1 . Hansen and his 10-year-old son Chase search the streets of Salt Lake City every weekend for the homeless to take to lunch. They started Project Empathy(共情)four years ago to ________a meal, listen to their stories and figured out how they could ________ help.

“Just start with a smile, a hello. It really just starts with that. If you do it, you can make a connection. A small gesture can have a ________ impact on others less fortunate,” Hansen ________ in an interview.

Some of these shared meals have turned into stronger ________ .Ward, a homeless, was ________ in a flat. He credited the Hansens with helping him ________the difficult process of moving off the streets. “It is great to have friends who make us feel ________ and I’m impressed with the pair,” Ward said.

Father and son’s ________have developed into a passion project that ________ faith and community, which emphasizes the ________ community members can have in uplifting the homeless. They know they can’t settle the homeless ________ alone. They’re hoping empathy will ________.

“My hope for the future is to ________ more connection across our country. We could and we will succeed ________ we have other people join in and help the homeless,” Chase said.

2 . Dean Moberg works at SeaWorld, which rescues more birds than any other type of animal. The hardest part of Dean’s _______ is when he finds birds that were hurt _______. Sometimes Dean finds sandhill cranes (沙丘鹤) that have been shot by arrows (箭) or hit by golf balls. Most of the time, the cranes that Dean _______ have been injured by chance. One way that they can get hurt is by looking inside rubbish for food.

When people see a crane that _______ help, they know to call SeaWorld. Dean and his team will drive hours to _______the bird.

Usually, sandhill crane adults are found in pairs. The mother crane and the father crane work _______ to raise their babies. Dean knows how _______ the cranes are when they are separated, but if one of them is hurt, it must go back to SeaWorld for _______.

Dean writes down exactly where he _______ each crane. When the cranes are ________, he takes them back to the same place. He lets them go and they are able to find their ________ again.

Saving sandhill cranes with serious injuries isn’t ________! Inventive, specially designed lift and support tools allow injured cranes to eat and rest while keeping weight off their ________ legs.

It takes a great deal of patience, determination, and love for these special birds to fully ________. Luckily, that’s something they find with Dean and the other ________ members of his team.

3 . In Europe, men do not usually wear skirts. But the Scottish national costume for men is a kind of skirt. It is called a kilt. The Scottish like to be ________. They are also proud of their country and its ________ and they feel that the kilt is part of that history. That’s why the men still wear kilts at old-style dances and on national holidays. They believe they are wearing the same clothes as Scottish men always used to wear.

That’s what they believe. ________ kilts are not really so old. Before 1730, Scottish men wore a long shirt and a ________ around their shoulders. These clothes got in the way when the men started to work in ________. So, in 1730 a factory owner changed the blanket into a skirt: the kilt. That’s how the first kilt was made.

Then, in the late 1700s Scottish soldiers in the ________ Army began to wear kilts to be different from the English soldiers. The Scottish soldiers ________ very hard and became famous. The kilt was part of that fame, and in the early 1800s men all round Scotland ________ to wear kilts.

These kilts had ________ stripes going up and down and across. In the 1700s and early 1800s, the colour of the stripes had no ________ meaning. But later the colours became important to the Scottish ________. Most families had special colours for their kilts. In fact, each family just chose the ________ they liked best.

This is not the ________ you will hear today if you are in Scotland. Most Scottish people still believe that kilts are as ________ as Scotland and that the colours are also as old as the Scottish families. Sometimes feelings are stronger than ________!

5 . It happened in Knoxville (a city in Tennessee in the US). A mother said she was feeling ________ as she tried to comfort her autistic (自闭的) son. But a stranger’s act of kindness turned both of their days around.

Ashley Fox was ________ at Walmart with her son Norris, three. Norris picked out a toy dog at the store. ________, it cost more than Fox had ________, so she put it back.

“That’s when Norris just had a meltdown (情绪突然失控). I rushed out of Walmart as fast as I could. He was screaming and ________,” said Fox. She was struggling to get Norris into his car seat when a woman approached her with the ________ her son had wanted in the store.

“The lady came up behind me and she pulled this toy out, and she said, ‘Is this what he was wanting?’ and I said, ‘Oh my god, yes it is.’ I gave it to him and he just ________. It was great. I expressed my ________ to her and offered to pay for this toy. She ________ to let me do it, ________ saying that she understood that because she has ________, too. I just really wanted her to know that it made his night and made his ________. He loves it and I just think it was a really ________ thing that she did,” said Fox.

She posted on Facebook that Norris and the toy are inseparable. Thousands of people have liked the ________ and hundreds have appreciated the act of ________.

“This woman, she didn’t judge. She just helped me. If more people were like that, I feel like we have much less negativity,” said Fox.

6 . She is over a century old, but she hasn’t let that stop her from working. At 102, Romay Davis _________ drives herself to the grocery store each day for _________.

Now, during Black History Month, Davis is being honored for her _________ with a grant (拨款) named after her. Through the Romay Davis Grant Program, charities will receive _________ in the fight for racial equality and social _________. Davis is _________ of the grant in her name as she is a pioneer herself. She served in the first all-Black Women Army _________ overseas during World War II. Then after the war, she started her _________ in fashion as a designer in modeling in New York for 30 years. Throughout her life, she’s also _________ other milestones including a master’s degree, Black Belt in Taekwondo (跆拳道) and more.

She __________ for the first time in 1982. After her husband died in 2001, she __________ to go back to work and was __________ by the grocery store in Winn-Dixie in 2001 at the age of 82. In 2019, Romay __________ her 100th birthday

“As we celebrate Ms. Romay’ birthday, we are all moved by her life-long __________ and strong work ethic, which __________ others to be their best," said Anthony Hucker, CEO of Winn- Dixie, Southeastern Grocers.

7 . The Best Holiday

I was unbelievably proud of my nine­year­old daughter, Emily._________ to buy a mountain bike, she’d been saving her pocket money all year, as well as doing small jobs to _________ extra money.

By Thanksgiving, she had collected only $49.I said, “You can pick one from my bicycle_________. ” “Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old.” She was right.All my bikes for girls were 1950s models, not the kind a kid today would _________ choose.

As Christmas_________ near, Emily and I went bike shopping.As we left one store, she noticed a Salvation Army volunteer standing next to a big pot.“Can we give something, Daddy?” she asked.“Sorry, Em, I’m out of _________ .”

Throughout December, Emily _________ to work hard.Then one day, she made a surprising_________. “You know all the money I’ve been saving?” she said, a little hesitantly.“I’m going to give it all to the poor people.” So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $69 to a volunteer who was really very thankful.

_________by Emily’s selflessness, I decided to contribute one my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children.__________ I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a __________ bike took on a glow(发光)．Should I contribute two? No! One would be enough! But I still couldn’t shake the feeling that I should give another bike.When I later__________the bikes, the car dealer said, “You’re making two kids very happy, sir.Here are your tickets.For each bicycle we receive from the kind people, we’re giving away one chance to __________ a girls’ mountain bike.”

Why wasn’t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the winner? I like to think it was a way of __________ a little girl for a sacrifice beyond her years—while giving her dad a lesson in the __________.

8 . When I was about twelve years old, my mother told us that we would not be _______ Christmas gifts for lack of money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d _______?” Then, three women _______ at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they bought a doll. I would no longer have to be _______ when I returned to school.

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my _______ Christmas special and memorable there, I_______ remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create the same feeling of _______ for as many children as I could possibly _______.

So I _______ with a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, each with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were ________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I ________ them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally the ________ they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles ________ up the room. The ________ in the room was obvious, and it wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody still remembered me. I know I ________.

9 . The Adams’ home has been taken over by origami (折纸艺术) in all sizes and shapes. No one seems to _______ that though. Those paper creations are _______ clean water projects around the world and saving lives. A messy home is a small price to pay _______.

In 2011, Isabelle Adams and her sister Katherine learned that every five seconds a child died from _______ of clean water and that girls of their age couldn’t go to school _______ they were fetching water all day for their families. They_______ to do something.

“So we took something that we loved doing－folding origami, with the _______ goal to help fund a well in Ethiopia,” explains Katherine. _______, they ended up selling out of origami and raising more than 10,000 which could fully _______ the cost of the well.

Katherine, now 13, adds, “It just snowballed, ________ the founding of the project Paper for Water.” In eight years, this project has ________more than 2 million dollars for over 200 water projects in 20 different countries.

Now, the rest of the Adams family are also ________. But at the heart of it, under countless paper decorations sit two brave sisters hoping to________ other girls and boys. “Kids have an unbelievable ability to make a real ________ to the world if they’re just given the chance,” Isabelle says, “and if people ________ them in their efforts.”

10 . I was walking home from school one day and it happened to be a particularly cold and windy day. It was________ and I was crazy enough to forget my hat and scarf. You can imagine my cheeks were rosy red and my hands were as numb as they could be.

All of a sudden, an old lady ________ up beside me and asked if I would like a ride home. At first, I said it was OK and her ________ smile melted (融化) away the thought that I should never talk to strangers! We had an amazing chat and she was just ________ a good woman. She told me her address and she dropped me off.

I didn’t see her or talk to her for about a month and one night as I ________ her kind gesture, I decided to return the favor. So, I made a lot of ________ and walked down to her house with my friend. At first I was a bit ________ she wouldn’t remember me or think that I was a bad man who poisoned cookies but luckily, I was ________ wrong. She was so happy, and she hugged me and kissed me and seemed so ________ that someone would do something like that!

When I got home my mom told me that the old lady ________ and told my mom on the phone that she ________ because she was so touched. She said she would never ________ the kindness that was given to her! That filled me with such ________! There really is nothing else joyful like helping ________ and making someone’s day ________!