1 . Ann’s neighbour Tracy found a lost dog walking around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on it. Ann said that she could _________ it only for the day.

Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers and put them in mailboxes. _________, Ann bought some pet foods in the dollar store nearby, and _________ her two sons not to fall in love with it. At the time, Ann’s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was _________ from a heart operation, was 21 years old.

Four days later Ann was still _________ the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog _________ itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley _________ into the boys’ room where Ann _________ that Jack was suffering a heart attack caused by the operation. Riley ran over to Jack, and as soon as Ann bent over to help him, the dog went _________.

“If it hadn’t come to get me, the __________ said Jack would have died, ” Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to __________ it.

The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter __________ his dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started __________, and told him, “That dog __________ my friend’s son.”

Peter drove to Ann’s house to pick up his dog and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, “Maybe Odie was supposed to __________ you: maybe you should keep it.”

3 . I found the bed shaking, gently at first. Because I was half asleep and not a native, I just thought it was nothing serious.

Sitting up, I turned on the bedside lamp. It was 3:34 a.m. _______, my 14th-floor Santiago Hotel room came alive, like a very angry animal shaking a smaller one in its teeth. Then the lights _______. The noise was more _______ in the dark. A strong feeling of _______ began to control me. As I pulled myself to standing, I couldn’t help _______ that I might not see my husband and sons again.

In a hurry I opened the door of my room and expected to find people. But_______, there was no one about. My mind was crying crazily, _______ I didn’t even call for help. Luckily, a middle-aged man came up. He just said, “We should go _______.” I said “Okay” and followed him to the stairs. On a lower floor I joined in a river of people and walked our way outside to the tennis courts, where a crowd of several hundred were _______. Some were crying, all were weak. Then I noticed that a woman was about to fall down and immediately I went to ______ her. When I looked around and saw frightened children in parents’ arms, my selfish thought was thank God that my _______ weren’t here.

Soon hotel staff were setting up chairs and passing around bottled water. They offered us tablecloths to wrap (包裹) around ourselves against the night _______ and shoes for people whose feet were bare. They seemed very _______ while in fact they too must be afraid.

I felt lucky to be alive, but as a _______, my relief was mixed with guilt for we soon learned that the earthquake had left many dead and others homeless and tsunamis (海啸) were _______ the way.

4 . In our backyard there was a big pond with lots of trees and bushes. Both my grandparents were fond of our so-called garden.

One morning our new neighbor, an aggressively ambitious businessman, saw my grandfather _________ two rare deodar(雪松) tree saplings on both sides of our gate. _________, he said he had planted the same tree saplings in his garden. My grandfather _________ gave his plants adequate amount of water and didn’t give them full _________, while our neighbor interested in better _________looked after them too well. His plants were much _________ and greener. 

Normally in summer, we have fierce thunderstorms._________ the extreme damage, these storms also bring _________ from the terribly hot climate. After a thunderstorm, we came out to _________ the damage to our garden and saw the neighbor in his garden, too, but he looked __________ as his plants had been uprooted. Ours were standing __________ on the ground. Surprised to see this, he came up to us and said with embarrassment,“My trees __________ from the roots while yours didn’t. Why?” 

My grandfather said, “You gave your plants more attention, water and manure(肥料), __________ they didn’t need to work for anything. I gave mine just some, letting their roots do the__________; thus their roots went deeper and became stronger.” Our neighbor nodded in __________. Hearing the words, I realized that anything easily given could be taken away much more easily and we would not understand the hard work it took to earn those things.

5 . In 2011, retired worker Joao, found a South American penguin________ on the rocks and close to death on his local beach in Brazil. Joao cleaned the oil________ the penguin’s feathers,________him a daily diet of fish to get his strength up and named him Dindim.

A week later, Joao tried to ________the penguin back into the sea, but he just wouldn’t leave. Joao took him out in his boat, went to a nearby island and released him. Later that day, the penguin was back in Joao’s backyard. In the end, Dindim stayed with Joao for 11 months and then, “just after he changed his coat for new feathers he________,”Joao explains.

In fact, Dindim returns to Joao’s little beach in the summer every year-it’s ________that the penguin prefers to visit the elderly man rather than ________ to the feeding areas of his species.

Joao________how the penguin continued to follow him home. “Everyone said he wouldn’t return, but he________back to visit me for the past four years,” he says, “He arrives in June and ________ to go home in February and every year he becomes more affectionate as he appears even________to see me.” Now new pictures have________of Dindim visiting Joao in his village earlier this month.

When Dindim is staying with Joao, the two friends sometimes like to take a walk together down the beach-or sometimes Joao walks and Dindims swims alongside him. “I love the penguin like it’s my own________and I believe the penguin loves me, ”Joao says. “No one else is allowed to touch him. He pecks them if they do. He lies on my lap, lets me give him shower and allows me to feed him sardines and to________him up.”

Who said there wasn’t still some ________news left in the world?

6 . Milo is a rescue dog adopted by 20-year-old Makayla Swift. One morning in November 2021, Swift opened her front door in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Milo _________ running.

Milo ran to the house across the street. He seemed unsatisfied with this house, so he ran to the one next door, Swift on his _________. Milo started scratching on the front door.

Swift was _________, because not everyone wants a strange dog on their property. But as she tried to _________ Milo away, she could hear a sound coming through an open upstairs window.

It was a voice yelling “Help!”

Hours earlier, around 4 a.m., Sherry Starr, 85, had risen from her bed. All of a sudden, standing there between the toilet and the tub, she slipped and fell heavily on the floor. She was _________ between the toilet and the tub and could not move at all. Starr was _________ and thought she was just going to die there.

For the next few hours, Starr practiced yelling: “Help! Help! Hellllp!”

Her voice was very _________ that no one could hear. Luckily, Milo _________ heard Starr the moment Swift opened her own front door.

Swift called the emergency number 911. When the ambulance workers arrived, they thought they’d have to remove the toilet to _________ Starr, but instead, they gave one last pull and out she popped. Though she was black and blue all over, Starr __________ a trip to the hospital.

Swift has known her own share of distress. Two years ago, her mother died. She says that Milo has helped her with her grief. “That dog is a blessing,” she says.

7 . In August 2017, the town of Katy, Southeast Texas was badly affected by Hurricane Harvey. Nearly 700 of its homes and 80 businesses were _______ or destroyed. But the locals didn’t wait for the rain to stop before opening their doors,refrigerators and _______ to first responders (第一反应人员), neighbors and even strangers. 

Beaver Aplin, owner of a chain of _______, was preparing for the opening of his newest location just outside Katy.When the _______ hit, Aplin opened the store _______ without thinking twice. He put the word out, telling the victims to _______ what they needed, free of charge. 

Meanwhile, the locals ran, drove and paddled (用桨划船) to _______ their neighbors. A nearby Bass Pro Shops donated all 80 boats it had and then its head office _______ dozens more. Other residents found _______ ways to join in. Shakeib Mashhood used social media to gather more than 100 volunteers who gave out food and water and ________ storm-damaged homes. 

These were just a small part of the ________ of heroism that came out of Katy. But Mashhood, like many others of his fellow Texan heroes, ________ he didn’t do anything special.  

Even first responders coming from the outside of Katy could instantly feel the town’s ________ spirit. “We helped people in lots of other areas, too, but Katy was amazing. Neighbors were going from house to house to ________ everyone they could,”David Scherff told Katy Magazine.“I was so ________ that I even had thoughts of moving here.”