1 . Yesterday, I was shopping in a store, minding my own business, when I saw someone _______ a dog with a “service animal” vest. I gave it very little _______ at first. But then, in the soup aisle (过道), I saw the person and his dog again. When I walked by, the so-called “service animal” growled (咆哮) at me, showing his _______.

_______, service animals are trained not to do that kind of thing. Honestly, it _______ me, and I _______ the dog, fearful of being bitten. I thought about going to find a _______ but finally decided not to because I was afraid to be _______ with the person.

But the dog’s behavior got _______. In the milk aisle, the dog was not growling. Instead, he got his body close to the ________ and started pooping (排便) while the owner just watched. Then, his owner walked on, paying no attention to the waste left in the middle of the ________ aisle.

At this point, I couldn’t stand it anymore, and ________ it was time to actively get a worker. Soon a worker came to guide the dog and his owner out of the ________. Seeing that fearful dog and annoying person disappearing, I felt ________. There was nothing wrong with loving dogs, but dog owners should raise dogs in a ________ manner.

2 . Born to be likeable, my older sister grew up with lots of friends, parties and attention. I wanted the _________ my sister had. I _________ her for years and never came close, so I _________ kids my own age for role models. Jen, the girl I always sat next to in school, put her head to one side when she asked for favors. “Okay,” I thought. “I’ll try her _________.” I put my head to one side and asked my teacher for a pass to the bathroom. She looked at me, _________, and said, “Don’t you _________ well?”

That led to my _________ to try being cool instead of being popular. I’d do anything to escape my _________ of social status. My big _________ came when a new girl named Tiffany came to my class. She was cute, trendy, and best of all, she __________ me. Our friendship lasted four weeks, just long enough for me to learn that Tiffany took European vacations and went skiing in Aspen. __________, I’d never been outside of Illinois or on skis. Tiffany was way too much for me. I crawled back into my familiar state of __________.

One day, my mom said to me, “You’ll never be anything your heart won’t let you be. Start looking inside, __________ out.” It took me a while to get what those __________ meant. But once I __________ trying to be like other people, life got a whole lot easier. I’m even growing up to be someone I really like.

3 . The beauty of love is that it can happen with the most unexpected person in the most unlikely places. In the case of a one-year-old stray puppy in Duplin County, North Carolina, that “person” happened to be a bright _________ stuffed unicorn (独角兽) at a local Dollar General store.

It is unclear how the adorable Labrador mix, now called Sisu, first caught sight of the _______ of his life. However, once he did, there was no stopping the pooch from trying to _______ it from the shelf in the store. On his first attempt, he _______ through the doors and made a beeline for the _______ aisle (通道), only to be caught by the staff. Not discouraged, Sisu made four more _______, only to be gently driven away by the shop assistants.

After Sisu attempted for the fifth time, the store owner _______ the Duplin County Animal Services. When animal control officer named Samantha Lane arrived, Sisu was sitting in the store’s parking lot _______ awaiting his next chance to get his beloved unicorn. The officer, who has a “soft spot for sad stories,” couldn’t bear to see the _______ puppy. So, she bought the $10 unicorn and placed it in the front seat of her truck. Not ________, the stray pooch willingly followed.

On March 26, 2021, the shelter staff ________ a photo of Sisu and his friend on Facebook, ________ their story as well. The heartwarming post went viral, and within five days, Sisu had found a(n) ________ home. The animal shelter, which is currently training the dog, has also ________ numerous purple unicorns from fans who want to make sure Sisu is never ________ his favorite toy again!

4 . Whenever photographer Casey Ryan heads into the wilderness, he brings along his drone (无人机) to capture photographs from a bird’s eye view. Having the _________ device with him on a recent trip to the Cascades Mountain Range in Oregon saved his and another person’s _________.

Casey was _________ through the Willamette National Forest when he _________ a stranger whose vehicle was stuck. Casey _________ to help get it out without hesitation. _________, he got his own vehicle stuck in a ditch while trying to help, leaving both people in _________ with no cell phone service for miles around.

Casey immediately assessed the _________ and recalled a movie he’d seen recently in which a character used a drone to lift his phone high enough to capture a _________ in a similar situation, so he __________ his device and got to work.

First, he attached his cell phone __________ to his drone. Then, he typed a series of messages to his wife. He told her where he was located in the park, and then launched the drone into the air. Somewhere up there over the tall trees, it __________ a signal and whoosh! All of Casey’s texts were __________.

Rescuers arrived and saved both Casey and the other driver. Who knows, maybe future drones will have built-in __________ features added to it __________ this photographer’s practice. We’d buy a phone drone!

5 . Vicky Umodu from Colton in California was in the process of moving into her new home. She was in urgent _______ of furniture but couldn’t afford to buy anything _______ or used. So she decided to search online for other options. She was _______ to find a lovely furniture set that was being given away. It looked hardly used. Vicky then contacted the owner of the furniture _______ and was more than blessed to have it.

Once she got it home, she started to _______ the furniture. But she noticed something a little _______ about one of the chairs. The cushion (坐垫) felt uneven. As she inspected the cushion, she _______ what she was feeling was perhaps a hot water bottle under the cushion cover.

But to her _______, she found dozens of envelopes full of money! Instead of keeping it, she right away _______ the money to the owner of the furniture. Much to her surprise, she later learned the furniture ________ the owner’s grandma who passed away last month and the owner had no ________ that his grandma saved money by ________ envelopes of money in furniture.

Vicky’s ________ turned into a double blessing. Not only did she find favorite furniture, but the owner of the furniture also gave her a(n) ________! He gave her extra cash to buy a new fridge. What a valuable ________ she is teaching her children and the world!

6 . Helen Keller herself never feared physical action. She said if it would _________ to attract the public attention and treat the blind fairly, she would be willing to _________ everything.

Keller’s first flight as a _________ took place on the set of Deliverance, a biographical (传记的) film about her own life in which she actually _________. In June 1946, Deliverance’s producers wanted to _________ in their film that Helen could do almost all things that able-bodied people do. Since the airplane, still a new technology at that time, was fashionable then, the producers decided that they should show Keller _________ a plane. Even if this time it sounded much more _________ than her just sitting on a plane previously, Keller was thrilled to have the _________ to fly.

The small _________ was traveling to Europe on behalf of the American Foundation for the Overseas Blind. When it crossed the Mediterranean (地中海), Keller __________ the pilot’s controls. Her companion Thomson __________ to Keller the pilot’s instructions by pressing symbols into her hand. The plane crew were __________ at her sensitive touch on the controls. She flew the plane calmly and __________. There was no shaking at all. News reports treated the flight as a(n) __________.

With Keller flying a plane, public __________ of fair treatment for the deaf-blind was raised.

7 . A 15-year-old student has been praised a hero after it was found out that he had saved the life of a man who had suffered a heart attack. Sheng Xiaohan hadn’t told students and teachers the story until the man _________ at the school to thank him.

Sheng recalled he was _________ home at around 9 p.m. after working late at school when he saw a group of people surrounding a man on the ground _________, with a man patting on his back and others calling his name.

When he saw the man was unresponsive, he _________ his pulse and found it was weak and his body _________ “I had learned first aid several times since primary school and the _________ time was during military training,” he said.

He first tried the Heimlich maneuver, but then thought the old man might have _________ a heart attack. He asked people around to give him some _________ and tried cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). He _________ down on the man’s chest regularly, while asking another man to help with artificial respiration. Someone else called the emergency __________. Sheng kept doing CPR for about six minutes until the ambulance arrived and __________ the man to the hospital.

“I didn’t dare stop or ask others to replace me in case of any __________,” he added. “During the process, he started to breathe again, which gave me the confidence and __________ to go on.”

Sheng said he didn’t feel tired during the process, but afterwards his arms were __________. After the experience, he didn’t treat it as anything out of the __________ as he was a warm-hearted young man always ready to help others.

8 . As a little kid, I was addicted to math. Since my father was often doing math with my elder sister, I ________ some things by listening in on them. One of those things I learned ________ was adding a whole three numbers at once!

When it came time for the ________ to learn the same thing, our teacher ________ us to add all numbers in the ones column (个位数), then the tens, etc. However, I always added the numbers by adding the first two, then writing the third number under the sum (总和) of the first two and adding those. The ________ worked fine. So I chose to keep doing things the way my ________ had taught me.

One day, the teacher had ________ written on the board and she called four students up to ________ the problems at the same time in front of the class. I was on the far end, away from the teacher, but I felt ________ as she would catch me doing things the “wrong” way. So I did things my way, put the answer, and ________ erased my work.

She ________ nothing unusual. When she got to me she agreed that the answer was right, but I needed to do my work again in front of the class with her watching me. ________, I honestly expected a scolding (责骂) for my wrongdoing. Instead, she seemed ________ and asked me to ________ my way to the class. She told me that was a better way and she was happy with kids doing math however they wanted as long as they got the right ________.

9 . While I was driving a motorbike with one hand, a lady suddenly stepped into the street. I braked ______ to try to avoid her. As a result, I fell heavily to the ground and my left arm became completely paralyzed(瘫痪的).

Thus, I had to ______ everything I used to do with two hands. As a person who would rather get lost than ask for directions, asking for ______ is difficult for me. But I never expected things would ______ after years of swimming training for the 2020 Paralympics(残奥会).

When swimming, I need to wear a tight racing suit. It took a lot of practice to become ______ slowly putting one on with one hand. However, ______ one was a different story. I was once stuck and half naked in a swimsuit. I still refused to bother others and was even ______ to reach for a knife to find my way out. A girl near me saw me struggling. She rushed over and managed to ______ me in a minute.

At a Paralympic event, everyone player has a(n) ______. Being unwilling to ______ a helping hand made me a(n) ______ one. However the ______ in that changing room helped me start to become a new normal person.

At first, learning to ask for help was the adaptation that proved to be more difficult than putting on a ______ with one hand. After some efforts, I realized learning to do so was not the decision I had ______ made, but it became the win I______ wanting most.

One day, a baby snail found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell at any time. He didn’t _________   why it was, so he went up to his mother and asked, “Why was I born with a shell that grew so _________ and heavy?” His mother said, “Because we don’t have _________ to hold us up. We can only move slowly, so we need a shell to _________   us.”

The baby snail asked again, “The caterpillar (毛毛虫) has no bones, and she can’t move quickly either. Why can she _________   without a shell?” The mother snail answered, “That’s because a caterpillar will become a butterfly. She can _________ high into the sky. The sky can protect her. ”

The baby snail had one more _________, “But the earthworm moves like us. He has no bones and he won’t turn into a butterfly. Why doesn’t he carry a hard and heavy shell?” His mother said, “He can dig a hole and hide in the _________, and then the earth can protect him.”

The baby snail then cried, “We are so _________   ! We have no protection from the sky or from the ground!” His mother smiled at him. “That’s why we have a shell. My dear, imagine that if we don’t have the shells, what will happen to you? Hot sun will dry out our bodies and we’ll have nowhere to sleep. What’s more, we’ll die in the heavy rain. How __________ it is! We don’t depend on the sky or the ground for protection. We should depend on ourselves.”