1 . My father Rong Xing isn’t exactly a good father.

He works very late every night because ________ his job, sometimes even ________ to eat dinner, and gets up ________ as well. Even when he’s at home, he thinks about his work all the time and hardly ever spend any time ________ my mother and me.

As a doctor who graduated (毕业) from a famous ________ before, he could make ________ of money and only do half the work he is doing now, but he chose to do more difficult and important work. He spends less money on himself ________ he makes more. He always wears old, cheap clothes, saying they are ________ and refuses to change. I sometimes get ________ with him for not caring enough about his clothes, but he just smiles and says, “Daddy has more ________ uses for the money, all right? ”

I never stopped being curious (好奇的)________ how he spent his money. Then one day when I was reading the newspaper, a piece of news caught my eyes: “Rong Xing ________ 100, 000 yuan to help   ________ children go back to school.” Then I ________ understood.

My father’s love for others touched me deeply, I started to understand the great ________ and I decided to pass it on.

2 . I thought my life was over when I found I was in an airless hospital room and my spine (脊柱) was broken after a(n) ______.I couldn’t believe I wouldn’t become a famous ______ and took it out on those around me.

After four months, I learned how ______ it was to get around in a wheelchair but I was too ______ to ask for help. But I gradually realized it would keep me away from people and experiences I ______. So when my high school coach, Bob, asked me to coach the girls’ volleyball team, I ______. Also encouraged by him, I competed in wheelchair sports,______ nineteen international wheelchair marathons and ______ for Canada in the 1984 Olympics.

Shortly after the Olympics, I ______, dislocating my shoulders. That injury was a wake-up call, and I tried to ______ my life without being an athlete. I knew I wanted to travel and do something ______. So the Man in Motion Tour, aiming to raise awareness of the potential of people with ______ , was born. It was a big ______. We had hoped to raise $ l million. But the total was a(n)______$ 24 million, provided to spinal cord injury research and wheelchair sports programs. Looking back, I realize that accident began a journey to accomplishments beyond my dream. My life was ______ over...it had actually just begun.

3 . I once wrote to my Future Self. The _________ text is as follows: here I am, a senior in college and about to graduate. I cannot help but _________ what the future “you” has in store for us. The endless unanswered _________ of where will I be in ten years, will I have my _________ job, living in the sweet south, _________, with three kids?

And then I think: does any of it _________ where I am or what I am doing if I am not happy? I desire to do big things, to make my parents proud, and to make something great of myself, but it all _________ nothing without happiness. So I ask you, my Future Me: be _________. Think about yourself more often than you’d like to. Do something different every day, get lost in the moment and take it all in because today only happens _________ and if you don’t __________ it and take advantage of every __________ that comes our way, my friend, it will be __________.

Do you remember when we were wishing our life away in high school? We couldn’t wait to go to college, to grow up and be an adult. But now we are wishing time would __________ because these last four years have flown by. __________ my advice to you, right now, for today, tomorrow, and every day in between is that please don’t wish any more of our time away or wish that you had done anything different. The only __________ is to just do it! You may never get that chance again.

4 . As a 16-year-old student, Charlie has been a successful business owner. When he was in middle school, he ________ the idea of selling coffee. Then he made a lot of ________. He did research on the Internet, tested different kinds of coffee and improved his product. It all seemed ________ but he didn’t give up.

At the same time, he received great support from others in his community, who tried to help him succeed at such a young age. They were ________ by his creativity. And his good coffee became increasingly popular. ________, he set up his own company successfully and he also made a decision to ________ a part of his earnings to benefit others.

Now Charlie is helping to educate and inspire other kids in his community to start their own business. He has been sharing his story with ________ middle school and high school students. His advice is: “Never let your ________ stand in your way; do what you want to do.”

The key to his success is to ________ goals and keep going on. His growing faith also helps him over the course of his business adventure. “You can start a business out of anything. It is more about finding your ________.” Charlie said.

5 . Yesterday was my best friend’s birthday. She would _________ a birthday party in the evening and invited me to go to her house. My friends planned on _________ at her house, but my parents never _________ me to stay at someone else’s house, and they also had time _________ when I went to parties. However, my best friend _________ me not to forget the party anyway. All day I was _________ the great party with my friends but I didn’t know how to get my parents’ _________.

One of my classmates had told me a story of everything that comes true, which made a deep _________ on me, so I wanted to put it into _________. I imagined being at her house late at night, talking and watching movies. I felt __________ about it and believed it was going to come true.

My friend’s house was far away from mine so I was __________ about my dad’s answer to my request. But I managed to talk to my dad about it and __________ that the party was very important for me. To my __________, he said, “OK, stay at her house for the night.” I was so happy and __________ my best friend and she was happy, too! I got dressed well and went out __________. That night we enjoyed ourselves. I then believed the story that my classmate told me.

6 . It was around 3 p.m. I was lined up at the train ticket counter to reserve a trip to Nagoya to_______ some photos for a magazine called “Today Fashion”. It was then that I felt the ground moving slightly like a subway shooting through a tunnel far beneath my feet. It was so mild that I_______it, as did everyone around me. Seconds later,a(n)   _______shake occurred. Things started falling over to the ground, and signs hanging from the ceiling began swinging violently. An elderly man next to me smiled at me_______and just said one word: “Earthquake.”

I _______ for the door, about 60 feet away. The ground was shaking so violently that it was_______to run in a straight line. My heart was still pounding so wildly_______.I reached the street. I longed to get as far away from these buildings as possible, but in Tokyo, finding any truly open space is actually_______.Ultimately, I stood in a_______for a good two hours as did most everyone else. During this time, the ground of the spacious park continued to________less violently. I would________later that afternoon that the quake was a magnitude 8.9, the strongest earthquake in recorded history. There were a few women________with people pointing up at the buildings as they shook, ________many others appeared calm and relaxed. Even though I have witnessed many big events in the world, I really________Japanese for their calmness and timely________.

7 . Even today, kites are fun for the young and the old. Elderly Chinese _________ them in the middle of Beijing, cleverly avoiding trees and power lines. Many of the earliest records of kite-flying seem to indicate that, even when it began, it was done just for _________. The Chinese philosopher, Mo Di, who _________ from 468 to 376 BC, is reported to have _________an eagle out of wood and, after three years of perfecting the eagle, he got it to fly — one of the earliest kites in recorded history! Mo Di’s student, Gongshu Ban (also called Lu Ban) _________ his teacher’s technique, making his own bird, a magpie, and crafting it from bamboo rather than wood. His magpie could stay up for _________ three days.

Later in Chinese history, kites were used for more serious _________, such as communicating information and measuring the force or direction of the wind. During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuan Zong was treated to a kite-flying show in Yichun County in Penglai Palace, Shandong Province. It was the invention of paper that brought kites to the _________ people. The name fengzheng _________ to the kite was due to a man named Li Ye during the Ming Dynasty. Once, to make his kite more interesting, he __________ a bamboo whistle to the top of the kite, so there would be a sharp zheng sound as the kite flew. Today, of course, with the availability of cheap paper and other lightweight materials, anyone can make as an unusual kite as he wants.

8 . “Look, Mom! Everything is ninety percent off!” I exclaimed (惊呼), ________ a giant sign across the mall. “Let’s take a ________,” Mom said. Once inside, we went directly to the racks (架子) of clothes.

“These shirts are only two dollars!” I exclaimed. I started ________ as many shirts as I could.

“ Try them on,” Mom said. “They are so ________.”

Even though I didn’t need them, I carried them into the fitting room. I had taken whatever was ________ and the small changing room was full of clothes. As I ________ in a colorful mountain of shirts, I realized I did not have enough ________ to store them all. Did I really ________ these?

I started ________ all the children who never got new clothes. My mom made sure to mail boxes of clothes to the orphans in Romania every year. Each summer, my mom and I dedicated a day to ________ some clothing to ________.

As I stood among the piles of clothes, I turned to Mom as she neatly folded the shirts I set aside to purchase. “I’m not going to ________ these,” I said.

“Which ones did you decide not to buy?” Mom asked.

“I ________ all of them. ________, I don’t need anything. I need to go home and clean out my closet (壁橱).” I don’t ________ any of Romanian orphans, but I know I would give them the shirt off my back.

9 . Christmas without family and friends is something we all aim to avoid, but an unbelievable half a million elderly will be alone this festive season. Some people and services are making it a little more ________.

Christmas Dinner is a feast connected with ________. At this ________ feast, family is something for which we are really grateful—________ the rest of the year we take them for granted. For the UK’s estimated half a million elderly who will spend Christmas alone, the family will be ________. Some wonderful people are ________ to ensure that they aren’t alone.

Margaret ________ a care home of 30 people in Ormskirk, Lancashire and gives her care further during the festive season by inviting others to Christmas dinner. “It’s whether a very happy time or a very lonely time, ________ we decided to ask the lonely to come along and they love it. ”

Not only is Christians dinner ________, but the guests are ________ to music, a good old song, and a little bit of dancing. The reviews are flooding in and people love it! “ There is no ________       that you get lonely at home but it’s lovely coming here. ” says one gentleman        ________ a purple paper.

Christmas crown (王冠). Another guest said, “ Christmas means family, and this means family. ”

Margaret believes that everyone has ________ to give this Christmas, the gift of ________.“It’s easy, and giving a little bit of time can ________ the world to somebody. ”

10 . Are you ready to lend a hand to others in your life? It’s a reality that many of us find ourselves too busy to ______ much time, money and energy to do a good deed. It’s the ______ with me.

Most of my days I am as ______ as a bee. My daughter is only 10 and my husband work full time. When I’m not writing at my desk, I’m cooking, cleaning, paying ______ as well as taking my daughter to and from school. Like millions of housewives, I’m short on time and ______ with spending.

But all ______ as I got an idea from my daughter to set my good-deed-a-day goal. We had ______a girl in Egypt and gave away our used clothing to her from time to time. My daughter was crazy about charity and wanted me to do ______, so I started my Simple Deed project. When I stepped out, I looked for possible acts of ______. One day, I ______ some rubbish on the playground. Another day, I ______ an old blind man at the subway station across the waiting line. Sometimes, I ______ had to go out of my way to find something kind to do. I could only hope I was one of the ______ examples to others.

After a few days, though, I felt almost proud of my simple deeds. I was fitting them into our busy life in a way that ______ me. And even though most of what I’d done was small potatoes, somehow I knew I was making a difference, which also ______ every single day of mine.