2 . Actor Anthony Anderson has realized a dream 30 years in the making. The 51-year-old ________ a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Howard University last week. “It was all a dream! Words fail to________ the feeling I’m having right now,” Anderson wrote on a social media platform. “My proudest moment is a sense of ________—finishing what I started many years ago.”

Anderson finished his junior year at Howard 30 years ago. ________ some financial difficulties, he had to ask for a________ from school. He worked hard to make a________. Later he started a family and his career ________. He played the starring roles in many films and became a________. The following years he was occupied in his work and didn’t return to school. It was something     he always felt________ about — until his son, Nathan, gained ________ to Howard four years ago. That inspired his longing for university study, so he was________ to go back and finish his degree.

“This spring I was________ able to finish the work to graduate from Howard University,” Anderson said. He marked it as a________ by calling it “a full-circle moment” and ________ his fans, “It’s never too late. Things happen when they’re supposed to happen!” Anderson, now a father of two, plans to ________ his education and go to graduate school for a master’s degree.

3 . I was diagnosed (诊断) with rheumatoid arthritis (类风湿关节炎) at the age of thirteen. This is an autoimmune disease where my immune system________my joints and the surrounding areas. This diagnosis turned my whole ________ upside down. I went from a happy, active and busy person to someone unable to get out of bed without screaming in great ________

Having such an immune system means I get a lot of ________.This means a lot of hospital appointments, blood tests, trips to the GP and A&E. But if you were to look at me, you’d________think all of this is happening to me. Because like many________, arthritis in younger people is generally an invisible condition, as what’s happening is completely internal. Because of this, access to disability resources was a challenge for me. When I used resources for ________people, the looks l received were unbearable at times.

As a result, I________Invisible Disability Ireland back in 2019 as a way to increase people’s awareness and understanding for invisible disabilities. We need to________the perception (看法) of disability as the majority of disabilities have hidden conditions. On the page, I ________people’s stories and raise awareness about many conditions. Most importantly, the page________others going through the same thing. It helps in knowing they are not ________and that thousands of people across Ireland are living with invisible conditions too.________the universal symbol of disability is a wheelchair, disabilities come in all ________ shapes and sizes.

Because of Invisible Disability Ireland, many people have learned better about such conditions. It has ________not only me, but also many other people in such a situation.

4 . In the past twenty-four hours I have been given two amazing opportunities for kindness. The first _________ yesterday. On my way home, I _________ a small dog running across the busy street. He ran into the neighbour, so I went off in _________ of him with the hope that I could _________ him with his owner. After a bit of a cat and mouse game, he _________ decided I was worthy of his _________ and came across close enough for me to grab him.

From the microchip inside him, I learned he had _________ eight months ago from his owner who lived half an hour away. _________ I had some free time, I drove him back to his _________ . He and his human mommy were so glad to see one another. It gave me a good __________ to end the year with.

This morning my __________ and I went to a friend's home to help her get things back in __________.She was one of the unfortunate people whose home was recently destroyed by the tornado. She was __________ than some of her neighbors, thankfully. Her interior walls weren't badly __________, though one side of her house fell off and the roof was gone. Our __________ today was to help her sort through the debris (废墟) and find anything possible __________ valuable. My wife and I help move furniture and other things to storage while our children helped __________ up the yard. We __________ systematically and carefully and soon we got almost everything restored.

What a wonderful and deeply __________ way to begin the year! I'm hoping this sets the tone for even __________ things to come!

5 . When I was in the seventh grade, I was a volunteer in a hospital. I spent most of the time there with Mr. Green. He never had any _______ and nobody seemed to care about his living _______.

I spent many days holding his hand, talking to him and _______ anything that needed to be done. He became my close friend, _______ he only responded with an occasional (偶尔的) squeeze (捏) of my _________.

I left for a week to visit my parents. And when I came back, Mr. Green was _______. I didn’t have the _______ to ask the nurses where he was. I was afraid that they might _______ me that he had died.

Several _______ later, I became a college student. One day, I noticed a familiar face at a gas station. When I ________ who it was, my eyes were filled with tears. He was ________. He was Mr. Green. With an uncertain look ________ his face, he replied “yes”. I ________ how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital, his eyes were full of tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever ________.

He began to tell me that ________ he lay there unconsciously (无意识地), he could hear me talking to him and could ________ me holding his hand all the time. He thought it was an angel (天使), not a person, who was there with him.

Mr. Green ________ believed that it was my voice and ________ that had kept him alive.

Although I haven’t ________ him after that, it fills my heart with ________ every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and death and more importantly, he made me an angel.