2 . I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be _________ Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d _________?” Just when I started to _________ that there would not be a Christmas gift that year, three women _________ at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of _________ that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t _________. Somebody had thought _________ of me to bring me a gift.  

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my _________ Christmas there special and memorable, I _________ remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of __________ for as many children as I could possibly reach.  

So I __________ a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans(孤儿)at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colourful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, __________ with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were __________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I __________ them that they couldn’t open their presents __________ every child had come forward. Finally the __________ they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles __________ up the room. The __________ in the room was obvious, and __________ wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew __________ that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.

5 . Last year I decided to do some volunteer work. I began to________on the Internet and discovered Volunteer USA. Three months later I________myself on a plane to Phoenix, Arizona. I was________at the thought of living with loads of new people for three months. However, within fifteen minutes of________, my worries had gone. Everyone was so________and like-minded that it was very________to feel at home.

I was sent to the Coronado National Forest for my first 8-day________. We had to________everything we needed and walk three miles to where we worked. It may not seem like a________way but in 35℃ heat and with a heavy pack, my legs were on fire.

My job was to________a stairway out of rock. This________climbing up and down the side of a mountain inhabited (栖息) by mountain lions, although I should say they were only heard,never________.

Three days later, a beautiful stairway came into being. The________of knowing that my________will be on that mountainside for years to come is massive.

But on the last night we were________in a thunderstorm. I woke up at midnight to find a swimming pool in my tent. The temperature was close to________. I had to spend the rest of the night trembling in the only________part of my tent.

________, I suffered a lot. But I know whatever I have to face in my life I was there and I________. I think I am much________for having taken part in the project.

6 . I’ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.

One morning I _______ a lost lamb when I was in the top field，near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its _______ , so I jumped out of the tractor to _______ it while Don stayed in his seat.

Lamb and mother _______ , I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so _______ because I had put the handbrake on when I jumped out. _______ Don had somehow made the _______move.

My heart froze in my chest as I _______ the tractor heading towards the _______ .I ran desperately but failed to __________. It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The __________ thing I saw was Don’s face, looking calmly back at me.

Heart in mouth, I __________ the fence and looked over. The tractor was __________against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously(奇迹般地) crossed the __________ road with fast-flowing traffic. I couldn’t see Don, but as I __________ the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently __________ , and dashed back to me.

The police __________ and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn't quite believe my __________. It turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been __________ . Don was given a special __________ that night—I didn’t want him thinking I was angry with him.

7 . Mr. Roberts had divided the class into groups to do presentations. Each person in the group would _______ for five minutes in front of the class. Today was Sarah ’s _______. Her legs trembled(颤抖) all the way to the front of the classroom. Her hands shook so _______ that she could not read her notes.

“Sarah, I know you’re _______, but you worked hard on this project. I’d hate to see you give up on yourself,” Mr. Roberts said to her after class. “If I give you a chance until tomorrow, do you think you can find your _______?”

Sarah nodded, _______ for the chance. She went as quickly as she could to her next class.

When she reached home that afternoon, Momma was baking(烘烤).When Momma baked, Sarah always watched and chatted with her. Momma always said it was Sarah’s _______ that made her baked goods taste so sweet.

Momma _______ Sarah’s face as she came into the kitchen. “What’s _______, Sarah?”

With tears in her eyes, Sarah told Momma the whole ________. Putting the cake pans into the oven, Momma set the timer and then said, “Let me show you ________.”

Sarah followed Momma to her bedroom, where Momma ________ a blue ribbon that said “First Place” in her old things.

“I ________ it for public speaking. I started the school year as the shyest girl on the speech team, ________ I ended the year as the blue ribbon winner. It wasn’t ________ because I was a very timid(胆小的) girl. I worked hard, and mostly I ________ my fears. You just need to find your courage.”

The next day Sarah again walked to the front of the classroom to give her            ________.Earlier that morning before school, Sarah had borrowed Momma’s blue ribbon for ________. As Sarah faced the class, preparing to speak, she ________ the ribbon in her pocket, and Momma’s     ________ words. Sarah took a deep breath and began to speak with confidence.

8 . I was born legally blind. Of all the stories of my early childhood, the one about a______is my mother's favorite.

I was only two when the______occurred. We had just arrived home from a trip. Mom lifted me out of the car and _____to speak to the driver. I took advantage of my brief______to dash across the lawn (草坪) — and hit a large maple tree! I was running so fast that I bounced off the trunk and______on my backside. Mom______me to start crying, but I just sat there for a minute. Then I______myself up and kept right on going. Mom always______here that, as many times as I______across the lawn after that, I never again______into that tree.

Mom loves to use this story as an______. It reminds her that children don't enter life______to take risks or unwilling to______again when they fall down. She never wanted me to lose that______as I grew older. When I______my major life decisions，I was still that little girl tearing full-speed across the lawn. I studied abroad and later moved away from my parents' home to look for a______, Through years of______, I have become a respected teacher in a school serving high-need students.

We are almost certain to get______at some point during the process of achieving our goal. When that happens, don't sit in the grass and______. Just get up and keep on going. It will all be worth it______.

9 . There are lots of ways to raise awareness for a cause. Usually, the _______ the idea is, the more it gets noticed. And that’s precisely why one _______ Frenchman has caught our attention.

Baptiste Dubanchet is biking across Europe, surviving _______ on discarded(丢弃) food. The three-month, 1,900-mile journey from Paris to Warsaw is Dubanchet’s _______ of raising awareness of food waste in Europe and throughout the world.

As you can _______, the trip is no piece of cake. While restaurants _______ tons of food each year, much of it remains inaccessible because of _______ garbage containers, health regulations, or business policies. Only about one in ten places _______ him food that would otherwise be discarded. For legal _______, most restaurants have a policy against ________ food waste. “Some people have even ________ their jobs by giving me food,” Dubanchet said.

What’s ________ interesting is the attitude various cities have toward Dubanchet’s cause. Berlin has been the ________ while the most difficult was the Czech town of Pilsen. There, he had to ________ at some 50 different stores or restaurants before finding food. The ________ is all the more serious when you consider the ________ exercise required to bike from France to Poland.

“I have to get food ________ because after all the biking I am tired and I need the ________,” Dubanchet explained. “Is my ________ full or empty? That is the most important thing, not what I am eating.”

He aims to ________ his journey by mid-July. With any luck, he’ll turn a few more heads in the process.

10 . I had a student today who got his finger stuck inside a test tube in science class. It was really quite stuck. This young man’s finger ___________ to get whiter and whiter right before my eyes.

Remaining ___________, I suggested he carefully rotate(转动) the tube. It wouldn’t move a bit. He ___________ soap and cold water. Still stuck. Meanwhile ___________ was breaking out in the class. Finally, I ___________ the young man to our secretary, who was a miracle(奇迹) worker ___________ three kids of her own. With her in charge, I was ___________ all would be OK.

To get the students back in order, I ___________ my own story of getting my ___________stuck between the rails of a balcony. Same kind of curiosity, I remembered ____________ then how far I could thrust(塞) my knee between the rails. Inch by inch, I kept ____________ and before I knew it, my knee was stuck and ____________ before my eyes and in front of lots of ____________ at a popular Las Vegas hotel!

Hearing my story, many students followed with their own ____________ of heads, arms, fingers stuck in places they shouldn’t ____________. A few minutes later, the young man came back, test tube unbroken and finger ____________ to lovely shade of pink.

I just couldn’t ____________ this kid. He’s only twelve. I too got my knee unstuck, but not without great ____________. The excuse for me, however, was not ____________ but plain stupidity. I was ____________ fifty years old when this happened.