2 . Byrd is in her eighth year of teaching at Wilder Elementary in Mansfield. She has taught fifth grader Fisher Croney every year since he was in kindergarten. Fisher _________ in the class by helping in Byrd's classroom whenever he has free time after class.

Byrd also _________ Fisher's mother, Shannon Croney, as an acquaintance. They would occasionally chat at their boys' baseball games. She had heard that Croney was having some _________ problems. In January 2019 Croney received a routine blood test and found her kidneys   (肾) were not _________ normally. After going through a string of tests, doctors could not figure what caused her kidneys to _________. But Byrd didn't know what the _________ was until she saw a Facebook post from Fisher around Christmas of 2019. It was _________ to help his mother find a kidney. Byrd did not _________ to help. In March, Byrd, learned that she and Croney were a close _________ .Even doctors were __________ that they were not related in blood.

Byrd was in the hospital for __________ in June. She was never __________ about the transplant（移植）. Actually, she felt honored that her donation enabled another person to live a totally __________ life. Today, both women are doing well. They are turning their __________ to another member of their community, who is also sick and __________ a kidney transplant.

5 . It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year old son, Tenyson. As we were _______, we realized that only minutes earlier an _______ woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. _______ was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. _________, a lot of people stopped to help out._______we were walking towards the scene (现场), Tenyson became very_______about what had happened to the old couple. He_______to me, “Mom，it’s not much fun falling over in front of _______.” Seeing that there was a flower stall(摊位) at the front of the supermarket, he added(补充说), “Why shouldn’t we _______the lady a flower？It will make her feel better.” I was ________ that he’d come up with this ________idea. So we went over and told the flower seller ________we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied, “I________ take your money for such a wonderful ________.”

By now medical staff had arrived, and were________the injured woman.We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was__________my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me，“You have a________son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from.________being badly hurt, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with ________in her eyes and gave him a little________.

6 . Mr. Smith is sixty-five years old. He retired and now stays at home. Two years ago his wife _________. He has four sons, but they all have their own families. He lives in an old house _________. Sometimes he feels lonely. One of his sons bought a parrot for him. He began to _________ it to speak. Every morning , as soon as he got up, he said “Good morning” to the bird. The bird had a look at him but said _________. He kept on teaching it , _________ the parrot didn’t learn anything. He felt sorry for it and lost his _________ .

Yesterday evening his son rung him up. On the telephone his son told him that his granddaughter was _________ in hospital. He went to see her at once. When he got there, she was being operated on and the doctors asked him _________home. And he didn’t fall asleep the whole night. This morning, when he was passing by the parrot, he _________ to say “Good morning” to the bird.

All of a sudden he heard someone say, “What happened to you this morning?” He looked around. There was nobody __________ himself in the room. Now he understood the parrot was protesting (抗议) against him!

7 . I always dreamed of becoming a full-time writer. After two years as a salesman, I _______ my job and made up my mind to realize my _______ .No one could tell me whether I would succeed or not.I rented a basement and _______ to write.I had so many things to write because the enthusiasm（热情） was _______ in my heart.

After a year or so, _______, I began to doubt myself.I found it _______ to earn my living by writing.None of my novels were _______that year.But I _______ to follow my dream--even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of _______.I believed anyone with a dream must learn to struggle for the ________.

During the hardest period of my life, a friend came to see me and tried to________ me, “Come to our company, ________ we will pay you 2,000 dollars a month.” 2,000 dollars was really a big fortune at that time.It would enable me to live a ________ life.As the money was dancing in my ________, something cleared my senses.Hadn’t I dreamed of being a writer, a full-time writer?

“Thanks, but no,” I said ________ , “I’m going to stick to writing.”

Again and again, I said to myself, “I will be ________.People will love my novels.”

________ my first novel was published in 1991.I had the kind of success that few writers ever ________.

Twenty years have passed, but the effect it had on my life has ________.Now I often   ________ the time working in that cold basement.I will say, “Anyone with a dream and persistence will be successful.”

8 . How Running Helped Me Turn My Life Around

I've never been an athlete. Aside from excelling at all academic disciplines at school, my main goal was to _______ PE at all costs. In my twenties, I went for an occasional yoga or Zumba class, but that was really the summary of all my athletic accomplishments.

That was until the end of 2016, when I was unexpectedly laid off. The _______ of getting a new job soon were not in my favor and _______ thoughts of not being good enough started to kick in. I was feeling quite depressed but pushed myself to go and _______ for the TCS NYC Marathon runners as the course was going through our neighborhood.

However, while being there, I got phenomenal _______ from all the runners, smiling, applauding and high-fiving constantly. Not a runner myself, I thought maybe I could give running a _______, just to try, to use my neglected gym membership and see where it _______ me. And so I tried. I went to my local gym the next morning and got on a treadmill （跑步机）.I was out of breath by minute five, but I _______ down, walked for a bit and then restarted. I came back the next day, hoping to _______ a few minutes longer. By the end of two weeks, I could run for 30 minutes, which was a huge ________.

While I saw my body starting to look more toned, I also noticed my negative thoughts didn't occur that ________ And it sparked a thought—what if I could set a running ________ and sign up for my first- ever race? I did and races sort of became a new hobby.

In the meantime, I was able to ________ a few freelance （自由职业的）projects. They offered me a good ________, and, most importantly, the time to work out for the big race. Also, when I was going for interviews, I started to feel very ________ in my abilities, experience and skills.

I got my full-time job ________ at my dream company just a couple of weeks before the halfmarathon. Although I got an ________ from overtraining right before the race, I still went for it and still finished within my ________ time.

I still have a long running ________ ahead of me—I'd love to work on my speed, my technique and I dream of running a marathon outside of the US. Running gives me ________ that I can do anything I set my mind to.

9 . A young man and a young woman determined to get married. As the big day drew nearer and nearer, they both grew _________ because each of them had a(n) _________. The man _________ to ask his father for advice. “Dad,” he said, “I _________ Lily very much, but I have very smelly feet, so I’m afraid that she will _________ them.” His father said, “All you have to do is wash your feet as often as possible, and you should always wear socks, _________ when you go to bed.” Well, it seemed a _________ way, the young man thought.

The young woman _________ turned to her mother. “Mom,” she said, “My morning breath is so bad that I’ m afraid my _________ will feel sick about it. And he may ______________ me. I can’t live without him.” Her mother said, “In the morning, get straight out of bed when you wake up, and head for the ______________ and brush your teeth. Don’t say any word before you brush your teeth.” The young woman ______________ her mother’s words.

They were finally married in a wonderful ceremony (仪式). Not forgetting the ______________ each had received, they carefully spent every day. The husband ______________ his socks every night and the wife said ______________ every morning; they ______________ quite well until about a month later. Just before dawn, the husband woke and ______________ that one of his socks was gone! Thinking of the terrible result, he felt ______________ at once. He jumped up and began to look for his sock in a hurry. Of course, this made the wife wake. Without thinking, the wife asked ______________, “What on earth are you doing?”The husband stopped in surprise, and then he cried, “Oh, no! You must have ______________ my sock!”

10 . Mr. Gray travelled a lot on business: He sold machines of different kinds to farmers.

He had a big car, and usually _________ driving it long distances, but he was quite satisfied to go by _______ sometimes too, especially when the _______ was bad. He was a little afraid of driving in rain or snow, and it was _______ tiring to sit comfortably in a train and to look out of the window without being worried about how _______was going to get to the next place.

One of Mr. Gray’s problems was often _______ to stay when he reached some small place in the country. He did not _______ great comfort and wonderful food, but he found it annoying (使恼火) when he was given a cold room, and there was no hot water or food after a long and  _______ day.

Late _______ winter evening, Mr. Gray arrived at a small railway station. The  ________ by train that day had not been at all interesting, and Mr. Gray was cold and tired and ________ . He was looking forward to a simple ________ satisfying meal by a brightly burning fire，and then a hot bath and comfortable bed. __________ he was walking to the taxi rank, he said to a local man who was also ________ there.  “As this is my first visit to this ________of the country and I was in too much of a hurry to ________  about hotels before l left home, I would very much like to know ________ you have here.”

The local man answered, “We have  ________ .”

“And which would you ________ me to go to?”Mr. Gray asked him.

The local man thought for a while and then answered, “Well, it’s like this: Whichever one you go to, you’ll be________ you didn’t go to the other.”