1 . The 13-year-old girl Anna Grace is a volleyball manager, a basketball manager, and a theater volunteer, but perhaps her greatest_________is the fact that she has beaten cancer twice.

Anna was first diagnosed（诊断）with a rare type of_________in December of 2019. A softball player at the time, she told her parents she was experiencing muscle _________ in her left arm, only lifting it about eye-level. She had to_________ surgery on her left arm.

For the following weekends after the surgery, doctors scanned her_________to make sure she was cancer-free and then in August of 2023, doctors_________a spot on her lungs. She had another_________on September to remove it. Anna said later the first time with cancer, it felt like a learning stage. The second time around, it was a little _________to accept the news.

And throughout all of this, Anna has had to_________school work and hospital life. Her sufferings with cancer forced her to really__________herself because she was out of school for quite a while. Now she has__________and has straight As. Anna’s father, Eric Bartel, said her journey has inspired him to __________ every moment, enjoying time with his loving daughter.

Anna is doing well these days though. She’s__________in theater and is a coach’s assistant. “When you’re on__________you have to keep fighting, ”Anna said. “Always live life to the fullest each day. You’re loved. Your life   __________ .”

3 . It has been another long, rough winter here in the mountains of my home. And today as I looked at the broken ________ littering my yard it brought back ________ from another rough winter several years ago.

A foot of snow had fallen and was rapidly melting. The ________ from the hills had swollen the rivers, filled the ditches and ________ puddles(小水洼)in the road. In addition to this broken and fallen tree branches were everywhere. I was ________ home and suddenly saw one of these branches had broken off a tree overhanging the ________ and fallen across it. It was big enough to damage my car if I didn’t stop in time so I ________ on the brake and hit my emergency flashers.

I got out of my car ________ and tried to pull the branch to the side of the road. This branch was a lot ________ than I thought it would be. Inch by inch I ________ it off the road. When it was finally safely moved to the side I________ and smiled. Just then a little red car raced around the curve(弯道), ________ a pool of water in the road and splashed my pants. I shook my head and laughed at the ________ of it all.

Sometimes we all do good things in this life only to get ________ with dirty water for our kindness. When this happens just remember that the real reason you do good is because of the ________ inside of you.

4 . I was heading home after giving my colleague a lift. I took a _______ as the snowstorm was approaching.

Then the snow started and was coming down _______. Within minutes I was in a whiteout.The windows were _______ and getting covered with snow, so I slowed down and rolled down my driver's side window, thinking I could better _______ the road edge and keep to a straight line. But really, I had no _______ where I was. I stopped and kept the car running to stay_______. I called 911.The operator told me to wait things out for the night.

The call left me in _______. Breathe, I told myself. An idea occurred to me. I _______ my location online and explained what I was _______, wishing for anyone to come to my rescue. Soon enough, people started chiming in on my post. I got a ________ from someone who was going to put me in touch with people nearby. I had never been more ________.

Then I saw a big ________ in the dark. He had walked about 500 metres to get me, ________ the wind and snow each step of the way. “You’ll be OK. Follow me.” He turned around and started to trudge through the snow, sure of the ________. I drove slowly behind him. When we reached his house,I burst into tears of ________.

5 . Matthew Weihmuller, a blind jazz instructor, has been teaching people of different abilities in Tampa for 10 years. He has _________ performance at using his disability as a teaching tool. One of his teaching methods is to take away one of the five _________ , requiring performers to lean more heavily on others.

“Something that I do is _________ the lights. They have to listen and _________ their instrument with their fingers and hands. In this way, the students _________ the material better in the dark,” explained Weihmuller.

Being blind has never stopped Weihmuller from seeking his _________ for music. When he started playing, he _________ braille (布莱叶盲文) sheet music, and pieces would take months, even years to learn. _________, few professionals were capable of providing this music then, so he _________ to “braille” his own, all the way through college. And his __________ paid off. His not being able to see and read traditional sheets of music has allowed him to __________ his other senses, which is one of the main __________ he’s so talented at playing jazz music and the __________ that comes with it.

As an educator with blindness, Weihmuller __________ turning any disadvantage into an advantage. He hopes that he can __________ others to deal with their barriers and challenges in the same way that he has. And when they leave his classroom they’re not only better musicians but better people.

6 . When my father was a teenager, he had been declared a prodigy (天才) by his art teacher. He ________ to become an art teacher and had some ________ of his paintings. But when my mother got ill, his creative life ceased.

I remembered my father’s ________ for art. One day, I asked whether he was interested in drawing a cartoon. My father was not much of a ________. When learning to drive, I had asked if it was more important to ________the cars ahead or those behind. “Both.” Then he was ________ for the next three miles.

He gave no ________ answer to my query (询问). I asked again the following day. Still no real ________. I ultimately ________ the idea. I understood he had enough on his p late already. But a week later, I received an email from my father — with a(n)________. I downloaded the file and there was the cartoon I had asked him to draw!

We began to draw cartoons. The process of creating gave hi m ________. As he built his art muscles back up, his teenage self’s enthusiasm ________.

He is now painting, drawing and talking so much I have to ________ I’m getting a call to escape his ________. If he were to ask me whether I was prouder of the cartoon or of him turning his life around, I would say, “________.”

7 . That day I walked in the post office with a huge smile. My story had been accepted for _________ in a Chicken Soup. After months of stressful life events, I had (a) _________ in my step and a lightness in my heart.

Grasped _________ in my hand was the form giving permission to print my story. As the clerk stuck the form to my envelope, she said, “Ten dollars, _________ only. Our system is dead today.” I fished through my _________. But without luck. Tears clouded my vision.

Then a deep voice behind me said, “I’ll take care of it.” I turned and met a man’s _________ gaze as he held out a ten-dollar bill. “Just pay it forward,” he said.

That often-overused phrase sent _________ down through my toes. _________ his kindness, I was walking back to my car when I noticed something glowing in the sun. It was a credit card.

_________ to find the owner, I played detective for several blocks. Then I __________ a young mother with three children. She was __________ through some bags in the back. I approached and asked, “Are you Jessica Slate?” Her eyes got round. “Yes!” “I believe this is yours,” I handed her the card. “You __________ my day,” she wiped away tears, “Truly.”

While driving home, I mused that being kind on both the receiving and the giving end felt __________ good. First with cash, then with credit, I had __________ a literal interpretation of paying it forward. When it comes to acts of kindness, all forms of __________ are acceptable.

8 . Abigail Adjiri took part in a competition for kids aged 7 through 12. She, at only, has taken Ghana by _______, winning over viewers with her impressive dance moves. It’s not _______for most people to become skilled dancers, especially for little Abigail who is _______.

Abigail has been trained to _______ the vibrations (震动) she feels with her feet,_______ listening to the beat of songs. Her precise calculations have allowed her to _______impressive moves. Still, Abigail’s Mom was _______ about the fact that their goal was to get the 7-year-old a hearing aid — but they needed _______. They made this known on “Onua Showtime with Nana Ama MeBrown”, a talk show in Ghana.

A woman named Joyce, who heard little Abigail’s story, was _______ to come to her assistance. After reaching out to MeBrown, she was able to ________ $ 5,000 for the hearing aid and$ 400 for insurance so that it can be replaced or ________, if needed.

As you can imagine, Abigail and her Mom were ________. In fact, the two of them returned to MeBrown’s show where the 7-year-old happily showed off her new ________, with the help of which little Abigail answered questions from the MeBrown. The pure joy on Abigail’s face is absolutely ________. Folks like Joyce truly serve as a ________ that there is more good in the world than we realize at times.

9 . I never met a more interesting man than Mayhew, a lawyer, in Detroit. By 35 he had a good ________; a cute brain and an attractive ________. There was no reason why he should not become, financially or politically, a(n) ________ in the land.

One evening he was drinking with friends. One had recently come from Italy and told them of a house on the hill, ________ the Bay of Naples. He ________ to them the beauty of the most beautiful island in the Mediterranean.

Mayhew sent an email, wanting to buy the house. The next day the ________ came back. The offer was accepted. Mayhew made no secret of the fact that he would never have done so ________ a thing if he had not drunk, but he did not regret it. He made up his mind to do ________ as he had said. He did not ________ wealth and he had enough money on which to live in Italy.

He had no _________ plan. He merely wanted to get away from his current life. He determined to write a history about the Roman Empire. He began to collect ________ books and soon he had a large library. He worked harder, ready to sit down to ________. He died. His memory is ________ in the hearts of fewer friends. As the years pass on and to the world, he is unknown. And yet to me his life was a ________. He did what he wanted, and he died when his ________ was in sight.

10 . The last lecture

Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the pioneers of virtual technology. The last lecture by him is world-known as one version of fairy tales, with more than 5 million ________ sold in the United States alone.

Randy had been informed by his doctor to be in the ________ stage of cancer, before he was once invited to give a lecture under the same name.

Randy married his dream lover and had three lovely children. ________, he would be absent from their ________ life forever. So, in his remaining life, he tried to ________ his family. Then again he intended to make some financial arrangements to ensure that their future life, at least in terms of ________, was as comfortable as possible.

He used his time of ________ to keep his body active every day. Once, twice... with the permission of his body, Randy ________ riding to strengthen his body, hoping to have more time to ________ together the things he should have told his children slowly in the next 20 years into those small stories. When the children grow up and can read, Randy hopes they can be ________ that their father loves them deeply, even though he is ________.

In this book, in an aspect of engineering, Randy reveals to his kids that nothing is perfect, and they should learn to do their best with limited ________ — you can’t control the cards you’re ________, but just how you play the hand — probably that is what Randy wanted to ________ to his’ kids.

As his co-author Jeffrey Zaslow put it, the ________ that Randy hoped to personally teach children about how to face life, as well as the rich content of this book, is not only a gift to all students, teachers, and parents, but also those with dreams in the world.