1 . Michael felt extremely hot. Why was it so hard to breathe? They had rehearsed(排练) the play, and Michael knew his part. But he was still nervous. ________ filled his head:

What if I say the wrong thing? What if I trip(绊倒) and fall?

Michael tried to think of ________ things. Tomorrow he’d enjoy a delicious dinner with his family. But first he had to get through today, with a roomful of strangers looking at him. His family was in the audience. He tried to imagine that the family were all ________ around the dining table right now. That always made him feel ________ .

Michael ________ the play. It was the story of how the early Pilgrims had survived in the new land with the help of the people who lived there.

“A piece of cake,” Jake had said. “Jake, you’re right,” Michael thought. “Nothing to be worried about.”

“You have a(n) ________ role to play,” Mr. Murray, the play’s director, had told him. Michael felt as if the whole ________ depended on him.

“Everyone in place,” said Mr. Murray.

Michael found that the theater was ________. He was very nervous.

Michael felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Serene giving him a(n) ________ smile.

“You can do it”, she said.

The play began.

“This is not a plant I’ve ever seen before,” said Jake.

It was Michael’s turn to ________ something. But his mouth went dry. The audience was ________. But he was awkward and frozen in place. And then he heard Serene say, “How will we survive if we don’t grow food?” Wait. That wasn’t Serene’s ________. She must have made that up to ________ him to remember what he was going to say.

“We must ask for help with the plants,” said Michael.

He took a deep ________, and started to focus. Serene and Jake wanted to help him. He wasn’t in this before. But he survived the rest of the play. Michael felt ________ for his friends’ help.

2 . Once upon a time I was a calmer mom. But now things are ________. I have three kids— ages 7, 5, and 15 months—which is only part of the ________. The bigger part: My husband and I used to ________ children together. Then about a month after our third child was born, he ________ a sales job that required longer hours, leaving me with the lion’s share of ________.

Without him around to ________, keeping the children in check has been more ________ and the “don’t make me tell Daddy” thing started. My five-year-old daughter was the first to ________ those five words. She’d do ________ like kicking her older brother repeatedly and when I asked her to ________, she’d say, “You’re not going to tell Daddy, are you?” I never indulged (纵容) her. Then one day my kids were climbing on the snow banks in our driveway,________ to get into the car for school and when I started to get mad, my daughter mentioned “Daddy” again. So I said ________. “Don’t make me tell Daddy!” What ________ me was that it worked.

The more I ________ those five words, the more I suspected it was wrong and, it turned out that I was ________. This is not good for Mom and not fair to Dad. I don’t want to lose my power to kids whose shoes I still tie.

3 . Many people like to ask me how my lovely dog helped me travel around Europe. I always gladly show them.

Walking my dog in the neighborhood ________ I usually do, I smiled as I passed my________. The neighborhood is a special place where people do ________to have a brief chat. You pass the ________people often so those brief chats________ add up to learning more about each other.

My neighbor and I started to ask each other about our________. I shared what I did with her. It happened she had a friend who was________ a copywriter. She made the ________ immediately, and soon her friend________me.

During the course of the work, I got to know man online and one conversation________us to a discussion on Italy. This ________ me because I had been planning a trip to Italy sometime during the year. That new friend told me about his________ memory of his trip to Italy. A few days later, I booked my trip and was ________ to travel to Europe. He also kindly connected me to his aunt who________ in Italy. Not only did she help me plan transportation, but she also invited me to ________ with her family members in her comfortable beach house, which ________ me a lot on hotel expense.

And that is the whole story. Let me________ some tips. First, you never know how ________ the people you meet will be to you. Second, connect with people you meet often. It for just today. Third, may not lead anywhere today; ________ relationships aren't meant to know them and help always be ________. People remember you when you take time to get them.

4 . I still remember the day when I was driving to the supermarket I own. When I came out, I found a boy _________ my car with a brush. I went over and patted (轻拍) him_________ the shoulder, which surprised him very much. In no time he began to _________ at me. So I was sure he _________ some money. From the shoes he was wearing I could hardly imagine how _________ he was. So I offered him a $1,000 bill. To my great surprise, he _________ to take it. When I was wondering what he was doing, he said, “ I was waiting here for 4 hours, waiting for you. Your _________ is so beautiful and I like it, but I don’t need that.” I knew he was mentioning the _________.

As he had refused the money, I offered to drive him around the town. The boy became so _________ that he got into the car at once, “Would you please drive me__________? It is only about 3 miles.” I thought maybe the boy wanted to show off to his friends and his family. __________ I stopped, he jumped out and ran into an old building, telling me to wait there for some time. Very soon he came out, saying to a little girl on his back, “Look at this beautiful car. I will buy you __________ someday.”

I noticed his sister had a pale face. __________, her legs were too thin, and she was unable to __________.

After that day I went to his home several times. And I got to know more about him and his__________. Poor as they were, the boy__________ refused my money, and said, “I can__________money by myself, thank you.”

Soon I __________my manager of the supermarket that a boy would go to__________here the next day.

No matter how poor we are, we would__________give in to ourselves.

6 . I went with some colleagues from my office for a dinner in a very popular local restaurant. It was _______ business time and the restaurant was packed. We _______ found a table in a corner for three of us.

As soon as we sat down, we heard a crash when a cleaning boy _______ the floor with all the plates he was carrying. There was _______ and no one was saying or doing anything.In a flash I remembered my _______ many years ago. Once, I _______ in the airport because I had rushed there on my own on an empty stomach. I was picked up and taken care of by two _______. Now this was my chance to _______ it forward. I ran to the young man’s side immediately, turned him on his back and screamed for someone to _______ a hot drink. Soon people started asking if I was a doctor. I said I was not, ________ I was skillful at blacking out (晕厥).

The kid soon opened his eyes, ________ what had happened. I ________ him by saying it was OK and I had had a ________ experience. He had not eaten anything. I held the ________ drink to his mouth till he finished it and sat with him till he felt OK. By then the ________ had arrived. I asked her to give the kid something to eat. I offered to pay.

The manager was kind enough to refuse the ________ and agreed to make sure the kid ate before he went home. By the time all this was ________ it was getting late for my colleagues. We hadn’t ________ anything yet, so they decided to go home.

I slowly walked home, not hungry any more, feeling ________ for the opportunity I pay forward the ________ I had received many years ago.

7 . "Mum, can I invite my classmate Brett over to stay tomorrow night, please? It's Friday, and we don't have any _______.   Can I, please?" Mum was sitting at the kitchen table.   Dad was _______next to her, resting his head on his arms.   Mum could _______that James wanted so badly to have his friend over.

"I'm so sorry, James," she said.

"I'm never allowed to have friends come to the house? Why, Mum?" James asked sadly, almost in _______.

"I know it's _______for you," Mum said softly.   "But I'm just worried other people might think we're a little. . .   strange.   And then they would make fun of you. "

"No, they wouldn't, Mum," James protested.   "We're not _______at all.   We're just ordinary people. "

Mum sighed heavily.   "To tell you the truth, James, my neck has been so painful that it's given me a heavy _______.   And your poor father — he doesn't feel _______.   He really needs a rest. "

"I can help, Mum!" James said.   " _______I can make you and Dad feel better, can Brett come over? Please?"

"Well. . . " Mum began.

"Great! Thanks, Mum!" James almost shouted.   "Just sit there, don't move. " He rushed over to the kitchen drawer and ________what he needed — two spanners(扳手).   "Hang on, Mum," he said.   "This won't take a second. " After some ________, James was finished.   With a smile of ________on his face he said, "There! How does that feel?" "Oh, James," Mum said.   "That's much better! How did you do it?"

"Easy," James said ________.   "Dad had tightened your neck bolts(螺栓) too much! I just________them slightly! I learned that in robotic science at school. "

"What about your father? Can you ________him?" asked Mum.

"I'll try," James replied.   He ________up Dad's hair at the back of his neck, and plugged the electric wire into Dad's head.   Then he turned the ________on.   Dad opened his eyes and ________immediately.   "He just let his ________run too low, that's all," James said.   "Shall I tell Brett to come over straight after school tomorrow?"

"I guess so," replied Mum.   "Your friends will just have to ________that we are a very unusual family.   Thanks, son!"

8 . The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall was the part of the Great Wall I liked to visit. _______, one day in May 2000, I chose something wilder, more _______: Simatai. This section of the Great Wall has far fewer visitors than most other sections of the wall.

At the entrance to Simatai was a group of vendors (小贩) trying to _______ postcards. One tiny old lady seemed to _______ me wherever I went, and I was becoming increasingly _______. “How many times does it take for ‘No!' to sink in?” I thought. I finally ended up running away just to   _______ this tiny woman.

Once I caught sight of the Great Wall, _______ overtook me, and the tiny old lady with the postcards _______ from my thoughts. I raced up the Great Wall _______. Then, halfway up, I stopped and suddenly realised I was rushing along a ________ “path” no wider than a meter. There were ________ “walls” — only steep drops on either side. I remembered then that ________ had fallen to their deaths in this section. I was so fearful that I ________ there completely stock-still.

Suddenly, I felt a small hand on my back and a ________ voice telling me, in Chinese, not to be   ________, that she would slowly lead me to the top. Half an hour later, we ________ a section that had a few remnants (剩余的小部分) of the wall. I was able to turn around to see who had given such ________ to me in my hour of greatest ________. It was the tiny old lady I'd told a dozen times — eventually shouting at her — that I didn't want any ________. I felt really ________ of myself. I gave her a big hug, and then later bought every one of her postcards.

9 . My father once worked for a big company. However, when I was a year old he _________ his job and then our family got into a difficult station. We were _________, so we sold our house. Then we had to live with my grandmother, _________ she didn’t like kids at all. She never _________. But I was very happy with my parents. My father was _________ at making things. I was also _________ and had a talent for designing.

We didn’t have money to buy. _________ so we made our own. I put two tyres together to make a horse. I learned a lot about gravity（重力）because I _________ many times.

By 10, I knew I wanted to become a(n) _________, but they didn’t take women in engineering school, so I went to another school and __________ in 1945. Then I was very __________ to be accepted by the army’s training programme. I learned a lot there. In 1966, I __________ serving the army. I began to work with children with learning problems. I wanted to __________ something that would help them. Luckily, I __________.

I tried to retire five times but it __________ worked. In 1997, I went back to school to learn drawing, which was __________ for my inventions. On a TV program in 2015, I __________ David Kelley the founder of the design firm IDEO. When I realized he __________ people from different backgrounds, I thought, “I have special life experiences and designing skills. I could be of __________ to his firm.”

I typed a letter to Kelley and quickly, I got a __________ that I was accepted. I was 85.

10 . When I was shopping a few months ago , I saw a man trying to get people to donate(捐赠)to a very well-known charity(慈善团体)for children. I _________ to him that I can’t donate money any more _________ my bank account(账户)having some problems last year. It was a _________ time and took months to get back our money. _________, I noticed the man was hungry and cold, so I offered him a(n) _________ in the nearby restaurant.

Last week I _________ home on a really hot day. My husband Stewart was at the table with a person from a Charity having a _________. We talked for a while and then I said, “I _________ you!” and he looked at me in surprise and said, “Oh, you’re the lovely lady that _________ me a big lunch and drinks when I was at __________ trying to get people to donate.” We both laughed and we had a little __________.

He told me that he had let the organizers know about this lovely woman __________ him out on a cold day. He said __________was so unexpected. I was so __________ to see him again, sitting in my home. My act had really __________ him for the kindness of it and I loved the fact that Steward had __________ him in out of the heat for a cold drink.

In our daily life, maybe we __________ know how we __________ people when we do good things. But in fact, __________ we do does affect others, for it is a lovely __________. Kindness is so catching (感染力的).