2 . There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben, ________ he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed so ________.

The mother ________ that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a ________ a week and do a report about it for her.

One day, in Ben's ________, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him ________. “Why did Ben raise his hand?” they wondered. “He ________ said anything. What could he possibly want to say?”

Well, Ben not only ________ the rock: he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew ________ the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were ________. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book ________.

Ben later went on to the ________ of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.

After Ben had grown up, he ________ something about his mother that he did not knows as a ________.

She, herself, had never learned how to ________.

5 . Alice is a student who came to my class last year. Though she has already turned 60, Alice looks so fit and _________, with a bright smile and an enthusiastic attitude. I am Alice’s teacher in class, but I feel she is my teacher in life.

For my 2-hour class every Saturday morning, Alice has to take a 3-hour round-trip on the road. But she is never _________ for class. Alice is very passionate about learning English. She often says, “Don’t _________ me as a 60-year-old. I am just a new beginner who wants to learn anything _________. You know, I am very excited to come to the class!” So I feel a strong sense of _________ to make sure what I teach makes sense to her.

Alice came to me with very _________ English skills, but she turns out to be a very fast learner because she always puts English _________ on a daily basis. I _________ her homework before every class. Her homework is usually not what I _________ for the class, rather it is something that she __________ to put together. She makes various sentences using the important words and phrases she learned from our __________ class. I am always __________ by the quality of her work.

I feel fortunate to have a student like Alice. She has __________ me so much. Our __________ is a great learning experience for both of us. Though I have no idea why she learns English, I hope I can help her get closer to her dream, __________ it is.

6 . Li Ziqi,a 29﹣year﹣old Chinese,amazes the world with China's countryside life. After releasing a short video on April 27 about planting and cooking peas, this Chinese food blogger _______ her followers on You Tube came to more than 10 million， the video being among the most _______on the platform. She really didn't expect such a _______ response.

Li's YouTube videos _______ her life with her grandmother in the rural parts of Sichuan Province. In the videos， Li， often _______ graceful traditional costumes like a fairy﹣tale character， makes seemingly everything from scratch with her own hands.

Unlike many other food bloggers， who cook dishes in the kitchen _______ with ingredients bought from the market,Li's videos set China's countryside as the stage and start with how the foods are planted and _______ in the field. She even rarely speaks in the _______ .

Apart from food， she's also known for her videos _______ traditional crafts， like ________ bamboo furniture. She says it was ________ by one of her grandfather's old benches.

Li's overseas followers have ________ her videos for showing the extraordinarily picturesque， simple and elegant side of China's rural life， but back home， there have long been ________ on whether her presentation is unrealistically poetic. In ________ ， she says what she shows is just a lifestyle she has long followed and appreciated. As a girl raised in the countryside， planting flowers， vegetable and trees is not difficult. Though there are ________ elements of rural life， she avoids them in the video to give the viewers a feeling of relaxation. For millions， this Internet star's videos are really a/an ________ from urban life.

"There are so many ________ in my mind of old craftsmanship and ________ food. Some are at the ________ of being forgotten in modern life. I hope to ________ them through my small efforts and show the world the beauty of China's rural life，" said Li.

7 . It started when I called 911 after finding my partner unconscious on the floor. Within ________, a police car arrived, followed by a(n) ________ filled with doctors and nurses who ________ my partner to the emergency room, where he received the critical ________ he needed.

A week later, I wrote thank-you notes and ________ them off at the police station and the ________ with packs of still-warm chocolate cakes made by myself. After the firefighters thanked me for ________ the gifts, I drove away feeling both ________ and happy.

Whenever you express gratefulness, you make yourself happier. But when you share it directly with the person you feel grateful to, the benefits ________.

John Kralik of California ________ this firsthand. Divorced twice, he wasn’t as close with his children as he wanted to be, and his law practice wasn’t earning money despite the ________ hours he devoted to working. At a particularly ________ point, he remembered his grandfather telling him decades earlier about the importance of ________. He decided to write 365 thank-you notes over 365 days, hoping for a ________ change.

_____ he noticed that his attitude and his ________ improved. At the end of his thank-you note year, he wrote an autobiography about his experience, A Simple Act of Gratitude: How Learning to Say Thank You ________ My Life. “I don’t need a scientific study to know that if you are grateful to people and if you learn how to accept gratitude well from other people, your life will be ________,” Kralik says. “The first effects are that you realize you have a much better life than you thought.”

That’s the magic of the two simple words, which can ________ blood pressure, improve sleep, and ________ relationships, “Thank you!”

8 . One day, I was on my way to work. Suddenly, a truck knocked me down and completely crushed my_______. It wasn’t the driver’s_______— there was something that_______his vision. People around_______me to the hospital quickly. Even though it happened around 9:30 am, I was only_______on at 5:30 pm. The doctors tried to save my leg, but after a few days it got_______and it had to be amputated (截肢). When the doctor told me, I tearfully asked him, “Why did you take so long?”

What got me through this_______was acceptance — that this is my fate, and now I can either_______to cry about it, or take it positively. I chose the_______. So when people used to come to visit me in the hospital and get________, I would tell them jokes to make them laugh!

Afterwards I took the treatment, and began to learn how to walk all over again. My________fear was that I wouldn’t be able to play________which had been my passion since childhood. However, even though it was________for me to walk, I could still play badminton. I began winning some marches. After________the suggestion of one of my friends, I decided to________a national level. Although I worked as a software engineer, I still________five hours a day. And I went on to win several________at the national competitions. ________, I almost completed my training in scuba diving and________all over India.

When people ask me, “How do you do so much?” I just________— with a question, “What’s stopping you?”

9 . We were five minutes into the worst disorder. That was the worst experience — approaching Boston Airport in a severe winter _______. I turned to the woman next to me and said, ''Hey, would you mind _______ with me for a few minutes? I'm really nervous."

''Sure. My name is Sue；the woman replied, _______ warmly. ''What brings you to Boston? '' I started to explain that I was on a business trip. Then the plane shook violently, and _______ slipped of my tongue. ''I might need to hold your hand too.'' Sue took my hand in both of hers, _______ it, and held tight. When Sue took my hand on that scary flight to Boston, I almost wept with relief. She was so calm, effective, and _______ —''Yep, this is a little bumpy(颠簸的), but we'll be on the ground safely soon,'' she told me — that I asked her what she did for a living. ''I'm a retired physical education teacher, and I _______   women's volleyball, '' she said. _______, I could see what an awesome coach she must have been.

Sue and I talked about our families, our vacations, our love of the ocean until the plane finally _______. Then the businessman sitting on the other side of her, who'd been silent the entire ________, remarked that he'd ________ our conversation. ''It ________ me and I was not scared any more.'' he said.

When we said goodbye, I gave Sue a big ________ and my card. A few days later, I received a/an ________with the subject line "Broken Hand on Jet Blue."

''I have to admit that I was just as ________ as you were but did not say it,'' Sue wrote. ''I just ________ your hand as hard as I could. Thank you for helping me through this very scary ________'' She added that when she'd told her friends about our conversation, they ________ her because they knew she loved to talk.

I told my friends about Sue too. I explained how kind she was to me, and what I learned: It's OK to ask for help from a________ if you need it. Now if I mention to my friends that I am ________ or worried, they respond, ''Just think of Sue''

10 . Last summer, Katie pulled off the road on her way to work. She _______ at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign for help. She _______ her window.

“Hey!” she shouted. “I’m driving around giving free _______. If I fetch my_______, do you want one right now?” The man looked to be in his 60s. He was heavyset, balding and missing a few teeth. He paused, but then _______. “Actually,” he said, “I have a funeral to go to this week. I was _______ hoping to get a haircut.”

“I’ll be right back,” Katie said. She drove off, went to the _______ she owns, and _______________ one of her hairdressers to help her load a red chair into her car. Then the two of them drove back. The man took a seat, and they _______ his curly graying hair. He told them about growing up in Mississippi, about moving to Texas to live _______ to his adult children in order to help look after his grandchildren, and how he still phoned his mom every day.

After Katie was done, Edward looked in a mirror. “I look _______!” he said happily. “I’ll have to remember to put my _______ in next time.”

So far, Katie has given 30 or so such haircuts to people around the city. These _______ are all living in poverty, and she is keenly _______ of the power of her clean-up job. “It’s more than a haircut,” she says. “I want it to be a (an) _______, to show value and respect, but also to get to know people. I want to build _______ with them.”

Katie knows that a haircut can _______ one’s life. One changed hers: As a teen, she _______from a severe disease called ulcerative colitis and her hair _______ gradually. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Katie’s first professional haircut. “To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it _______ me to feel cared about and less alone,” she says.