1 . In the heart of Sprinkletown, young Sammy had eyes bigger than his stomach, when it came to sweets. His mom had set a _______ rule: “Desserts only after finishing your veggies(蔬菜).” To Sammy, this rule was a towering _______ between him and his favorite chocolate cake.

One evening, determined to conquer(攻克) this mountain, Sammy plotted a _______ . He would hide his broccoli under the potatoes, thinking his mom wouldn’t find.

As dessert time _______ , Sammy presented his plate with pride. His mom, _______ , wasn’t fooled. With a knowing smile, she suggested they _______ the potatoes among them. Of course, the hidden broccoli was discovered, and his plan failed.

Instead of scolding, Sammy’s mom turned the _______ into a game, challenging him to a veggie-eating race! Laughter filled the room as they both ate their _______ , making the eventual dessert even sweeter.

Sammy learned that day not just the _______ of eating his veggies, but that rules, when ________ with a bit of fun, weren’t so bad after all. And so, in Sprinkletown, veggies became the unlikely hero of dessert time, teaching Sammy a lesson wrapped in love and laughter.

3 . I had spent an hour in the bank with my dad for transferring money(转账). I asked, “Why don’t you use online banking?” He already opened one. “Why would I do that?” he________. “Well, then you won’t have to _____an hour here to transfer your money. Everything will be so________!” I was so excited to tell him all kinds of advantages of online banking. He asked, “If I do that, I won’t have to________of the house?”

“Yes, yes!” I said. I told him how Amazon delivers（递送）everything.

His answer made me________. He said, “Since I entered this bank today, I have met four of my friends; I have chatted a while with them. You know I’m lonely…this is what I need________. I like coming to the bank. I have enough time and it is the ‘physical touch’ that I________. Two years ago when I got sick, the store owner from whom I often buy fruits came to see me and chatted with me. When your mum fell down while on her morning walk, the flower shopkeeper saw it and soon got his car to drive her home________he knows our address. Would I have that ‘human’________if everything became online? I like to know the person that I’m dealing with and not just the ‘seller’. It creates relationships; does Amazon deliver this kind of service as well? Technology isn’t________. Spend time with people. Not with devices.”

4 . A simple honk (汽车喇叭声) from the bus is one part of a secret code between the driver and students living in a remote village in Wanzhou district, Chongqing city.

Noticing a schoolbag hanging on the door of an old house along his _________, the bus driver pulls over and honks to answer the “code”. After a moment, he leans (倾斜) out of the bus and _______ a loud reminder. A boy then rushes outside and _________ the bus.

The boy's parents work far from home, leaving him in the _________ of his grandmother. Despite this separation (分离), the boy is determined to pursue (追逐) his education, making the _________ journey to the city to go to school. He and the driver, Mr Cheng Lin, have _________ a special routine. Whenever the boy's schoolbag is hanging outside the house, it signals to Cheng that the young student needs to catch the bus. This simple interaction between the driver and the student became their _________ “secret code”, a non-verbal (非语言) way of saying,“Today, it's time to go back to school.”

Mr Cheng, who has been _________ the Luotian to Wuqiao Nan Station route for many years, shared his ideas on the matter. He mentioned that this rural route had a significant number of left-behind children due to their parents' work _________. Recognizing the importance of his role in their lives, he paid extra __________ on Fridays and Sundays, the days when these children typically traveled back and forth to school.

5 . Responsibility is the good character of human race. However, in this world, few people have self-esteem, self-confidence, enterprising, compassion, perseverance, filial piety and kindness.

The faucet (旋塞) has many uses: to provide water _________the people. _________, some people will turn on the faucet and are unwilling to turn it off.

In the school, there are many classmates littering. This is a bad behavior. Littering garbage back to pollute the environment, making the campus unclean.

It is _________ that there is a young man studying in the United States _________ has good grades in school and is also very smart and capable. After graduation, he thought he could find a good job with his knowledge and ability. However, he went to many companies and _________ rejected. When he asked _________ he was rejected, the reply he got was: Although you are very talented, you escaped the ticket 3 times. My company is _________ have talents and good quality such as integrity (正直). This is also a _________.

Do what you can do by yourself. The tasks assigned (分配) to you by the teacher _________ be done to the best of your ability.

When you see a very __________ person, you will __________ think about his miserable life or continue to weave him in the future. This is your kind __________. If you get a failing test paper, you will definitely push all the responsibilities to the teacher. It’s not right __________ this time. It’s __________ you don’t study hard to fail the exam.

Classmates, let’s __________ action! Let us reinvigorate (使再振作) and change our bad ailments, not to litter and so on. Then, we can become a modern little citizen with a sense of responsibility.

8 . Robert Mendez Jr. is a football coach. Despite being born without limbs (四肢), he has spent his life on what he can ________. And this spirit was what drove him for more than a decade toward realizing his dream—becoming a coach.

This year, Robert ________ the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance, presented to “a ________ member of the sporting world who has overcome great difficulties through determination.” Nobody could have been a better ________.

As Robert accepted the ________, he thanked a number of people for helping him. Then, true to his character, this passionate coach ________ a piece of his wisdom.

He said, “If there’s any ________ that I want to give you, it’s to look at me and see how much passion I put into coaching and how ________ it’s gotten me. When you open your mind to different possibilities and ________ what you can do, you really can achieve something.”

When talking of ________, he said, “The best part of it is seeing someone’s ________ and making them realize what’s possible. So for anyone out there not ________ about their abilities, I’m here to tell you that you can do it. It can ________.”

Robert may have been born without arms or legs, but he was ________ born with the amazing ability to ________ others. As he’s already well aware, there’s nothing this man can’t do!

9 . Wilber stole Staci Greene’s heart years ago. The donkey (驴) was an unusual gift that left quite an impression.

Years later, after _________ back to her parents’ farm in Ramona, California, Staci started making plans for a donkey rescue (救援) project. She began _________ unwanted donkeys and mules (骡子), naming her project Hee Haw Place Donkey Rescue.

Hee Haw Place has had as many as thirteen _________ at one time, but because of Staci’s success in finding people who are fit to adopt (收养) the donkeys, she now _________ just six — two donkeys, two mules and two horses.

She makes sure the new _________ are suitable for the animals and that new owners are _________ about wanting to add a donkey to their families. If an adoption doesn’t _________, Staci always welcomes the animal back to her farm.

Donkeys require little _________, she says. Their hooves (the hard lower parts of their feet) should be trimmed (修剪) once or twice a year, and they need a large farm where they can walk and _________ grass.

But they need more than __________. Staci says, “These are working animals, and they need __________.”

Donkeys are relatively easy to train for riding and for pulling things. Staci __________ them and helps them find work and __________ in their new forever homes.

Staci’s animals always walk in the parade held during Mule Days every May in Bishop, California. They also __________ their training. Last year, Poppy the mule won a championship title, while the donkeys brought home several __________. Love and patience for the win!

10 . Biar Kon, a 17-year-old student, whose parents were working in neighboring Sudan, moved to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, to attend school. Once he _______, he needed to get some documents from the Sudanese embassy(大使馆). But when he went to look for the embassy, he couldn’t find it. He asked a few people for _______, and no one knew where it was. Then an older woman tapped him on the back.

The woman told Kon that she had seen him asking questions of multiple people as they _______, and she wondered if he needed money for food, or a place to stay. Then Kon realized that the woman thought he was _______.

They cleared up the _______, and the woman was able to offer her help. The woman’s _______ left a deep impression on Kon. And it inspired him to _______ five years later, when he moved to Boston, Massachusetts. One day, outside a coffee shop, he _______ a man who was begging for change. Kon _______ that moment five years earlier, when the woman in Nairobi had ________ him for a homeless person. So he went up to the man to see what he could do. “He told me why he was on the street—because he made a（n） ________ mistake when he was in high school, and he couldn’t get a ________ now,” Kon recalled. Kon bought the man some breakfast, and gave him a little bit of money.

Today, it’s an encounter he ________. For him, it is a ________ that you never know what people are going through unless you talk to them ________ — the way the woman in Nairobi made an effort to talk to him.