1 . It was very late when I got out of the cinema. By the time the _______ ended, it was 1 a. m. I walked to my car which was _______ across the street. When I arrived, I noticed something _______— the doors were unlocked. I took a quick _______ round the car and to my great _______, everything was undamaged, except that my _______ was gone. After a further search, I had to _______ the fact that it was gone, but I considered myself incredibly _______ that nothing valuable was taken.

The next day I got a _______ voice mail from a man. He said he had walked his dog in the morning and came across my ________ briefcase with my name on it. I called him back ________. He promised to ________ it. At first I asked him to send it, but then I ________. Though we were in the same city, I didn’t want to trouble him. I finally decided to go to collect it though it probably wouldn’t be ________ enough to go to a ________ house to pick something up.

I met the man and was greatly ________ to him. Words could not express my ________ of this stranger’s kindness. I think that there’s so much ________ in the world and there are so many people who ________ their inner goodness through acts of kindness. It feels good to give kindness and it also feels nice to ________ others want to give.

3 . My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to_______ it the very day, and I washed a lot of things. Everything worked _______, but I couldn’t find_______ of my husband’s socks though I had looked _______ for it.

The next morning, I got ready for_______ as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. I greeted them and told them _______ we were going to do _______.

When I turned _______ to write on the blackboard, the class burst out _______. They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was ________ the headmaster would be in to see all this.

I asked the class to ________, but the ________ I talked, the more they laughed. So I thought I had better pay ________ attention to them and continue to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they laughed even more.

Before long, the teacher who had the room next to ________came to see the reason ________ all the students were laughing . When he came in, he started ________, too.

“Good Heavens!” I said. “Will ________ please tell me what is so ________?”

“Oh, God,” said the teacher, “you have a brown________stuck to the back of your shirt.”

So that’s ________ I found my husband’s missing sock.

“Oh, well,” I said to the class, “let’s just say you have had an unforgettable lesson on static electricity (静电).”

4 . On a corner in Crown Point, Indiana, sits a cafe at the heart of the community. Every day at Cafe Fresco a small staff are busy behind the counter________coffee and inspiration with handwritten________on its cup sleeves.

“Believe there is kindness in the world. Be the_________,” is owner Breanne Zolfo’s favorite. The 31-year-old former babysitter opened the coffee house six years ago, and started ________the uplifting messages for_________

“Well, I just hoped that it would add some positive light to their day.” Customer reaction was great, so she took it further by challenging them to________good deeds for a free cup of coffee. Some of those________include putting money in a donation box, paying for someone else’s coffee, and giving food to the homeless. Zolfo says she’s________thousands of free cups of coffee. “We had a person who was ________and we had bought a________for him. And he came back two years later and said, ‘You don’t know how much you’ve________my life. Because you bought me a bike, I got a ________, and I got an apartment. And see, even talking about him makes me________ ,” Zolfo said with tears in her eyes.

“I hope that it’s spread ________throughout not just this community, but other communities that are around us. For us, to play a small part in a lot of people’s lives is the most________feeling,” Zolfo said.

6 . Mary was always dreaming of graduating from college successfully and finding a good job. Since Mary came from a poor family, her dream seemed_________ Her family didn’t have enough money to send her to college_________no member of her family had ever gone to college. But Mary never_________that thought. In secondary school, she studied hard and spoke_________of her dream to teachers and friends. When her_________day at school came, the headteacher called her into his office. “I have a (n)___________for you,”he said. It was a scholarship to a nearby college. The power of a thought had_________its reward.

Mary’s dream came true when she graduated from_________. She took a major in teaching and_________herself to a local school for a job, but she was __________. She applied again. The answer was no. She kept going back until the school leader__________her.

Many years later Mary and her colleagues__________at a special party to honour her as an outstanding teacher. At the party, She explained the secret of her __________.“With__________and faith you can become what you wish. Not that your life will be without problems, but along the way problems will be__________”.

7 . Picture a young Chinese woman in a field, dressed in traditional hemp clothing, as she picks flowers to create makeup for her cheeks. ________ the same person making a bamboo sofa, making soy sauce (酱油) and cooking up all sorts of delicious dishes.

It may sound hard to believe, but such a person ________ in modern China, and her name is Li Ziqi. With a fan base of ________ 21 million people on Sina Weibo and 7 million followers on video-sharing site YouTube, Li has made a name for herself in a ________ of videos that show off a pre-industrial Chinese way of life in ________ Sichuan Province. “I want to do my part to let more people know about Chinese ________, ” she said. “Much of the ________ of my videos can be owed to the ________ of Chinese culture.”

Li seems to be a master of all kinds of ________—cooking, painting, designing and farming. She ________ silkworms to sew a quilt and grows plants. Many videos show her ________ seasonal ingredients from the garden and cooking them up with her wood-fired wok (土灶). A ________ bowl of soup for the winter, a lighter plate of noodles for the summer, Li follows the seasons in her cooking, as China’s ________ 24 solar terms also do, and makes food suitable for the particular ________.

________, Li’s simple pleasures amaze people living in big cities. “She leads a life that many dream of, but they don’t dare to ________ their current life in exchange for,” iFeng. com wrote.

Her handmade lifestyle is a ________ for many. “In today’s society, many feel ________,” she said. “When they watch my videos at the end of a busy day, I want them to ________ and experience something nice, to take away some of their ________ and stress.”

9 . In life, we always feel as if our bad circumstances will never change. However, when we meet troubles or problems in our lives, we are eager for a _________ that tells us everything will be _________ and get better.

When in this mindset(心态), I think back to a _________ I once heard about a family having dinner at a Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal, everyone _________ their fortune cookie and read their _________ out loud. _________, the youngest child did not, she went to get another fortune cookie. This _________ several times before the mom _________ her and asked, “What are you doing?” The little child responded, “I am looking for a cookie with the _________ fortune for me.” The mom said, “There is only one thing you need to __________ and it’s not in a fortune cookie. That is where there is a will, there’s a way.”

When __________ are not going our way, we may __________ the “right fortune”. We seek the hope for our __________ so that it will be better than the present. Once the Israelis were expelled(驱逐) in a foreign country against their __________. At that time, everything was __________for them, but they didn’t lose hope; instead, they __________ to their new environment positively. Years later they returned to their homeland as they had __________.

We need to __________ action and hope and believe that nothing is __________ to a willing mind in life. It does prove that good things do come out of bad and difficult __________.

10 . A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air to the right woman. But _________ apply. You must be named Elizabeth Gallahgher and have a Canadian _________.

Jordan Axani, 28, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their _________ ended and he did not want her ticket to _________. The ticket had a strict no-transfer (不可转让) _________, but since passport information was not required when _________, any Canadian Elizabeth Gallagher can _________ it.

“I just want to see the ticket go to good use and for someone to _________ a lot of joy,” said Axani. He posted his _________ on a social networking website, and received thousands of e-mails, including thirty from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with the __________ passports, “More __________, there are hundreds of Canadians who are interested in __________ their name to Elizabeth Gallagher, Axani said. “It was absolutely out of __________, thousands of e-mails, people around the world __________ their stories of travel.”

Axani wrote in his post that he is not __________ anything in return and that the woman who uses the __________ ticket can choose to either travel with him or __________ the ticket and travel on her own.

The __________ is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before __________ in Toronto on January 8. He said the __________ woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.