told The Daily Mail.

Romeo turned his plan into _______ .“I drew a map. I’d walk and take boats and do it naturally to _______ the planet,” he told The Times. “And I’d take Dad. It would be _______ to have an adult.”

Romeo and Phil __________ from Sicily, Italy on June 20. They trekked (跋涉) across Italy, Switzerland and France. They spent many nights beneath the stars. They were also __________ to fight off wild dogs, got lost a time or two, __________ sore feet and so on. But no matter how __________ the conditions were, they just kept going.

On September 21, they __________ London’s Trafalgar Square, where they spent a two-week mandatory isolation (强制隔离) before being __________ to make the final leg of journey to Grandma Rosemary’s __________ .

With his grandmother’s house eventually in sight, Romeo __________ a joyful run. And he ended up in the __________ he had been longing for.

“I can hardly imagine my grandson’s __________ trip yet,” she admitted frankly. But more than anything else, love and gratitude __________ her heart.

5 . Eleven years had passed. I looked at her in ________ while she sat down on her hospital bed. She is still that lively and cheerful woman I knew. We are already far from that ________ and clumsy nurses we both were in this hospital eleven years ago.

“Do you still ________ the pulse oximeter (血氧计) story?” She asked me while we talked about working as new nurse trainees in this ________.

I thought of our first days of ________ more than a decade ago. We ran to and fro, pulling emergency carts and machines in ________ knees, checking blood glucose (血糖) and doing many tough jobs, ________ we felt fulfilled for being able to do the jobs all alone for the first time.

We both laughed while ________ the incident. She was ________ to a patient who was closely monitored whose vital signs were going down below the acceptable line. When asked about the percentage of oxygen saturation (氧饱和度), she gave the heartrate ________. Then everyone was running to the assigned room of the patient. False alarm.

I could still see her ________ in my mind as she was caught puzzled and ________. I could still see her pale lips as she ________. However, the medical team were all ________. No harsh words nor ________. A touching scene that maintained the dignity of the erring one. Something to draw courage and inspiration to ________ fast and be a better nurse each day.

We were just new to the ________ world of nursing care, and it was our first week. A portable pulse oximeter frequently brought up in college was something that really ________ us, perhaps because, it was never used in a certain hospital room.

“I saw people recovered gradually; I saw ________ here,” she said. We both got teary-eyed. Though I am always excited in here very new ________ and success, she is more excited to hear stories from me which make us cry.

6 . After a chance encounter with a stranger at the grocery store, Sullivan, mom of three, shared a very _________ lesson with her fellow parents. She wrote a Facebook post about finding a positive view about the chaos of _________.In the post, Sullivan explained after _________ to keep her two youngest children calm in a grocery store, she was _________ that day.

“Max, Charlie and I walked in, and _________ they saw flowers, then balloons, then free samples,” she recalled. “Here is where I lost control, my system _________ —they were dizzy, touching everything, and not at all using their inside _________. Meanwhile, I had never shopped in the store, so I was _________ and I couldn’t find anything.”

After repeatedly asking her kids to quiet down and _________ themselves, she started to feel extremely ____________. “I was physically and emotionally exhausted,” Sullivan wrote.

That’s when an elderly woman shopping in the store reached out to ____________ her. “She looked at my babies, laughing and ____________ balloons and said… ‘It’s just a matter of what we’re ____________ of. I’m tired of silence. For me this ____________ is nice. My husband is gone, my children are grown and most days I don’t ____________ so well. While you still can, ____________ it,” Sullivan wrote.

The mom thanked the kind stranger and ____________ her day. “I felt incredibly thankful that she felt a call towards the human ____________ and acted on it,” she wrote. Sullivan’s post received over 10,000 ____________ by Tuesday, and the comments section is filled with positive responses.

“Enjoy the ____________,” wrote one commenter. “The days are long but the years are short.”

7 . Going, going, gone, for ＄3 to the lady in the last row." The auctioneer(拍卖人)announced. I had just_______ the bidding for a 1950s cookie tin full of_______ at a house sale.

Delighted at my victory, I_______the lid and took a glance. Inside were hundreds of buttons, pins, and other items, all shining in the sunlight.

Then my eye caught the_______ of an older woman who was watching the happenings in her yard, her eyes_______ over the crowd, looking for the_______ faces of friends and neighbors.

As I went up to chat with her, she told me she was selling almost all her_______ because she was moving to a nursing home in town. Her eyes fell to the button box, and when she looked_______, they were glittering with_______.

I took the lid off the tin, and her fist closed around a delicate pearl button, now yellow with________. She smiled as she told me about the________ of her first child and the special pearl﹣buttoned christening outfit (洗礼服) that would be worn by five more babies before time________ the garment thin.

I________a large, dark military button and asked her about it. "From my late husband's uniform, " she said. "It's one of the few things I had to________me of him when he didn't return home________." They had been married seven months before he left to________ his country in World War Ⅱ.

Wooden nickelssnaps, and ruby buttons took her further down memory lane. I learned about her father being a faithful churchgoer, her mother dying of cancer and much more of the________ she'd led for 89 years. After our chat, I________   the woman's box of memories and________ my hands into hers. I knew we would________ again, when I went to visit her at her new home.

8 . Gina was dressed, all ready for her very first dance performance. Yesterday she _________ her dance for the first time on the stage. With only a few moms _________, it wasn’t too bad. But she did not like the _________ of dancing in front of lots of people tonight. It _________ her.

“Mom, I don’t feel so _________. I’m kind of afraid.” Gina said.

Mom sat beside Gina. “Remember yesterday when you practiced and I was in the _________ row? You did just fine! When you go out on the stage, I will be in that _________ seat. Look at me and it will be just like yesterday!”

Mom was always right, but Gina wasn’t _________ about this time. She still _________ the thought of dancing in front of all those people.

When it was time for her to dance, Gina __________ what Mom told her. She sure __________ Mom was right. The music played. She followed the other girls onto the stage and took her __________. Right away, she looked for Mom. __________, Mom was right in the front row where she was __________ yesterday! Mom smiled and gave Gina a thumb up. Gina __________ back and started dancing, __________ looking away from Mom. Before she knew it, the dance was done and she ran up to mom.

“You were absolutely __________, Mom! It was like I was dancing just for you!”

“You did so good! I’m so __________ of you! You can dance for me any time!”

Gina walked out of the school, holding Mom’s hand. She could still __________ the smile on Mom’s face as Gina__________. Sometimes, Mom was just the best!

9 . A group of Washington D.C. high school students took part in a service project to collect and hand out coats to people who needed them. These ______ kids did more than handing out coats. The high schoolers ______ encouraging notes and put them inside pockets as a surprise for receiver. Those notes made people ______ and feel special—that was as ______ as handing out the coats.

Josh and D’ Mani were two of the teenagers ______ this project. How they got ______ goes back to the summer when Josh and D’ Mani attended Wave Week, a leadership camp for kids who took part in community service. ______attending Wave Week, these guys decided that their high school needed a community service ______. They didn’t complain there wasn’t a club. They didn’t ask other people to start one. They didn’t wait for someone else to start one. They ______ founded their own. One of the club’s regular ______ is “sandwich days,” in which students ______ after school to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for ______ people. They have made thousands of sandwiches over the past year. Josh and D’ Mani are ______ marketers. They got approval(同意) to ______ their activities in the school’s main road; students walking by would ask ______ the club was doing and would often choose to get involved. In fact, classmates donated all of the sandwich ingredient(配料). Josh and D’ Mani got over 250 of their fellow students to join ______ sandwich makers or doners.

The club also did several “days of service” during the school year, which included ______ charity groups and helping out at a food bank. Like the notes in the coat pockets, some of the activities are ______ details, but important ones. Anyway, the camp is for kids who are passionate(热情的) about ______ teaches leadership skills, so the students can have a bigger ______ on their communities.

10 . Shoveling (铲) the snow had always been the best part about winter. Not that I thought it was fun, but I _______the thought of my dad having to do it after a _______ day of work. So I took it upon myself at eight years old. Every time I saw those white particles fall from the _______, I would run and _______ my jacket, snow boots, and gloves to _______ myself for the work ahead. But every single time, _______I went outside, I would stop by my older sister’s room to see if she _______to help me. I knew she would say no, but I always _______ anyway.

One day there was a lot of snow. There was no _______ I would be able to clean it all up myself, so I did the ________and knocked on my sister’s door. As I   ________ , she gave me the same old “no”. I stood there ________for a second. All I wanted was some ________, and the more I recollected every “no” she had ever said to me, the________I became. I shouted, “You’re an awful sister and daughter, and nobody needs you!”

Then, I set out in the cold to tackle (对付) the enemy that ________in my driveway. I fought________, my short arms swinging back and forth while the wind ________against my cheeks. However, after one long hour, I was not even halfway done. Completely ________, I dropped the shovel into the victorious snow, and went inside to lie down on the sofa.

After a short break, I ________ the sofa, ran to the window and looked outside. In the middle of the driveway, my sister was shoveling the snow. The feeling of seeing her was________.