1 . A woman is volunteering in ashelter. It all started because she missed her own _________ .

Sandy was at a loss when her beloved Angus died last year — terribly lonely, yet not quite______for a new dog in her life. ________, she decided to volunteer at the local animal shelter and spend some quality time with furry friends who, like her, were ________ their old buddies (伙伴).

Remembering that her dog had loved being read to, she brought along a ________   there.

It's now been 18 months sinceSandy first began ________ her chair beside the dog house. Shelter workers say it really calms down the dogs, but Sandy says it does more ________ to her than it does to the dogs.

Sandy was ________ that photos of her reading to dogs were spreading on the Internet until the media started calling. Kathleen, a fellow shelter volunteer was so touched by the sight of her     ____ to an old dog that she took a photo and posted it on the Internet. She was so ______ with the dogs — I watched her read to several — and they just loved being ________ by her, "Kathleen said.

Inspired by Sandy's style of _________, the shelter has announced that a reading marathon is being ________ for next September. The plan is to get kids in the neighborhood ______ in reading to the animals, with the added benefit of reading practice for the two-leggers, along with plenty of friendly _______ for the four-leggers.

2 . A scary new virus swept over the globe and the virus knocked on my door a few weeks ago when I was _______at the clinic where I work. Five days later, I got the first call from Public Health _______me know I was thought “low risk,” luckily, I could self-monitor and carry on as usual. What a _______!

But then I got the second call.…It came from Public Health revising my category to “exclusion”— a _______technical way of saying self-isolation, I felt that my _______ had been turned upside down. Everything took a _______- my family, the clinic and its patients, my income. Did Public Health _______make the right decision? After _______ the news to my family, I was greeted with love and encouragement. It was then that I lifted the weight _______my soul.

So I picked out __________ clothes from my closet, grabbed essential items and moved to the basement. I pieced together a desk to work on and I would only see my family when I went __________ to eat meals. __________meals, I sat at the far end of the dining table, at least two meters away. And my own family was __________at home as much as possible. In the basement, I used the isolation as a rare opportunity to __________many projects that I hadn’t had time for.

I had no doubt that this crisis will end, as all the crises happened before. And it was our choice on __________ it brought out good or bad results.

3 . When Amanda Moore noticed that the new student from Mexico always sat alone at lunch, she decided to befriend Rafael Anaya. She also noticed that he________ to understand English. Then she used the Google Translate app to hand-write a letter in Spanish asking him to________her for lunch. Her action________her the “Student of the Month” award for October at school.

Actually, Rafael always________ because he felt so lonely. “He always ate lunch alone and I felt ________ about that，” Amanda said. She knew he spoke Spanish and he seemed lonely. She spent the whole afternoon ________ writing the letter, using the app to help her.

The next day Amanda handed the letter to Rafael and waited for his________.It wasn’t until their math class that he said “yes”. The two had been________together for lunch ever since. The letter helped Rafael feel more comfortable and encouraged him to________his English harder. “I think for Rafael it made a huge________，”said their teacher. “He really wants to learn English to talk to Amanda. The two used hand gestures and Google Translate for ________now but they hoped it would become ________ when Rafael's English improved. And, Amanda was learning some________.

Amanda’s mother felt________moved by her daughter’s action. “It is just so sweet，”she said. I think this ________ is special.”

4 . He was no scholar, and his classmates teased him. Rather than read, the future director really preferred running around with an 8 mm camera, ______ homemade movies of his Lionel train set, which he showed to friends for a small fee.

After being denied ______ into a traditional filmmaking school, Steven Spielberg enrolled in California State College. Then in 1965, he ______, in one of those unexpected moments, his life took a complete ______. Visiting Universal Studios, he met Chuck Silvers, who was in charge of the editorial department. Silvers ______ the kid who made 8 mm films and invited him back sometime for a visit.

He ______ the next day. Without a job or security clearance (安全许可), Spielberg, dressed in a dark ______ and tie, walked ______ up to the guard at the gate of Universal and gave him a casual wave. The guard waved back. He was ______.

“For the entire summer,” Spielberg remembers, “I dressed in my suit and hung out with the directors and writers, including Silvers, who knew the kid wasn’t a studio ______, but winked at the deception (骗局). I even found an office that wasn’t being used, and ______ in. I bought some plastic tiles and put my ______ in the building directory (名录): Steven Spielberg, Room 23C.”

It ______ for everyone. Ten years later, the 28-year-old Spielberg ______ Jaws, which took in $470 million, then the ______ movies of all time. Dozens of films and awards have followed because Steven Spielberg knew what his teachers didn’t — talent is in the eyes of the filmmaker.