1 . Recently, the idea that listening to classical music can increase intelligence, especially in ____, has caught the attention of the media, researchers, and parents around the globe.In the early 1990s, researchers from France and the US published articles that said ____ Mozart for 10 minutes temporarily ____ performance on IQ tests and challenging tasks.

___, the media quickly began reporting on the “Mozart effect”.

In 1997, Don Campbell published a book about this ____ phenomenon.Campbell said that classical ____ could improve health and memory, prevent mental and physical disorders, and ____ stress and depression.He soon ____ with The Mozart Effect for Children, as well as CDs and products for parents of young children.Today, a wide selection of similar products is ____, including Baby Mozart and Baby Bach, two bestselling DVDs in the popular Baby Einstein series.There are even music players specially ____ for expectant (预产期的) mothers to wear on their stomachs.__, babies can listen to classical music before they're even ____.

____, there is some doubt surrounding the “Mozart effect”.Parents ___ whether it is a proven reality or just a fad (潮流) designed to make money.Frances H.Rauscher, a psychologist and author of one of the original studies, is ____.Much of the original ____ pointed to temporary improvements on specific tasks.She ____ these findings have been incorrectly described as a general increase in ____.“I don't think it can hurt,” Rauscher said.Yet she added that ____ may still want to think twice ___ spending a fortune trying to make a genius (天才) out of their baby.

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2 . My son, Ben, died when he was 23. He likes hiking and was always feeling most at home when he was ______ . The year after his death, I hiked 48 of the state's tallest mountains in his ______ . Every step, path and summit has been a way to ______.

About a month after his death, my husband and I hiked Carter Dome, ______ weighing heavy in our hearts and legs. Standing on the summit, I looked out across the mountains my son ______ . For a moment, the enormous impact of Ben's death ______, and I could breathe.

The next weekend found us on Mount Milwaukee. Hiking the four-kilometer mountains became a series of firsts, of struggles and ______   them ——directing positions at night, finding paths and planning ______ . At last, I hiked my 48th and the ______ peak: Mount Carrigain. As I stood on the observation platform at the summit, I found the essential truth I had been trying to ______ for months: the only place that feels vast enough to ______ such deep and wide sadness is the top of a mountain: Eventually, the day came and I felt much better.

These days, I hike not to hide; but to ______ . I find Ben, but also find myself: someone ______ , now regenerating into someone who is braver and ______ . Hiking is exhausting as well as ______, and it teaches us that sadness and joy can coexist.

3 . I was fifteen and a high school freshman when I started rapidly losing weight. I was about 130 pounds, and I was ________ ten pounds every couple of weeks. I couldn’t understand why I was always hungry, thirsty, and never ________.Every night I ________ five or six times, feeling like I had to go to the bathroom, but I never really had to. Finally, I decided to go to the hospital to ________ nothing bad was going on.

I remembered being ________ in the hospital, confused, hungry, and with an extremely ________ blood sugar level. The doctors and nurses thought I might pass out, so they injected me and told me the worst news I could have imagined— tests showed that I had Type 1 juvenile diabetes. I was so ________ that the only question I could think to ask was, “Am I going to die?” A nurse told me to go out, enjoy a meal with my family, and ________, because tomorrow my new, difficult life would begin.

I don’t remember what time I had to be at the hospital, ________ I know it was early. Three nurses, one dietician, and a doctor all trained me, over the course of two days, to ________ me. Every needle hurt, but in some way I began to feel ________ every time I was able to think about the needles without crying.

Now, nearly three years later, I still remember the ________ when the doctors told me I was a Type 1 diabetic. I’m ________ when I look back that I was able to be strong, and that my family and friends supported me. I’m now two months shy of eighteen. To this day, I have had 3,38 needle injections, but each of them helps me to remember I must be strong. ________, I am grateful for my disease—it has made me the person I am today, and I would never ________who I am.

4 . I’d just gotten out of hospital myself. Five days before my mother passed away, a tire of my car blew. I was going 50mph when I completely lost_______; my car crashed head-on into a concrete barrier. I should have been _______   but fortunately I survived. Physically I healed quickly, but the_______ injuries and fear of my own death stayed on. Soon even _______ activities, like driving a car or visiting my doctor, filled me with great fear. Eventually I fell into a state of_______ and stopped seeing friends. I even didn’t want to go anywhere and feel anything.

Then, last February, I was_______ invited by my friends to go skiing in Colorado. My first response was to_______. I didn’t want to get on a plane, fasten sticks on my feet or slide down a mountain. The mere thought of meeting new people _______   me. But I had a sense that this journey might be the brilliant sunlight I_______ needed. I finally agreed.

The first day, I was_______ with Peter, an experienced coach. He sensed my fear, patiently removing it with a smile and jokes. I was absolutely terrified of_______ myself, but his gentle encouragement kept me going. Then he said something that made me nod in recognition, “Jill, fear _______   everything.” Peter was talking about skiing, about how your muscles _______ when you are afraid, often causing you to fall. And it’s particularly true in life as well. When you permit fear to prevent you from doing what you love, life stops. With Peter’s words in mind, I kept practicing.

By the end of the day, I’d improved enough to fly down hills that had scared me, a bright smile on my face and tears in my eyes. Tears were not from the cold but from _______. I’d faced my fears on the mountain, and I knew_______ the rest wouldn’t be far behind.

5 . I was catching a flight from Calcutta to Madras and had arrived at the airport rather early. I had always thought of airports as _________ places until I saw a young couple sitting a few seats away from me, and _________ the woman was crying. I realized that though airports were places of delightful _________, they could also be about difficult departure.

The young man who looked obviously connected to the woman didn’t even try to _________ her. After a certain amount of _________, I walked over with a Smile Stone—a small marble with a smile _________ on it—in my hand and said, “Excuse me, can I give this to you?” And I held out one of the sky-blue Smile Stones. Tears filled _________ eyes. “Why?” she wanted to know. “To make you smile.” She took it quickly and _________ a quick, grateful smile.

Later as my bag was going through the security _________, a uniformed, unsmiling young lady pulled my backpack onto a side table and started unceremoniously (毫不客气地) unzipping (拉开拉链) its various sections and ____________ the contents in the mildly aggressive ____________ that airport security staff sometimes have. When she put her ____________ quickly into the front pocket, she came up with a handful of smile stones—they smiled at her ____________ and her face gently broke into a smile. The whole ____________ of her interaction with my backpack and with me shifted in that second. I pulled out one of the smile stones and said, “This is for you, to ____________ you to keep smiling.”

6 . Students start a joyful hotline to cheer people up

Wouldn't a joyful message lift your spirits during this time of coronavirus (新冠病毒) isolation (隔离)?

A group of Calgary Board of Education students in the Ever Active Recreation program set out to ________ people's lives during this hard time.

The program is called joy4All which encourages anyone, especially the ________ , to share their own messages through a hotline that provides pre-recorded ________ stories, kind messages and jokes.

Jamie Anderson, a teacher at Ever Active Schools, encouraged his students to take an active part. “Many people are experiencing ________ to connection with others, so the students decided to bring joyful messages to phone lines to ________ as many people isolated from others as possible to cheer them up,” Anderson said.

Ali Ahmad, 16, one of the students for Joy4All, said he wanted to make a ________ during the time. “Through this project we will be able to ________ people isolated at home with something they can always look forward to in their day.________, it can lighten the ________ and even help save lives,” he said. “We ________ wanted to reach out to seniors, and people in nursing homes and hospitals , but later we also want to connect with other parts of the community, like families who are at home.”

Another student ________ for Joy4All, Jared Quinn, 20, said he wanted to help those who were dealing with isolated families. “I'm doing this mainly because of my ________ with isolation. My grandparents, who live in a different province, were ________ to come and visit, but now they can't owing to the isolation policy,” said Ouinn.

The program is due to ________ in June, but Anderson hopes students will continue their project for as long as the public health guidelines are in ________.

7 . The complaints started a few weeks after Frances moved into her new apartment. Last year, the health-care worker and her roommate began _______ messages from the building's security officer, passed on from the woman living in the unit below — they were too _________, moved chairs too often and their guests talked and laughed loud.

To Frances, the noises were part of everyday living. Her roommate tended to drop things. Frances' children _________ visited and ran around. "It was _________”says Frances. "Anything we did caused her to complain - and she owns and we rent, so if we couldn't solve it, we assumed it was we who would have to move.”

To make matters worse, Frances and her neighbor couldn't talk to each other. The key fobs for their building allowed _________ only to their own floors. Though they lived just meters _________ they had no way to reach out and bridge their divide---across which Frances could feel bad feelings _______, “When you don't know the person, you expect the worst," says Frances. "We thought this neighbor _________ us."

Frances had no way to know what her neighbour was thinking about or what she was like, so she found it easy to presume the worst. Social psychologist call it fundamental attribution （归因）error”, the act of believing that what a person does reflects their real _________ . "If we experience something as being negative __________ the effect it has on us, we automatically assume negative intention on the other person's part," __________ a conflict consultant. And that can create a spiral （螺旋形）of   __________ without end. If colleagues make a paperwork mistake, we think they are__________, when they might just be overworked. If someone __________ us off in traffic, we suppose they are careless, ________ possibly dealing with an emergency.

8 . After thirty-three years of managing a grocery store in my small hometown of Athens, Alabama, I decided to sell our business and retire． How could I retire but still have a feeling of________with my community? After all, they are the people who________my effort when I first opened the business and I wanted to give something back．

Knowing my________, a friend told me about a hospice meeting and asked if I would be interested in becoming a hospice volunteer. I was so________! Here was my opportunity to serve my community, give back to it,________friendships and begin new ones.

________with information from my new training class, I was assigned my first job. With________knees, I knocked on the door. Then came the________couple who were struggling to care for each other. At first they were a little ________ to let anyone into their lives, but soon they appreciated the bunches of roses from my garden. My rose garden was my greatest________.A fresh red bunch of “Dolly Partons” or the creamy pink “Barbara Bushes” always seemed to________their sick room． My garden of eight to ten bushes, inspired by their________, began to grow. Twenty, then forty, then sixty-five bushes, a whole yard of wonderful fragrant roses just waited to be cut and they seemed to know their________and outdid themselves with big blooms. The roses began to appear at weddings, teas, and on other social________in our community. Just another way I found to give back.

My________job continued. When I got a call from the hospice with the words “Someone has asked for you ”, I was filled with great humanity and was really ready to help．

9 . Life is already difficult. However, life is even more difficult as a ________ mother. However, for Rebecca Polston, every day is a ________ of strength and courage. Her 2-year-old son, Rhylon, has been on dialysis since he began his ________ against kidney disease at just one month old; he ________ this process for ten hours every night and Rebecca is with him for every moment of it.

Until he receives the kidney transplant he ________ , she is unable to work due to his medical condition. But she still relies ________ on her car because emergencies happen a lot. Devastation struck this summer when Rebecca’s car was ________ by a hit-run driver. With only liability insurance and no job, Rebecca had no way to ________ money together for new wheels. For this small family, the future was ________ — until a radio station heard about her story.

Rebecca and Rhylon were treated to dinner at a restaurant in Roanoke, Texas, unaware of what KLTY 94.9 had been in ________ for them. They finished their meal and were brought out to the parking lot. They were ________ there by Bonnie Curry and the SpeakLove team: a group of clerks and editors from the station who are devoted to doing good ________ for people in their community. A check for $ 1,000 was ________ to them, as well as brand new toys for Rhylon-but the ________ didn’t stop there.

George Grubbs, the owner of a local INFINITI dealership suddenly revealed himself and ________ a set of keys and a brand new car——silver, covered with a red ribbon, and completely paid for.

10 . We’ve all heard of an “Aha!” moment when something confusing suddenly makes sense or a brilliant idea ______ up out of the blue.

Chloe Marino was shopping in Hawaii with her five-month-old son. As sometimes happens, she got distracted and ______ left her wallet behind.

Luckily, the wallet was ______ by store security guard Aina Townsend, who ______ to return it to its owner after work. Not having a ______, the 22-year-old took it upon himself to bicycle for nearly an hour to the Marinos’ door.

“You know, I lost a wallet before, too and it’s the ______ thing in the world,” Townsend said. “I was just doing what I felt was the ______ thing to do.” Chloe who didn’t even realize she’d misplaced her wallet, was ______ by Townsend’s determination as well as his ______ to help out total stranger. Her husband Gray was so impressed that he ______ Townsend’s good deed on his Facebook page. The “Aha!” moment followed soon after.

Gray Marino’s pal Greg Gaudet was also ______ by the young man’s story. He set up a Go-Fund-Me page to see if people could pull together ______ money so Townsend can go to work by car.

Townsend’s good deed has translated into more than US $24, 000 in car-worthy donations, exceeding the original funding ______ of US $5,000 by nearly US $19, 000. “There were a few times in my life where people did a few things that made a really big ______ ,” Gaudet said. “He’s been working hard for a long time. He ______ it”.