3 . Lisa winked (眨眼) as she placed a warm blanket in my arms. It was a particularly _______ evening in this little Italian mountain village.

Her _______ was the first knock on the door of my temporary (临时的) home in Campania, from my closest _______, a house dress-wearing woman in her 80s with a lovable smile. But there was on _______: Lisa spoke little English and my Italian was very limited (有限的).

I tried very hard to _______ my Italian, but my long hours of studying _______ produced less than 60 seconds of results in Lisa’s living room. In _______ sentences we talked about the weather and how I liked the village. She also _______ me photos of her family. But she spoke too _______ for me to follow. Although Lisa and I speak ________ languages, we found ways to ________. One afternoon when she saw me ________ laundry she shook her finger at me and pointed at the sun. I was ________ until the sun went down and I got wet clothes back into the house. After that, every time we hung laundry, one finger shake and I never again got wet clothes at the end of the day. When it was time to ________, I woke early to take the train. The village was ________. But Lisa broke the silence, calling out from her balcony. I couldn’t understand every word, but I got the main idea: Italiano, Italiano!

4 . Every weekend, my father would go to the park to feed the homeless. I really didn’t understand why my father put so much _________ into it. But I was glad I didn’t have to join him, because I knew how much _________ my father had just getting everything ready.

Then, one Friday night I was _________ a whole wonderful weekend by myself again when my dad came in.

“I need your help tomorrow. Some _________ won’t make it.”

“Dad. I can’t.” I wanted to _________, but failed.

When we arrived, people were already there _________ us. I was _________ that my dad knew most of them by name and even what each one needed. While my father was feeding them, I started handing out some _________. It was at that time that I _________ a girl about my age was barefoot (光脚). I looked into her clear eyes for a moment, __________ believing someone of my age could live like this. It was lucky that we took some __________. “Thank you!” she cried __________ when I handed her the shoes. I felt all __________ inside as I watched her leave.

Now I __________ why my father did so much to help the homeless. I could __________ he loved seeing their smiles of happiness. I did too.

6 . On such a rainy day, I had no intention to drive up the winding hilly road to my daughter Betty’s house. But she had _______ me to see something at the top. So here I was, _______ making the two-hour journey through the thick fog.

I _______ along the dangerous highway. Turning down a narrow track, we _______ and got out. When we turned a corner, we stopped—and I gasped (喘息) in _______. From the top of the mountain, for several acres down across the valleys, were rivers of daffodils (水仙花) in blossom. A variety of _______—from the palest milky to the deepest lemon-shone like a carpet before us.

A flow of _______ filled my mind. Who created such beauty? Why? How? _______ we approached the home that stood in the center of the possessions, we saw a sign _______: “Answers I Know You Are ________. The first was: “One ________—Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain.” The second: “One at a Time.” The third “Started in 1968.”

She started almost fifty years ago, probably just at the ________ of an idea, but she kept at it. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a(n) ________ and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have ________?” Betty looked at me sideways, smiling.” Start tomorrow,” she said. “________, start today.”

7 . Creative Home Engineering is the world’s most famous company devoted to making hidden rooms and ________ doors. From would-be superheroes, to ________ businessmen looking for a ________ space for their prized art collections, they all ________ this particular company when they want one of those fancy hidden doors that you see in the movies.

The ________ for Creative Home Engineering was born in 2003, when ________ Steve Humble was working as a mechanical engineer ________ surgical instruments for a medical device company. He had ________ been crazy about hidden doors and passageways, and that year he ________ he wanted one for himself, but ________ there was no one to build it for him. “I was renting a ________ house with a bunch of my friends at the time, and we had some extra rooms that we weren’t using. I thought it would be ________ to have a secret door like I had seen in the movies, ________ when I did a little research I was surprised to learn that there was no company anywhere that specialized in hidden passageways,” he ________. Soon after, Steve ________ his job and started building motorized secret passageways for people out of his parents’ garage in Arizona.

9 . As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. ________, fashion wasn’t much interested in her.

Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle disorder and ________ a little under four feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. Having had 26 surgeries before age 17 to ________ her

Freeman-Sheldon syndrome (综合症), she couldn’t walk long distances. ________ through Glamour and Cosmopolitan, she didn’t see a single person who looked like her, and she felt it ________.

Blake, 39, has spent her adult life trying to ________ that. She is a disability-rights activist as well as a freelance ________ whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Glamour. And Blake ________ a new selfie every day online, where she talked about her happy moments or how she dealt with not-so-good days.

Her fans went ________, calling Blake a powerful woman. Among her fans is Mindy Schcier, the founder and CEO of Runway of Dreams, which showcases ________ for people with disabilities. Last fall, Scheier asked Blake to be one of the ________ in New York Fashion Week.

“It was a little frightening,” Blake says of modeling. “But I take the ________. After my repeated practice, I won countless applause.” Often, when we think of ________ for people with disabilities, we think of buildings and employment. But ifs also important to have access to what’s fun and ________.

“Fashion isn’t going to solve all the world’s problems,’’ says Blake. “When disabled people included, it sends a message that everyone ________ a seat at the table in all aspects of life.”

10 . Holly Morrell will never forget the phone call that changed her life. Her father _________ to say that a 16-year-old boy had died of a heart _________ on the field at the local high school. He said,

“We have to do something.” She _________.

Although neither Holly nor her dad knew the boy, they were both too _________ with cardiac arrest（心脏骤停）, a condition that kills about 325, 000 Americans each year. Holly says, “Screenings（筛查）_________ lives.”

Within weeks of her dad's call, Holly organized her first cardiac-screening event at the _________ boy's high school. In 2007, she _________ ,Heartfelt, a non-profit organization that provides free or low-cost cardiac screenings for adults and children. “My goal is to make screenings _________ to as many people as possible,” says Holly.

Experts say that early detection is _________ to preventing sudden cardiac arrest, which often occurs to seemingly healthy people with no __________ of heart disease. “We're always looking for ways to __________ sudden cardiac death, and Holly's program is one of those ways,” says Dr Tony Mccanta, a cardiologist. “What Holly's doing is __________.” For Holly who had a cardiac defibrillator (除颤器）implanted to help __________ her heartbeat and has tolerated seven heart-related __________, it was all she wanted to do. “I believe that my own __________ was saved so could keep doing this work.”