1 . In 2019, Thierry Henry, a bus driver, found there was a rise in bike thefts in his city, Reykjavik. Rather than ________ that the bike was gone forever, he decided to take matters into his own hands and started to track down the bikes and return them to their ________ owners.

The 44-year-old has helped return hundreds of stolen bikes in the past 4 years. His social media account has over 14, 500 members and helps people track down more than just lost bikes. His page ________ to people who have lost tools, cars and other items of high value. On top of his noble act, Henry has helped the bike ________ to reform in the process.

________, Henry would deal with the thieves with anger. However, over time, he realized that most of the thefts were driven out of poverty and other issues. He went from feeling ________ towards the thieves, to developing empathy (同理心) for their situations. It was very tough at first. But Henry decided to try to ________ them and just talk to them.

From this moment onward, he reached out to the thieves, offering help and guidance. After the change in his ________, Henry found that the bike thieves began to often hand back the bikes to him. Amazingly, some former thieves that Henry helped now ________ him in looking for the stolen bikes.

“It’s like a ________ that has got bigger and bigger, ” says Henry. “It’s not only me. Many times, someone spots a bike hidden in a bush and takes a picture. Then someone else comments, ‘hey, that’s my bike’”.

Thanks to Henry, everyone’s looking out.

2 . The silence of the Reference Library was broken only by the sound of pages being turned over. There were about twenty people in the room, most of them with their__________bent over their books. The assistant librarian sat at a desk in one corner.   She had a look at Phillip as he came in, then went on with her work.

Phillip had not been to this part of the library before. He_________around the room almost on tiptoe, _______of disturbing(打扰)the readers with his heavy shoes. The shelves were filled with thick books: dictionaries in many languages, biography and some others. He found nothing to interest him, _______he came to a small area on photography, which was one of his hobbies. The books in this area were on a high shelf out of his__________, so he had to fetch a small ladder(梯子) in order to get one down. Unluckily, as he was _______down the ladder, the book he had chosen slipped from his hand and fell to the floor with a__________crash. Twenty pairs of eyes looked_________ at him together. Phillip felt himself go red as he ________up his book, which did not seem to have been damaged by its________.

He had just sat down when he found the young lady assistant standing alongside him. “You _____be more careful when you are holding these books,” she said seriously. Satisfied that she had done her duty, she turned to go back to her desk. Then a sudden________struck her. “By the way, how old are you?” she asked Phillip. “Thirteen,” he told her. “You’re not________in here under the age of fourteen, you know,” the assistant said. “Didn’t you see the notice on the door?” Phillip shook his head. He _________the assistant to ask him to leave. Instead, in a more _____tone(语气) , she said: “Well, never mind. But make sure that you don’t disturb the other readers again, or I shall have to ask you to leave. ”

3 . Last September, Sarah, 44, slipped on a platform and ________ in the gap between a train and the platform edge. When the train left the station, it ran over her right arm and leg. Unfortunately, another train pulled in, causing further ________. A few minutes later, someone noticed her and called emergency services. They ________ to the scene and took Sarah to the hospital, but doctors were ________ to save her arm and leg.

________, Sarah is now the world’s first woman to use a £250.00 bionic (仿生) arm ________ by AI.

“It’s hard to explain but when I think about a ________ — say ‘open my hand’ — my muscles twitch (颤动) in a particular way. The sensors in it will ________ these twitches, and send signals to make my hand work. And if it ________ the fact that I point my finger often, it will learn that I like to do that and make it easier for me to do so,” said Sarah.

In February, Sarah returned to work and a few months later she attended a conference in Rome to give a speech about the accident.

“I do miss myself before the accident. But at the end of the day, I’m just ________ that AI can give me a piece of my life back. I know I am blessed to be able to keep moving forward with my family.”

4 . On a Monday morning, a bus full of bright-eyed kids was on the way to school along with Connor and his brother Seamus. The bus was being driven by a 60-year-old driver, McDougal. _______, both the brothers heard McDougal fall to the floor of the bus.

“I didn’t see him fall. I heard him _______ the ground, and then the bus started veering (转弯) all over the road,” Connor recalled the moments before _______ set in.

After the bus driver fell down, Connor and Seamus _______ the emergency situation. They realized that they must jump into action. Otherwise, the students on the bus would be in danger of getting _______. Connor knew that no matter what happened, he needed to get the bus to stop moving. So he _______ and pressed on the brake (刹车) and told Seamus to call 911.

Meanwhile, Seamus tried to keep his fellow classmates _______ and in their seats. He told everyone it was going to be okay and the police were on their way. Seamus even gave one crying frightened student a _______.

The bus didn’t veer off the road because of the _______ thinking and actions of these two brothers. The bus could have hit another vehicle or perhaps something worse could have happened. Thanks to the ________ efforts of these two young men, they managed to save the lives of everyone on the bus.

5 . Gus White was driving home from work when he spotted a pair of dogs in the flash of his headlights. It was snowing so hard. What were they doing out here, when it was too ________ for dogs to go outside? Gus parked his truck and approached the animals. He ________ his hands to them, which made no effort to escape. He placed the dogs on the passenger seat and they were snuggled (依偎) together there. Gus took a picture of the pair and ________ it to his wife, Katie White.

Then he called the ________ from the dogs’ ID tags. A man answered. “I gave those dogs away,” the man said. “Well, do you want them back?” “No.” The man hung up. These dogs were ________ in this world. Gus looked over at them, their large eyes begging. He called Katie. “Bring them home”, she said. The Whites prepared a bed for the dogs, also setting out food and water.

As a boy, Gus had dreamed of owning dogs but ________ this pair was out of the question—the Whites already had a family dog. The next day, they took the dogs to a ________ to drop them off—on one condition. “I’m not signing the dogs over to you if you’re going to ________ them,” Katie said. The shelter workers promised her they’d keep the couple together. In the days following, Katie phoned the shelter ________ to check up on Pepper and Cooper. Soon, the dogs were adopted, as a pair, to a loving family.

It’s a simple story but it speaks to the best of our ________.

6 . One October morning, I planned to take Honey, my dog, out with me. We live in a_______area up in the hills. Our driveway is barely wide enough for one car, with a ravine (深沟) on one side. While I was starting the car slowly, a flash of sunlight_______me. I put my hand up to block the sunlight. Suddenly, the car slipped in the soft soil, and rolled down the ravine. After several rolls, we_______upside down. I was stuck and felt a sharp pain in my chest. I looked over to find Honey. Luckily, she was okay.

We were at least 50 feet down. Just as I’d_______, my cellphone couldn’t get a signal.

Calm down! It old myself. At least I could get Honey out of here. Painfully, I reached over and picked her up and_______put her through a broken window. “Go home, baby.” She jumped to the ground and raced up the side of the ravine.

I could do nothing but sit there for hours. The last bit of light faded away.

Slam! Was that a car door? “Help!” I shouted with all my_______.

“Mike! Where are you?” It was Robin, my closest neighbor, who lived two miles downhill from me.

Half an hour later, the rescue crew_______and rushed me to the hospital.

The next day Robin brought Honey to the hospital. She got right up next to me on the bed and snuggled (依偎) close. With her there, it was like my pain_______. “I got home from work and Honey was waiting for me,” Robin said. “She got_______and ran in circles, like she was trying to tell me something!” Robin figured he’d bring Honey back to my________, and that’s when he heard me shout.

Honey, my life-saving hero!

7 . Bernard, the 82-year-old retired police officer, was heartbroken when he _________ his precious medal. His house was broken into last December. The thief took away some jewelry, some cash and his treasured medal given for his 32 years of _________ with Liverpool Police Station. He believed the medal was gone forever.

Three months later, David, a young volunteer pulled the medal from a river in a “one-in-a-million” catch. The young man was in a litter clean-up programme in Liverpool. He had been using a large magnet (磁铁) to _________ metal rubbish out of the river for 30 minutes when he found a small blue metal box.

“I would have never found the medal if we hadn’t _________ all the rubbish in the river first,” said David. “At first, we found old bits of shopping carts and other metal items but about half an hour later, I pulled out the _________ , and it’s got ‘Police Long Service Medal’ written on it, It really was like finding a needle in a haystack (干草堆).”

_________ , the medal was carved with Bernard’s name and the medal number, which David used to _________ the senior’s phone number online. The retired police officer was _________ when he received a call saying the medal had been found in a river, still in its metal box. And when he was told it would be _________ to him by the young man who found it, his face lit up. David then planned a visit to meet Bernard and returned the medal to him.

“This was truly the best __________ for cleaning up that rubbish... It’s amazing,” David said.

8 . At Lucky Candy, a small neighborhood store, customers are in for a lucky treat.

Ahmed Alwan, a cashier of the store, invented a game that’s since gone viral: if _______ correctly answer his math questions, they are able to grab as many items as possible in five seconds—all for _______. Alwan came up with the idea to primarily _______“low-income community members” and he himself ends up paying for whatever the winners collect.

For Alwan, 23, joy is essential as breakfast—but regulars at his family’s corner store sometimes _______ both. “This neighborhood has a lot of poor people,” he says. “They’ve known me since I was a little kid. I know most of them by name. I see people—some of whom are _______ customers—sleeping on the train. I used to give them buttered rolls, coffee and bananas in the morning to _______ their days.”

A fan of math throughout high school and college, Alwan thought of the way to combine his love of entertaining and altruism (利他主义) into the game to go on helping people and keep their _______ skills sharp too.

So how does all the gift _______ and problem solving affect the store’s profits?

Alwan said it hasn’t affected the family business negatively.

“It’s out of my own _______,” he said. He recently launched a GoFundMe page on the Internet to raise funds for the game as well.

If the equation (方程式) for happiness equals kindness plus ________, Alwan has already solved it.

9 . My family moved to Perth, Australia when I was six. On the first day of school, I was _______ because I couldn’t even say hello in English.

Then I met Natsumi. Her family had just moved to Australia from Japan. Unable to speak a word of English, we could only _______ through body language, but this did not stop us from becoming fast _______. My mum has a clear memory of one car trip when Natsumi and I were sitting in the backseat, laughing and talking to each other in broken English, It was the first time I had felt _______ enough to speak the few words I had learned throughout the year.

Unfortunately, at the end of that year, Natsumi’s family moved to Queensland and mine to New South Wales. We lost _______.

Years later, I went into training as a teacher, teaching English to newly-arrived students and adults. Many of my students were Japanese, which _______ me of Natsumi. Though I had long been looking for her, my searches had so far led nowhere.

On a visit to Japan in 2018, I _______ again. Having spent a long night online, I came across someone named Natsumi. Trying my luck, I sent her a message. The next day, there was a _______: “Gabi? Gabi from Perth?”

We agreed on a date and met up for dinner. Seeing her again was _______. However, this time, we were not only able to communicate with one another in English, but ________ so.

10 . Jennifer finds Cecelia reading a newspaper alone in the room. “Hi Cecelia, do you_______me? Jennifer.” The 91-year-old resident at Newburgh elder care center says a friendly hello, but doesn’t seem to recognize Jennifer today.

It’s one nice spring afternoon. Jennifer invites Cecelia to go down to the_______. She helps Cecelia head to the elevator. Cecelia wheels herself forward, as Jennifer_______guides her from behind.

The two have been getting to know each other over the past few months since Jennifer, the recent Boston University graduate, began to volunteer in the center,_______residents with Alzheimer’s disease (阿尔茨海默症).

Down in the courtyard, Cecelia begins reading a poem, slowly and lyrically (抒情地). Jennifer listens attentively, and then asks if Cecelia knows who wrote the poem，to help her with a “_______stretch”. Together, they reflect on the poem’s meaning. Cecelia’s deep understanding of the poem suggests that she is such a_______lady. Jennifer tells Cecelia, “You’re the one who makes me_______coming here every week. I love learning from you. You’re like my teacher.”

“You give the old people a_______to think and to know they get good care,” Cecelia replies.

Jennifer’s relationship with Cecelia has played an important role in_______ her passion for looking after older generations. “We should take time to listen to them. Just listening is an act of__________,” Jennifer says.