1 . A depressed grandmother in Durham, England, has been surprised since receiving a mysterious greeting card.

______ suffering from dementia (痴呆) and depression, she is also ______, according to her granddaughter Melly. Every day without ______, the grandmother sits by the window at her home so she can ______ at passers-by.

Not much has ever come from the elderly woman’s daily life, ______ she received an unexpected holiday card in her ______. “To the lady who waves and smiles, with Christmas wishes,” ______ the card. “It’s nice to see you ______ and wave when I walk past your house. Please accept my small gift to give you another ______ to smile.”

Melly later published the ______ story on Twitter so she could wish the ______ woman a Merry Christmas and thank her for the note. “My grandmother is disabled and has dementia,” explained Melly in a tweet. “She ______ in her chair by the window all day, every day — just looking outside and normally feeling ______ as we all work during the day. When we went to see her today, someone had ______ this through the letter box.”

Since the story was posted on the Internet, it has been ______ thousands of times. Not only that, but Twitter users filled Melly’s mailbox with pictures of their ______ since she also mentioned ______ her grandmother loves animals.

“She’s been so ______ recently, feeling unhappy. I can’t put into words how much this has ______ her!” Melly wrote in several follow-up posts. “She’s ______ eaten for weeks because she’s been so down and I’ve just made her a sandwich and she’s happily enjoying it. I can’t wait to tell my grandmother how many people have wished her well.”

2 . In July, a two-minute-long video began spreading on the Internet. The video featured a _________ ballet student dancing in the rain. As the rain falls, forming small _________ between the unsmooth ground on which he dances, Anthony, 11, _________ round and round.

The _________ has been seen more than 20 million times on social media platforms, which has turned a _________ on the unlikely story of a ballet school in a poor suburb of Lagos, Nigeria: The Leap of Dance Academy. Founded by Daniel in 2017, the academy has _________ the lives of its students, affording them a place to _________ and to dream.

For now, the Leap of Dance Academy is housed at the home of its _________, Daniel. Every day after school, 12 local students make their way to his apartment. He _________ his furniture for more space and __________ a thin sheet over the cement (水泥) floor for class. What is the most __________ is that the mirror was glued by dozens of broken mirrors.

“We have __________ from so many people. We appreciate their letters, in which they say they are __________ by the students and by dance,” Daniel said. “They felt our __________ and came alive. They __________ us that art is here to stay.”

Some netizens remarked: “This is a realistic portrayal from a poor boy to ballet prince. Anyone with a dream is great.”