1 . My father was a strong fisherman. He loved the sea and would stay out until he caught enough to ______ the family.

When we met ______ weather, he would drive me to school with his old track. And after we arrived, he would bend over and give me a ______ on the face and then tell me to be a good boy. I always felt very shy in front of so many other ______. I was already a twelve-year-old young man, but my father still kissed me goodbye!

Then on a rainy day I ______ to tell him my feeling. When we stopped at the school gate, the ______ big smile appeared on my father’s face. I ______ what would happen next. I ______ put my hand up and for the first time said “No” to him. The smile on his face immediately changed into a ______ look. He looked at me for a long time, and tears began to appear in his eyes. I was shocked. I had never ______ him cry! Then he said, “You’re right. You are a big boy... a man. I won’t kiss you anymore.”

Not long after that, my dad went to the sea on a bad day. Most of the ______ stayed at home, but not Dad, because he had a big family to feed. But after that day, be ______ came back. Later his boat was found with its nets half in and half out. He must have ______ a strong wind and was trying to save the nets.

How I wished I hadn’t ______ my father’s kiss! And from this I have learnt that we should take every chance with our family and friends as the last one in our lives. We can have ______ regrets(遗憾)by doing this.

2 . Last week I went shopping in the supermarket.I got to the front of the ____ and put my groceries through the checkout.I was about to pay,when I ____ that I didn’t have my bankcard with me.I ____.Then I remembered I left it at home when I ____ something online.All I had was $30 in notes and some coins in my wallet.I was short ____ at least $25,and I needed to buy most of the items.

I started to ____ to the checkout lady.“I’m sorry.I stop the queue.Can I put these things back?And then think I’ll ____ the rest.Oh,no,I need that.”

An Irish lady was ____ behind me,next in the queue.“Excuse me,dear,” she said.“Oh,I’m so sorry,” I replied,“I’m ____ you up.” “Of course not.I know ____ you feel.This happens to all of us at some point.Now please use my ____ to pay the bill and you can be on your way.”

I was astonished by her kindness,____ even.No matter how I insisted otherwise,she was ____ to help me.Afterwards I asked for her telephone number to ____ and pay her back.“No,” she said,“rather pay it forward.You may do a good deed for the next person in need.”

By helping others,can we start a chain ____of positive feeling and charity that can benefit our whole society?

3 . I stopped at a local store the other day to buy some food. After I got the food, I got _______ behind a lady who looked about twenty years old. She _______ her credit card to the shop assistant but was told it had been refused. The young lady _______ she had paid it off the day before. The shop assistant replied, “Maybe it hasn’t got through the system yet. Do you want to _______ someone?” The young lady _______ her cellphone and was looking through it. _______, they opened another counter (柜台) to let me _______ out.

I was walking out to my car when I thought, “Okay! You’re _______ wishing you could help someone. Now it is _______ for you to do it!” Immediately, I made a ________ to help her. I got out of my car and ________ with my bank card in my hand. The young lady was still there and looked a little ________. I returned to the counter and said, “I will pay her bill.” As the shop assistant gave the card to me, I didn’t think the lady had even ________ what had happened! I told her that I had paid her bill and then I left before she expressed her ________ to me.

The bill was about $52. However, the feeling inside me was ________! I realized that helping others did make me happy.

4 . An elderly woman is crediting her neighbor’s 4­-year­-old dog with saving her life during last week’s dangerously cold temperatures.

Tim Curfman was _______ his garbage with his dog Midnight when he felt its _______ was unusual. It had its ears held up looking at him. It didn’t _______ do that. Curfman got the feeling that something was _______. So he observed how his dog was acting and _______ it to a spot on the other side of his house. There, he saw his 87­-year­old neighbor, Noreen, _______ in the snow. She was trying to fill her bird feeder when she fell.

Curfman _______ she was out there at least half an hour. She could not get up because she didn’t have enough _______ to push herself up, and there was nothing around the corner to get a _______ of, either. The temperature was one degree below zero, but Curfman and Midnight were able to ________ her quickly.

Noreen, who didn’t have serious injuries, was lucky to ________ frostbite (冻伤) even though her clothes were wet. Curfman called his wife and they together helped his neighbor up from the snow and into her ________, where his wife helped the elderly woman get into ________ clothes.

Noreen was ________ to Midnight for saving her life. “I am________of my dog,” Curfman said in an interview.

6 . 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.

7 . A couple in Ohio accidentally dropped off a bag containing almost $ 100,000 at an Ohio charity shop. Thanks to _______ employees, they got the money back.

The employees were going through _______ last week when they came across a _______. Inside was $ 97,004. “It was so much cash,” employee Kelsey Croy said. “I looked in the bag and we _______ it right there on the desk. And it was $ 97,004.” Thankfully, the owners _______ a receipt for tax purposes when they dropped off _______ that morning. The employees _______ called the couple but there was no _______.

Not wanting to _______ that amount of cash in the store, they called the Zanesville Police Department. ________ repeated calls, officers finally got a hold of the couple. The couple hadn’t realized the money was ________. They told the police they withdrew all their money to deposit it in another bank. On the way, they ________at the charity shop to donate a bag of clothes. That’s ________ the money ended up there. “When we finally ________ them, they just asked if they could get it back tomorrow,” the officer said.

The couple has made contact with the original ________ who found the money to thank them. “I’m just glad that I meet with a bunch of honest and loyal people,” Croy said.

8 . Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight when a voice came from the loudspeaker (喇叭), “Does anyone on board know American Sign Language(ASL)?” Clara, 15, _______ the call button. The flight attendant _______ and explained the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s _______ and deaf,” she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but the flight attendants couldn’t _______ what he needed.

Clara had been studying ASL for the past years. So she unfastened(解开) her seat belt and walked toward the seat of the passenger, Tim Cook. Gently taking his hand, she _______, “How are you? Are you OK?” Tim asked for some water. When it _______, Clara returned to her seat. She came again a bit later because Tim wanted to know the _______. Clara got him to know that it was nearly 10 am. On her third _______, she stopped and stayed for a while. So for the next hour, they were both _______, chatting with each other. She talked about her family and her __________ for the future (she wanted to be a politician). Tim told Clara how he had __________ become blind over time and __________ stories of his days as a salesman.

“What Clara did was amazing,” the flight attendant told The New York Times during an online __________. “You could see Tim was very excited to have someone he could __________ with, and Clara was like a close __________, appearing in need, unexpectedly(出乎意料地).”

9 . It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on. A voice came. “Nice shirt,” I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, “That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg’s mother works for my family. We were going to _______ that shirt away, but gave it to her instead.” I was _______. I wanted to hide.

I stuck my shirt in the back of the closet and told my mother what had happened. She then dialed her _______, “I will no longer work for your family,” she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t just clean any more; she knew her life’s achievement was something _______, so she decided to find another job.

The next morning she met with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to _______ a university.

After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, “Are you serious? I think I have a _______ for you as a teacher’s assistant. This _______ deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of _______.” Mom accepted that job opportunity very _______.

For almost five years, as a teacher’s assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling ________. Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal showed up in her classroom. The principal said, “We have watched how you ________ the children and how they communicate with you, and we ________ your hard­working spirit over the last five years. We all ________ that you should be the teacher of this class.”

My mom ________ more than twenty years there. During her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the bad comment made in my classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle ________ situations and never give up.

10 . Dad was not only my best friend, but my compass. While he was alive, he_______me with his actions and advice. He taught me one important_______:“Believe in yourself.” If there was one phrase my dad_______liked to hear, it was “I can’t!” He never got to finish high school and_______two jobs to support his large family，_______he never complained. Through education and years of hard work, my dad became an excellent journalist.

When I was in high school, I had a_______time with maths. He tried to help me, but I still struggled. So my maths teacher suggested I meet with him at 7：00 each morning before school for_______help. I told Dad, “That’s crazy! I’m tired! I can’t do that!” He replied, “You’re doing it. I’ll send you to school. Every morning at 6：45, we’d leave the_______ Despite working 12 hours every day, Dad never once_______driving me to school.

After months of learning I was facing the final exam. I was so________. On the day of the final, my dad hugged me and said, “Luke,________yourself. You can do it.” His words made me realize I needed to trust in my________and in the hours of work I’d put in. When I got my________proudly, the first person I called was my father. He cried, “Yes! You deserved it!” Even now, whenever I________that a task is too much for me, I think back to that exam. No matter how________something is, if you’re willing to work, you can succeed. I’m forever grateful to Dad for that lesson.