2 . When I was eight years old, Mother told me to put my coat on because we were going to go someplace special. Usually, that meant we were going to see someone ________ or that I would at least get a new ________ . I asked which one it would be that day, and she told me that I would be getting something ________ than toy. She said I would get “access (通道) to a world of toys”.

But we did not ________ at any toy store. Nor did we finally see anyone we knew. ________, Mother pulled her car at Marcy Public Library. Mother ________ me directly to the reception desk (接待处).“I’d like to get my daughter a library card,” she told the man ________ the desk. He asked her to fill out a form and smiled at me. “What kind of books do you like?” he asked. I was too shy to ________then. I simply smiled back and shrugged (耸肩) my shoulders. “Well, you’ll know it ________,” he said.

I do not ________ what I picked out that day, but I know that in the years that followed I read ________I could find interesting at that old library. I read through all the Nancy Drew books before advancing ________Judy Blume (注：美国儿童文学作家), then the classics: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Shakespeare. Then I read ________ on history, books of poetry, and books about art. The library opened up a world that I ________ knew before.

So Mother was ________ . Getting a library card was like getting access to a world of toys.

3 . Eight years ago, Nancy Alguire gave birth to a little girl with Down syndrome (唐氏综合征) named Ruby. The love Alguire felt for her daughter ________her to create a scholarship of $2,000 to________another child with Down syndrome but wanting to go to college.

“I really just wanted the world to see what I saw in her, which was that she was extraordinary”, Alguire________with CBS News.

The initial ________ of sending one child to college didn’t quite go as planned. The family actually________to raise funds for l1 kids with Down syndrome in that year. From there, Ruby’s Rainbow was________. It is a non profit organization aimed at securing higher education for those with Down syndrome and giving them the________not only to learn, but also to become more independent and able to________society.

Eight years later this scholarship program has snowballed into something much ________. Through the charity, $1.2 million has been raised, allowing many people with Down syndrome to ________their dreams of a higher education and show the________just how amazing they are.

However, although the scholarship program is a wonderful educational opportunity, what matters most is the ________message this sends to parents of children with Down syndrome, or parents expecting a child with that extra chromosome.

Alguire wants parents to feel_________. She wants parents not to be afraid of a Down syndrome diagnosis. As she shares, “When the parents find our website, they will see all of these amazing, beautiful, capable faces, and people who are out there with Down syndrome________happy lives. And suddenly, they’re crying tears of________ for the future.”

4 . A little girl created a perfect gift for her mother’s birthday. It was a drawing of a ______ on white paper with the words “For mom: love, love, love” decorated with hearts. She folded (折叠) her letter, but then she ______ it.

For most people, that would be the ______ of this story, but this story had a different result. James Carrell found the letter. He had just ______ his mother, wishing her a happy birthday. After he hung up, Carrell saw the ______ on the ground outside of a hardware store in Manvel. “I ______ it was a gift,” said Carrell. “I opened it up and saw the flower and hearts. It really ______ me.” Carrell thought the letter would ______ someone’s day and that maybe he could find the owner, so he posted it on the Internet. The message moved a lot of people, ______ one man.

“I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man’s ______,” said Carrell.

The comments included one from Robert Alvarado. He wrote, “I can’t ______ you found my baby’s letter.” Carrell reached Alvarado to ______ the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally met on Thursday night.

“Eventually the letter made it home,” said Alvarado. “We are ______ for what James Carrell did.” We often forget the power of ______ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a ______ impression.

6 . My brother Henry and I were driving home together and were talking with each other. We became so _________ in the conversation that my brother took a wrong turn. The wrong turn took us towards a _________ and we had no way to turn back. _________, my brother paid the toll (通行费) and drove on. He was clearly _________ by the mistake and the waste of $4.

We finally found an exit and, as we took it, my brother noticed an old black car _________ to the side of the road. A young man holding a mobile phone was standing nearby and trying to _________ someone. I was busy trying to find out which way we went next, but my brother stopped to ask the man if he needed _________.

And he did. He had a _________ tire (轮胎) and needed a wrench (扳手) to get it off. My brother gave him a wrench, and then started to help him _________ the tire. He said that this had been a __________ week for him; earlier a minor car accident, and now this flat on his way home. But he called us “A breath of fresh air” and kept __________ us and tried to give $20 to us. “No,” my brother said, “We were never meant to even get on that bridge, but we took a wrong turn. Now we know __________ we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our mistake into a __________ to serve.”

What I loved most was watching my brother through the whole __________. He was able to turn his anger for the mistake into __________ energy. He was able to see a chance to help in a negative situation, which I totally missed!

7 . It was in Australia. By mid-afternoon on Thursday, Adrian Main was working outside in the ________. Over the years, he had ________ many animals while digging around in soil, but he knew how to ________ the dangerous ones.

Now his shovel was in his car, parked 50 meters away. He considered getting it, but the job was ________. So he used his hands instead. Just as his fingers slid under the pile of ________ he felt a(an) ________ pain in his left hand. Adran quickly ________ out his hand, seeing a spider biting his finger.

Adrian knew immediately that the spider was a Sydney funnel-web, the ________ in Australia. He ________ his hand up and down to throw off the spider and after three or four seconds, it finally let go and dropped to fallen leaves again.

He ________ to his coworker, Phil, who was working close by. Phil ________ his shovel and ran over. The pair calmly walked to the car while Adrian pressed down on his finger to ________ the spread of venom (毒液) into his bloodstream. They both knew a bite like this, if left untreated, could ________ death within an hour.

________, the forests where they had been working was not very far from the hospital. Adrian walked into the emergency department with ________ still streaming down his finger. He calmly told the nurse that he’d been bitten by a Sydney funnel-web, and was quickly brought to a bed. He finally was saved.

8 . Thirty-five years ago, my son, Jared, was born visually impaired. _________, I learned from Jared’s teacher about Seedlings Braille Books for Children, an organization founded by Debra Bonde. Although she did not plan to _________ a nonprofit in 1984, she _________ helping blind children all over the globe.

As a _________ woman, she initially wanted to find a volunteer job without having to talk to anyone. _________, she signed up for a braille transcription (盲文转录) class and began _________ popular children’s books, printing them, and selling them for just the _________ of the paper. Word spread and _________ grew for more of her books. Friends helped her to form a nonprofit so she could start getting grants and _________ to help with production costs. That first year, she printed 221 books.

From its __________ beginnings 37 years ago, Seedlings has produced and __________ more than 600,000 books across the world, half of their books given away for free.

As a mother, I __________ Seedlings, who provided “typical” experiences for Jared in school so he could check out books just like his __________ classmates.

Jared graduated from Michigan State University and __________ a telecommunications degree. Since 2012, he has __________ on the Board of Directors for Seedlings—making an impactful difference in the lives of children, the way Seedlings did for his.

9 . As Norwood drove through St. Petersburg, Florida, the laughter from the four teenage girls inside her car suddenly gave way to _________. They were hit by another car and _________ into a tree.

Then smoke _________ from the car. A bystander shouted, “It’s about to _________! Get out!” Norwood immediately crawled out. Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to _________ themselves, she ran for her _________.

But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran back and found Simmons stuck in the back _________. “She wasn’t _________,” Norwood told Inside Edition. She _________ open the back door and pulled her friend out. She dragged Simmons a few feet to __________ and laid her on the ground. “I checked her pulse and put my __________ against her chest.” No sign of life. “That’s when I started CPR (心肺复苏术).”

Kneeling on the lawn and looking down at her __________ friend, Norwood started pumping Simmons’s chest. She breathed into her friend’s mouth in __________ of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. Fortunately, Simmons began coughing and breathing for __________.

Soon, paramedics (医务人员) arrived and rushed Simmons to hospital. When she heard how Norwood had saved her life, “I wasn’t __________,” Simmons said. “She always backs me up.”

10 . Raden is a librarian in Indonesia’s Java island. She is ________ books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a(n) ________ way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.

Each weekday she rides her three-wheeler with books for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other ________ that she carries back.

She is helping inculcate(灌输)________ in the kids and make them ________ of the environment. The moment she ________, little children, many ________ by their mothers, surround her “Trash Library” demanding books ________.

They are all carrying trash bags and Radon’s three-wheeler quickly fills up with them as the books ________ out. She’s ________ the kids are going to spend less time on online games as a result She ________ about 100 kg of waste each week, which is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for ________ or sold. She has 6, 000 books to lend and wants to take the mobile ________ to neighboring areas too.

Kevin Alamsyah, an 11-year-old reader,________ for waste lying in the village. “When there is too much trash, our environment will become dirty and it’s not healthy. That’s why I look for trash to borrow a book,” he says.

The literacy(读写能力)rate for above-15-year-olds in Indonesia is around 96 percent, but the pandemic(流行病)will ________ more than 80% of 15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency(熟练)level.