1 . Hannahs daughter Isla has spent half her life home. Lockdown began when she was seven months old. Parks were a ______: the only places where Hannah could ______ her daughter there was more in the world than their flat. Lockdown ______ Hannah, an opera singer, and her husband, a director, months of work. They ______ every other day they would go out to a park, finding some ______ in the world. Hannah read maps for new places of green to ______. Every time they would find something new. Hannah says, “When we ______ this time, we’ll remember it as the year we three sat ______ on a million pretty places of grass.”

About five months later, lockdown ended. For months parks were almost ______. The only sounds were the footsteps of lone figures and the sound ______ from their headphones. Then came chats as people started ______ in twos. Summer arrived with speakers sending out loud music. ______, cheers, different kinds of instruments and shouts ______ the “noise” as impromptu (即兴的) concerts returned. Parks are really ______ to show people’s reactions to lockdown. Some people may feel depressed, but ______ people like Hannah and her family can be always seen everywhere.

2 . One day, rain was falling. I saw an old, wet dog walking to my house. The leather collar around his neck was _______and faded. I could see the ribs (肋骨) sticking out of his sides and knew he hadn’t had a (n) _______ meal in many days. My heart _______! I ran into my kitchen, _______ an old bowl, filled it with some food and went outside.

The old dog _______ me with alarm. I could see he didn’t completely trust strangers. I called him _______, put the bowl down and _______ a few steps back. I kneeled down in the wet grass and _______. Finally, the old boy smelt food and moved slowly forward. His own smell came before him. He hadn’t had a _______ in a long time either. I wondered if he was ________ or just lost. He bent down his head and rapidly ate the contents of the bowl ________. Then for just a moment he gave me a(n) ________ little smile. I hurried inside, refilled the bowl, and went backout but he was already gone. I had wanted to ________ him and give him a home. Instead we just shared a meal and a moment of love. I sent up a little ________ that his future would be better.

Every moment of love you create is a ________. But caring doesn't necessarily go the way we want it to.

3 . Alaina and Keith, the owners of a coffee shop, were surprised to discover that someone had graffitied (涂鸦) a fence outside their shop. But the real _________ came after they posted about the incident on Facebook.

Discovering the graffiti on their property was _________, Alaina and Keith decided to take a more _________ route instead of calling the _________. They shared what had happened online, explaining that they were _________ to give the fence an update with a mural (壁画).

“Calling all _________!” they wrote. It was _________ what they asked for. “We are looking for something that will uplift, bring hope, and _________ our community!”

As their post gained attention online, they heard from the very people they had least _________ to see again. One day three __________ came into the coffee shop. They looked __________, but they found the courage to __________ for graffitiing the fence and promised to repaint it. Shocked at their __________ choice to return to the shop, Keith and Alaina instantly chose to forgive the teens.

After the graffiti was __________, the amazing couple received a call from Shower the People, a charitable organization in Nashville. They were __________ by the couple's story and created a mural for them.

What a powerful demonstration of forgiveness! It just goes to show that one act of kindness can have a domino (多米诺骨牌) effect.

4 . It was a normal afternoon when Mom Araceli returned home from selling food along the roadside in Texas. While her back was turned, her 3-year-old son, Christopher, followed a neighbor’s dog into the ________.

When they couldn’t find Christopher, the ________ family called for help, and within a few hours, the people in the same ________ immediately took action to completely search through every corner around their house, and Araceli ________ for her sons safe return. After four long days and nights, ________ the police received a call from a man named Tim. Tim ________ that he went into the forest after supper, and there he noticed a ________ standing under a tree. It was Christopher! He was completely unharmed but was found outside the ________ where authorities were looking for him, so it’s pretty ________ that Tim discovered him there.

When hearing the news, Christopher’s family ________ to Tim’s house. Araceli couldn’t wait to hug her little kid ________. “I am so happy to have my son back, and I want to ________ you for your kindness,” she said. “I don’t know how to ________ you!”

This is definitely an unexpected result. Even law officials believed that the child had a “guardian angel” ________ him during his time outside. In fact, it was the power of the community that made this ________ a success.

5 . My parents’ new dog Mercy would rush out of bed and go-go-go all day long. So when they brought home a Christmas tree, they expected _________. But to their astonishment, Mercy didn’t seem to care. She paid zero attention to the tree _________ growing in the living room. Nor did she _________ the fancy gifts under it.

A few days before Christmas, Polly, my step mom, awoke early as usual. As she _________ the living room, she stopped cold. She saw that every last _________ was gone. Only the tree was still there. To find out the burglar, Polly walked toward the back door. She pushed the _________, bathing the backyard in light. Oh, yes, it was Mercy. She _________ in a nest of torn wrapping papers, _________ boxes, and curling bits of ribbons. Clearly Mercy’s self-control had _________. She’d silently carried one after another out of the doggy door and anything edible (可吃的) was __________including cookies, chocolates, and four pounds of Milk-Bones.

Nature took __________ on Mercy, and she eventually survived her midnight snack. Only one problem __________. With all the gift tags destroyed, how could my parents send back thank-you cards?

Mercy presented the problem, so Mercy provided the __________. A few days later, Polly happened to find Mercy __________ licking a plate where a doughnut had just been. Polly shot a picture of the shamefaced puppy and used it to make the cover of the thank-you card. Inside, the whole story was __________. We all laughed off the ruined presents and admitted that amid all the gift-giving, it’s really a season for MERCY.

6 . Alvin, 66, was deep in the woods in Grand Cane last December when something like litter on the ground caught his eye. It was a _______ balloon with a note attached.

“Dear Santa,” the note _______. “My name is Luna. Four years old. This year I have been _______. I would like candy, Spider-Man ball, My Little Pony. With love, Luna.”

Alvin’s heart hammered in his chest. It reminded him of his childhood wish. He smiled and set out to _______ Luna’s wish. He posted a photo of the balloon and the Christmas wish list on his Facebook page, asking for help _______ the sender.

Meanwhile, Gonzalez, the mother of four-year old Luna, had no idea that such a(n) _______ was underway. It had been a hard year for her family as COVID-19 spread. On a _______ tough day last December, she _______ the idea of having Luna send a letter to Santa by releasing a balloon. They enjoyed a _______ Christmas together, and then the calendar turned to a new year.

One day, Gonzalez received a call saying that someone had found Luna’s balloon. Her jaw ________. She logged on to Facebook and saw Alvin’s ________. She called Alvin and finally agreed to let Alvin fulfill her daughter’s wish list.

“Santa dropped your balloon ________,” Gonzalez told Luna, “but one of his elves (精灵) found it.” Not long after that, Luna received three boxes’ worth of ________with a note signed “Alvin the Elf.”

Now, having received so much ________, Gonzalez and her girl intend to pay it forward this year. After all, when Alvin could have just ________ that balloon in the trash, he went more than the extra mile.

7 . Once upon a time, my father and I got lost in a forest in France. I must have been about twelve or thirteen. Anyway, it was before the time when most people ______ a mobile phone. It was in the Loire Valley. About half an hour, my dad ______ the truth. “Oh, it seems that we’re lost.” We walked around and around in circles, trying to find the path, ______ with no luck. I could tell my dad was starting to ______, even as he was trying to hide it from me. We had been in the forest for hours then and both knew my mom would be in a state of absolute ______. At school, I had just been told the story of the hikers who had died in the wilderness and I found it easy to ______ that would be our fate too. “If we keep going in a ______ line we’ll get out of here,” my dad said.

And he was right. ______ we heard the sound of cars and ______ a main road. We were eleven miles from the village where we had ______, but at least we had signposts. And I often think of that strategy, when I am totally ______ — literally or metaphorically (比喻). I thought of it when I was in the middle of a ______, when my heart beat rapidly with ______ and didn’t know how I could carry on living. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same ______, will always get you further than running around in circles. It’s about the ______ to keep walking forward.

8 . Ms. Salomon had only been working at Sainsbury’s for a year when she was diagnosed(诊断) with Alzheimer’s disease. Before that, she had been ________ to leave her job as a bookkeeper because she was becoming increasingly ________.

Upon being informed of her diagnosis, ________, the Sainsbury’s staffers started doing all they could to make sure that Ms. Salomon felt comfortable and ________. For the next four years, Sainsbury’s did everything to keep Ms. Salomon on the team. They changed her ________; they stayed in ________ with her family so they could provide ________ on her condition at work; they ________ retrained her. When the disease progressed, Sainsbury’s even created an entirely ________ job for her as a “tote box cleaner”.

In 2017, Ms. Salomon’s received a medical ________ that said her Alzheimer’s had progressed to the advanced stage, and she was ________ unemployable. Again, Sainsbury’s kept her on the team.

Ms. Salomon’s ________ finally came to an end 6 months later, and though it was an emotional ________, she was also relieved.

“There have been so many times Sainsbury’s could have let her ________,” Ms. Salomon’s son Doron said. “Instead, they have always ________ her, going above and beyond to make sure she’s happy and feeling valued. On a human level, they have shown sensitivity, kindness and care.”

9 . Last Sunday, waitress King was on her routine work. She took the order of an elderly lady who was sitting _______.

“It was on Sunday, which is always pretty _______,” King told Newsweek. “About halfway through her meal, it started to slow down so we chatted for a few minutes. Just a small _______, nothing too deep. She told me she was almost 70...and she just wanted to stop by an old _______ restaurant for a bite.”

As the lady had _______ eating her meal, King noticed that she seemed quiet and in deep _______. The waitress's first idea was that there might have been something wrong with the_______. King went over to check with the lady. But the lady said, _______, “The food is good. _______ is wrong. Thanks for your kindness.” A few minutes later，the lady _______.

But the _______ which the lady left behind with the $3 tip on her $10 check brought King to tears.

“Thank you very much for your kind _______,” it read. “This was the _______ time eating out alone since my husband passed away. I was hoping I could _______ it.”

King _______ a picture of the note to Twitter, which received a ton of feedback, including “I want to give whoever wrote this note a hug.”

10 . Susan Baker King Taylor was born into slavery in Georgia in 1848. At the age of 7, Susan and her brother were _________ to live with their grandmother in Savannah. Even with the _________ laws against formal education of African Americans, they both attended two _________ schools taught by black women. Susan soon became a _________ reader and writer.

After _________ slavery with her uncle and others，she joined hundreds of formerly enslaved refugees (难民) at Union-occupied St. Simons Island off Georgia’s southern coast where she claimed her _________. At just 14 years old, she became the first black teacher to _________ educate African Americans in Georgia.

She married Edward King, a black officer. When she wasn’t working as a nurse, she _________ soldiers to read and write and “learned to _________ a musket (火枪) very well... and could shoot straight and often hit the target,” she wrote in her memoirs (回忆录).

While working as a nurse at a hospital for African American __________ in Beaumont, South Carolina, she met and __________ Clara Barton, the pioneering nurse who would __________ the American Red Cross. After the war, Susan and her husband moved to Savannah and opened a __________ for African American children in 1866.

In 1902, Susan became the first and only African American woman to write a memoir about her __________ in the Civil War. She wrote of the persistent racism decades after the conflict, but __________ a glorious time of the fight for freedom.