1 . Several years ago, Katie Doble was diagnosed with a cancer called ocular melanoma. Doctors gave her 16 months to ________ . But her father who was a physician himself, felt ________ when he found a clinical trial that could save her life.

So after Christrias, Katie flew to New York to see if she would ________ the trial. As she went through a series of tests, she found herself ________ her mom. ________, she passed away when Katie was a teenager. “On tough days, my mom offered what she called an ‘energy hug’. Those were hugs that she’d ________ extra tight and extra long, ”Katie remembered.

As she sat in waiting room, Katie had a ________ for one special hug. “I see a girl who looked to be about my age and she has her head ________ in her mother’s lap. And her mom was moving her ________ gently and pushing it behind her ears. And I was very envious(羡慕的)and missing my mom and her energy hugs, ” she said.

Soon, a ________ came out and called the daughter in. The girl ________ and I watched her get her echocardiogram(超声心动图). And when I turned my head back around, the mom was ________ right in front of me and said to me, “You seem to need a mom’s hug. ”

With tears in her eyes, Katie ________ and said yes. “It was just one of those moments in life when somebody ________ and gave you something that you needed. ” she recalled.

In this summer, Katie and her family ________ her anniversary(周年纪念日) of being cancer free.

2 . From the village, for the village

“In my childhood, the houses in the village were old, and the roads were _____ .” recalled Li Jing, 29, currently serving as the director assistant to the village secretary in Cuijiaba, a town ______ Hubei province. “But now, our village boosts modern, ______ homes, wide well lit roads.”

Li is a native of this village and was one of the first from her community to ______ higher education. After graduation, she embarked on a career in the city. However, she made the life altering ______ last year to return to her village. She was willing to ______ herself to her hometown and realized her own personal______.

When Li returned to her hometown, she received firm support from her family, despite some villagers who ______ her decision. She resolved to prove herself through ______ and action.

Li explained, “Her job involves extensive communication with the villagers, and promoting ______production.” “We hold meetings ______ about sharing insights on potato planting ______ , sales channels, market trends, and more,” Li said. “These gatherings provide us with opportunities to ______ the villagers with tools and offer a window such as live streaming ______ like Douyin   for them.”

In the near future, Li hopes to continue helping her fellow villagers raise their potato production and increase their ______ . Her long term vision is to promote urban rural integration (体化).

3 . Five years ago, I got an email from a well-known professor in my field in March. He invited me to _________ for a position in his lab. Things went well and all I needed to do was finish up my thesis (毕业论文) and I decided to _________ it in the following months.

One night, my mother came up to my room, asking softly, “Have you _________ your thesis yet?” “Not yet, Mom,” I _________, even too busy to look up at her. Then she mentioned that she had some _________ symptoms (症状) in her body that had never been seen before. She wanted to say something more, but my academic (学业的) _________ made me hardly take her words to heart.

However, two months later, the doctor announced my mother might _________ for less than a year _________ cancer (癌症). It was then that I _________ that things became more serious than I had imagined. Before it was too late, I was __________ to stop my thesis and be there with my mother for her rest life. __________, my mother failed in the battle and passed away at the end of the year. The next July, I finished my scientific thesis and got the __________ from the lab.

When looking back today, I feel __________ for losing precious time with my mother. The __________ of my mother gave me a new way to think about life: If your loved ones need you, be there for them. Science will be waiting when you __________.

4 . I was only eleven years old but I’d been the best runner, high jumper and long jumper in my school since kindergarten! But the one hundred meter race was the most _________competition for me. Nothing boosted my ego more than my schoolmates_________ me as I sprinted across the finish line.

But the_________news crushed my spirit -- a knee injury meant I might never compete again. It hit me like a knockout punch that left my ears ringing in_________.

The next day I was_________inside, while the other kids were outside running. Mr. Lewis encouraged me to_________my energy into the town poetry contest. Determined to find comfort in this new endeavor, I diligently crafted poems each day,_________ their rhyme and rhythm. But the sadness of being_________from track and field was overwhelming.

One day writing in the classroom, I caught Mr. Lewis_________scolding the boys in the next classroom who were exhausted and desiring to quit. “I’m__________of you boys! At this moment there’s a girl in the next classroom dreaming about competing in track and field! She’d do anything to take your__________, but because of a bad knee, she can’t! You should be embarrassed! You should be happy you can run every day without__________!”

For the first time, I felt__________and appreciated. Mr. Lewis understood how much I’d lost because of the injury. From that day forward, I created my__________with a strong belief that I would win the contest, for me and for Mr. Lewis!

That year, my small town__________my triumph as I claimed first prize. I owed my success to Mr. Lewis, his support fueling my inner fire.

5 . Ida Keeling was 67, weak and sick, when her daughter Cheryl suggested a run to her. Cheryl thought that maybe what would pull her mother out from dark cloud was something that would get her _______ again.

Keeling lived a hard life when young, growing up _______ in Harlem, and doing hard work in factories during the Great Depression. She had _______ her husband early, and two of her four children died in drug-related incidents in 1978 and 1981.

Keeling had sunk into a deep _______, her health had begun to _______, and her daughters began to _______ that they soon might be losing their mother as well.

It had been decades since Keeling had done any _______, and she would later recall that first “mini-run” feeling as if it would never end. But when it did, “I just threw off all my bad _______.”

She hasn’t stopped running since, and it’s no longer as _______ as it was during that first meet. “I was just exercising then,” she says ________ regarding that first run, “and now I’m all over the world.”

When she’s not running, she must be ________. She’s in the gym three to four days a week on a ________ basis. Part of her healthy diet is occasional consumption of alcohol mixed with her coffee or water to ________ blood circulation.

She’s written a book about her ________, titled Can’t Nothing Bring Me Down: Chasing Myself in the Race Against Time. Her ________ is also suitable for everyone: “Every day is another day forward.”

6 . I think this was my most memorable experience so far. I volunteered for two weeks in a guesthouse (家庭旅馆) by the sea________by a Mexican mother and son. I’ll always remember when I got to the bus stop and the son came to________me up. He was my age and I just knew this would be something different and fun. We________on the way to the house and I was welcomed to a Mexican lunch by the mother and another________, K, who was younger than me. We quickly________a little group and even with the mother.

The most________part of this experience was the room I was________K: Our beds were________by a curtain; we had no________to our room and we had holes in our ceilings. There was a table in our room where we all had lunch, and crabs (螃蟹) crawled in at night. The water from the tap came from the sea and there was one stove and the WiFi________worked. We played card games at night, occasionally had beers, and best above all,________and talked for hours and hours. I loved every minute of this________and simple country life.

I was sad to leave but have kept in________with all of them since then and definitely plan on seeing them again. This________made me understand why you should volunteer, whether it’s in your home country or anywhere else in the________.

7 . The days that make us happy make us wise.

--- John Masefield

When I first read this line by England's Poet Laureate, it _____________   me.   What   did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the _______ was true. But his serious assurance was ________. I was deeply attracted by it.

Slowly, I seemed to ________ his meaning and realized the wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception(洞察力), not _______ by anxiety nor dimmed by despair and boredom, and without the blind _______ caused by fear.

Active happiness---not mere satisfaction or _______---often comes suddenly, like an April shower or the unfolding of a bud. Then you discover what kind of wisdom has ____________ it. Amazingly, in your eyes, the grass is greener; bird songs are sweeter; the _________   of your friends are more understandable, and more forgivable. Happiness is like a pair of eyeglasses correcting your ________ vision.

Nor are the __________ of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts focused on your emotional woes (痛苦) , your vision is cut short as though blocked by a wall. Happy, the wall _________.

Consequently, the long vision is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you---people, thoughts, emotions, pressures---are now ____________ a larger scene. Everything covers a fairer _________. Everything around you, whether it is encouraging or frustrating, no longer seems such a big deal. And here is the beginning of _________.

8 . Mae Beale, an 82-year-old retiree, just earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC).

Beale decided to _______ to school in her late 70s, and she _______ her diploma on May 18, the day after her 82nd birthday.

In her younger years, Beale worked as a _______at different health care agencies in Washington, DC. While working at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, she helped plan several large events and everybody was _______with it, which inspired a _______change.

In 1994, at the age of 54, Beale started her._______ event-planning business and meanwhile started working toward her associate degree in Business Management at Howard Community College.

After _______ the associate degree program, she decided to_______a bachelor’s degree, one class at a time.

“I wanted to make certain I had the time to _______ to whichever class I was taking, ” she said. “I was like the tortoise (乌龟). Slow and   __________ wins the race. ”

Despite being   __________ than most of her classmates, Beale was a star student. She graduated with __________   and made the dean’s list several times during her time at UMGC.

And   she     __________others to pursue higher education with an __________     mind. “Expose yourself to as many   __________as you can because you never know what life will present. ”

9 . My sense of leadership has been shaped by my father, whose 25 years in public education have positively impacted many students. On the last day of each school year he would come home with many cards and gifts, from both _______ students graduating and former students who stopped by to thank him. Apart from his role as a respected teacher, my father was also a _______ who helped others learn to find themselves, rather than direct their actions or words through _______ . I’ve come to believe that power is the ability to _______ people to evolve, and that successful _______ is measured only by the success and well-being of the people around you.

As a result of this understanding, I’ve _______ an active presence in my high school’s peer tutoring program. Since I also hope to become a _______ , this experience has helped me better understand the skills needed to help people _______ their educational obstacles.

Coaching in _______ is another mode of leadership that I hope to keep. Powerlifting has had a major place in my after-school life. I’ve found the strength sport environment to be really ________ , because everyone can participate in it. In addition, it ________ cooperation and support. This goes back to the measurement of encouraging success and ________ of others.

The path to becoming a more ________ leader comes from establishing bonds and developing skills alongside other people, so that eventually your ability to lead follows ________ from your experience and abilities you’ve practiced over years of work. By ________ oneself and others, we eventually become a true leader and educator.

10 . Tom and I found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We each got six thousand dollars. It was an awful _________ of money when it was piled up. Judge Thatcher kept it in his house, and _________ us a dollar a day. The widow (寡妇), Douglas, took me for her son, and _________ she would civilize me but it was _________ living in the house all the time. Considering how miserably regular and decent the widow was in all her ways and so when I could stand it no longer, I _________ .

I got into my old rags again, and felt _________. But Tom Sawyer came up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be _________. So I went back. The widow cried over me, called me a poor lost lamb, and _________ me a lot of other names, too, but she _________ no harm by it. She put me in the new clothes again, and I felt so nervous that I __________ all over.

With night approaching, I went up to my room with a candle. After a long time, I heard the clock __________ twelve and all was quiet again. Pretty soon I heard a branch break in the dark. I sat still and listened attentively. I could __________ hear a faint “me-yow! me-yow!” down there. That was good! I said “me-yow! me-yow!” as __________ as I could, and then I put out the__________, climbed out of the window and __________ down to the ground. Sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.