2 . Hansen and his 10-year-old son Chase search the streets of Salt Lake City every weekend for the homeless to take to lunch. They started Project Empathy(共情)four years ago to ________a meal, listen to their stories and figured out how they could ________ help.

“Just start with a smile, a hello. It really just starts with that. If you do it, you can make a connection. A small gesture can have a ________ impact on others less fortunate,” Hansen ________ in an interview.

Some of these shared meals have turned into stronger ________ .Ward, a homeless, was ________ in a flat. He credited the Hansens with helping him ________the difficult process of moving off the streets. “It is great to have friends who make us feel ________ and I’m impressed with the pair,” Ward said.

Father and son’s ________have developed into a passion project that ________ faith and community, which emphasizes the ________ community members can have in uplifting the homeless. They know they can’t settle the homeless ________ alone. They’re hoping empathy will ________.

“My hope for the future is to ________ more connection across our country. We could and we will succeed ________ we have other people join in and help the homeless,” Chase said.

4 . At 111, Dr Edith Kaufmann was the second oldest person in the UK. I met her when I ________ at a care home for the elderly in London six years ago. I didn’t realize it would be the start of a close ________, where the age gap spanned eight decades.

At first sight, I was ________ by her self-confidence. Her doctorate (博士学位) told me she was intelligent and ________. From the beginning, I never felt as if Edith and I ________ conversation. Edith could have a full conversation with me about anything, and that her memory stretched back so easily, ________ even small things which took place 100 years ago.

She was also________ . She loved dancing as a child and I recall, only a few weeks before her death,________she smiled when I played the waltz and we________ hands and danced along to the music. Although towards her later years she was________to a wheelchair, she still participated in the exercise classes.

As I________Edith each week, I realized that I was going as much for me as I was for her. I learnt to take the words of________when I could get them. When I have failed over the years, and small decisions have ________on my mind, I have ________nothing more than the opportunity to regain my perspective (视角) on life and what actually________.

5 . Zacharish Fike has an unusual hobby.He finds many old military(军队的)medals for_________ in antique(古董) stores and on the Internet. But unlike most _________, Zac tracks down the medal’s rightful owners, and _________ them.

His effort to reunite families with lost medals began with a Christmas gift from his mother, a Purple Heart with the name Corrado A. G. Piccoli, _________ in an antique shop. Zac knows the meaning of a Purple Heart—he _________ one himself in a war as a soldier. So when his mother gave him the medal, he knew _________ what he had to do.

Through the Internet, Zac tracked down Corrado’s sister Adeline Rockko. But when he finally reached her, the woman _________ him with questions _________: “Who are you? What antique shop? ” _________, when she __________, she regretted the way she had __________ the call. So she called Zac back and __________. Soon she drove to meet Zac in Watertown, N. Y. “At that point, I knew she __________ business”, Zac says, “To drive eight hours to come to see me. ”

The Piccolis were Italian immigrants and raised the children in Watertown. Corrado, a translator for the Army during WWII, was __________ in action in Europe.

Before hearing from Zac, Adeline hadn’t realized the medal was __________. Like many military medals, the one Zac’s mother had found was a family __________. “This medal was very__________ to my parents. Only on special occasions(场合) would they take it out and let us hold it in our hands, ” Adeline says.

As a child, Adeline couldn’t understand why the medal was so __________. “But as I grew older,” Adeline says, “and missed my brother more and more, I realized that was the only thing we had left.” Corrado Piccoli’s Purple Heart medal now __________ at the Italian American Civic Association in Watertown.

Zac recently returned another lost medal to a family in Alabama. Since he first __________Corrado’s medal, Zac says his record is now 5 for 5.

6 . My 7-year-old daughter always has her nose in a book. She even continued reading in the car on the long drive to summer camp, where she lost the book. This is the first lost _______book in my life. In my childhood, my family had always been expected to be _______, but we were poor, and I didn’t own books. I had to borrow books. My library books lived on a _______shelf while they were mine, and it _______me when I had to return them to the library on the due day.

However, my daughter has more books now than I owned during my whole childhood. So it’s probably my _______that she didn’t cherish the books. “Sorry. I can’t find it.” My daughter said with a shrug, “We just pay $ 20 for the book. What’s the big _______?” The missing library book just met with a cold _______from her, but it met with nail-biting _______from me. I walked into the library in a deep _______as if I had lost the book.

Feeling the need to make her feel responsible for the book, I asked her to do the chores. She agreed to clean up all the pets’ houses _______my paying the library book. I’d meant the chore to be _______!

Surprisingly, she was enjoying herself. I took a picture of her lovely back. So, was I winning or losing at _______? Did I teach her the _______of keeping a library book if the picture I took shows she is working _______?

To my _______, my little girl knew what matters in her life. She could devote herself to the chores as much as books.

7 . It was a cold, rainy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn’s house. But she_______that I come to see something at the top of the mountain.

So here I was,_______ making the two-hour journey through thick fog. Nothing could be worth this,I thought as I_______ along the dangerous highway.

Turning down a narrow track, we___________and got out. We walked along a path that was thick with old pine needles. Huge black-green evergreens (常青树)_________over us.Gradually,the peace and silence of the place began to_________ my mind.

Then we turned a corner and stopped at the top of the mountain and I was entirely held in_______. There across fields and valleys were rivers of fully-opened yellow flowers from the light one to the most brilliant. It looked as though the sun had tipped over and_______ the mountainside in gold.

_______ occurred to my mind.Who created such beauty? How? When? As we approached the house that stood in the center of the property, we saw a________ that read: “Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking.” The first answer was: “One Woman-Two Hands, Two Feet and Very Little Brain.”   The second was:“____________at a Time.” The third: “Started in 1958.”

As we drove home, I was so moved by what we had seen that I could________ speak.“She changed the world,” I finally said, “one small plant at a time. She started almost 40 years ago, probably just the ________ of an idea, but she kept at it.”

The wonder of it would not let me go. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a dream and________it, just a little bit every day, what might I have accomplished?” Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. “Start tomorrow,” she said, “______________yet, start today.”

8 . The Cajun Navy is a group of volunteer small boat owners who help people during bad storms and floods. The group ______ volunteering during Hurricane Katrina. During that storm alone, they ______ more than 10,000 people from flooded homes and rooftops!Since then, they have saved more ______ around the US!The Cajun Navy has gone to save during many of the worst ______ that hit the US, such as Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Florence.

Using their ______ , they always go into places where people and animals are trapped by floodwaters. They bring their small boats and great skills to find those who are ______ and then they ______ them to safety. How strong and ______ they are in struggling with floodwaters!

Many of the volunteers are fishermen and ______ boat pilots. They, who come from the southeast United States, are expert in ______ through a series of swamps(沼泽)and narrow waterways. The skills they have help them find the way around ______ floodwaters.

A reporter ______ his feelings and meanwhile ______ their deeds after the Cajun Navy stepped in to help during bad flooding in Louisiana. ”The ______ were volunteers from the Cajun Navy, who had no ranks, no uniforms, no ______ medals awarded to them for acts of bravery. It was a ______ heart, not a commanding officer, that called them into risky ______ to carry endangered citizens to higher and safer ground,” he said.

The Cajun Navy is a great example of character in action. They do also ______ others’ enthusiasm to get involved. And more and more volunteers join the group. They often put themselves in danger to ______ others. And they do not do it for money or attention, but ______ because they can help and they want to help.

9 . 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 ugly 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 _________ 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 ____________.”

10 . Within five minutes of meeting Olivia Ports, I knew she was a special teenager.

I knew before she_________her guitar and performed a song. I knew before I found out how a (n)_________she was born with changed her childhood. And I knew before her mother told me Olivia performed recently in front of 1, 200 people.

In addition to her_________musical talent, Olivia is just so friendly, funny and_________to those who made her first show such a success. “She doesn’t want the story to be about her,” said Olivia’s mother. But like all children_________chronic (慢性的) diseases, the journey she has been on has made her stronger. Olivia admits she’s not like many kids of her age._________herself as a ”little bit crazy“, she acts older than she is. She was born with a compromised immune system (缺乏抵抗力的免疫系统). When she realized she would have to_________her beloved gymnastics, she took up her mom’s old high school guitar and_________herself to play. ”I had to have something to do with so much_________time,” she said. It was during a hospital visit that she met Classical Blast, a popular band that invited Olivia to__________them as a guest performer on their Christmas__________Their encouragement gave her the courage to begin playing at public__________in the area, and she was soon a regular on stage. It was yet another treatment that__________her most recent performance. Recovering in her room for 15 days last Christmas, Olivia saw first-hand “how sad ill can be” for children to be in hospital during the__________That’s why this year, Olivia decided to do a benefit (义演), asking guests to bring toys that could be taken to young__________.

Speaking of her future, the high school senior plans to__________a year off after graduation. She wants to__________for college with the goal of opening a music school for those with health__________. “When you__________your life with things you love,” she said, “it makes every day more__________”.