1 . A sailor(船员) in one of Christopher Columbus’s three ships is eagerly(渴望地) looking for land. In the sailor’s eagerness to_________land, he makes his_________. He thinks that a cloud on the horizon (地平线) is land. The sailor, with great excitement, calls out, “Land!”

Greatly excited, the rest of the ship’s sailors run to the side quickly. They are_________at the thought of land.They have_________nothing but a very large area of water for weeks.

As the ship moves forward, the sailor’s mistake is made_________. The “land” is nothing but a cloud.So the sailors make a_________. They say, “You just saw the dirt under the cooking_________!”   The response (答复) may not seem_________at all today, but it was a humorous response to the living conditions on_________long ago.

When Columbus____________from Spain in August 1492 across the Atlantic Ocean, he travelled in three small, wooden ships. The living conditions were____________. Most of the sailors slept fully­clothed under the stars on the hard decks (甲板). Without a____________, food had to be cooked on the open deck at risk of____________the wooden ship.To prevent the ship from catching fire, the cook would always spread____________under the place where the cooking was done. The others would joke with a sailor who had wrongly____________he had discovered land. And they usually told him that what he had really seen was the dirt spread out by the cook for preventing fires!

3 . In October 2015, Shah began picking up rubbish from the beach every Sunday morning. At first,   it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began _________ others to join in. Word spread and with help from social media, more volunteers got involved.

Shah hasn't stopped since. He's now spent 209 weekends _________ to this mission, inspiring more than 200,000 _________ to join him in what's been called the world's biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was _________ clean and Shah's cleanups expanded to another _________ as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

For Shah, the work has always been a personal journey, but it has earned _________ attention. After he was _________ as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Bollywood celebrities and politicians accepted his mission and joined in his cleanups.

Today, Shah is also working with coastal communities to _________ plastic pollution at one of the sources. In areas lacking waste management systems, rubbish often ends up in streams and rivers that empty into the _________. Shah and his volunteers ____________ and assist villagers in reducing, managing and recycling their plastic waste.

“This world ____________ too much. I think you must talk less and do action ____________,” he said. “Every citizen on this planet must be in for a long pull. I feel the ____________ to do something for my planet, so this will ____________ for life. If each one could start, this journey could become ____________. Can we do it together?”

5 . I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn’t _________to start the bus soon because it was not yet full. A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story _________, not to anyone in particular. On her way to the station, half of her money was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she _________still had some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked _________.

When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect fares. When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he _________ that he had spent all his money when he had accidentally got on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man to _________ the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he_________ her to let him take the bus home. The driver took the conductor’s side and repeated the conductor’s _________.

The woman was watching the incident. When the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man, she interfered (干预).

“Stop _________ him! Can’t you see he’s only trying to get home?”

“He doesn’t have any money!” the driver __________.

“Well, that’s no reason to throw him off the bus,” she insisted.

Then she reached inside her blouse, took out her__________money, and handed it to the conductor. “Here’s his fare and mine. Just stop giving him a hard time.”

All heads turned to the woman. “It’s only money,” she shrugged.

She rode the rest of the way home __________ a happy smile, with the money she’d lost earlier __________.

On the road of life, the help of strangers can __________ our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the __________ will be when we make it a little smoother for others!

6 . I had a perfect childhood. _______ I saw was new, wonderful and exciting. I was _______ whether it was rainy or dry, whether it was hot or _______. I just wanted to _______ all the things around me.

But I can’t _______ time. When I reached my teens, I started to realize there was a different _______ of life. I no longer had enough time for little things－discovering a rainbow was not _______ , looking at a giraffe in the zoo was normal, and _______ a building with 50 floors was not amazing. A rainy day was a _______ day because the traffic was slow, and the first day of spring ________ me of aller­gies (过敏). Life moves on again. The first day of the month is not just the ________ of a new month; it’s the time to ________ bills. Going to the supermarket is a ________; it is not just fun walking around, looking for things and seeing the people around me.

Life is a ________ in which everyone has many obligations (责任), but if everyone tried to see life through the eyes of a child, I am sure that every day could be ________.

8 . It was a few days before Christmas many years ago when we didn’t have much money.

My wife and I had scrimped (省吃俭用) and_______to buy our young children some toys, but an unexpected car repair had taken most of our_______. We decided then that we could only afford to get one small_______for each of our children.

We arrived at the store, walked down the parking lot and past people_______gifts into their cars. I_______them a bit, because it surely didn’t feel like Christmas to me.

We hurried into the_______past the bell-ringer with our heads_______. I had always enjoyed putting something in his kettle (壶) before but wasn’t sure_______I could afford to this time. We_______all through the store hoping to find one thing each of our small children would like. Thankfully, we made it. We________for the checkout, and were amazed that we even had a few dollars left over.

As we walked out of the store into the winter air I stopped and________those dollars into the bell-ringer’s kettle. I didn’t have a penny________but that didn’t matter. Suddenly, it felt like Christmas.

A wonderful actress, Dale Evans put it best：“Christmas is love in________. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. ”It doesn’t have to be a gift of________either. When we do anything at any time to help others, it’s Christmas. May you always________God’s light through the love you give and the life you live.

9 . You never know how far a kind act can go.When Gloria Porter and Jeff Reick began ____, they had no idea how much it would encourage others to ____ people with kindness.

89-year-old Gloria Porter was lying in hospital.She couldn’t leave her ward(病房).So to escape ____, she would often stare outside her window to watch construction workers ____ the new front entrance to the hospital.She wasn’t expecting one of the workers to wave at her.She couldn’t help but wave back at the kind ____.This was only the start of a special ____ between the two.

Jeff Reick knew Porter was____, so he decided to send a kind ____ to her by finding some chalk and writing “Get Well” on one of the beams(梁) facing her ____.“I just thought that was ____,” Porter said.“So I should do something to ____ that.”

She wrote “Stay Safe” on a piece of paper, which she then ____ on the window for the workers to see.“When I saw ‘Stay Safe’ on the window, I ____ and said to my coworkers,’Did you see that?’” Reick said.

The hospital staff took photos about that and____ them on social media.The simple acts of kindness ____ and many people were employed in similar acts.

10 . 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.