1 . Molai grew up in a tiny village in India. The village lay near some wetlands which became his second _______. He learned the value and beauty of _______ there from a very young age. 

When he was 16, Molai began to notice something _______ happening around his home. A flood had hit the area earlier that year and the _______ it caused had driven away a number of birds._______, the number of snakes had declined as well. He _______ that it was because there weren’t enough trees to protect them from the _______. The solution, of course, was to plant trees so the animals could seek _______ during the daytime. He turned to the _______ department for help but was told that nothing would grow there. However, Molai went looking on his own and ________ a nearby island where he began to plant trees.

________ young plants in the dry season was ________ for a lone boy. Molai built at the ________ of each sapling (幼树) a bamboo platform, where he placed earthen pots with small holes to ________ rainwater. The water would then drip (滴落) on the plants below.

Molai ________ to plant trees for the next 37 years. His efforts have resulted in 1,360 acres of naturally-grown land that has become home to many plants and animals.

2 . The train had been long delayed. Running out of _______, Andy put down his book and looked out. He found the _______ at once: It was raining hard.

He lay down and fell asleep but was soon woken up by a woman. She handed him his bag and _______ that it had slipped to the floor. He gratefully took it back and opened it, _______ to see his mother’s scarf and some sandwiches inside.

Andy's thoughts drifted (飘) to when he was _______. His mother had insisted on putting her scarf in. “If it rains, it may get cold.” He remembered feeling _______ and had taken it out. But it was still here.

_______, Andy realized he was burning with fever. Feeling helpless, he called his mom. “Take a _______. I have put in medicine, just _______,” she suggested. Touched by his mother’s ________, he took the medicine and soon fell deep asleep in the ________ of the scarf.

Andy woke up later feeling much better. Then he noticed the woman, who’d ________ him pick up his bag earlier, ________ holding a baby in her arms, both shaking. Their clothes did little against the cold wind.

Without thinking twice, Andy wrapped his mother’s scarf around the baby. To his ________, the child soon fell asleep in the love of not one, but two ________.

3 . Miloszek was born with a heart defect. His condition is too _____ to be treated in Poland, but doctors at Stanford University Medical Center are able to take his case. _____， they require 80 percent of the payment up front, a sum the family simply could not _____. That's when Maria Andrejczyk _____ in to help!

Just a week after _____ her first Olympic medal ever and returning from Japan, Maria posted a _____ on a social media platform announcing that she would be auctioning off (拍卖掉) her silver medal to raise money for Miloszek's surgery.

Days later, a Polish convenience store chain called Zabka _____ the medal for $125，000, which was more than Maria had _____ to get. Not only that, but when her _____ broke, more people began donating money to the fundraiser. Finally, she ______ more than enough cash to cover Miloszek's trip to America! And the ______ doesn't end there. Zabka announced that they would let Maria keep her ______ after all!

“We were very touched by the extremely ______ gesture of our Olympian, so we decided to support the ______ for Miloszek，” the company wrote.“We decided that the silver medal from Tokyo will stay with Maria! We are glad that we were able to ______. ”

4 . Temperatures in the Norwegian capital regularly drop to -10℃ during winter. _______ in the cold winter without wearing a coat, a boy wrapped his arms around himself on a bus stop bench.

It’s _______ scene, but the actions of the ordinary people who witnessed the dilemma of 11-year-old Johanne was both joyous and _______.

A young woman sitting next to the boy noticed him rubbing his arms. She immediately asked him, “Don’t you have a _______?” “No. Someone stole it,” he replied. She _______ and learned he was on a school trip and was told to meet his teacher at the bus stop. She asked him the name of his school and where he was from as she _______ draped (披上) her own coat around his shoulders.

Later, another woman gave him her scarf and then _______ him in her large overcoat. Throughout the day, more and more people _______ to give him gloves and even the coats off their backs as they waited for their bus.

_______, Johanne’s experience was an experiment by Norwegian charity SOS Children’s Villages. Carried out by a ________ camera, it was part of their winter campaign to gather ________ of much-needed coats and blankets to help Syrian children through the winter. Many of the refugees (难民) have left their homes ________ winter clothing.

“People should care as much about children in Syria as they are ________ about this boy,” Synne Ronning, the information head of SOS Children’s Villages Norway, told The Local. She also ________ that the child was a volunteer who was never in any danger during the ________.

5 . After a long time of struggling with lung cancer, my father passed away, due to which, my life _______a lot after his death. I took the responsibility of raising the family. In order to _______my sick mother and two younger brothers, I couldn’t help but_______school and work to support my family. However, a thread of hope flashed in those_______days. It was a rainy dusk when I exposed myself to the rain and walked in the street.

Suddenly the rain stopped!_______, I looked up, only to find that “the sky” was a dark blue umbrella. Then a man with a crutch (拐杖) said, “Why not run with an umbrella? I shook my head with_______, but his words shocked me deeply. Without my father’s_______, could I only be a slave to the fate?

While walking together in the rain, I knew he was a promoter from the city. Having received an order from his company, he had to spend_______time on it. Looking at this guy, I had no sympathy but _______. I took the umbrella from his hand. He told me he once had dreamed of being a policeman, but an accident________his dream. His present work was demanding and was not his cup of tea; however, every travelling was a start to him. To his happiness, he never________heart and still “ran” on the road of life.

________by what the man remarked, I became an insurance representative later. After two years’ running, I got my________and the life condition in my family________better gradually.

Everything is so simple: to run without an umbrella! Only when you________the rainy season of your life will there be bright sky ahead of you. Never give up!

6 . 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 _______ I had were some coins and a return ticket to Guatemala in two weeks.

With the coins, I managed to arrive at Santa Rosa by bus. It was _______ in the middle of the night, but I could see some _______ in the distance, so I walked toward them.

I went _______ door to door, explaining my situation. “I can cook and clean and look after 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 _______．”

Finally, I arrived at a Chinese restaurant, the owner of which was unbelievably _______. 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 rescue 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 clear plan. But then I realized that when you’re in a position to be able to ________， it actually makes people feel happier.

7 . Several years ago, when I was in New York, I decided it was time to get my middle­aged self back into shape. The _________ near my house was tiny. I was the weakest person there and I felt _________ as I did my pull­ups (引体向上). However, nobody really seemed to _________ me.

One day, I was on my favorite machine, one assisted pull­up machine that nobody else had ever needed to _________. I had just _________ a set when a huge guy walked up to me and asked, “Why are you always doing assisted pull­ups?” I looked at him, embarrassed, searching for a(n) _________. “Because I can’t do real ones,” I finally _________.

“Yes, you can. You are strong,” he smiled. “Get over here, and I’ll _________ you.”

We walked over to the “real” pull­up bar, and he _________ how to do it. He watched me carefully. Then he told me to come back the next day and try a real one. So I did. “__________ practicing,” he told me. “By the end of the month, you’ll be __________ to knock out four or five.”

After that day, I started to love going there. I was still the weakest one there. But I could do pull­ups: first two, then nine. When I stopped __________ looking foolish, I started asking others questions.

There were __________ everywhere in that gym, as long as I was willing to ask for __________. By the time I left New York, I could complete ten pull­ups and I had been certified as a personal __________, so I could teach other women what I’d learned in that gym.

9 . Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Suddenly, an air attendant (空乘) asked a(n) _______ question over the loudspeaker, “Does anyone on the _______ know American Sign Language (ASL)?”

Clara pressed the call button. The air attendant came by and _______ the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s _______ and deaf,” she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he was traveling _______ and the air attendants couldn’t understand what he needed.

Clara had been _______ ASL in the past year and knew she’d be able to spell with her finger into the man’s _______ to help him. So she walked toward the front of the plane and _______ by the seat of Tim Cook. _______ taking his hand, she spelled, “How are you? Are you OK?” Tim ________ some water.

When it arrived, Clara went back to her seat. She ________ again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed for a while.

“He didn’t need anything. He was lonely and wanted to ________,” Clara said. So for the next hour, she talked about her family and her plans for the future. Tim ________ stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn’t see her, she looked attentively at his face with ________.

“Clara was such an angel,” an air attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. “You could tell Tim was very happy to have someone he could ________ with.”

Tim’s reaction: “It’s the best trip I’ve ever had.”

10 . It was a cold and rainy day in March. Across the room in the retail store where Mandy ________, sat Laura, a woman about Mandy’s age. Other workers did not ________ Laura, they thought of her as ________ and so did Mandy.

But sweeping the ________ from her eyes, Mandy made up her mind to say something kind to Laura. Finally, she managed, “Do you know, Laura, that I’ve worked in this room with you for several years? And ________ I glance up every time, I see your head silhouetted (使呈现轮廓) against the window there behind you. I think you have the prettiest profile and hair that I have ever   ________   on anybody.” Her words were not false ________. She meant it.

Laura looked up and said, “That’s the first kind word anybody has ever ________ to me since I’ve worked here.” After that, they often talked to each other after work. Through their ________ Mandy realized that Laura’s coldness was not   ________   arrogance, but to shyness. They soon became friends. Other colleagues soon began to ________ Laura in their activities, and she blossomed like a flower that, for the first time, had found sunlight. The right words made all the ________ when spoken in kindness.

Words carry the ________to tear down or to build up. When they are both sincere and kind, they are instruments that   ________ great power. Never ignore the potential and power of ______.