1 . A week before Christmas, my grandmother passed away. I planned to_________on the 20th so I could get home to_________my mother with the funeral (葬礼) preparations.

However, my series of bad_________began: my start was put off by a snowstorm, and I had to_________my ferry (渡船) for the 22nd. I left as the roads were still_________ . Worse still, my car_________on the way. I pulled over and found a tire (轮胎)   flat. Although I had a_________one, I didn’t know how to change it. I felt hopeless and almost_________ . Just then a car stopped nearby, and a lady asked me what happened. I told her I had to go home_________for my grandmother’s funeral, but that I had a flat tire and would__________my ferry. Hearing what I said, the lady took out her__________and quickly changed my tire. Her kindness enabled me to catch the ferry,__________me hours on the roads.

The woman is a__________, but she helped me get home in time, even earlier. I’ll never__________her, who made a hard Christmas a lot__________ . I think the world is beautiful because there are lots of kind people in it.

3 . 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.

4 . “Whenever I am in a group of people, I feel like everyone knows what to say except me. When I try to join in, I get anxious and have a struggle _______ words. This happens at parties or meetings and I feel _______ — as if I were being interviewed for a job. People think I am a loner. Maybe I am?”

Individuals experiencing this type of social _______ often avoid eye contact, because it makes them feel _______ and judged. The feelings of awkwardness and not fitting in with others are often frustrating. It prevents these individuals from defending and _______ for themselves in social environments, though they may be _______ at holding on to their opinions in environments that are focused on a task rather than _______.

Fitting into groups of people requires _______. You need to be interested in the topics that others in the group are interested in and talk about them the way they do. Becoming a part of these groups requires that you _______ some of your individuality in order to accept others’ __________ and values.

Some individuals are like chameleon (变色龙) in that they __________ pick up the patterns of different groups and __________ themselves accordingly. For them, this is automatic and they don’t even come to the __________ that they are changing themselves to fit into groups. If you are one of those people who feels __________ in most social group settings, it may be because you __________ changing the way you think in order to feel part of a group and this shouldn’t be a weakness or a failure.

5 . UPS deliveryman Ryan Arens was making his rounds near a pond, when he heard a strange sound. It was December, and about 15 feet from the frozen bank was the _________ of that sound — a brown-and-white wire-haired hound（猎犬）had fallen through the thin layer of ice. An elderly man was already on the _________, determined to save her. He was trying to _________ the pond and was striking the ice with a rock to create a(n) _________ to the dog, but seemed to be struggling.

Arens, 44, thought he _________ a better chance. “Animals are my weakness,” he said, explaining _________ he chose to take off his overcoat, even though the temperature was minus 15 and _________ the rescue task.

After breaking the ice using the man’s rock, Arens jumped into the icy water. He surfaced in time to see the dog going under. Arens swam about five feet toward the dog, grabbed hold of her collar, and _________ her out of the water and onto the ice. He then put the dog into the boat and slid it back to the bank, where _________ bystanders carried the dog to the home of the rowboat’s owner, a retired vet. __________ in the house himself, Arens jumped into a warm shower with the dog. A few more minutes in the pond, the vet told Arens, and the dog would have likely __________.

The next day, Arens was again making his __________ in the neighborhood when the dog’s owner came __________ to thank him for saving Sadie. “Would you like to meet her?” he asked. Then he opened the door of his pickup, and Sadie jumped out. She went __________ toward Arens, leaping around him and kissing him. Arens said that special delivery was the __________ of his UPS career.

6 . 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?

8 . I had a perfect childhood. _______ I saw was new, wonderful and exciting. I was _______ whether it was rainy or dry, whether it was hot or _______. I just wanted to _______ all the things around me.

But I can’t _______ time. When I reached my teens, I started to realize there was a different _______ of life. I no longer had enough time for little things－discovering a rainbow was not _______ , looking at a giraffe in the zoo was normal, and _______ a building with 50 floors was not amazing. A rainy day was a _______ day because the traffic was slow, and the first day of spring ________ me of aller­gies (过敏). Life moves on again. The first day of the month is not just the ________ of a new month; it’s the time to ________ bills. Going to the supermarket is a ________; it is not just fun walking around, looking for things and seeing the people around me.

Life is a ________ in which everyone has many obligations (责任), but if everyone tried to see life through the eyes of a child, I am sure that every day could be ________.

9 . 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.

10 . 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.