1 . The China International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR) was formed in 2001 and it is now made up of several hundred rescue workers (which is really awesome) and about 20 sniffer dogs. The team brings help and hope to those whose lives are _______ by a typhoon, flood, or any other natural _______.

After long and careful training (训练), the team went on its first international rescue mission (任务) in 2003. That year, the Chinese team helped to save lives after earthquakes in Algerica (阿尔及利亚) and Iran (伊朗). It was the first time that a Chinese team had worked _______ China, and the team won high praise for their bravery and skill. Since then, the CISAR has completed so many good _______. The list of people to whom help has been given is long. The team treated (治疗) more than 3000 people who were the most _______ in the 2006 earthquake in Indonesia, helped 2500 wounded people after the earthquake that _______ Haiti (海地) in 2010, and spent several months giving extremely, highly precious _______ to over 25,000 victims of the 2010 floods in Pakistan (巴基斯坦).

Rescue workers are trained to find people, treat injuries, and hand out food, water, and other _______. They have to be able to work under difficult and very dangerous _______. After a disaster, there is usually no ________ or water, and there may be diseases and accidents. ________ workers get to save lives, but they must also ________ the dead. That means they have to be strong in both body and mind.

Rescue workers must have big hearts, too. It takes a lot of ________ and courage ________ one’s own life to save someone else’s. The members of the CISAR have plenty of both and are always ready to go ________ help is needed.

2 . A professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. All students were ______ and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk.______ he was done with handing out the test to all students, he asked them to ______ the test paper and begin.

Students were confused (迷惑) to see that there was just a black ______ in the center of the page. The professor told them, “I want you to ______ about what you see there.” The students were still confused but got started with the test. ______ the end of the class, the professor collected all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. ______of them described about the black dot and tried to explain its position.

Now, professor began to explain, “Here everyone concentrated on the black dot and wrote about it ______ no one wrote about the white paper. The same is ______ our lives. The white paper stands for our whole life and the black dot ______ problems in our life.

Our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate -- our friends around us, the job that provides us with everything we need.______, we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships, but we ______ see that these problems are very ______ compared to everything we have in our lives.”

We should try to take eyes off our problems and enjoy each moment ______ life gives us. Be happy and ______ your life positively.

3 . Life can throw us something difficult, but, every now and then, a ray of sunshine breaks through the clouds.

There’s an elderly lady in Boston who has her own heartwarming ______. She is Marilyn. She happened to meet her own kind people during her ______ trip to the nearby supermarket on Saturdays.

Marilyn, who always had her husband by her side during previous ______ to the supermarket, gathered the strength to head for the supermarket in Auburndale after the loss of her ______.

She felt lucky that all was going well. However, at the checkout, she was ______ by the news that her credit card was ______. As it turned out, her card had been ______ a couple of days earlier because it was in her late husband’s name.

Marilyn was in a mix of shock and ______ as she stood at the register. A gentleman behind her, without hesitation, ______ to pay the bill. It wasn’t a small grocery bill!

Marilyn, with a deep sense of gratitude, ______ his help and hoped to pay him back. But all he said was, “No. Just wish me a happy life.” Marilyn didn’t want to ______ though.

Her family turned to social media, eager to find the mystery man. Marilyn ______ her viewpoints, saying, “Even if he doesn’t want to come forward, I’m hoping that he’ll know that I’m ______ grateful.” And to keep the kindness rolling, she promised to help fellow ______ whenever she could.

Stories like these ______ us of the boundless warmth and compassion humans are capable of.

4 . Ten years ago, I was visiting Costa Rica when I found I was in a bad situation. I only knew basic Spanish and the only possessions I had was some _________ and a return ticket to Guatemala in two weeks.

With the coins, I _________ to arrive at Santa Rosa by bus. It was _________ in the middle of the night, _________ I could still see some houses in the distance, so I walked toward them. I went   _________ door to door, explaining my situation. “I can cook and clean and _________ your kids, I can do anything. Can you give me a _________?” Everybody replied saying “Oh my gosh, but we are so _________. We have no extra food. Maybe you can try the next family.” _________, I arrived at a Chinese restaurant, the owner of which was incredibly __________. She told me that her son had a (n) __________ experience. At that time, some other people were very kind to him, and she remembered how __________ that made her feel.

She called the Red Cross to __________ me. With their help, I spent my __________ days in Costa Rica. I’ve __________ all over the world. But this was one of the best trips, the best two __________. I ever had in my traveling life.

At first, I felt __________ and stupid for not traveling with a __________ plan. But then I realized that when you’re in a position to be able to __________ help, it actually makes people feel happier. Being able to receive kindness is a gift for other people as well. And kindness __________ more kindness in small ripples (涟漪).

6 . Afroz Shah, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn’t had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn’t spent this time preparing for _________.

His mission? Saving the world’s oceans from _________ pollution.

It’s a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was_________to see how much it had _________. The sand was no longer _________ because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick — most of it plastic waste.

“The whole beach was like a_________of plastic,” he said. “It hurt me. The _________ mess.” What Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. More than 8 million tons of plastic _________in the world’s oceans each year. It’s predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. “Plastic in the ocean is a _________. And the sea species have no choice at all, ” Shah said. “We are ______________ their habitats.”

In October 2015, Shah began ________________ up plastic waste from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began calling on others to join in. Word ________________ and with the help from social media, more volunteers got ________________.

For Shah, the work has always been a ________________ journey, but it has earned global attention. After he was ________________ as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this ________________.

He’s now spent 209 weekends on this mission, ________________ more than 200,000 volunteers, some of whom are young students, 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 beach as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

“This world talks too much. I think we must talk ________________ and do action more, ” he said when interviewed by CNN in October 2019.“We are a smart species. Well adapt. We’ll learn. And with these youngsters rising up, I see ________________.”

7 . It was a few years ago, and I took a holiday-season job in a video store. One day, an elderly woman _________my store, along with a young woman who I _________ was her daughter. The daughter showed_________, rolling her eyes, sighing (叹气) and checking her watch every few seconds.

The elderly woman separated from the young one and _________ to search through the DVDS on the nearest shelf. I _________ and asked if I could help her find something. The woman smiled at me a piece of paper. The title was _________. Clearly a person looking for it knew a little about _________, and quality.

Rather than rushing off to _________ the DVD for the woman, I asked her to walk with me_________ I could show her where she could find it. Looking _________, I think I wanted to enjoy her _________ for a moment. Something about her careful movements reminded (使想起) me of my mother, who passed away a few years ago.

As we walked along the back of the store, I _________ its floor plan: old television shows, action movies, cartoons, etc. The woman seemed _________ the unrushed company and casual (随意的) conversation.

We _________ the movie, and I praised her for her choice. She smiled and told me it was one she had _________when she was at her son’s age and that she hoped he would enjoy it as much as she had.

I _________ the old woman to the cashier and then stepped back toward the young woman. “Is that your mom?” I asked. She rolled her eyes and said, “Yeah.” Mind some _________?” I asked. “Sure,” said the daughter.

“Cherish (珍爱) her,” I said. And then I answered her _________ expression by saying, “When she has_________, it’s the little moments that’ll come back to you. _________ like this. I know.”

8 . In 2017, I was diagnosed (诊断) with Type 1 diabetes (糖尿病). And then I was told that I couldn’t drive for a few weeks until my blood sugar levels had________.

Driving was a________very soon after diagnosis for me. I needed to get to the chemist’s shop for my diabetes medicine and get to hospital appointments, but at first couldn’t, for having been told not to drive. I didn’t want to be a________, having to ask for lifts all the time.

I found it really________to be unable to drive, but things settled down after that and seemed to be________for a while. ________, to my surprise, I had severe hypoglycemia (低血糖) last year and wasn’t able to________it myself. I called an ambulance and was taken to________, where I saw doctors and nurses I didn’t know as none of them were connected to the diabetes team who usually cared for me. That’s where my________began. They advised me not to drive on the basis of this disease. They told me to call the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA) and________what they’d told me to them. This led to my licence being canceled.

I couldn’t________all that had happened. It seemed________. I needed answers and________, so I phoned the Diabetes UK Helpline number I got from their website. They________I was right in thinking that the DVLA shouldn’t have________my licence based on this hypoglycemia, according to the law. With their help, the DVLA sent me a letter admitting making a mistake. I got it back in six weeks.

9 . Kim and I decided to go to see a new movie. We ___a little early and were talking about our day. Then came a young girl, followed by a man who we thought was her_____ They sat one row ahead and about two seats to the right. As they began to talk, it was ___that the man was her father, and that their family had been experiencing hard times.

The young girl seemed mature beyond her years. She ____ her father, saying that everything would be okay and that she loved him. As they spoke, Kim’s____ were filled with tears. He was thinking how fortunate this father was to have the love and ___ of his daughter. The young girl ___her dad of the past times when they used to go to the movies together, enjoying, talking, laughing and even crying. These were times she ___. She knew her dad missed ___, but he had devoted himself ___ to making money and supporting the family.

It became clear to us that they had ____ the early show because the tickets were ___. They had bought a small box of popcorn and were sharing it happily. This young girl had saved her money to enjoy this daddy-daughter “___.” The father felt grateful to his daughter, ___ that things would return to normal ____.

10 . “Just sign here, sir,” the deliveryman (送货员) said as he handed Oscar Reyna a package.

The package consisted of (装有) a long, narrow box ______ wrapped in brown paper. ______ the box, Oscar saw an umbrella inside—a very old one with a beautifully carved handle. ______ he had not seen it for more than 20 years, he recognized it immediately.

Oscar was 16 when he first saw the ______ umbrella. He had gone to a concert with his grandparents. As they were leaving, he noticed an umbrella on an empty seat. Impressed by its ______, Oscar felt a strong desire to find its owner.

Oscar ______ the manager to look in the record of advance ticket sales. Just as he thought, a name matched the seat ______ Oscar had found the umbrella. The name was Mrs. Katie O’Brien.

Oscar talked his grandparents into going by Mrs. O’Brien’s house on their way home. He rang the bell, the door opened, and an elderly woman appeared. “May I ______ you?” she asked. “I’d like to return it if it’s yours,” Oscar said, ______ the umbrella as if presenting a gift that had long been wished for. “Why, yes! it’s mine, “ replied Mrs. O’Brien with a ______ smile and shining eyes. “It was given to me by my father years ago. Thank you so much for returning it. May I offer you a reward for your ______?” “No, ma’am.” he said, “my grandmother says that a good deed is its own reward.” “Well, that’s ______ what my father used to say. What is your name, Young man?”

Years later, Oscar was staring at the finely carved handle of the umbrella as he remembered Mrs. O’Brien. It was in perfect condition, considering how ______ it was. Why had it arrived here today? As if ______ , a note fell from the paper. It read: Mrs. O’Brien wanted you to accept this umbrella as a present for a kind, ______ gesture long ago.