1 . Mica came into my life in 2012. When I heard that a _________ dog had been dumped by her family at a shelter, I turned to Iske. “Look,” I said, “a dog your age, _________ at the shelter. Can we adopt her?” Iske’s tail thumped (击打). Her approval _________ a lot.

After all, I may have adopted Iske, but actually she’s the one that rescued me—through a heartbreaking _________ and single parenthood, Iske had been my rock. _________, I learned from Iske, is a two-way street. And now it was time to _________

A few e-mails and a transport miracle later, Mica arrived. Unlike Iske, Mica had a tough time adjusting—She refused to be _________, walking away from all affection. She missed her family, _________ as it was. We loved her and hoped her heart would _________ enough to let us in.

After a few weeks of training and bonding, I decided to take her for a short hike. She had __________ her name and came when I called her, so I weighed the risk against the joy hiking might bring her. I made the decision.

As soon as I took off the leash (狗绳) in the forest, she __________, leaping over logs along the trail. At the lookout, she posed upon a rock and __________ the layers of hills dropping away towards New Jersey and beyond. Obviously, hiking gave her joy to be __________ and running free.

After that, we committed ourselves to completing the highest 35 mountains in the Catskill region. It would have been amazing for any dog to hike at this level of __________, but Mica bravely conquered those mountains at age twelve. From a pitiful creature on the end of a __________ to barking upon the summit of Mountains, Mica’s spirit has shown me just what a miracle is.

2 . In a crowded migrant (移民) camp in Tijuana, Mexico, a three-year-old girl wandered ________ toward the exit. She was steps from a busy road. Estefanía Rebellón was the only person who ________ her. The writer had just driven from Los Angeles with a group of friends to drop off food and clothing to a(n) ________ organization.

It was December 2018, a time when the US-Mexico border was seeing migrants from Central America ________ violence and poverty. Rebellón rushed over to the child and took her ________. “Where are your parents?” she asked anxiously. Eventually, she and her friends found the girl’s ________ father, who had stepped away to ________ for food.

Back at home, Rebellón gathered a group of volunteer ________ via social media, and using a thousand dollars from her ________, set up a school at the Tijuana border. In five years, the pilot program has grown into the non-profit Yes We Can World Foundation, which has ________ three school buses into classrooms and established two schools.

________ by donations, the foundation’s teachers have provided a bilingual education to more than 3,000 kids. The schools ________ an official curriculum (课程) from Mexico’s education ministry. They also offer ________ courses, which help kids understand more about migration.

Rebellón has received numerous ________ for her work, including Outstanding American by Choice. As more than 6.6 million people still live in refugee camps around the world, she says she’d like to ________ the foundation’s influence and support migrant children globally.

3 . On February 17th, the Clermont County Animal Shelter, Ohio, shared a story. A woman met with her missing dog Will again.

While ________ the shelter’s Facebook post forwarded by friends in her community, Hannah saw a dog named Rome that was to be available at the shelter’s weekend ________ event and that dog looked quite ________.

Hannah explained in her Facebook post that Will, a six-year-old went missing from her home in 2019. Although her family looked everywhere, they couldn’t ________ their missing baby.

A shelter volunteer said, “Just yesterday we ________ a message accompanied by photos with a detailed description of Will’s ________ in the hope that the dog brought to our shelter and renamed Rome was ________ Will!” But Rome was scheduled to be at the Take Me Home event today! Learning this, the volunteer, in a bit of ________ quickly sent a message back that Rome would be at the event! “We would love this family to be ________ and we just had to ________ whether this was Will after all these years!” It turned out a big yes. The volunteer continued, “The ________ story serves as a reminder of the incredible impact that the Internet can have in bringing communities together, especially in times of ________. Thank you all for ________ Will’s post.”

It was nothing short of a ________ and we are sure Hannah and her family are ________ to have their dog back!

4 . As the sweet smell of pears and apples spreads in the air, drawing a stream of visitors to the orchard (果园) in Karamay’s Baijiantan district, an elderly man is seen doing the rounds of it on an electric bike. Sometimes, he stops to water the trees or prune (修剪) the grass, determined to ensure every single tree reaches its full ________.

The ________ of this forest was once a dump (垃圾场). It was the man, Wang Yanming, who planted the trees many years ago, creating the shade visitors can now all enjoy on hot summer afternoons. Wang oversees the greening work, planting trees and flowers, and often helps people to remove ________ from the dump.

“In ________ days, strong wind turn sand particles and tiny rocks into arrows that ________ our hands and faces. I ________ wanted to do something to improve the situation,” Wang tells China Daily. Inspired by his ________, workers from nearby factories ________ the example, turning afforestation (造林) into a trend in the desert and wilderness soon made way for green forests.

Wang’s continuous effort over the decades ________ a wasteland into a green forest in the middle of the Gobi Desert. It is quite ________ that the orchard is called Yanming Park after the 90-year-old. Yanming Park has become an informal ________ centre for youth. Young men and women often come to listen to stories told by Wang and his teammates about the ________ of the olden days.

“I am glad to have made a small contribution to protect the environment ________. I feel delighted when my green mission ________ others to care for nature. I hope our community spirit will be ________ for generations and that Karamay will stay evergreen,” says Wang.

5 . Every weekend my parents give me $100. I bet you think I’m really spoiled (宠坏的). Think again!

It all started when I wanted a really cool _________. I asked my parents to buy it for me but they said I would have to buy with my own money. “But it’s only $100!” I _________. An hour later, my parents _________ there would be a family meeting at dinner.

They _________ the meeting with the words, “We’ve been thinking about how to give you more _________ in our family.” They brought up several “new ways” I could “have more say.” One way was to allow me to _________ for the family. Each Saturday, I was to be given $100 — along with a shopping _________. It was up to me to buy everything on it. Whatever money was _________, whether two dollars or thirty, was mine and I could _________ however I wanted — whether to buy toys, books, jackets, or even a bicycle. My parents’ $100-a-week plan gives me real __________ to shop for the best bargains (特价商品). I __________ prices on every single item on my list before I __________ what to put in my basket.

My parents’ clever plan has turned me into a __________ shopper. Now, when I finally save enough money, that cool bicycle doesn’t just ________ a mere purchase; it stands as a symbol of my __________ success.

6 . I was cleaning the roof of a customer’s house when the stroke (4 XI) happened. Laid up in the hospital bed, I was depressed, mind _________ with concern. I was the _________ of the family. I made the money. I was worried about our future.

I came home in a wheelchair. It was like waking up in a house after a storm, everything familiar yet _________ in some way. I was left unable to   _________, with problems with my hands and vision issues. Thankfully, my family was my _________ ready to restore with me. Gradually, I worked on _________to walk and using my hands again.

My son would move my walker a step forward, _________ me to walk further. And my wife was always my balance.

While focusing on my   _______I wanted to provide for my family to make sure they had a home even if I wasn’t here. Not to worry about rent. One night, I _________ a thought with my wife, “What about making our own house, a safety net for you and the kids.” She __________ worry in her eyes, but she believed in the dream and nodded in agreement.

After buying an old house with most of our savings, I started a blog online called Making a Home to __________ our journey of redecoration. People, once strangers, started __________ us. They comforted us when we were __________and celebrated our victories with us.

Now, we have moved into our home. We may continue to face many challenges. Still, together we’ve __________this far. Life throws storms our way, but we have the power to __________, and to rise again.

7 . As a teen, Ketie Steller suffered from a severe disease, her hair thinned sharply. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Steller’s first professional ________.

“To sit down and have somebody talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it helped me feel cared about and less ________,” she says.

After that, Steller knew she wanted her own ________ so she could help people feel the way she’d felt that day. Not long after finishing cosmetology school (美容学校) in 2009, she began what she now calls her Red Chair Project, ________ to people on the streets. “Part of what ________ my heart was just how lonely people looked,” she says. “I thought maybe I’d go around and ask if people want free haircuts. I can’t ________ their problems, but maybe I can help them feel less lonely for a moment.”

Steller listens to people’s stories of loss, addiction, and ________ to get back on their feet. The attention ________ works. She was cutting a woman’s hair one day ________ someone drove by and yelled, “You look ________!” “I thought I was ________. Look, now people see me!” The woman in the chair said with a large smile.

An offshoot (分支) of the Red Chair Project is the Steller Kindness Project, in which people who commit acts of ________ are invited for a free facial at Steller’s salon. ________, they tell their stories, which Steller shares on her website. Her hope is that by reading about kind acts, others will be ________ to spread their own.

A free haircut may be a ________ thing, but it can be a gateway to show value and respect.

8 . As a student researcher at UC Irvine, I need to use various software to collect and analyze data.

When l first started doing research, I found the QuPath software very _________ to use. There were a lot of different tools and a _________ amount of new vocabulary to learn. Luckily, another student who also used the QuPath software walked me _________ a lot of it and although she had her own _________ to work on, she was always ready to _________ any questions.

However, I continued to _________ with the software when she was _________ from the lab and there was no one to ask for help. It took me quite some time and _________ to become all too familiar with the software.

The student who helped me was about to _________, leaving me as the person to whom new student researchers would __________. I would be more than ready for them!

I decided to write a detailed step-by-step guide about how to use QuPath and its different tools so that new students could __________ if they needed advice. A week later, I was asked to help a new student who was learning to use QuPath. He was __________ surprised when I showed him the written instructions. I shared the __________ and also helped him __________ when we were in the lab together.

Once I graduate, I hope that the guide I wrote will __________ to help students for years to come.

9 . In the Washington Park, Tammy Anderson is a familiar and ________ figure. Tammy has worked as a crossing guard for the past six years. Although she is one of 600 guards in the city, she ________ from the crowd thanks to her ________ of dancing, singing, and waving cheerfully to drivers as she does her work.

Tammy could simply stand quietly and do her work, but where’s the ________ in that? She admits it was ________ that got her moving in the first place. “I still remember the first day I was on duty and it wasn’t long before I got bored just standing there,” Tammy ________. “Then someone waved at me… I waved back and then it got contagious (有感染力的) and I just started, hey!”

The mom of three never ________ to bring joy to local residents and has won genuine ________ with her daily “infectious” smile. “She does it from the heart. She doesn’t do it for a paycheck or for the recognition! She does it because this is what she really ________,” one resident said.

Her ________ may still be as bright as ever, but behind the scenes, things weren’t going so well for Tammy. Being a single mom, she’s ________ to keep up with the unpaid rent. And this is why she recently turned to her community. ________, when word got out that “the happy guard” appealed for ________, people opened their wallets and dished out far more.

As a crossing guard, Tammy ________ joy for free. Now the community is ________ the favor! To date, she’s raised over $19,000!

10 . I have had no interest in football for as long as I can remember. While my classmates played, I _________ to stay in the library. I never _________ the passion for the game and would throw away the sports section of the newspaper, as if it _________ the rest of it. As I grew up, I proudly wore my _________ .

But occasionally, whether in a taxi or when meeting a friend's father, I found myself faced with a _________ opener like, “Terrible season we’re having, eh?” or simply, “Who do you support?” My heart sank, knowing my response would unavoidably _________ them, despite their good intentions.

I realized that my _________ had closed off many conversations, outings, and even potential friendships I might have _________ enjoyed. Although I couldn't change the fact that I found football boring, I began to regret being a(n) _________ .

Then I became a father. I didn’t want my boy to __________ this valuable social experience, so I took him to watch the Lions play. During those matches, we sat close to the field, surrounded by families who had a genuine __________ with the players. My kid’s questions kept me somewhat __________ in the game. Slowly, I started to__________ for the Lions.

During one victorious match, we even met David, the Captain, who happily __________ for a photo with my son. __________, I had an answer to the question,“Who do you support?”