4 . When I was driving on the highway, a big storm came. The rain began to beat ________ against my car windows. I had to stop and ________ my car along the roadside. Sitting in the car with boxes of clothes in the back seat, I was ________ of Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina hit Houston when I was fourteen years old. I was ________ that it would destroy my neighbourhood. ________ it missed ours, while leaving many parts of the city in ruins. From the TV, I saw a reporter ________ the homeless people inside the Houston Astrodome. Many of them were in dirty and ________ clothes, and some had no shoes on their feet. I noticed a little boy behind the reporter hugging an old teddy bear. Suddenly, I knew I had to do ________.

The next day, my friends ________ me at our volunteer club and we came up with a plan to ________ some used toys and give them to the kids at the Astrodome. I hoped they would bring some ________ to those homeless kids. We spread the word to our schools and other organizations. Three days later, our club was flooded with new toys! When we ________ the Astrodome with our gifts, children ________ towards us from all directions.

Bzzzz... My cellphone brought me back to the present. To my joy, the storm had ________. “Hector, we have had more victims because of the tornado.” “Well, I’ve brought a lot of clothes for them. The storm kept me late, but I’ll be there soon!” I turned my car into the suddenly heavy traffic. I knew that any small act of kindness would make a big ________.

5 . Emma Jones’ three-year-old son, Eric, was sharing a hot dog on the deck overlooking her friend Sarah Roth’s swimming pool. One moment Jones was watching Eric play around with the other children at this _________ of moms and kids last July. The next moment he disappeared without a _________. She turned to her friend Machel Rawlings and asked, “Have you seen Eric?”

Rawlings stood, _________ the pool and suddenly screamed. Eric was found _________ face down in the deep end. What happened next was a _________ textbook response: As Rawlings dived in the pool, grasped the boy, _________ him over and swam him to the end. Meanwhile, their host, Sarah Roth, dialed 911. At the pool’s _________, Rawlings handed Eric up to his mother. His skin was blue and wasn’t breathing.

Rawlings who’d taken a CPR course just four months earlier, immediately began rescue breathing. Hanging up the phone, Roth, a former flight attendant who’d accumulated _________ experience before, _________ CPR from Rawlings. Three long minutes went by with Roth breathing into Eric’s mouth and __________ chest compressions (按压) while Rawlings and Jones __________ his condition. Gradually his color __________, and as the ambulance was arriving on the __________, Rawlings looked at Roth. “He’s breathing,” she said.

The __________ with which the women acted saved Eric’s life. Emma Jones found any words seemed powerless. She said __________, “They did everything right.”

6 . 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__________”.

7 . Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight on the way from Boston to Los Angeles. A flight attendant asked a(n) _________ question over the loudspeaker: “Does anyone on _________ know American Sign Language?”

Clara, 15 at the time, _________ the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the _________. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s blind and deaf.” she said. The passenger _________ to want something, but he was travelling alone and the flight attendants couldn’t _________ what he needed.

Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help with her _________ in reading and knew she’d be able to finger words into the man’s palm. So she _________ her seat belt, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt by the side of Tim Cook, _________ taking his hand, she __________. “How are you? Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water. After that, she responded to his needs several times.

On her third __________, she stopped and stay a while. “He didn’t need anything. He was __________ and wanted to talk.” Clara said. So for the next hour, that was what they did. She talked about her family and her plans for the future. Cook told Clara how he had __________ become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman.

“Clara was __________,” a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. “You could __________ Cook was very excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an angel.

8 . Caroline Tegeret comes from a small village. Her________journey began like many others though filled with challenges since law is expensive. Coming from a community where girls________get past high school doesn’t lighten the road in any way either.

________graduating in 2017, she joined Kenya School of Law in 2018. After her pupilage, she________as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya on July 2, 2020.

“My dream to________a career in law began way back in high school,” she said. What was her driving force? For Tegeret it was the fact that,________development, her community was, and still is, far behind.

Her community has high illiteracy levels and cultural________like early marriage. She________knew quite early that for her to be able to bring change to the community, she needed to be________with the right tools through education and knowledge of the law.

As she________the midnight oil, studying piles of history books and law cases, the memory of her father further inspired her. Coming from a humble background, he________for her as an example of life’s________as he was able to succeed in his teaching career.

Tegeret wants to work with NGOs and government agencies to________the rights of the minority. This is more so to raise the________of those who can’t speak for themselves.

Her remarkable achievement is a source of encouragement to many young girls whose dreams look too big compared to their life’s________.

10 . 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 fashion magazines,   she didn’t see a single person who looked like her, and she felt ______.

Blake, 39, has devoted her adult life to 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 shows ______ for people with disabilities. Last fall,   one of Blake’s friend   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 home buildings and employment market. But it is 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 can do something ______   in all aspects of life.”